Amanda Bettencourt, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Health at Penn Nursing. She is also Director of Acute Care Implementation Research at the Penn Implementation Science Center (PISCE@LDI) and a Senior Fellow 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 scholar funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the University of Michigan.
She 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. She 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, American Burn Association, World Federation of Pediatric Critical Care Society, Association of Healthcare Journalism Conference, and National Academies. She earned her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and her MSN from Johns Hopkins University.
