JOSEPH DEBOE, DNP

Joe earned his BSN from Ohio University in 2013 and his Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree from the University of Arizona in 2017. He completed a post-doctoral program in Clinical Lipidology at the University of South Alabama. He holds an academic appointment as a Clinical Assistant Professor at The University of Arizona and is currently completing his PhD studies at the College of Nursing and The Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at The University of Arizona.

Joe has extensive experience in cardiology, including the cardiothoracic ICU, cardiac catheterization lab, and cardiac electrophysiology. He also worked for a Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) company and has expertise in pacemakers, defibrillators and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) for heart failure.

During his early doctoral studies at the University of Arizona, he performed research on heart failure transitions of care. He developed a private practice-based transitional care model for heart failure that is a unique one-of-a-kind model for reducing hospital readmissions due to heart failure. Joe is now involved in the research and development of integrative therapies for reducing inflammation and chronic pain.

His areas of clinical practice and research interests include preventative cardiology, lipidology, cardiac rhythm management, heart failure, hypertension, and reduction of inflammation.

Joe is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) and board certified by the AACN as an Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNPC-AG) specializing in adult, gerontological and critical care advanced practice nursing. He is also a committee member on the
AACN’s Advanced Practice Institute (API) advisory board along with being an editor for the American Nurse Journal (ANJ). His other memberships include National Lipid Association (NLA), where he is a board member on the NLA Media Relations Committee, American Society for Preventative Cardiology (ASPC), Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN).