Dr. Janet Parkosewich is the Nurse Researcher at Yale New Haven Hospital. She is known for her work in the acute care setting for driving practice innovations that ensure quality of care and responsiveness to patients’ needs. She has numerous publications and national presentations to her credit that focus on reducing delays for treatment to ST-segment myocardial infarction, methods to optimize quality of care for hospitalized patients, and establishing infrastructures for advancing the scholarly work of acute care nurses through the use of evidence based practice and research. In her current role, she mentors nursing staff in the conduct of scholarly work and oversees 23 staff nurse-driven research projects that involve more than 100 clinical nurses.