Bridget Gramkowski, RN, MS, PNP
Associate Professor
Family Health Care Nursing
School of Nursing

Associate Clinical Professor and Interim Vice Chair of Academic Programs Department of Family Health Care Nursing, UCSF School of Nursing

Dr. Bridget Gramkowski is a nationally certified pediatric nurse practitioner with over two decades of clinical, academic, and leadership experience. She currently serves as Associate Clinical Professor and Interim Vice Chair of Academic Programs in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing at the UCSF School of Nursing. Dr. Gramkowski provides pediatric neurology care and leads quality improvement initiatives at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG), with a focus on care access, referral triage, and telehealth innovation.

At UCSF, she teaches across multiple graduate-level programs and is the lead instructor for the School of Nursing’s foundational course in Policy and Leadership, required for all Master of Science students. Her broader teaching portfolio includes pediatric clinical reasoning, pharmacology, and behavioral health, with emphasis on case-based learning and competency-based assessment.

Dr. Gramkowski’s scholarship centers on curriculum innovation, simulation-based learning, and expanding access to experiential education. She is the Principal Investigator for two UCSF-funded projects—Interprofessional Telehealth Training and Enhancing Clinical Education Through Generative AI-Powered Virtual Simulations—both disseminated nationally and internationally.

An active mentor and advocate for academic and professional growth, Dr. Gramkowski chairs the Family Health Care Nursing department’s Volunteer Faculty Peer Review Committee and serves on national committees for the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) in telehealth and simulation. She holds licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN), Public Health Nurse (PHN), Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in Primary Care (CPNP-PC), and earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) with a Leadership Focus from UCSF in June 2025.

• In Amelie Hollier (Ed.), Clinical Guidelines in Primary Care
  Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Syndrome 2021 Bridget Gramkowski
• In Amelie Hollier (Ed.),Clinical Guidelines in Primary Care
  Bronchiolitis 2021 Bridget Gramkowski
• Transitioning from clinician to nurse practitioner clinical faculty: A systematic review.
  Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners 2020 McQuilkin MA, Gatewood E, Gramkowski B, Hunter JM, Kuster A, Melino K, Mihaly LK
• Health risk behavior of youth in foster care.
  Journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing : official publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, Inc 2009 Gramkowski B, Kools S, Paul S, Boyer CB, Monasterio E, Robbins N