Shelli Feder, PhD, APRN, FNP-C, ACHPN, FPCN, FAHA, FAAN

Associate Professor in Nursing 

Co-Director, Yale National Clinician Scholars Program

Yale School of Nursing- Room 21401

email: shelli.feder@yale.edu
phone: 203-737-3822

About 

Dr. Feder is an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Nursing, Co-Director for the Yale National Clinician Scholars Program, and a Research Scientist  at the West Haven, Connecticut VA. She also directs the Palliative Care and End-of-Life Innovation Lab at Yale. Dr. Feder has over a decade of clinical experience as an advanced practice nurse in hospice, palliative care, and cardiovascular settings. Dr. Feder’s research program aims to create innovative models of care delivery that improve access to high-quality, timely palliative care for people with cardiopulmonary conditions. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R56HL166523; R34HL174885; R01HL172840), the Hartford Centers for Gerontological Nursing Excellence, the Palliative Care Research Cooperative, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.  

Research Interests/Clinical Practice  

Research Interests 

An organizational health services researcher, Dr. Feder’s research interests include palliative and end-of-life care delivery for people with non-cancer serious illness, health policy related to palliative and end-of-life care, medical informatics, and digital health interventions. She has expertise in qualitative and mixed methods and implementation science.  
 
Dr. Feder is spearheading a four-year research study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to uncover the systemic factors contributing to the wide variation in palliative care uptake and the quality of end-of-life care for Veterans with heart failure. Additionally, she is leading a three-year study focused on developing and evaluating a clinical decision support tool aimed at promoting early palliative care for patients hospitalized with heart failure within the Yale New Haven Health System.
 

Clinical Practice 

Dr. Feder started her nurse practitioner career in 2010 working with a hospitalist service. She has been practicing as a palliative care nurse practitioner since 2013.    

You may find Dr. Feder’s most up-to-date list of publications here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1JEah4gLHYokK/bibliography/public/

More information about the PECIL Lab can be found here: Welcome to The PECIL (Palliative Care and End-of-Life Innovation Lab) Laboratory | The PECIL Laboratory