With more than 35 years of experience in higher education in nursing, Dr. Marcia Gardner has held previous faculty and academic administration appointments at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ, Drexel University, Rutgers University, and Seton Hall University, in programs across all levels of nursing education from pre-licensure through doctoral (both DNP and PhD), before becoming Dean of the Barbara H. Hagan School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Molloy University. With a clinical background in neonatology and pediatrics, Dr. Gardner’s clinical research has related to the care of developmentally vulnerable infants and children with special healthcare needs, and their families, with an additional research focus on the nursing faculty role. In addition to multiple clinical and nursing education publications, she is co-author of the first nursing textbook on lifespan care of individuals with autism (Nursing of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence-Based Integrated Care Across the Lifespan, also translated into Chinese) as well as Handbook of Clinical Teaching in Nursing and Health Sciences, winner of a Journal of Nursing Education award. She is recipient of the NJ March of Dimes Academic Educator Nurse of the Year Award , and was inducted as fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education. A graduate of Georgetown University, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia LEND fellows program, she additionally earned a certificate in pediatric bioethics from the Children’s Mercy Medical Center/University of Missouri- Kansas City School of Medicine’s pediatric bioethics program. https://works.bepress.com/marcia-gardner/