February 27, 2025

12th Annual Penn Medicine Nursing Research and Evidence-based Practice Conference


Join us for this virtual event!

The conference will be held virtually on this website Thursday, February 27, 2025 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time including a virtual poster hall from 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Optional preconference and lunch-and-learn sessions available as well.


Conference Objective

To provide a learning environment in which nurses and other health care providers from all specialty areas and experience levels leave more knowledgeable and inspired to use scholarly inquiry methods to solve problems in health care across the life span.

Keynote Address

This year's keynote address will be presented by Dr. Shannon Zenk, Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research.

  • Shannon Zenk, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN

    Shannon Zenk, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN

    Director and Acting Scientific Director, National Institute of Nursing Research

    Shannon N. Zenk, PhD, MPH, RN is Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). With a background in nursing and public health, Dr. Zenk’s research is centered on environmental injustice and health. Her work takes a contextual and spatial approach to understanding the role of the environment in health behaviors and outcomes, with the ultimate goal of producing evidence to eliminate racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities.

    Since becoming Director of NINR, Dr. Zenk has led the development of the Institute’s new strategic plan with a bold focus on social determinants of health and health equity and serves as the co-chair of several NIH-wide efforts, including the Social Determinants of Health Research Coordinating Committee, the Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Program, the Implementing a Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) Initiative, and the Climate Change and Health Initiative.

    Dr. Zenk joined NINR in 2020 following a 14-year career as a faculty member at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Nursing and Institute for Health Research and Policy. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and was inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2019.

Featured Speakers

Other guest speakers include

  • Sean Clarke, PhD, RN, FAAN

    Sean Clarke, PhD, RN, FAAN

    NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing

    Sean Clarke is a nurse and health services researcher who currently serves as the Ursula Springer Professor in Nursing Leadership at the New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Dr Clarke's research focuses on workforce issues and quality and safety issues in healthcare. A nurse for 3 decades, he has held endowed chairs and managed interdisciplinary research groups, joint academia-practice roles, and senior academic leadership roles. He has taught nursing and health policy in universities in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia and currently is Editor-in-Chief of Nursing Outlook, the world's leading journal specializing in policy, leadership, and professional issues in nursing. He is co-principal investigator on an evaluation of the model for the Magnet recognition program sponsored by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. He completed basic clinical and research training at McGill University and pursued postgraduate clinical training and a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.

Agenda, Registration, NCPD Hours Information, Poster Submissions

A Virtual Event Brought to You by Penn Medicine Nursing

  • Penn Medicine Nursing

Location

Online event

Registration period

November 1, 2024 - 12:00 AM until February 25, 2025 - 11:30 PM

Submission period

November 1, 2024 - 12:00 AM until February 7, 2025 - 11:30 PM

Contact us

If you have any questions, please contact christian.burchill@pennmedicine.upenn.edu .

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