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Martha K. Swartz is Associate Dean for Clinical and Community Affairs and Professor in the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Specialty in the Master's Program.
She has formerly served as the Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at YSN. She also holds a joint appointment as a pediatric nurse practitioner at Yale New Haven Hospital Pediatric Primary Care Center.
Her undergraduate degrees are from Oberlin College and the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University. She has a Master's Degree in parent-child nursing from the University of Michigan, and a doctorate from the University of Connecticut. Her scholarly areas of interest include primary care of the newborn and preterm infant, interactions between adolescent parents and their children, and the relationship between family functioning and health related quality of life in children with asthma. She is the recipient of the Virginia Henderson Clinical Scholarship Award, Sigma Theta Tau International, Delta Mu Chapter (1999), a University of Connecticut Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, and the Scholarship for Leadership Award (meritorious) from Nurses Educational Funds, Inc. She has also held numerous offices for national professional associations, most recently as Secretary for the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and is currently Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Pediatric Health Care.
Parenting preterm infants, the transition to motherhood in urban adolescent mothers enrolled in high school, health related quality of life in children, and the relationships between family functioning and quality of life in children with asthma.
Predictors of Health Related Quality of Life and Family Life Satisfaction in School Age Children with Asthma. National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) 26th Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ, April 1, 2005. Eastern Nursing Research Society 17th Annual Scientific Sessions, New York, NY, April 8, 2005. 7th International Family Nursing Conference, Victoria, BC, Canada, June 3, 2005.
Predictors of Health Related Quality of Life in Children With Asthma: A Meta-Analysis 24th Annual Nursing Conference on Pediatric Primary Care sponsored by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP). Orlando, FL. April 10, 2003.
Parenting Preterm Infants: a Meta-Synthesis. 13th Annual Scientific Session of the Eastern Nursing Research Society. Atlantic City, NJ, April 2, 2001.
The Yale University Urban Health Program. 23rd National Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Symposium sponsored by the University of Colorado School of Nursing. Keystone, CO. July 11, 1998.
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