Dr. Marilyn J. Hockenberry, RN, FAAN, PNP-BC, PhD, is the Bessie Baker Professor of Nursing at Duke University School of Nursing. Marilyn, a distinguished leader in pediatric oncology and evidence-based outcomes and practices, is actively involved in the School’s cancer-related research initiatives and teaches in the DNP program. She also serves as one of the eleven chairs of the Duke Institutional Review Board.

Before coming to Duke, Dr. Hockenberry was Professor of Pediatrics in the Hematology/Oncology Division at Baylor College of Medicine. She also served as the nurse scientist for the hospital and director of the pediatric nurse practitioner program in the Texas Children’s Cancer Center at Texas Children’s Hospital from 1994 to 2012. At the children’s hospital, Mary served as director of the Center for Research and Evidence-based Practice from 2002 to 2009 and director of the Evidence-based Outcomes Center from 2004 to 2009.