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Martha Abshire Saylor, PhD, RN (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Nursing
Johns Hopkins

Martha Abshire Saylor is an associate professor on the at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her clinical experience in cardiac and critical care has been the foundation of her research and teaching. Her research interests include an emphasis on psychosocial sequelae of advanced illness, advanced heart failure management, shared decision making and interventions to improve palliative care services such as caregiver support. Dr. Martha Abshire Saylor developed and tested strengths-based interventions to support caregivers of persons with heart failure and stroke and advance care planning interventions to support older adults (with and without dementia) and their families. Dr. Martha Abshire Saylor has methodological expertise in using mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to understand complex phenomena including multi-component interventions.

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