Marie T. Nolan, PhD, RN, is Associate Professor and Director of the PhD Program at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), School of Nursing. She received her B.S. in Nursing from Niagara University, her M.S. in Nursing from Boston College, her M.P.H. from George Washington University, and her PhD in Nursing from The Catholic University of America. Dr. Nolan’s research focuses on patient and family health care decision making in critical illness. Her studies of decision making at the end-of-life and of decision making concerning living organ donation have been funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She a current member and past Co-Chairman of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Ethics Committee and Consultation Service. She has served on the NIH Advisory Panel on”End of Life Issues in Genetic Illnesses” and was a Nursing Research Fellow of the American Heart Association. She teaches courses in advanced research design at JHU School of Nursing and serves as Co-Director of the China Doctoral Program Partnership with the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), School of Nursing in Beijing. This is the first doctoral program in nursing in China. Dr. Nolan is coeditor (with Victoria Mock) of the text, Measuring Patient Outcomes (Sage Publications, 2000) and is coeditor (with Sharon Augustine) of the text, Transplantation Nursing (Appleton & Lange, 1995). |
