Theresa Ryan Schultz, PhD, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, is the Director of Emergency Medicine and Trauma Center Nursing at Children’s National Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Science in Washington, D.C., USA. Dr. Schultz’s research focuses on the intersection between youth who identify as LGBTQ+ and emergency care for suicidality. Through this research, she and her team seek to understand psychological safety from the emic perspective of the patient in the clinical setting.
Dr. Schultz is a widely recognized and honored scholar. Recently, in 2022, Dr. Schultz’s Emergency Department Psychiatry Team was awarded the Children’s National Hospital Core Values Award. In 2021, she received the Washington Post/American Nurses Association Star Nurse award. And in 2019 she and her team received the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) DAISY Honorable Mention for exemplary work at Children’s National Hospital in improving patient and workforce safety by meeting the mental health needs of pediatric patients in the Emergency Departments. These efforts directly align with Dr. Schultz’s research. For more information about Dr. Schultz’s work, contact her at [email protected].Twitter: @TRS1375
