Dr. Heather Tubbs Cooley is faculty at The Ohio State University Colleges of Nursing and Medicine and a Principal Investigator in the Center for Perinatal Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. She received her BS in Nursing from Western Michigan University and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in quality improvement and implementation science at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Tubbs Cooley’s research focuses on understanding factors that both impede and enhance the quality and reliable delivery of core nursing care, with a goal of redesigning systems to better support the important work of front-line clinicians. Her work has been funded by the NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the American Nurses Foundation and featured by the New York Times, Medscape, and National Public Radio.