Education and Training

Board Certification

Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care (CPNP-PC)
Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner (CRNP)
Registered Yoga Teacher, 200 Hours (RYT 200)

Undergraduate Degree

BSN - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

BA in Human Development - Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL

Graduate Degree

MSN - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Titles and Academic Titles

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Advanced Practice Provider Research Fellow

Site Coordinator/Medical Consultant, Reach Out and Read Program

Departments and Services

Research Interests

Early childhood development

Adolescence

Care coordination

Publications

Posters and Presentations

Woods, T. A. & Christie, M. (2011, November). Building a better early childhood system one community coalition at a time: The utility of the Pathways to School Success tool kit. Poster session at the National Association for the Education of Young Children Annual Conference at the Orange County Convention Center. Orlando, Florida.

Liang, E., Garcia M-P., Kuchirko, Y., Christie, M., & Wu, I. (2011, April). Qualitative analysis of booksharing across cultures. Poster session at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Montreal, Canada.

Woods, T. A. & Christie, M. (2010, November). Pathways to Early School Success: Building community capacity. Presentation at the National Association for the Education of Young Children Annual Conference at Anaheim Convention Center. Anaheim, California.

Kuchirko, Y., Christie, M., Garcia, M. P., Hou, F., & Liang, E. (2010, June). Analysis of narratives during mother-child book-sharing. Presentation at the Cross-University Collaborative Mentoring Conference at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Awards and Honors

2016, Emily’s Entourage Champion

2015, Health Resources and Services Administration Advanced Nursing Education Traineeship Scholarship

2013-2014, University of Pennsylvania Accelerated Nursing Scholarship

2013-2014, University of Pennsylvania Nursing Excellence Scholarship

2013, Vermont Federal Credit Union Scholarship

2007, J. Thomas West Outstanding Student in Human Development Award

2007, ASIANetwork Freeman Foundation Student-Faculty Fellows Grant

2003-2007, Eckerd College Presidential Scholarship

Editorial and Academic Positions

Institutional and Academic Committees

Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Leadership and Memberships

Memberships in Professional Organizations

2015-present, Fellow, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners

2014–present, Member, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society in Nursing