Senior Fellow

Michael Stawnychy, PhD, CRNP

  • Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Penn Nursing

Michael A. Stawnychy, PhD, CRNP is an Assistant Professor at Penn Nursing and a Nurse Scientist at Princeton Medical Center. Dr. Stawnychy’s research focuses on several domains: how dyadic interpersonal contexts contribute to managing chronic illness, trust and misinformation in health care, and reducing hospital readmissions. He is a co-investigator on a national, multi-site NIH-funded implementation science study to decrease sepsis readmissions and is principal investigator on an NIH-funded study examining post-acute care decision-making with sepsis survivors and caregivers.

Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Stawnychy was as an ICU nurse and maintains clinical certification as a board-certified Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner. He is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar and a Senior Fellow in the Penn Medicine Princeton Health Institute of Nursing Excellence.

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