Kathy Murphy Author

Meredith Wallace Kazer, PhD, APRN, A/GNP-BC, FAAN, is an award-winning researcher and an adult and gerontological primary care nurse practitioner. She has been distinguished as one of the top 15 gerontology nursing professors in the U.S. She currently maintains a practice in Connecticut with a focus on chronic illness in older adults, clinical experience that informs her scholarly work. While obtaining a PhD in nursing research at NYU she was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. In this capacity she became the original author and editor of Try This: Best Practices in Geriatric Nursing series. In 2001, she won the Springer Publishing Company Award for Applied Nursing Research. She was the Managing Editor and research brief editor for the Journal of Applied Nursing Research. Dr. Kazer was awarded the Connecticut Nurse Association Virginia Henderson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Nursing Research and four American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards. In addition, she is the recipient of the Eastern Nursing Research Society/John A. Hartford Foundation junior investigator award and in, 2011, was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing.

Kathy Murphy, PhD, MSc, BA, RGN, RNT, Dip Nur, Dip Nur Ed, is currently Professor of Nursing at the University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Her work has been disseminated in over 90 peer-reviewed journal publications, 12 book chapters, and over 100 research and invited presentations. She has held several clinical manager posts in older people's services and ED Nursing. For the last 20 years she has worked in nursing education in Oxford Brookes University, UK, followed by her position at National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. She has led a number of National and International research studies focused on older people. Her research interests include the quality of life of older people, dementia, and chronic disease management. Dr. Murphy has been in involved in a number of national research studies all using mixed methods.