Dr . M Terese Verklan
University of Texas Medical Branch USA
Biography
. Terese Verklan grew up in Canada and received her Bachelorette of Nursing in 1982 and her Bachelors of Arts (Sociology/Psychology) in 1984 from the University of Manitoba. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987 with a Master’s in Nursing specializing in Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing. She then became of the Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialists at the University of Tennessee’ Regional Medical Center in Memphis, which had the largest neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in the US at the time. Dr. Verklan returned to the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a PhD with a focus on the autonomic nervous system and neonatal physiologic variability. She then joined the University of Texas Houston Health Science Center as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor after two years. In addition to her teaching and clinical practice in the NICU, she was the primary investigator or co-investigator on a number of grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development that focused on neonatal physiologic variability in low- and high-risk neonates. Currently Dr. Verklan is a Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in the Graduate School of Biologic Sciences and the School of Nursing. She is recognized as a clinical expert and educator in the care of high-risk neonates and consults worldwide. She is an Associate Editor for Nursing and Health Sciences and a Contributing Editor for Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing. Terese has received numerous awards for clinical practice., education and research, including Excellence in Education from the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses and is a 2010 Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.