Nancy Szaflarski RN, PhD, FCCM
Program Director, Clinical Effectiveness Innovation
Dr. Nancy Szaflarski has been with Stanford Hospital & Clinics since 2005 and is responsible for the overall leadership and oversight for promoting, developing, testing and diffusing innovations in clinical practices and care processes to advance clinical effectiveness across the organization. Her current funded research focuses on improving clinical outcomes and teamwork performance through use of in-situ simulation training within hospital microsystems.
Prior to her position at SHC, Dr. Szaflarski completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the UCSF Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care and conducted clinical research on ICU physiological complexity at the Center for Surgical Computing in the Department of Surgery at Stanford University. She is a licensed acute care nurse practitioner in the field of critical care medicine and has been faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing where she led the Adult Critical Care Nurse Practitioner Program. Her peer-reviewed publications have focused on physiological complexity, diagnostic reasoning and improving quality performance. Dr. Szaflarski has held multiple leadership roles in the Society of Critical Care Medicine and is a current editorial board member of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
Dr. Szaflarski has a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the UCSF School of Nursing, a Master’s Degree in Nursing from Arizona State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from the University of Illinois. She is a fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine