Rhonda Conner-Warren

Dr Conner-Warren is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with 20 years of experience caring for children in diverse settings, including outpatient clinics, school-based health centers, and providing routine screenings at Focus: HOPE in Detroit.
As a pediatric nurse practitioner and clinical faculty member in community health, I partner with health educators and families to create personalized, practical care plans that promote children's well-being at home and in the community

Recently award:
Anna Mae (Berg) Spaniolo Awad 2025: Michigan State University College of Nursing for innovative scholarly activity
Billie Gamble Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award 2023: Michigan State University College of Nursing

NLN Lillian Wald Humanitarian Award Nominee 2023
Public Health Nursing - Excellence in Public Health Nursing Award Nominee

Recent presentation: Conner-Warren. R. (2023) Catch Fire: Community Engagement -Ignite Session American Nurses Association MI Port Huron, MI October, 2023
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Accepted presentation: Conner-Warren, R. (2024, October 27). Enhancing asthma management in early childhood programs: Lessons from clinical experience [Poster presentation]. Black Caucus of Health Workers Poster Session II, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA

Guest Speaker: Personal health, the risk, rewards, myths and legends. For the Girl's Talk Empowerment workshop. Noble Birth Program Detroit, MI. October 23 2023

Pod Cast /Interviews:

2024 Dr. Conner-Warren’s story https://engagedscholar.msu.edu/enewsletter/volume16/issue2/conner- warren.aspx?via=enews

2023 ABSN students bloom in Detroit https://nursing.msu.edu/about- us/news/news-articles/absn-students-bloom-detroit MSU College of Nursing ALLIES Campaign: Marcella, Miracle and the BSN students

Poindexter K. Global Code Red: Nursing Education's Call to Climate Change. Nurs Educ Perspect. 2023 Mar-Apr 01;44(2):73-74. doi: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000001103. PMID: 36800404
Honorable mention in this article

Grace in a time of need
https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/07/rhonda-conner-warren-grace-in-a-time-of-need

https://www.focushope.edu/

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor of Health Practice, Michigan State University

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