Marguerite Littleton Kearney
Marguerite T. Littleton Kearney is an American nurse scientist. She is the director of the National Institute of Nursing Research's Division of Extramural Science Programs. Littleton Kearney was the associate dean for research at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Graduate School of Nursing.
Education
Littleton Kearney earned a B.S.N. and an M.S.N. in adult care/trauma nursing from Augusta University. She earned her Ph.D. and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Departments of Nursing and Pharmacology at Rush University.Career
Littleton Kearney held faculty positions at Rush College of Nursing and University of Maryland. She was an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Littleton Kearney was the associate dean for research at the Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.In 2015, Littleton Kearney was named the director of the National Institute of Nursing Research 's Division of Extramural Science Programs. Littleton Kearney is responsible for leading, managing and actively coordinating NINR’s extramural scientific programs, grants management, scientific merit review, and advisory council operations. She leads the activities of the DESP, which includes the Office of Extramural Programs, the Office of End-of-Life and Palliative Care and the Office of Extramural Research Administration.