Katherine Gregory, RN, PhD

Office

Cushing Hall 318
617-552-4886
katherine.gregory.2@bc.edu

educational history

• PhD Boston College
• MS University of Pennsylvania
• BS State University of New York, Binghamton Univesity

recent publications

• Gregory, K.E. (2007).  Necrotizing enterocolitis: Findၼings from a retrospective medical record review. Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews.
  
• Perry, D. & Gregory, K.E. (2007).  Global applications of the cosmic imperative for nursing knowledge development. In Roy, C. & Jones, D. (Eds), Nursing knowledge development and clinical practice (pp. 315-326).  Springer: New York.
  
• Gregory, K.E.  (2005).  Update on nutrition for preterm and full-term infants.  JOGNN, 34, 98-108.
• Gregory, K.E. & Vessey, J.  (2004).  Bibliotherapy: A strategy to help students with bullying.  The Journal of School Nursing, 20 (3), 127-133.
  
  

Dr. Katherine Gregory is an Assistant Professor in Maternal Child Health. She received her Master's degree in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998 and Doctorate from Boston College in 2005. Dr. Gregory's clinical background is as a neonatal intensive care nurse. Her research interests pertain to the feeding, growth, and development of preterm infants. In addition to her clinical background and research interests, Dr. Gregory has worked in health care administration and management.  In these roles she collaborated with the executive and clinical leadership of multiple academic medical centers and led multidisciplinary teams on projects focused on improving health care operations and clincal outcomes for patients and their families. Dr. Gregory is also a Nurse Scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. In this role, she collaborates with clinical staff on a variety of research initiatives and evidence based practice endeavors

research interests

Preterm infant nutrition and enteral feeding regimens; preterm infant growth and development; necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants; measures of physiologic stability in the NIC; patterns of maternal-infant interaction

appointments & awards

• Recipient of 2007-2008 Research Expense Grant to support survey of neonatal clinicians on enteral feeding regimens in preterm infants
• 2002-2005 Boston College Research Fellowship
  
• 2003-2005 National League for Nursing Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, Inc. Promise of Nursing Graduate Nursing Education Scholarship