Manpreet Sidhu, DNP, MS, ACNP-BC, ENP, FNP
Dr. Manpreet Sidhu is an Assistant Professor at California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) at College of Natural Sciences, department of Nursing. Prior to that she served as a lecturer and Assistant Clinical Professor at University of California Los Angeles, School of Nursing for 7-years. At UCLA She taught theory and clinical courses primarily in the graduate Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) Program at UCLA School of Nursing. Her interest and expertise are in Emergency Medicine. She obtained her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) with honors and as a member of the International Society of Scholars from California State University-Fullerton DNP Consortium program. Her primary research focus is mitigating emergency room overcrowding, improving timely access to care, decreasing Emergency Department (ED) throughput and ultimately improving patient outcome. Her doctoral project was developing the first advanced-practice nurse led Rapid Medical Evaluation and Treatment (RMET) program which implemented a novel approach to providing optimal care in a timely manner for patients presenting to the ED. She spent most of her clinical career in the Emergency Department at Los Angeles County General Hospital, where she taught many nurse practitioner and medical students. Her ED time was divided in trauma, medical and orthopedic emergencies, 24-hour medicine hold unit, and 48-hour cardiology hold unit.
She serves on the California Association for Nurse Practitioner (CANP) Board of Directors as the Educational Affairs Co-Chair. She has been a member of the Leadership Succession Committee with Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Gamma Tau-at-Large Chapter, and served as a UCLA faculty advisor. In addition, she volunteers as a medical provider with the UCLA chapter of the Bhagat Puran Singh Health Initiative, where she conducts monthly clinics at the local Sikh temple.
She is an active member of several professional organizations, including STTI’s Gamma Tau-at-Large Chapter, the National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Training Consortium, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), the Obesity Medicine Association, the California Association for Nurse Practitioners (CANP), and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).