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Rita H. Pickler, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor and Director, PhD Program
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, United States

Rita Pickler, PhD, RN, FAAN, is The FloAnn Sours Easton Professor of Child and Adolescent Health at The Ohio State University College of Nursing. She received her BS and MS in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her PhD from the University of Virginia. She has 40 years of experience in patient-oriented research with a focus on the care of preterm infants and their families and improving their outcomes over time. She has been funded continuously by National Institutes of Health for over 20 years for her interdisciplinary research as PI or Co-I, including two randomized clinical trials testing interventions to improve neurobehavioral outcomes using patterned caregiving experiences. She is currently a principal investigator on a grant exploring the effect of childhood adversity on cell senescence in a diverse sample of adolescents. She is also co-investigator on a randomized control trial testing an intervention to reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes including prematurity in Mexican Hispanic women and on a study examining nursing care reliability in the neonatal intensive care unit. She has over 170 publications including original research reports, protocol papers, methods papers, reviews, commentaries, and editorials. Her work under development focuses on health disparities in outcomes for preterm infants and families along with strategies to reduce these. She has been honored for her research in many ways, including induction into the American Academy of Nursing and the Sigma Theta Tau International Researcher Hall of Fame, and receipt of the Midwest Nursing Research Society 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Association of Neonatal Nurses 2022 Lifetime Achievement in Neonatal Nursing Award. In April 2022, she was named a University Distinguished Scholar at the Ohio State University. She is editor of Nursing Research.

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