She has authored more than 600 publications and secured over $36 million in sponsored funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and private foundations as a principal investigator.
Dr. Melnyk is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, which has recognized her three times as an Edge Runner. She is also a fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academies of Practice, and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She served a four-year term on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the National Advisory Council for the National Institute for Nursing Research, and the Behavioral Health Standing Committee of the National Quality Forum.
She also served as dean of the College of Nursing at both The Ohio State University and Arizona State University, leading both to top rankings in U.S. News & World Report and National Institutes of Health research funding.
Dr. Melnyk currently serves as an elected board member and chair of the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention. She has received honorary doctoral degrees from the State University of New York and Frontier Nursing University.
Her evidence-based COPE cognitive-behavioral skills-building programs for depression and anxiety are being used in primary care practices in all 50 states with reimbursement, as well as in K–12 schools and universities across the country and in five other countries.
She is editor-in-chief of Sigma’s top-ranked journal Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. She was appointed to the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience in 2017, on which she still serves. She is also on the advisory board for the American Nurses Association’s Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation initiative and is the founder and immediate past president of the National Consortium for Building Healthy Academic Communities.
Dr. Melnyk received her Bachelor of Science in nursing from West Virginia University, her Master of Science in nursing and pediatric nurse practitioner education from the University of Pittsburgh, and her Ph.D. in clinical research and psychiatric nurse practitioner education from the University of Rochester.