Mary D. Naylor BSN, MSN, PhD, RN, FAAN

Dr. Naylor’s Transitional Care Model (TCM) is an advanced practice nurse-led, team-based, hospital-to-home care innovation. A decade of rigorous research demonstrated its effectiveness in hospitalized elderly patients, in heart failure patients, in English and Spanish speaking older adults in assisted living facilities and nursing homes, and in cognitively impaired patients in long term care. Multiple studies demonstrated that TCM improved patients’ experience with care, enhanced quality of life, reduced rehospitalizations, and reduced health care costs over the short and longer term.

Dr. Naylor has also been a leader in building the evidence linking nursing to the quality of care delivered by nurses. With Mark Pauly, Naylor designed and directed the RWJF Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Quality Initiative (INQRI) that tested and validated nurse-sensitive outcomes measures that were adopted by the National Quality Forum.

Dr. Naylor was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2005; she is a member of NAM’s Leadership Consortium for Value & Science-Driven Health Care and co-chairs the Care Culture and Decision-Making Innovation Collaborative. She also is a member of the ABIM Foundation Board of Trustees, RAND Health Board of Advisors and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) National Advisory Council. In 2016, she completed her six-year term as a member of Medicare’s Payment Advisory (MedPAC) Commission. In 2016, she was honored with AcademyHealth's Distinguished Investigator Award.