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Associate Professor
- University of San Diego - PhD
- Columbia University - MSN/PNP
- Syracuse University - BSN
Martha Grant Fuller, PhD, PPCNP-BC, is an Associate Professor of Nursing at USD teaching in the Nurse Practitioner and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs. She is the lead faculty for the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Track at USD. She is a nationally certified pediatric nurse practitioner with over 30 years of experience in nursing.
Dr. Fuller completed her PhD in nursing at the University of San Diego completing her dissertation on neurodevelopmental follow-up of premature infants. She received her MSN and pediatric nurse practitioner at Columbia University and her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Syracuse University.
Dr. Fuller has practiced as a pediatric nurse practitioner since 1983, providing general pediatric care in a variety of settings then moving to neurodevelopmental follow-up of neonatal intensive care unit graduates in 1999. Prior to coming to USD, she worked as the coordinator of the High-Risk Infant Follow-up Program at UC San Diego Health, providing direct patient care, program management, and participating in multiple research projects.
As a member of a multidisciplinary team addressing water quality and public health in Uganda, Dr. Fuller takes nurse practitioner students to Uganda for a global health experience.
Dr. Fuller is an active member of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and is involved in other professional organizations supporting nursing research and pediatric health care.
Scholarly Work
Fuller, M.G., Cavanaugh, N., Green, S., & Duderstadt, K. (2021). Climate change and state of the science for children’s health and environmental health equity. Journal of Pediatric Health Care. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedhc.2021.08.003. Online ahead of print, to be published in the January/February, 2022 issue.
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, Fuller, M.G., Cavanaugh, N., Green, S., Becker, C., Woodward, C., & Duderstadt, K. (2021). NAPNAP Position statement on the effects of climate change on children’s health: The role of pediatric-focused advanced practice registered nurses. Journal of Pediatric Health Care. (In press, to be published in the November/December, 2021 issue).
Fuller, M.G., Lu. T., Gray, E.E., Jocson, M.A.L., Barger, M.K., Bennett, M., Lee, H.C., & Hintz, S.R. Rural residence and factors associated with attendance at the second high-risk infant follow-up clinic visit for very low birth weight infants in California. American Journal of Perinatology. 2021 May 27. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1729889. Online ahead of print.
Sawyer, C., Adrian, J., Bakeman, R., Fuller, M., Akshoomoff, N. (2021). Self-regulation task in young school age children born preterm: Correlation with early academic achievement. Early Human Development Jun;157:105362. doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2021.105362. Epub 2021 Mar 26.
Fuller, M. (2019) Kawasaki Disease in Infancy. Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal. Jul/Sep;41(3):222-228. doi: 10.1097/TME.0000000000000253.
Fuller, M., Vaucher, Y., Bann, C., Das, A., & Vohr, B. for the NICHD Neonatal Research Network (2019). Lack of social support as measured by the family resource scale screening tool is associated with early adverse cognitive outcome in extremely low birthweight children. Journal of Perinatology 39, 1546–1554 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-019-0462-2.
Hintz, S., Gould, J., Bennett, M., Lu, T., Gray, E., Jocson, M., Fuller, M., Lee, H. (2019) Factors associated with successful first high risk infant follow-up visit for very low birth weight infants in California The Journal of Pediatrics. 2019 Jul;210:91-98.e1.doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2019.03.007 PMID: 30967249
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, Evans, S., Derouin, A., Fuller, M. Heighway, S. Schapiro, N. (2019). NAPNAP position statement on health risks and needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 33, doi:10.1016/j.pedhc.2018.12.005
Fuller, M.G., Barger, M., Bennett, M., Hintz, S.R. (2017). Impact of rural residence on attendance at recommended high risk infant follow-up visits. [Abstract]. Proceedings of the 16th European Doctoral Conference in Nursing Science. Verpleegkunde, 1, 33.
Bush, R.A., Connelly, C.D., Fuller, M., Perez, A. (2015) Implementation of the integrated electronic patient portal in the pediatric population: A systematic review. Telemedicine journal and e-health. doi:10.1089/tmj.2015.0033
Areas of Interest
Dr. Fuller’s research interests include the impact of socio-economic disparities on child development, the outcomes of high-risk infants, the environment and child health. She has been active in several multi-site NIH funded research studies exploring the outcomes of preterm infants, continuing to perform comprehensive assessments of children enrolled in clinical trials.
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