Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing
University of Pennsylvania
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States
Dr. Martha A. Q. Curley is the Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She also holds a joint appointment in Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University’s Perelman School of Medicine. Her research, funded by multiple branches of the National Institutes of Health, has focused on nurse-led interventions in pediatric critical care. Over several decades, her work has focused on the primacy of patients and their families. Her studies have informed the practice of caring for critically ill pediatric patients with acute respiratory failure, illuminated relationship-based care when partnering with parents-of-critically-ill children and the phenomena of Post Intensive Care Syndrome in pediatrics. Dr. Curley has also led the development and dissemination of core metrics in the field of pediatrics; for example, the State Behavioral Scale (SBS), the Withdrawal Assessment Tool (WAT-1), individualized numeric rating scale (INRS) and the Braden QD scale. Dr. Curley is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She received her diploma in nursing from Springfield Hospital School of Nursing, her BS from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, her MSN in acute care pediatrics from Yale School of Nursing and her PhD from Boston College.
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Saturday, December 17, 2022
3:50 PM – 4:10 PM US Eastern Time