Margaret A. Fitzgerald, DNP, FNP-BC, NP-C, FAANP, CSP is the Founder, President and Principal Lecturer with Fitzgerald Health Education Associates, Inc., an international provider of NP Certification Preparation and ongoing continuing education for healthcare providers. An internationally recognized presenter, she has provided hundreds of programs for numerous professional organizations, universities, national and state healthcare professional associations on a wide variety of topics including clinical pharmacology, assessment, laboratory diagnosis, and healthcare practice. In addition, she is a family nurse practitioner at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, Lawrence, MA and adjunct faculty for the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Family Practice Residency Program. For more than 15 years she has provided graduate-level pharmacology courses for adult, family, gerontologic, pediatric, women‘s health, acute care and psych-mental health nurse practitioner students at a number of universities including Simmons College (Boston, MA), Husson College (Bangor, ME), University of Massachusetts Worcester, Pennsylvania State University, La Salle University (Philadelphia, PA) and Samford University (Birmingham, AL). She holds a Doctor of Nursing degree from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.

Dr. Fitzgerald is a recipient of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties‘ Lifetime Achievement Award given in recognition of vision and accomplishments in successfully developing and promoting the nurse practitioner role, the American College of Nurse PractitionerÕs Sharp Cutting Edge Award, and the Outstanding Nurse Award for Clinical Practice by the Merrimack Valley Area Health Education Council. She is also a charter fellow in the Fellows of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. The Nurse Practitioner Journal has featured her as one of the nation‘s 25 most influential NPs. She participated in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioner‘s video presentation, 20/40, a program that brought together NP leaders to comment on critical issues in NP practice. Dr. Fitzgerald is a Professional Member of the National Speakers Association and is the first nurse practitioner to earn the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation in recognition of excellence and integrity as a speaker.

Dr. Fitzgerald is Co-Chair of the MinuteClinic National Clinical Quality Advisory Council. She is the Lab Logic Column Editor for the Nurse Practitioner Journal and editorial board member for the Nurse Practitioner Journal, Medscape Nurses, Lexi-Comp, Inc., American Nurse Today and the Prescriber‘s Letter. She is widely published with more than 80 articles, book chapters, monographs, and audio and video programs to her credit. Her book, Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination and Practice Preparation, (2nd edition), received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award for Advanced Practice Nursing and has been published in English and Korean. She has provided consultation to nursing organizations in the United States, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. Dr. Fitzgerald also serves as Guest Faculty for a variety of healthcare-related companies and is an active member of numerous professional organizations at the national and local levels.