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Distinguished Service Professor of Nursing, Professor of Medicine ,
Vice Chair Research, Department of Acute and Tertiary Care, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Margaret Rosenzweig’s team’s research is focused on the factors that ensure that all women with breast cancer receive timely diagnoses, treatment, and support. Her research, education, and outreach initiatives are directed toward Black women with breast cancer, women with metastatic breast cancer, and community engagement to address racial and economic breast cancer survival disparity. In addition, they lead a national initiative in the training of advanced practice oncology providers. Dr. Rosenzweig’s team is well published, with over 130 publications and multiple national and international presentations disseminating the results of their research.
The focus of her teaching is primarily ethics, equity, and oncology care for nursing students across all curricular levels. Through various educational initiatives directed towards students and clinicians across the health sciences, Dr. Rosenzweig teaches strategies to improve patient-health care provider communication skills, particularly in advanced illness and palliative care. Her teaching now includes cancer and communication content for the nurse practitioner students. Most recently, her teaching responsibilities include coordination of the undergraduate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion seminar, to ensure content consistency across the sections, while utilizing innovative teaching strategies to support a thoughtful and meaningful classroom experience.
She maintains a weekly clinical practice as a nurse practitioner for women with breast cancer at the HCC/ Magee Womens Hospital. This position informs her scholarship and community outreach.
Dr. Rosenzweig has maintained leadership in several professional organizations. In the Oncology Nursing Society, she was a key member and national coordinator of the Nurse Practitioner Special Interest Group for several years. In 2018/19 she co-chaired the Oncology Nursing Society Research Mentorship task force, creating and publishing a developmental approach to supporting oncology nursing scholarship. She recently assumed the Oncology Nursing Society’s Scholar in Residence position to guide and develop oncology nursing scholarship.
She is a long-time member of the American Nurses Association, former practice chair for Pennsylvania State Nursing Association (2015-2016) and hold long-term memberships to numerous other relevant professional associations and societies. She is the statewide co-chair for the Cancer Equity Committee through the PA Cancer Control Plan and is a member of the Western PA American Cancer Society Board of Directors. She is also active within the community through Big Brothers/Big Sisters.
Ask me about: Racial and economic disparities