Martha A.Q. Curley
Martha A.Q. Curley (born November 14, 1952) is an American nurse who serves as the Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and is married to John G. Curley.
Education and early career: She earned a Diploma in Nursing from Springfield Hospital School of Nursing in 1973, a BSc from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1985, an MSN from Yale University in 1987, and a PhD from Boston College in 1997. Her PhD thesis studied predictors of progress when weaning pediatric patients with acute respiratory failure from mechanical ventilation.
Career highlights: Curley joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She led a multi-site NHLBI-funded clinical trial, Sedation Management in Pediatric Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure Study. In 2010 she received the Barbara J. Lowery D.S.O. Faculty Award for mentoring students. She was inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2014 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016. In 2018 she became the Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at CHOP. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she received the 2021 Drs. Vidyasagar and Nagamani Dharmapuri Award for Excellence in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
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