Sister Maria Salerno has been director of the Adult and Geriatric NP Programs since 1984. She currently teaches advanced health assessment, the advanced practice role course, and is coordinator and teacher of clinical courses in primary care. Dr. Salerno holds minors in biology and chemistry and in addition to having taught graduate courses in medical-surgical nursing, research, and curriculum and instruction, she has taught graduate level physiology and undergraduate pathophysiology. She has also held faculty responsibility for research and practice in the Robert Wood Johnson/Catholic University/Carroll Manor Teaching Nursing Home Project. She worked to implement a NP/MD collaborative practice model as a part of that project.
 Sister has extensive clinical experience in clinical nursing which has encompassed both acute and long-term care and pediatric to geriatric populations. She has been a volunteer nurse practitioner at The Community of Hope in Washington DC since 1984 and also provides consultation and direct care to patients in a long-term care facility.
 Sister has had experience as a project director for an Advanced Nurse Training Grant as well as a Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Midwifery Training Grant from the Division of Nursing. The main thrust of these grants was the development and expansion of the Primary Care/Adult Nurse Practitioner sub-specialty within the graduate program at CUA. Dr. Salerno also developed and implemented the first Washington Metropolitan Area, post-masters certificate programs to prepare Adult and Geriatric Nurse Practitioners.
Dr. Salerno is active in numerous community and professional organizations. As a member of the Sisters of the Third Franciscan Order--Syracuse, Sister has been a volunteer health care educator in Peru. During the past 3 years she has been to Peru on several occasions to train lay health care workers for rural areas of Peru.
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