Christine “Chris” A. Fortney is an associate professor in the Martha S. Pitzer Center for Women, Children & Youth at The Ohio State University College of Nursing. Dr. Fortney has built a research program based on the study of critically ill infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and their families. Using descriptive data, behavioral observations, and qualitative interviews, she has highlighted the trajectories of symptoms and suffering, as well as how perceptions of symptoms and suffering influence parent satisfaction, decision-making, distress and coping, and changes in goals of care. She has also highlighted challenges to the identification and management of symptoms in critically ill infants in the NICU, developed a framework to evaluate the quality of neonatal death, and published the first manuscript to illuminate patient-reported symptom data in this population. Her interests include easing nurses' distress when caring for critically ill infants in the NICU, participatory research, and exploring factors affecting symptom assessment and management in the NICU. Dr. Fortney received her BA, BSN, MS, and PhD degrees from The Ohio State University and completed the Patient-Centered Pediatric Research Program (PC-PReP) Fellowship in the Center for Biobehavioral Health at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.