Kristen Matulis, DNP, APRN, AGNP-C holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from The University of Texas at Austin and a Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of Minnesota. She is a certified adult and gerontological nurse practitioner and has practiced in a variety of specialties throughout her career, including cardiology, gerontology, and neurology. Dr. Matulis is a graduate of the Parkinson’s Foundation’s inaugural Movement Disorders Nurse Practitioner Fellowship program, which concluded in June of 2023, and she currently practices in the Movement Disorders Division at The Neurological Institute of New York, NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, New York. Her clinical focus is in neuromodulation in Parkinson’s disease, specifically deep brain stimulation (DBS), and her interests center around nurse practitioner specialty education in the field of movement disorders.