Leslie-Faith Morritt Taub

Leslie-Faith Morritt Taub an Assistant Professor of Nursing, Division of Graduate Studies, at the University of Medicine and Dentistry's School of Nursing, Newark, New Jersey where she teaches Primary Care I and II, core courses for many of the nurse practitioner tracks. She received a BFA in Fine Arts from Lehman College, a BSN in Nursing from the College of Staten Island, an MSN from Seton Hall, and a DNSc from Columbia University. She is presently a Fellow at the Sleep Disorders Institute, a program affiliated with St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, where she is studying clinical sleep medicine, treating patients with sleep disorders and working on research to evaluate the compliance of patients with type 2 diabetes and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to continuous pressure airway treatment (CPAP) as compared to a control group of those with OSA but without type 2 diabetes. She is the first Nurse Practitioner accepted to this program. She is certified as an Adult Nurse Practitioner from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), board certified as a Gerontology Nurse Practitioner from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and a Certified Diabetes Educator from the American Association of Diabetes Educators. Her dissertation work, published in 2004, is entitled, "An Evaluation of the Concordance of Selected Self-Reported Provider Recommendations for the Care of Patients With Diabetes With the Recommendations of the American Diabetes Association's Evidence Based Guidelines Using a National Survey." She used the National Health Interview Survey, a large data set public use file, to evaluate the care of those with type 2 diabetes across the United States in the community settings to see if they were getting the health care recommended by the American Diabetes Association. Her most recent article, published in Biological Research for Nursing (2008), is entitled Sleep Disorders, Glucose Regulation, and Type 2 Diabetes. She is a reviewer for the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (JAANP) and has served as a participant in the test construction of the first AANP Gerontologic Nurse Practitioner Exam in 2006 and again in 2007. She is a well-known presenter at the Eastern Research Society and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Annual Conference on such topics as sleep and type 2 diabetes and how to use research in evidence based practice.