She served as the Executive Director of the Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders Program (NICHE), NYU Meyers from 2016-2024. In this role, she led a 500-member organization whose mission is to create age-friendly healthcare services for 48 million older adults in the US. In 2022, she was named an American Academy of Nursing Edge Runner for her contributions to improving nursing care for older adults.   

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Dr. Gilmartin’s research, published in high-impact journals, spans the boundaries of nursing and management, and advances understanding of leadership competencies for planned organizational change, voluntary turnover, innovation and entrepreneurship. In 2020, she was a Health and Aging Policy Fellow and an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, contributing her expertise on care coordination and change management to senior leaders at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and Administration for Community Living.

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A first-generation college graduate, she holds a bachelors and master’s degree in nursing and an MBA from the University of San Francisco, and a PhD degree from the University of Virginia School of Nursing, which named her its 2018 Distinguished Alumna. She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the National Academies of Practice, and the New York Academy of Medicine, as well as a past chair of the Academy of Management Healthcare Management Division.