Dr. Matthew S. Howard is an accomplished clinical and association leader. For over a decade, he has worked in various capacities at Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma).

While also serving as adjunct faculty at Northern Kentucky University and the University of Southern Indiana, he works as a staff nurse in his clinical specialty of emergency nursing at Deaconess Gateway Hospital in Southern Indiana. His nursing career has taken him from stretcher-side nursing to academia and back. His clinical background includes emergency, flight, and trauma nursing, as well as several leadership positions. Dr. Howard served as the assistant director and nursing faculty at a local college in Indianapolis, IN, working with RN and PN students. He has also served as the Manager of Trauma Services and Clinical Manager of Operations in the Emergency Department at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health in Indianapolis, IN.

Before these appointments, he worked as a staff nurse in several Indiana and Kentucky emergency departments and as a flight nurse with two agencies. He began his nursing career as a basic EMT in rural western Kentucky while completing his nursing degree. He received his ASN from the University of Kentucky in 1998. He then moved to Evansville, IN, where he received his BSN and BS in Radiological and Imaging Sciences with a minor in Public Health from the University of Southern Indiana (USI) in 2002 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Howard continued his education and received his MSN in Nursing Education from USI in 2007 and his DNP in organizational leadership from NKU in 2018.

Dr. Howard serves on several local, national, and international councils and nursing associations, including the American Nurses Association, the  Emergency Nurses Association, the International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing, the International Society of Professional Identity in Nursing, and Sigma.