Marie Nolan: Faculty Directory

Overview

Marie Nolan is internationally known for her work on patient and family decision making in the face of critical illness. Her pioneering end-of-life research has revealed that instead of the autonomous decision making model prevalent in clinical practice and health care policy, most critically ill patients prefer shared decision making with their family and physician. Moreover, these preferences remain stable over time, even as health declines significantly. At the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Dr. Nolan is Professor and the M. Adelaide Nutting Endowed Chair.  Prior to her Chair appointment, she served as Executive Vice Dean, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Chair of the Department of Acute and Chronic Care and Director of the PhD Program. Dr. Nolan was the Johns Hopkins director of the China PhD Program Collaboration between Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) in Beijing and JHSON funded by the China Medical Board of New York. This collaboration led to PUMC producing the first graduates of a PhD program in nursing in China. She is also past president of the International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing (INDEN). Dr. Nolan holds joint faculty appointments in the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and in the School of Medicine in the Division of Oncology.  She has served on advisory panels of the National Institutes of Health regarding end-of-life care research. Widely published in the nursing and multidisciplinary research literature, Dr. Nolan received the Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association and was inducted into the Sigma International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame for her work.