Margaret Barton-burke PhD, RN, FAAN

Dr. Margaret Barton-Burke is the Director of Nursing Research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from William Paterson College in Wayne, NJ, her Master of Science degree in teaching specialty and oncology nursing from Boston University, and her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and an adjunct professor at Rutgers-Camden School of Nursing, NJ; Queensland University of Technology, AU; and City University of New York (CUNY), NY. She is a past president of the Oncology Nursing Society, and after 21 years of service in the Army Reserve and the Massachusetts Army National Guard, she retired with the rank of Colonel. She was the first female Colonel in the Massachusetts National Guard.

Dr. Barton-Burke is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) and the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM). Among her many recognitions and awards, she is an inaugural faculty and senior faculty member for the African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowships (ADDRF) Training Workshop, sponsored by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a founding member of the Massachusetts Pain Initiative, the Massachusetts Cancer Pain Initiative, and several other cancer nursing initiatives.

She has received numerous fellowships and was a fellow in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) 2014–2015 Leadership for Academic Nursing Program (LANP) Fellowship. Dr. Barton-Burke was the Chairperson of the AACN Research Leadership Network. In 2019, she was the Inaugural Scholar for the Jerome and Celia Reich Oncology Nursing Scholar Day at Massachusetts General Hospital; in 2020, she received the Nurses with Global Impact Award; and in 2021, the University of Rhode Island, School of Nursing, designated Dr. Barton-Burke a Nursing Luminary.