Terri H. Lipman, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, is the Assistant Dean for Community Engagement, the Miriam Stirl Endowed Term Professor of Nutrition, a Professor of Pediatric Nursing and the Associate Director of the Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She is a faculty member in the Center for Health Equity Research, associated faculty in the Center for Public Health Initiatives and a Distinguished Fellow in the Netter Center for Community Partnerships. She is the recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Dr. Lipman is also a pediatric nurse practitioner in the Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Dr. Lipman received her BSN from Temple University in Philadelphia, and her MSN, PhD and CRNP from the University of Pennsylvania.  Dr. Lipman has published widely and has given numerous national and international presentations. Her major areas of research have been the epidemiology of diabetes and assessment of growth of children. The Philadelphia Pediatric Diabetes Registry is the only longstanding pediatric diabetes registry in the United States. She was the principal investigator of a multicenter randomized, controlled trial evaluating growth assessment in primary care practices. That study, funded by the Genentech Foundation for Growth and Development and by the Pediatric Endocrinology Nursing Society was published in the Archives of Diseases in Childhood and the Journal of Pediatric Nursing and received widespread coverage in the lay press. She was a co-investigator on Dr. Adda Grimberg’s NIH funded study – Overcoming Disparities in Growth Evaluation. Dr. Lipman’s current research interests include racial disparities in children with endocrine disorders, the effect of the economic distress on food choices in adolescents, and community based participatory research. Her community based research received a Mayoral Proclamation and Citation from Philadelphia City Council for service to the community.