A New Model is here for Advancing Nursing Science
Creating modern pathways for nurses to lead research, translate evidence, and drive impact in healthcare delivery settings.
About Us
The Souffront Institute (TSI) is a practice-informed incubator, accelerator, and strategic advisory platform shaping the future of nursing science.
Founded by Dr. Kimberly Souffront—an NIH-funded nurse scientist and national leader in research capacity building—TSI is driven by a simple but powerful mission:
Build the science. Build the scientists.
Our Model: Hub and Spoke
We use a hub-and-spoke model to design and scale programs that support nurse-led research, innovation, and leadership within healthcare delivery settings.
- The hub is The Souffront Institute.
- The spokes are our programs—each targeting a specific gap in training or mentorship—and are operated in partnership with academic institutions, health systems, or platforms such as The Souffront Collaboratory.
What is a practice-informed incubator?
We support nurses who are embedded in healthcare delivery settings and help them turn real-world insights into rigorous, scalable science. Through structured mentorship, pre/post doctoral training, and community, we grow the next generation of nurse scientists from the inside out.
What We Believe
- The best solutions come from those closest to the bedside.
- Mentorship must be modern, inclusive, and grounded in practice.
- Diverse pathways into nursing science must be created—not just imagined.
Advisory
In addition to its programmatic work, The Souffront Institute provides selective strategic advisory to academic health systems, foundations, and national organizations seeking to build and sustain clinician-scientist, workforce, and health equity infrastructure.
Our advisory work focuses on:
- Designing and governing clinician-scientist and health equity infrastructure within complex institutional environments.
- Identifying and mitigating structural, operational, and political barriers that undermine workforce development, research translation, and equity initiatives.
- Supporting senior leaders in translating evidence and values into durable systems, strategy, and policy.
Advisory engagements are invitation-only, time-limited, and focused on senior leadership–level design and decision-making. We do not provide operational or implementation services.
For inquiries, please contact [your email].
POWERED BY TSI
The Mentorship Alignment Program (MAP™)
The Mentorship Alignment Program (MAP™)
The Mentorship Alignment Program (MAP™)
A national registry of doctorally prepared nurses across all areas of science, which sits within the TSI hub.
Join the registry here
TSI Think Tank
The Mentorship Alignment Program (MAP™)
The Mentorship Alignment Program (MAP™)
A collaborative space for PhD- and DNP-prepared nurses to co-create real world solutions.
Coming Soon
The Mentorship Alignment Program (MAP™)
ANCHORED IN THE SOUFFRONT COLLABORATORY
ReTRAIN™ - Reimagining Translational Research & Innovation in Nursing
PATH™ - Postdoctoral Advancement and Training for Nurses in Healthcare Delivery Settings
PATH™ - Postdoctoral Advancement and Training for Nurses in Healthcare Delivery Settings
A hybrid practice-based postdoctoral bootcamp for DNP-prepared nurses and students working in healthcare delivery settings.
Coming Soon
PATH™ - Postdoctoral Advancement and Training for Nurses in Healthcare Delivery Settings
PATH™ - Postdoctoral Advancement and Training for Nurses in Healthcare Delivery Settings
PATH™ - Postdoctoral Advancement and Training for Nurses in Healthcare Delivery Settings
A post-doctoral model for PhD-prepared nurses working in healthcare settings offering tailored mentorship and a modular curriculum to advance nursing science.
Coming Soon
About the founder
Kimberly Souffront PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAHA, FAAN
Rooted in Practice. Backed by Federal Investment. Built for National Scale.
Dr. Kimberly Souffront is an NIH-funded nurse scientist, emergency nurse practitioner, and national leader in research capacity-building. At the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, she has developed and led multiple federally and foundation-funded programs t
Rooted in Practice. Backed by Federal Investment. Built for National Scale.
Dr. Kimberly Souffront is an NIH-funded nurse scientist, emergency nurse practitioner, and national leader in research capacity-building. At the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, she has developed and led multiple federally and foundation-funded programs that advance nursing science and mentorship within real-world clinical settings.
In parallel, she founded TSI, an independent initiative that is fully separate from her role at Mount Sinai. TSI reflects her broader vision to advance cardiovascular equity and build research capacity by training the next generation of scholars.
Her work is grounded in the belief that transforming healthcare starts by supporting those delivering it.