June Romeo

Nationally certified as a nurse practitioner, June Hart Romeo has extensive experience in the management of cardiology patients and has specialized in heart failure. Holding graduate degrees in nursing, education, and a doctorate in sociology, June is well known not only as an expert clinician but also as an educator and researcher.

June is a nationally Certified Heart Failure Nurse (CHFN) and was one of only two nurses ever to be elected a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC). As a nurse practitioner, June was responsible for developing a new Heart Failure Clinic at one of the Cleveland Clinic hospitals in Ohio. During her tenure there, the clinic’s readmission rate dropped from 24.7% to less than 2%.

As an educator, June has developed both undergraduate and graduate programs in nursing, physician assistant, and public health. She held the position of Vice President for Academic Affairs of the MedCentral College of Nursing, Director of the MSN program at Cleveland State University, and Division Chair of Health & Physical Education programs at Baldwin Wallace University. In addition, she has held adjunct faculty positions at Kent State University, the University of Akron, and in the School of Nursing and the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Her work in literacy education in vulnerable populations has been published in both education and nursing journals.

June has been an active researcher and has numerous publications in nursing, education, and medical journals. She served as Director of Research for the Center for Poverty Studies at Cleveland State University and as Director of Clinical Trials for the Southwest Rheumatology Research Group. She has presented her work both nationally and internationally at professional conferences in both nursing and medicine.