Melissa K. Uveges, PhD, MAR, RN

Melissa K. Uveges, PhD, MA, RN, received a BS in chemistry from Berry College and a BS in nursing from the University of Florida. Following her baccalaureate education, she practiced clinical nursing in the neonatal intensive care unit for several years before completing an MS in nursing and an MA in religion with an ethics concentration at Yale University. Following her studies at Yale, she was selected for a two-year clinical bioethics fellowship at Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics, where she provided clinical ethics consultation to adult and pediatric patients, developed topics for institutional bioethics policy, and served as a seminar instructor for medical student-level bioethics coursework. She received her PhD in nursing from Johns Hopkins University in 2018. Her dissertation focused on the decision-making of mothers of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit receiving treatment for a major congenital anomaly. This research received funding from several nursing research societies, Rockefeller University, and the March of Dimes. At the HMS Center for Bioethics, she plans to continue her research in decision-making for pediatric populations and their families.