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Kerry Decker, RN, MS, ANP-BC

  • Nurse Practitioner
  • Co-Director, UCSF Surgical and Critical Care NP Fellowship Program

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MGH Institute Of Health Professions, MSN Nursing, 2007

James Madison University, BS Health Sciences, 2002

  • American Nurses Credentialing Center, Adult Nurse Practitioner
  • National Certification Corporation, Women's Health Nurse Practitioner
  • American Nurses Credentialing Center, Certified Medical Surgical Nurse
  • Bile Duct Strictures
  • Cirrhosis
  • Clinical Expertise
  • Fulminate Hepatic Failure
  • Hepatitis B
  • Hepatits C
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma
  • Infections Post Transplant
  • Live Donor Liver Transplant
  • Liver Transplantation
  • Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Kerry Decker's clinical role is as a nurse practitioner on the inpatient adult liver transplant service, where she manages patients with decompensated cirrhosis who are waiting for and recovering from liver transplant surgery. With her experience working in primary care, she has a special interest in bridging continuity of care between health care settings and easing transition for patients and their families.

Kerry is passionate about promoting opportunities for education and career development for nurses and nurse practitioners. She has been a clinical instructor of nursing at Massachusetts General Hospital and a preceptor at UCSF. She is also co director of the Surgical and Critical Care Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Program at UCSF.

Kerry earned a bachelor's degree in Health Science with minors in American Studies and Communication Science Disorders from James Madison University. She subsequently earned her Master's in Nursing from MGH Institute of Health Professions, where she graduated with honors. She is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as an Adult Nurse Practitioner and by the National Certification Corporation as a Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner. She is also a member of the California Association for Nurse Practitioners and Sigma Theta Tau.

  Award  
  Confired By    
  Date    
  • Partners Healthcare Excellence Award for Nursing Education
  • MGH Institute Of Health Professions
  • 2010 - 2011
  • Sigma Theta Tau
  • MGH Institute of Health Professions
  • 2007 - 2015
  • Professional Nurse Traineeship Grant Award
  • MGH Institute of Health Professions
  • 2006 - 2007
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    1. Giard JM, Decker KA, Lai JC, Gill RM, Logan AC, Fix OK. Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis during Pregnancy. ACG Case Rep J. 2016 Aug; 3(4):e162. View in PubMed
    2. Decker, K .A., Franklin, C.M., Reidy, P.A. Sheff, E. et al.. T. Buttaro, J. Tribulski, P. Bailey & J. Sanberg-Cook. (Eds.), Primary care a collaborative practice. 2011; 379-381. View in PubMed

     

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