Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Research & Innovation
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Dr. Mary Beth Happ is the Nursing Distinguished Professor of Critical Care Research and the Senior Associate Dean for Research & Innovation at The Ohio State University College of Nursing. Dr. Happ is a NIH-funded critical care and aging researcher. With more than 24 years of external funding support, Happ built a program of interdisciplinary, practice-based research focused on improving care and communication with communication-impaired patients, families and clinicians during critical illness and at end of life, particularly with patients receiving mechanical ventilation. She has specialty expertise in gerontology and critical care. Dr. Happ led the NIH-funded, Study of Patient-nurse Effectiveness with Assisted Communication Strategies (SPEACS), that developed and tested a multi-component intervention to improve communication with nonvocal ventilated patients in the ICU, and the follow-up translational study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation exploring the intervention effects in a real world application (SPEACS-2) across 6 ICUs. The SPEACS-2 program has been implemented in several ICUs across the US, Canada, and Ireland and successfully adapted for undergraduate nursing curriculum. In addition, Dr. Happ has collaborated on several studies of family caregiving, including caregiving for persons with dementia. She serves on several journal editorial boards and has authored more than 190 journal articles, editorials, invited papers, published abstracts, and book chapters. In recognition of the impact of her program of research, Dr. Happ was selected by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses to present the 2021 Distinguished Research Lecture and has also presented a National Institute of Nursing Research Director’s Lecture (2017).
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Sunday, November 6, 2022
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
Sunday, November 6, 2022
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET