Marjorie Funk designated the Jayne Professor of Nursing

Marjorie Funk, newly named as the Helen Porter Jayne and Martha Prosser Jayne Professor of Nursing, focuses her research on the use of technology in the care of critically ill patients with heart disease.

Funk received a B.A. in religion from Wheaton College (Mass.), a B.S.N. from Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing, a M.S.N. from the Yale School of Nursing, and a Ph.D. in chronic disease epidemiology from Yale. She has served on the faculty at the Yale School of Nursing since 1984.

In her research, Funk has examined the appropriate and safe use of technology, its equitable distribution, and the human-machine interface. The use of a particular type of technology — electrocardiographic monitoring — is a thread throughout her research. Funk received a $3.9 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of NIH for the Implementation of Practice Standards for ECG Monitoring, known as the PULSE Trial.

Funk’s teaching responsibilities include statistics, research, electrocardiography, and clinical supervision in cardiac critical care. She has contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals on topics such alarms in hospitals; the benefits and risks of advances in healthcare technology; and electrocardiography. Funk assists nurses at Yale-New Haven Hospital with research and serves on multidisciplinary committees to improve the management of clinical alarms.

The Yale professor is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and of the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, American Heart Association. Her awards include the Katharine A. Lembright Award from the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, American Heart Association; the Distinguished Research Lecturer from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses; and the Annie W. Goodrich Award for Excellence in Teaching, presented by students of the Yale School of Nursing.