Ksenia Zukowsky, PhD, APRN, NNP-BC

Philadelphia Perinatal Society. Treasurer (PPS)
Member, Sigma Theta Tau International, Delta Rho Chapter (STTI)
Member, National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN)
Member, National Association of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners (NANNP)
Member, Delaware Valley Association of Neonatal Nurses (DVANN)
Member, National Association of National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF)
NONPF Member Resources Committee
American Nurses Association (ANA)
Committee Member: March of Dimes New Jersey Prematurity Campaign & Nurse of the Year Award

An outstanding educator, clinician, and mentor with broad expertise in women’s health and neonatal issues, and in matters related to care of the disabled and rural health care, Dr. Ksenia Zukowsky serves as Chair of Jefferson College of Nursing Graduate Program. She also is an assistant professor at Jefferson College of Nursing.

As an expert in neonatal nutrition, growth and development and palliative care, Dr. Zukowsky’s research demonstrated that feeding at least some human milk to otherwise-healthy low-birth weight premature infants led to improved mental and motor development assessments at six-month corrected age.

Dr. Zukowsky authored and initiated the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner program at Jefferson College of Nursing and also initiated the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner role in Thomas Jefferson University Hospital’s intensive care nursery.

Her work to develop online graduate nursing programs to improve care in underserved communities helped to increase the number of neonatal nurse practitioners working in rural Pennsylvania.

Dr. Zukowsky is a volunteer and consultant to Project HOPE in Neonatal Nursing Curriculum and mentors graduate faculty in Serra Leone and Malawi. 

She received the 2020 Thomas Jefferson University Award for Mentoring, acknowledging her commitment to effectively mentor junior faculty to achieve their full potential and also is the recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NAAN). In 2012-2013, she served as a Fellow in the Leadership of Academic Nursing Program at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Dr. Zukowsky has been a member of the Jefferson College of Nursing faculty since 2003, previously serving as Senior Associate Dean for the Graduate Program while also being Coordinator for the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program. She also has served as Director, Women’s and Children’s Health Programs.

Before coming to Jefferson College of Nursing, her experience includes serving as a Lecturer in the Perinatal Neonatal Nursing Graduate Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and as a clinical instructor for an HEW-funded Neonatology Nursing Course, "Comprehensive Nursing Care of the Neonate," at St. Christopher’s’ Hospital for Children in Philadelphia.

Dr. Zukowsky’s clinical experience includes service as a neonatal nurse practitioner at both Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and DuPont Hospital for Children, as a neonatal nurse practitioner at

Osteopathic Medical Center in Philadelphia, and in various nursing positions in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Dr. Zukowsky earned her Ph.D. in nursing at New York University, her master’s degree in nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, her bachelor’s degree in nursing at LaSalle University, and her nursing diploma at the Presbyterian School of Nursing of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.