Marilyn Hravnak, PHD, RN, ACNP-BC, CCNS, FCCM, FAAN

Dr. Hravnik became Professor Emeritus as of January 1, 2021. Prior to retirement, she was a tenured professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing in the Acute and Tertiary Care Department. She is certified as an Adult Acute/Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (CCNS).

Prior to retirement, Dr. Hravnik had an active program of NIH funded research in cardiovascular acute and critical care, most recently examining prediction models for cardiorespiratory instability in continuously monitored hospitalized patients in order to assist nurses in identifying unstable patients earlier or, ideally, applying preemptive interventions, and as well decrease alarm fatigue. In her retirement, Dr. Hravnik remains as a co-investigator on several multidisciplinary research teams which include physicians, nurses, pharmacists, biostatisticians, and computer scientists.

Dr. Hravnik has more than 45 years of critical care nursing experience, including over 45 years at the advanced practice nursing level. She has collaborated in the design of curriculum guidelines and program standards for the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. She was a member of the Board on Certification for Acute Care Nurse Practitioners of the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

She has served as a volunteer to the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and contributed to the development of that organization’s Scope of Practice and Standards of Care for Acute and Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialists.

Dr. Hravnik is also a contributor to the 2006 and 2012 revisions of the Scope of Practice and Standards of Care for Acute Care Nurse Practitioners. She is a reviewer for AACN Clinical Issues in Critical Care Nursing, Heart & Lung, American Journal of Critical Care, Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, and American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Hravnik served as a member of the Allied Health Professionals Credentials Review Committee of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Health System from 1999-2010.

Among her honors and awards is the induction as a fellow in the American College of Critical Care Medicine, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and induction as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. 

She is also the recipient of the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Norma J. Shoemaker Award for Excellence in Critical Care Nursing, and has served as both Chair of the Nursing Section and Chair of the Research Committee for the Society of Critical Care Medicine. In her retirement, she plans to remain active in professional organizations.