Dr. Martha Abshire Saylor Nurs '17

Martha Abshire Saylor is an assistant professor on the research/education track at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her clinical experience in cardiac and critical care has been the foundation of her teaching, and she earned the 2020 Teaching Excellence Award from the Johns Hopkins Nursing Alumni Association. Her research interests include an emphasis on psychosocial sequelae of advanced illness, advanced heart failure management, biomarkers of stress, and patient-reported outcomes.

Dr. Martha Abshire Saylor has developed interventions that use a strengths-based approach to support caregivers of persons with heart failure through goal-setting, instrumental and social support. She also has ongoing projects supporting the needs of caregivers of patients in hospice and understanding how patients and caregivers engage in shared decision making for advance care planning.