Biography
Heidi Honegger Rogers, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, APHN-BC, FNAP is a first generation New Mexican, family nurse practitioner, advanced practice holistic nurse and a clinician educator - associate professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Nursing. She served as the Director of Interprofessional Education for the UNM Health Sciences Center from 2018-2024. In that time, she developed an the first Interprofessional Education Honors Program. She has innovated several new courses at UNM and has received three Golden Paw awards for best practices in online education. Courses she has developed or co-developed include Planetary Health, Climate Change & Health, Population Health, Evidence Informed Practice, Leadership and the BSN-DNP Project courses. She has designed workshops and seminars on interdisciplinary collaboration, values, ethics, & shared decision making, mindfulness, health and well-being, and equity and inclusion for HSC and UNM health professions students. She currently teaches in the core courses for the UNM CON BSN-DNP program and the APRN MSN program. She has a secondary appointment with the UNM Sustainability Studies Program, and the College of Population Health.
Rogers advocacy and scholarship centers in climate change and health, equity and justice, nature connection, wellbeing, and planetary health. She leads the Planetary Health Task Force for the American Holistic Nurses Association, and she works with the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, the Global Consortium for Climate Change and Health Education Nurses Working Group, and the Planetary Health Alliance. She Is a member of the leadership team for the Accelerating Resilience in Drylands (ARID) Institute at UNM. She is an affiliated faculty with the College of Nursing Center for Health Equity, Planetary Health and Preparedness. She has been building a movement of Nursing for Planetary Health through her engagement in the 2023 cohort with the Environmental Health Reasearch Institute for Nurse Clinican Scientists (EHRI-NCS). She has been a member of the US working group for the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change since 2020. She is on the Board of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine and is a fellow in the National Academies of Practice. She is a facilitator with the Work That Reconnects and a certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide. She is dedicated to bringing a Planetary Health Lens into our work as nurses and health professionals.
Rogers received her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Colorado in 2015, a Master of Science in Nursing degree (1997), a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (1996) from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities (1990) from the University of Colorado.
Pronoun preferences: She/her/hers
Areas of Specialty
Community Health | Cultural Safety | Disaster Preparedness/Management | Environmental Health | Ethics/Ethical Decision Making | Family-Centered Care | Health Care Policy | Health Equity | Health Law | Holistic Nursing | International/Global Health | Interprofessional Education | Leadership/Leadership Development | Nurse Education | Primary Care | Public Health | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Traditional Care
Education
DNP, University of Colorado, 2015 (Nursing)
MS, University of Pennsylvania, 1997 (Family Nurse Practitioner)
BS, University of Pennsylvania, 1996 (Nursing)
BA, University of Colorado, 1990 (Humanities)
Certifications
RN: Registered Nurse
FNP-BC: Family Nurse Practitioner Board Certified
APHN-BC: Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse - Board Certified
Gender
Female
Languages
- English
- Spanish