Kelly A. Thompson-Brazill, DNP, ACNP-BC, FCCM, is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Dean for Advanced Practice Registered Nursing (APRN) Programs. She previously served for 5 years as the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Program Director. She is a Principal Member of the Georgetown University Medical Center’s Teaching Academy in the Domain of Direct Teaching. She is a member of the School of Nursing's Faculty Steering Committee. She is also a member of the Georgetown University Medical Center & MedStar’s Respect in the Learning Environment Executive Oversight Committee. Her curricular work focuses on addressing social determinants of health (SDOH), increasing medication adherence, and improving the care of gender diverse patients, while reducing cognitive biases in diagnostic reasoning. Dr. Thompson-Brazill earned her DNP and MSN degrees at Duke University, Durham, NC. She earned her BSN at the University of Scranton, Scranton, PA.
Dr. Thompson-Brazill is an active member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), where she serves as the Chair-Elect of the Nursing Section's Steering Committee. She has been selected as Co-Vice Chair, Adjunct and Alternative Sedatives Guidelines Panel. She served as a panelist on the ICU Design Guidelines Panel, which recently concluded its work producing SCCM’s 2024 ICU Design Guidelines for use in creating evidenced-based critical care environments across the globe. She is a member of SCCM's Discovery Critical Care Research Network's Steering Committee. The steering committee provides guidance for an inclusive, integrated, multidisciplinary network for research that improves outcomes across the continuum of care for critically ill patients and their families. Dr. Thompson-Brazill is also an Ambassador for the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN). She is a former trustee of the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Foundation for Nursing (NCFN).
Dr. Thompson-Brazill serves as a journal reviewer for AACN Advanced Critical Care, Critical Care Nurse, and BMJ Open. She served as the Pharmacology Contributing Editor for Critical Care Nurse from 2013-2016. She is national expert on both Critical (CCRN) and Progressive Care Nursing (PCCN) Certification. She has written several book chapters, contributed to certification review columns, and edited question and answer books. She lectures nationally on cardiac surgery, hemodynamic monitoring, and other critical care topics.
Since 2008, Dr. Thompson-Brazill’s clinical practice has been in Cardiothoracic Surgery & Critical Care. Prior to that she spent 6 years as an ACNP in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care. She was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) in 2014.