Gloria Dixon, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC, is a clinician educator - assistant professor at The University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Nursing (CON), where she teaches and serves as the concentration coordinator for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program. With more than 10 years of experience as an advanced practice psychiatric nurse and more than 16 years of experience as a registered nurse (RN) in a variety of acute and chronic care medical specialties, Dixon began her career as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in 2009 at the UNM Psychiatric Center. Over a period of 10 years, she has practiced in both acute and long-term outpatient clinical settings. From 2011 to 2014, she took on a dual role of manager for advanced practice psychiatric providers while continuing to work as a clinician; she directed and coordinated the clinical and management activities of psychiatric advanced practice RNs and acted as a liaison among physicians, staff, patients, families and other departments to facilitate communication, problem solving, crisis intervention and resource utilization.

In 2014, Dixon received the Doctor of Nursing Practice Capstone Award from the University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Campus, for her quality improvement project, "Improving Patient Safety and Timeliness of Care for Mentally Ill Patients: A Quality Improvement Project." She also received recognition as the Distinguished Nurse (Psychiatric Providers) at the UNM Psychiatric Center in 2010. Dixon served as coinvestigator from 2016 to 2018 in the Collaborative Advanced Psychiatric Education eXchange, an interstate collaboration between the University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing and the UNM CON, to enhance academic practice partnerships and establish formal, ongoing Lay Academic Medical Partners systems to improve psychiatric curriculum and training experiences. She is currently developing the UNM PMHNP Master's and Post-Master's program of studies that will begin in Summer 2019.

Dixon holds national credentials with the American Nurses Credentialing Center in the specialty of psychiatry and a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Colorado Denver. In addition, she received a graduate certificate in family psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner from Rush University, a Master of Science in Nursing from New Mexico State and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Phoenix.