Marion Leary, MSN, MPH

Marion Leary is a part-time PhD student and the Director of Innovation at Penn Nursing. Ms. Leary has a master’s of nursing and a master’s of public health. As the Director of Innovation at Penn Nursing she works to amplify and educate nurses as leaders in health and healthcare innovation. Ms. Leary is a member of the American Nurses Association’s Innovation Advisory Committee, a Founding member of the Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs and Leaders (SONSIEL), a member of the American Heart Association’s Emergency Cardiovascular Care InnovationSubcommittee. Ms. Leary’s research is focused on developing innovative strategies to improve bystander response and CPR training for sudden cardiac arrest.

• Methodological Interests
  • Design Thinking
  • Qualitative Research
• Research Experiences
  • Director of Innovation, Penn Nursing
  • Instructor Innovation in Health: Foundations of Design Thinking
  • Director of Innovation Research, Penn Center for Resuscitation Science
  • Instructor, Penn Public Health, Public Health Methods course
  • Course Director, Penn Nursing Research Residency Program

• Influencer of Healthcare winner in the category of Excellence in Innovation by the Philadelphia Inquirer (2019)
• Geek of the Year (2017)