M. Therese Jamison

Dr. Therese Jamison DNP, ACNP-BC is the Founding Director of Nursing at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) since 2016. She earned her Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) from Vanderbilt University and formally was educated at The University of Michigan (Post Master’s Acute Care Nurse Practitioner) and Wayne State University (MSN/BSN).

Therese has an extensive history as an educator for undergraduate and graduate nursing students since 1994, formally at level of Full Professor at Madonna University. She has been an associate of the Ascension Healthcare System since 1981. She is an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in cardiovascular surgery, since 2006 and formally in the area of cardiology since 1998.

Service to LTU includes the Institutional Review Board, the University Retention Committee, Academic Honor Council and the Nurse Faculty Committee. She serves as the Chair of the Governance Committee which oversees the Academic Practice Partnership between LTU and Ascension Michigan. Service to Ascension includes being on Board of Trustees for the Quality Committee for Ascension Southeast Michigan, Board Member for the Ascension Providence Foundation and The National American Arab Nurse Association. As well, Therese is the Past President of the Kappa Iota Chapter of Sigma Theta International, the national honor society for nursing, being inducted into the honor society in 1982.

Therese has presented extensively at local, regional, and national forums on topics of nursing practice/nursing education, and scholarship with a focus on quality improvement initiatives. Her recent publications have focused on Relationship-Based Care, Pharmacology, and Atrial Fibrillation, with a research focus on the care of the patient after Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery. 

Therese is passionate about the future of nursing, its role in delivering high quality, safe, effective, and efficient care. She shares freely her vision, passion, and expertise of nursing with her students and professional colleagues. Her wish for the nursing profession is to be consistently recognized as an integral part in the health delivery system, continually advancing high standards, patient-centered and ethically based care.