Diane Newman

Diane Newman, MNC, FAAN is a nurse practitioner who has provided services for persons with urinary incontinence and related problems in ambulatory, home care and long term care settings in the Philadelphia area since 1986. In 2000, she was appointed the Co-Director of the PENN Center for Continence and Pelvic Health at the Division on Urology of the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia. Ms. Newman received her Master of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She is certified as an adult nurse practitioner by the American Nurse Credentialing Center. She has been appointed a fellow by the American Academy of Nursing. Over the past 15 years, Diane has developed an established reputation in state-of-the-art assessment and behavioral treatment of urinary incontinence and is a respected leader in the field.

She was appointed the Chair of the Committee on Promotion, Organization and Education in Continence for the World Health Organization’s 2001 International Consultation on Incontinence.

She has an appointment to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service’s (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration-HCFA) Scope and Severity of Nursing Care Deficiencies panel of experts in long term care. Ms. Newman also has an appointment to the FDA Advisory Committee, Gastroenterology and Urology Devices Panel of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Department of Health and Human Services. She is a member of the Project Task Force for the National Association For Continence (NAFC) Blueprint of Continence Care Guidelines for Assisted Living Facilities. Ms. Newman was a nurse scientist for the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics, and Neonatal Nurses’ research on “Continence in Women.”

She is the author of The Urinary Incontinence Sourcebook (a book for the lay public), a member of the National Association for Continence’s Project Advisory Council, and was Co-Chair of the 1996 Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (formerly AHCPR, now AHQR), Department of Health and Human Services, Clinical Practice Guideline Update panel on “Urinary Incontinence in Adults: Acute and Chronic Management”. A prolific writer, Ms. Newman has written more than 75 scientific papers, chapters, and articles and is regularly published in texts and major journals. She has recently completed a book titled “Managing and Treating Urinary Incontinence that was published by Health Profession Press in 2002. In 1996, Ms. Newman created a bladder health promotion program called Dry Expectations, which is conducted in senior centers throughout the County of Philadelphia. She continues to provide services to PCA’s Long Term Care Options program for seniors.