MITCHEL ERICKSON DNP, MS, BSN, BSc, ACNP-C

Dr. Mitchel Erickson is a board-certified acute care nurse practitioner who practiced as an emergency medicine provider for 25 years but has worked as a hospitalist and primary care provider.  His leadership roles include the first UCSF Health’s Chief of Advanced Practice overseeing 600 APPs and the Chair the California Board of Registered Nursing’s Advanced Practice RN Advisory Committee.  His role as Chief helped mobilize advanced practice leadership across all University of California health systems to address common practice and administrative optimization. During his tenure in the role, he focused on APP new hire onboarding to address provider attrition and engagement and published the data in 2023. He is currently building and optimizing a 4-year collaboration between the Department of Emergency Medicine and Division of Geriatrics creating an age-friendly model of care in the emergency department. He maintains his role as a Clinical Professor position at UCSF School of Nursing and is a consultant to the Los Angeles County Dept of Health Services APP workforce. He completed his Doctor of Nursing Practice degree at UCSF in 2022 focusing on medication self-management and medication reconciliation for older adults in the emergency department during the implementation of SB1254 and received the 2022/2023 American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Excellence in Advancing Nursing Practice award in recognition of his doctoral work.