Nancy Harris
MS, ANP-C, SANE-A, SANE-P
Nancy Harris, MS, ANP-C, SANE-A, SANE-P, has worked in nursing for 40 years, covering pediatrics, neonatal intensive care, hospital medicine, and emergency services. While working in the emergency department at Samaritan Hospital, she served as manager of the hospital’s sexual assault nurse examiner program. Harris has completed several sexual assault forensic examiner and pediatric trainings and has performed more than 3,000 sexual assault exams. In 2009, she earned certification as an adult nurse practitioner from SAGE College in Albany, New York. Harris was instrumental in developing a systemwide program that includes four hospitals and two child advocacy centers in the capital region. The regional program now covers 32 counties in New York state, and she is the acting medical manager. She is a co-founder and the medical manager of the TELESAFE Program, a pilot program funded by a grant from the Office of Victim Services that has provided services across New York state for the past four years. Harris is a member of numerous multidisciplinary teams, child fatality review teams, and the state medical workgroup, and is active with many local and international organizations. With a team of colleagues and the help of the New York State Children’s Alliance, she created and provided free pediatric sexual assault nurse examiner training for all medical providers in the state and developed a preceptorship program for those providers. Harris and a colleague have been instrumental in educating forensic physicians, social workers, and nurses in Romania. She received the TEAL Award from the Albany County SART Team in 2020, the Making a Difference Award from the New York State Children’s Alliance in 2022, and the Distinguished Fellow award from the International Association of Forensic Nurses in 2023. In April, she received the Public Service Award from the Saratoga County District Attorney’s Office, and in June, she received the Outstanding Front Line Professional Award from the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.