Karina Kraevsky-Phillips, MA, BSN, RN, CCRN, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. Her research interests include acute and chronic cardiovascular illness, critical care and data science. Her healthcare experience includes emergency department and critical care and she currently maintains bedside practice in a surgical intensive care unit at UPMC. Karina was an ARCS Foundation scholar and received a ZOLL Foundation grant for her dissertation.