Deena Costa

Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing

Dr. Deena Costa is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing in the Department of Systems, Populations & Leadership. Dr. Costa joined the Centre for Health Outcomes and Policy Research as a pre-doctoral fellow in 2009. She completed her dissertation 2012, entitled “The organization of critical care nursing and outcomes of mechanically ventilated older adults”, with Dr. Aiken as her dissertation chair.

After completing her PhD, Dr. Costa completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Critical Care Medicine and within the CRISMA research centre as the first nurse funded on the department’s training grant (T32). She became an assistant professor at Michigan in 2014.

Dr. Costa’s research focuses on improving outcomes for critically ill adults by optimizing the organization and management of critical care. Specifically, she focuses on identifying key structural and functional characteristics of ICU interprofessional teams that can be leveraged to improve the delivery of high quality, complex care for mechanically ventilated adults. Her current research, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality and the University of Michigan Centre for Complexity and Self-Management of Complex Disease, incorporates both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine ICU teams and outcomes. Her work on the organization and management of critical care has been published in leading journals such as JAMA, Chest, and Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Costa brings nearly a decade of clinical experience as an adult critical care nurse to her programme of research.

Lectures by Deena Costa

Interprofessional teams in the ICU: What we know and what we need to learn

A review of the current evidence about the benefits of interprofessional ICU teams to improve patient care and outcomes

Critical Care Nursing / Human Factors

Evidence-based implementation in the ICU

For critical care nurses

Critical Care Nursing / Mechanical Ventilation

Evidence-based implementation in the ICU

For critical care nurses

Critical Care Nursing / Research