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Ashley Z. Ritter, APRN, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing
Yardley, Pennsylvania, United States

Dr. Ashley Z. Ritter is an Assistant Professor in the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing at the City University of New York. Her research focuses on care coordination for older people with complex, overlapping medical and social needs including substance use disorder, dementia, and homelessness.

Dr. Ritter incorporates her research, clinical practice, and health policy skills in the development, implementation, and evaluation of interventions to increase the health, happiness, and safety of older adults in various community and healthcare settings. Her research uses mixed methodology to better understand barriers in care delivery to inform feasible and acceptable solutions. She enjoys working with interdisciplinary colleagues in public health, sociology, and other fields to integrate knowledge across disciplines, applying her research within practice settings including low-income senior housing, hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities.

Dr. Ritter continues her clinical practice as a Gerontologic Primary Care Nurse Practitioner providing care coordination to older people from diverse backgrounds. She is also the Co-Founder and prior CEO of Those Nerdy Girls, an award-winning non-profit science communication platform started during the COVID-19 pandemic providing factual, practical information to guide health decisions on topics including aging, mental health, reproductive health, information literacy, infectious disease and other health issues via social media outlets.
Dr. Ritter received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in 2018 as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar. She completed postdoctoral training in the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania and received a master’s degree in health policy in 2020. Dr. Ritter previously served as an Embedded Nurse Scientist and the Director of Research at NewCourtland, a non-profit provider of affordable housing, health care, and social services for older people in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Ritter’s research has been funded by the CDC, AHRQ, NIDA, and the VA.






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