Heather L. Tubbs Cooley, PhD, RN

Dr. Heather Tubbs Cooley, PhD, RN, is an assistant professor and nurse scientist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and an assistant professor of clinical nursing at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing. Her research focuses on relationships between the delivery of inpatient care and patient, nurse and systems outcomes. She was the recipient of a T32 training fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania and received a Dissertation Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in 2010 for her doctoral research examining the impact of nurses’ working conditions on length of stay and readmission for hospitalized children. In 2011, she received the New Investigator Award from the AcademyHealth Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues.

Dr. Tubbs Cooley is a member of several professional organizations and research networks including AcademyHealth, the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, the Midwest Nursing Research Society, the Academy for Healthcare Improvement, and the Pediatric International Patient Safety and Quality Community.