Nancy Adrianna Garofalo
NorthShore University HealthSystem, USA
Biography
Nancy A is a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner at the NorthShore University HealthSystem and a Senior Clinician Researcher at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago. She received a BSN from Loyola University, an MS in Nursing Administration from Aurora University, an MSN in the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner specialty and also a PhD from Rush University, Chicago IL. Her dissertation introduced the concept of oropharyngeal administration of colostrum into the medical literature, and she is currently leading a multi-center RCT to investigate the immune effects and clinical outcomes of extremely premature infants who receive the OPT-MOM intervention.