University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Dr. Bettencourt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She is also the Director of Acute Care Implementation Research at the Penn Implementation Science Center (PISCE@LDI) and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute and in the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research.
Dr. Bettencourt works at the intersection of implementation science and health services research, bringing a wealth of practical experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist that informs her research agenda in closing the evidence-to-practice gap with implementation research methods. Dr. Bettencourt is an alumna of the National Clinician Scholars Program and received extensive training in implementation science as a TACTICAL K12 at the University of Michigan. Dr. Bettencourt received her BSN from UNC Chapel hill, a master’s in nursing from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She Past President of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN).
Dr. Bettencourt is the Principal Investigator of the ACTUATE-CBC study, a large Type II Hybrid Implementation and Effectiveness research study examining the use of telemedicine technology for adult and pediatric burn care under usual circumstances and during a mass casualty event or crisis (#W81XWH2110422, Department of Defense CDMRP Military Burn Research Program). This study seeks to understand the barriers to and facilitators for using telemedicine technology to connect burn survivors to a suite of burn care professionals regardless of injury location to promote recovery.
Dr. Bettencourt has been interviewed and featured in Becker’s Hospital Review, The Atlantic, CNBC, and Medscape. Dr. Bettencourt is an accomplished speaker and has presented at the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Burn Association, the World Federation of Pediatric Critical Care Society, the Association of Healthcare Journalism Conference, and the National Academies.
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