Dr.  Suzanne Staebler is a Professor on the Clinical track. She is an expert  clinician, advocate, and nationally recognized leader in the field of neonatal advanced practice nursing. She has been practicing as a neonatal nurse practitioner since 1992 and has held faculty appointments at the  Medical University of South Carolina School of Nursing and Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing.
 
Dr. Staebler received her BSN from Baylor University, her MSN from the  University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio and her DNP from Texas Christian University. She completed a Post-Doc Fellowship and earned a Certificate in Healthcare Financing and Systems Thinking from the Georgia  Health Policy Center at Georgia State University.
 

Through her early involvement in neonatal professional organizations, Dr. Staebler  was a pioneer for guiding policy development and implementation at both  nursing and advanced practice nursing levels. Through her leadership on the  LACE taskforce, Dr. Staebler provided a platform for Neonatal Nurse  Practitioners to be designated as an APRN specialty population, encompassing  critical, acute, and primary care of infants. Dr. Staebler has developed  quality improvement and quality/productivity metric measurement tools to  enhance neonatal advanced practice and improve patient outcomes.
 
Her scholarship is in the area of policy and advocacy, with a focus on  patient outcomes, levels of NICU care and workforce. Dr. Staebler was the  lead author on a white paper discussing the future of neonatal advanced  practice nursing, which has served to inform all stakeholders on issues  related the high-risk maternal/infant care- this paper was recently revised  by NANNP. Her leadership roles within the National Association of NNPs  (NANNP) were pivotal to ongoing discussions centered on developing a medical  home model for premature infants. Informed by her doctoral work on designing  regionalized care systems for high-risk mothers and neonates and the policy  implications of regionalized care delivery models, Dr. Staebler drew on her  wealth of practical experience to educate and support the expanded role of  the NNP in health care delivery of this vulnerable patient population. Her  impact in the policy and advocacy arena and her dedication to educating  nurses about advocacy and policy has been far reaching. She has received  several awards for this work.
 
Dr. Staebler was inducted into the American Association of Nurse  Practitioners as a fellow in 2014. At the time of her induction, Dr. Staebler  was the 2nd Neonatal NP fellow. Dr. Staebler was inducted as a fellow into  the American Academy of Nursing in 2016 and has been awarded several  prestigious policy fellowships including Faculty Policy Fellow from the  American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the inaugural Georgia  Nursing Health Policy Fellowship.
 She speaks nationally and internationally on an array of topics. Dr. Staebler  is the past Governing Council Chair (2012-14) for the National Association of  Neonatal Nurse Practitioners (NANNP), and a past member of the Board of  Directors for the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN). She has  also served as a program evaluator for Accreditation Commission for Education  in Nursing, Inc., formerly NLNAC. Dr. Staebler was appointed to the Georgia  Nurses Association (GNA) Board of Directors as the state APRN Director from  2014-17. She was the President of the Board of Directors for the National  Certification Corporation (NCC) from 2016-2019.
 
Dr. Staebler is currently serving as the national NP representative on the  LACE Steering Committee (Jan 2021-present) and as a member of the GA  Composite Medical Board’s APRN Committee (April 2019-present). She also works  with the American Academy of Pediatrics NICU Verification Program as a Site  Surveyor and serves as the neonatal community co-chair for the American  Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).

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