Dr. Mary Byrne Dr. Mary Byrne is a Professor at Columbia University School of Nursing and the Stone / Fish Professor in Clinical Health Care for the Underserved. Holding advanced degrees in public health, nursing, and pediatric primary care nursing practice, she is interested in transdisciplinary and inter-professional approaches to assessing and intervening with vulnerable parent-infant dyads in the earliest years of life. Currently funded by NIH to study parenting and child outcomes in a prison nursery, she also teaches masters and doctoral students, participates in interdisciplinary work groups to improve practice through research, and is active in national and international professional organizations.

Address:
Columbia University School of Nursing
617 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
Phone: +1-212-305-3976
Fax: +1-212-342-4156
E-mail: mwb4@columbia.edu

Mary Byrne has been named to the Stone Foundation and
Elise D Fish Professorship in Clinical Health Care
for the Underserved.

This appointment was enthusiastically endorsed by the faculty committee of full professors in the school, and by the health sciences and University Trustees at their meeting on Friday, June 1, 2007. This professorship was funded by the Stone Foundation, through the advocacy of alumna and Board of Visitors member Sally Stone, and through a gift from Elise Fish, also an alumna. Care of the underserved may be the most daunting health challenge we have in this country, and Professor Byrne has been a pioneer in establishing the science to address those most vulnerable, infants and toddlers, who have been her dedicated mission for many many years.

Mary Byrne of Columbia University Wins
Emily Fenichel Leadership Award

The New York Zero-to-Three Network is pleased to announce that Mary W. Byrne, a nurse, researcher, professor, and mentor at Columbia University, has been selected as the first recipient of the annual Emily Fenichel Award for Leadership in the Zero-to-Three Field in New York given in memory of Emily Fenichel, MSW, Associate Director of ZERO TO THREE: The National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families.

The childhood years are beautiful and fragile and go by very quickly. Mary Byrne uses the butterfly to symbolize the urgency to optimize development of every child during these "butterfly years.