Karen Kavanaugh
Professor
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
USA
Biography
Karen Kavanaugh is currently the Senior Nurse Scientist at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and Professor Emerita at University of Illinois at Chicago. She has more than 30 years of research experience with parents facing serious conditions with their newborn. Her contributions to improving perinatal palliative and end-of-life care have had a broad impact nationally through her scholarship, leadership in national and regional initiatives and mentoring of clinicians and researchers. She has conducted nine NIH funded studies, authored more than 85 publications, and served as Guest Editor for several journal issues dedicated to perinatal palliative and end-of-life care.
Research Interest
Pediatric