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Education
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 2015
HMS Palliative Care Education and Practice Program Alumnus, Harvard Medical School, 2015
Ph.D., Critical Care and Emergency Nursing, Alexandria University, 2011
M.S.N., Critical Care and Emergency Nursing, Alexandria University, 2008
Profile
Dr. Mary Gergis earned her doctorate in Critical Care & Emergency Nursing from Alexandria University in 2011. In 2013, she joined the School of Nursing University of Maryland, Baltimore, where she had a six-month visiting scholar training followed by two years of post-doctoral fellowship with a focus on palliative and end-of-life care research. In addition, Gergis is an alumnus of the Harvard School of Medicine Palliative Care Education and Practice Program and Towson University Online Edge Program.
Gergis's program of research aims to help alleviate the suffering of seriously ill patients and their families through devising new palliative and end-of-life care education strategies that enable nurses to integrate palliative care principles into their day-to-day practice. Gergis is also involved in interprofessional simulation research as part of the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Project and in research related to evidence-based practice education, quality matters and student engagement.
Gergis's philosophy of teaching is grounded in the ethics of caring. She believes that teaching excellence in nursing education encompasses not only the knowledge of the discipline and pedagogical skills but also the scholar's ability to value and transcend caring within the curricula and role-modeling caring in the classroom, clinical and laboratory settings and in the virtual learning environment.