Region 1 Director
Donna Montesi, DNP, MBA, ANP-BC, FAANP
Dr. Donna Montesi is the Region 1 Director of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP).
Dr. Donna Montesi has over 25 years of experience in nursing. An adult nurse practitioner, Dr. Montesi completed her MSN in 2002, DNP in 2013 and MBA in May of 2024 at Quinnipiac University. Dr. Montesi is the executive director of Hartford Healthcare-affiliated PACT Primary Care in Connecticut, where she leads employees and providers within a diverse array of settings — including outpatient clinics, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and home-based primary care. Her areas of expertise include geriatrics, wound care, medical practice operations and administrative oversight. Dr. Montesi has been active in state and national legislative issues important to APRNs since 2002.
In 2011, she received the AANP State Award for Excellence for the nurse practitioner role in Connecticut. She received the first transformational leadership award in 2014 from Quinnipiac University and was inducted as a Fellow of AANP in 2019. In November of 2023 she was elected the first Nurse Practitioner President of the Greater New England Society of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Dr. Montesi has served two terms as the Connecticut AANP state liaison, is a health care council member for the New Haven Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Dean’s advisory committee at Quinnipiac University School of Nursing.