Roxana Moriarty, D.N.P., APRN

Biography

Roxana Moriarty, D.N.P, APRN, is a board-certified adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner in the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She grew up in New Jersey and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Delaware. She later completed Columbia University’s accelerated nursing program and earned a master’s degree through its acute care nurse practitioner program.

Ms. Moriarty began her health care career as a kidney and liver transplant nurse at NYU Langone Medical Center. She then worked as a hospitalist nurse practitioner at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut for five years before transitioning to thoracic surgery at UT Southwestern. She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Yale School of Nursing in spring 2023. Ms. Moriarty is committed to lifelong learning and providing safe, high-quality clinical care. She is passionate about patient education and advocacy.