Karen J Foli, RN, PhD, ANEF, FAAN

Professor and Louise Herrington Endowed Chair for Mental Health Nursing

Baylor University

Dr. Karen Foli is professor and the Louise Herrington Endowed Chair for Mental Health Nursing, Baylor University. She has received funding to support investigations surrounding trauma and substance use in nurses and has also explored predictors of nurses’ use of substances. As a nurse theorist, Dr. Foli conceptualized and disseminated a theory of nurses in recovery from substance use, describing nurses’ interrupted trajectory of recovery due to regulatory oversight. She has conducted studies of nurses’ substance use with large samples of general nurses, certified registered nurse anesthetists, student registered nurse anesthetist, and middle-level nurse managers using both qualitative and quantitative methods. She is the recipient of numerous research and teaching awards and is co-author of The Influence of Psychological Trauma in Nursing (2019). This book received two first place Wolters Kluwer, Health, and the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards in 2019. Dr. Foli is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and in the Academy of Nursing Education through the National League for Nursing.