Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) is proud to celebrate the accomplishments of Anne Derouin, DNP, RN, CPNP, who will be inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) at the Association’s annual conference in San Antonio, Texas, on June 23. The Fellowship recognizes nurse practitioner leaders who have made outstanding contributions to health care through clinical practice, research, education or policy. Derouin is one of 88 nurse practitioner leaders selected from across the country.

“Being invited and selected to the Fellowship is a remarkable honor and speaks highly of Anne’s contributions to the nurse practitioner profession,” says Marion E. Broome, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean and Ruby Wilson Professor of Nursing, vice chancellor for Nursing Affairs at Duke University and associate vice president for Academic Affairs for Nursing at Duke University Health System. “She is also consistently recognized by DUSON faculty, staff and students for her excellence as a teacher and mentor and being vested in seeing each student succeed.”

Derouin is an assistant professor and has co-taught several courses at DUSON for many years. She teaches in the ABSN and MSN programs and is on the program committees for both, and she also serves as a mentor for DNP capstone projects. She has also been a frequent guest lecturer on adolescent topics for the Community and Family Medicine and Pediatrics departments at Duke.

For the past twelve years Derouin has provided primary care services for adolescents through North Carolina School of Science and Math’s school-based health center, the Wellness Center at Southern High School and the Teen Clinic at Holton Community Resource Center in Durham, all of which are affiliated with Duke’s Department of Community and Family Medicine.

Aside from her work at Duke, Derouin also serves as an adolescent clinical expert for the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. She is an Advocacy Fellow for the National Assembly of School-based Health Centers and is currently serving as the executive vice-president for the North Carolina School Community Health Alliance.

Derouin received her BSN from the University of Michigan and earned her MSN and DNP from DUSON. She was a member of the School’s inaugural DNP cohort. Her research interests include school-based, school-linked and community-based health care, and her areas of expertise include global and community health, health disparities and pediatric nursing.