Martha Abshire Saylor is an assistant professor on the research/education track at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her clinical experience in cardiac and critical care has been the foundation of her teaching, and she earned the 2020 Teaching Excellence Award from the Johns Hopkins Nursing Alumni Association. Her research interests include an emphasis on psychosocial sequelae of advanced illness, advanced heart failure management, biomarkers of stress, and patient-reported outcomes. Dr. Martha Abshire Saylor has current funding to develop interventions that use a strengths-based approach to support caregivers through goal-setting, instrumental and social support. Dr. Martha Abshire Saylor has methodological expertise in using mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to understand complex phenomena. In addition, Dr. Martha Abshire Saylor is a collaborator on several studies with faculty at the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Public Health that examine palliative care and end of life decision making.

Specialties and Expertise
- Cardiovascular
- Community
- End of Life
- Family
- Palliative Care
- Qualitative Research
- Self-Care
- Transition of Care
- Women’s Health