Nancy Pike PhD, RN, CPNP-AC/PC, FAHA, FAAN, is a Professor (tenured) and the Associate Dean for Research at the University of California, Irvine, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing. She continues to practice clinically as a nurse practitioner in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She has received numerous accolades as a researcher, teacher, mentor, and clinician. Her biobehavioral and neuroimaging program of research has received several NIH/NINR funded grants to study structural brain injury, cerebral blood flow and its correlations to cognitive and psychosocial outcomes in adolescents and young adults with congenital heart disease (CHD), in particular, single ventricle heart disease (SVHD). She is a fellow in American Heart Association and the American Academy of Nursing and recent inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2022. She is also Chair for the American Heart Association Council of CVSN.