Denise Kresevic

Denise Kresevic

RN, GNP

Dr. Kresevic has enjoyed a productive and meaningful career as a nurse researcher, educator, mentor, and clinician. Her work exemplifies the IOM’s call for nurses to “redesign and improve practice environments and health systems.” She has effectively aligned clinical practice with research. Her research on the Acute Care of the Elderly (ACE) model, disseminated both nationally and internationally, has led to significant improvements in the quality of care and hospital experience of older adults. Dr. Kresevic is the national nursing expert on this model, and her evidence-based protocol to prevent functional decline is the authoritative resource for inter-professional teams in the acute and post-acute setting. Over the past 20 years Dr. Kresevic has worked at the Cleveland VAMC in the GRECC to ensure geriatric education of all caregivers. In addition, she has continued as a nurse practitioner to manage a case load of frail older veterans In the outpatient clinic. She has expanded the Ace concept to pilot and implement innovative patient centered non-pharmacological management of delirium.
Dr. Kresevic has had a major impact on the education of nurses, physicians, and other disciplines, directly through her clinical leadership, publications, presentations, and resource development. Her track record of service on boards and committees (including the Benjamin Rose Institute and Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Nurses Improving Care for Health system Elders) has promoted geriatric organizational effectiveness in multiple settings. Her contributions have been recognized by the Greater Cleveland Nurses Association and Ohio Hospital Association, and she has been honored with the prestigious Excellence in Gerontological Nursing Award by the Gerontological Nursing Association. She has also been honored by the Northeast Ohio APN group as Nurse Practitioner of the year in 2019. She is a fellow of Gerontological Society of America and the Academy of Nursing.