Dr. Desi Newberry is a Duke University School of Nursing associate professor. She is the director for the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner major. Dr. Newberry is a board-certified NNP with 20 years of experience.
Dr. Newberry graduated from Duke University with her DNP in 2012, having previously earned her MSN from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her BSN from Michigan State University.
Outside the classroom, Dr. Newberry contributes to nursing publications and associations. She has authored and co-authored two book chapters and over 30 articles in peer-reviewed national neonatal nursing journals. She also serves as a section editor for the neonatal nursing journal Advances in Neonatal Care. Dr. Newberry received the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) 2023 Leadership Award.
Her research currently focuses on the diversity of NNP faculty and students. Increased faculty diversity can increase diverse nursing student recruitment and retention, increase cultural competence, and decrease implicit bias. This could expand diversity in the nursing workforce, resulting in improved neonatal outcomes for neonates in the NICU.