Nancy Pike

Nancy Pike PhD, RN, CPNP-AC/PC, FAHA, FAAN, is Professor, Director of Research, and Coordinator of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program at UCLA School of Nursing. She practices clinically as a pediatric nurse practitioner in the Heart Institute at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She has over 65 peer-reviewed publications and 10 book chapters. She has received numerous accolades as a researcher, teacher, mentor and clinician. Her biobehavioral and neuroimaging program of research has been funded by National Institutes of Health for over 10 years to study structural brain injury, cerebral blood flow and its correlations to cognitive and psychosocial outcomes in adolescents and young adults with congenital heart disease (CHD), in particular, single ventricle heart disease (SVHD). She is first pediatric nurse as Chair Elect for the American Heart Association Council of Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing. Dr. Pike is a fellow in American Heart Association and the American Academy of Nursing and was recently inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame 2022.