The Indiana University School of Nursing is pleased to announce that Huixin Wu, DNP, MBA, MSN, APRN, RN, CCRN, CCNS, has been appointed as clinical associate professor and the Indianapolis campus non-tenure track department chair effective November 1. In this position, Dr. Wu will report to Melissa D. Pinto, PhD, Indianapolis campus associate dean.
Wu will provide academic and operational leadership for non-tenure track faculty, supporting faculty development, curriculum quality, accreditation readiness, student success, and workforce-aligned program innovation. In this role, she will help advance a collaborative academic environment that supports excellence in teaching, service, practice, and scholarship across the school.
“Dr. Wu brings a strong record of academic leadership, program innovation, accreditation expertise, and commitment to student and faculty success,” said Dean Janet S. Carpenter, PhD, RN, FAAN. “Her experience leading nursing programs, supporting faculty development, and advancing workforce-aligned education will be valuable as she assumes this important leadership role.”
About Dr. Wu
Wu is a senior academic leader and experienced chief nurse administrator with a record of advancing student success, academic quality, and workforce-aligned health professions education. She currently serves as chair of the Division of Nursing, director of bachelor’s nursing programs, and tenured associate professor at Davis & Elkins College, where she provides leadership for undergraduate nursing program operations, faculty supervision, curriculum oversight, accreditation, budgeting, and community partnerships.
Her leadership has contributed to measurable outcomes, including initiatives that supported a 100% NCLEX-RN first-time pass rate in 2024, almost $3 million in competitive state funding, and partnerships with more than 18 healthcare and community organizations. She has led and supported multiple successful accreditation reviews through the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing and the National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA), and she currently serves as an NLN CNEA on-site Program Evaluator.
Wu’s teaching and academic leadership experience spans undergraduate and graduate nursing education in traditional, hybrid, and online formats. Her areas of teaching include evidence-based practice, nursing capstone, health policy and finance, introduction to nutrition, scientific underpinnings for practice, informatics foundation and healthcare technology, advanced physical assessment and health promotion, advanced pathophysiology and pharmacology, health care economics and financial management, organizational quality and systems leadership, and professional role: communication and collaboration for improving patient outcomes.
Her scholarship reflects interdisciplinary interests in critical care nursing, nursing informatics, international nursing education, healthcare genetics and genomics, machine learning applications, precision health, and health equity. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Healthcare Genetics and Genomics at Clemson University, where her work uses the NIH All of Us Research Program to examine the integration of genomic, electronic health record, and social determinants of health data.