Magnet and Nursing Excellence Program Manager
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Cynthia Lira-Crame, MSN, RNC-NIC, NPD-BC, is the Magnet and Nursing Excellence Program Manager at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. She is a certified neonatal nurse with over 25 years of clinical and leadership experience in a Level III NICU at an urban Level I trauma center. Cynthia has been focused on advancing nursing practice and improving patient outcomes through the implementation of innovative solutions earning her the Advocate Aurora Health System Innovation award in 2020. Most recently this has included serving as a primary investigator and co-investigator on 3 completed research studies at Advocate Health. Cynthia has disseminated her work both locally and nationally. Cynthia’s interest in infant feeding began with her master’s thesis, this initiated the essential collaboration between nursing and speech therapy in the NICU. Cynthia presented that work Title: Using transformational learning to implement EBP, facing the challenge of changing infant feeding practice in the NICU at the NANN conference in 2015. This is a true full circle moment for Cynthia as a co-investigator on this interprofessional research study where she provides the nursing perspective alongside the creators of the SMART Tool her colleagues Dr. Ravi Mishra, and Anne Albi MS CCC-SLP, IBCLC.
Psychometric Properties of the SMART Feeding Tool: An Interprofessional Research Study (PS2B)
Thursday, September 28, 2023
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM PT
