Dr. Melissa DeCapua, DNP, PMHNP
My name is Melissa DeCapua, and I am a design researcher at Microsoft. Those who know me best call me "Mav" (short for Maverick), which is one of those nicknames I'm happy has stuck.
I started my career as a psychiatric nurse practitioner (PMHNP), graduating from Vanderbilt University and completing a doctorate in nursing practice (DNP). My clinical background spanned inpatient child & adolescent psychiatry to psychosomatic medicine. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act and the explosion in healthcare technology startups, I had the opportunity to begin consulting. Today I sit on the medical advisory board for Health Innovation Northwest, a Seattle-based non-profit. It was through these experiences I discovered the field of design research. By day, I work at Microsoft as a design researcher on their Research & Intelligence team, analyzing human behavior and conducting user research (#dreamjob). By night, I continue advocating for nurse practitioner rights on both the state and national level through lobbying efforts and, of course, blogging. |
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