Lori S. Kennedy is the Director of the Center for Nursing Science and a Clinical Nurse Scientist at University of California Davis Health. Her research focuses on body temperature management following traumatic brain injury (TBI) and its impact on neurologic outcomes, including outcome prediction modeling and validation of the IMPACT model for TBI. Her work is cited in journals of nursing, neurology, and critical care. Dr. Kennedy has held academic positions at UCSF, Old Dominion University, and the University of Antwerp. Her professional roles include leadership in the American Board of Neuroscience Nursing, the American Association of Neuroscience Nursing and the Neurocritical Care Society. She currently co-chairs tan NCS and Society of Critical Care Medicine guideline with interdisciplinary colleagues. Since 2017, Dr. Kennedy has directed the Center for Nursing Science at UC Davis Health, leading interdisciplinary evidence implementation and research in a variety of clinical topics including neurocritical care and neurotrauma. Dr. Kennedy's career began in the neurosurgical intensive care unit (NSICU) after earning her BSN from the University of San Francisco. She completed her master’s degree in 1997 at UCSF and subsequently practices for two decades as an acute care nurse practitioner in neurosurgery. Her interest in clinical research led her to pursue a PhD at the UC Davis Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, receiving a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award pre-doctoral fellowship from NIH and support from the Moore Foundation. Dr. Kennedy obtained her PhD in Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership in June 2014.