Martha A.Q. Curley (born November 14, 1952) is an American nurse. She is the Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Early life and education

Curley was born on November 14, 1952 in

Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, and the seat of Hampden County. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the ...

. She completed her Diploma in Nursing from the Springfield Hospital School of Nursing in 1973 and her

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degree at the

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in 1985. Following this, she completed her

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in nursing from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

and her PhD from

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...

Career

Upon completing her formal education, Curley joined the faculty at the

University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (more commonly referred to as Penn Nursing) is an undergraduate and graduate institution at the University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia. According to U.S. News & World Report, the Sch ...

. As an

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received a five-year $10M Research Project Grant Program from the

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is the third largest Institute of the National Institutes of Health, located in Bethesda, Maryland, United States. It is tasked with allocating about $3.6 billion in FY 2020 in tax revenue to ...

for a multi-site clinical trial, "Sedation Management in Pediatric Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure Study." In 2010, Curley was honored with the Barbara J. Lowery D.S.O. Faculty Award for advancing nursing science through exemplary student mentorship. As a result of her research, Curley was inducted into the 2014 International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. In 2016, Curley was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine as someone who "demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service." Two years later, he was appointed the Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. During the

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, Curley was awarded SCCM's 2021 Drs. Vidyasagar and Nagamani Dharmapuri Award for Excellence in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine as an individual who displayed "sustained exemplary and pioneering achievement in the care of critically ill and injured infants and children."

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