Pitt Nursing Research Day
The Office of Research and Scholarship is raising the visibility of research conducted by Pitt Nursing faculty, students, postdoctoral scholars, and international visiting scholars, by sharing the impactful research presented at international, national, and regional research conferences.
Pitt Nursing Research Day
Event Details
Friday, November 20, 2026
8am to 3pm
Alan Magee Scaife Hall Auditorium
Room 3785, 3rd Floor
2550 Terrace St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Keynote Speaker:
Maya N. Clark-Cutaia, PHD, RN, ACNP-BC, FAAN, FADLN, FAANP
About the Keynote Address
The Office of Research and Scholarship presents a Lectureship event, which showcases a nurse researcher. The keynote speaker Maya N. Clark-Cutaia, PHD, is a nurse scientist, acute care nurse practitioner, educator, and academic leader whose work advances health equity for people living with chronic illness. Her program of research focuses on chronic illness, symptom burden, clinical nutrition, self-management, equitable access to care, and workforce development.
She will discuss her journey into research, the experience that shaped the questions she became passionate about, and how that passion evolved into a program of scholarship centered on chronic conditions and health equity.
About Pitt Nursing Research Day
In addition to the endowed visiting lectureship event, the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing Office of Research and Scholarship will showcase the impactful research conducted by faculty, students and postdoctoral scholars at Pitt Nursing. This will be accomplished during two sessions divided into oral presentations and digital poster presentations. Each session will highlight the Nursing Research and Scholarship HUBS, which include digital health research, genomics of patient outcomes, sleep and circadian science, nursing health services and policy, maternal/perinatal and reproductive health, aging and gerontology, nursing education and clinical research for evidence-based practice and cancer survivorship.
Agenda
8am to 8:45am • Sign-in and Opening Remarks
9am to 10:30am • Keynote speaker with Q&A
10:30am to 10:45am • Break
10:45am to 12:30pm • Oral Presentations
12:30pm to 1:30pm • Lunch and Networking
1:30pm to 3:15pm • Digital Poster Presentations
3:15pm to 3:30pm • Closing Remarks
For more information, contact:
Paulina Gatarz at pag17@pitt.edu or 412-624-3323
Yvette Conley at yconley@pitt.edu or 412-383-7641