Kathryn Malin, PhD, RN, APNP

• Milwaukee Campus-Children's Wisconsin
  8915 W. Connell Court
  Milwaukee, WI 53226

Dr. Malin’s research focuses on neonatal intensive care, parental experiences, and health policy. Her work explores neonatal and parental stress, including the impact of hospitalization on families, parental uncertainty, and post-traumatic stress. She examines health policies such as pandemic visitor restrictions, mandatory reporting for substance-affected mother-infant dyads, and home nasogastric tube feeding programs. Additionally, her research addresses innovations in neonatal care, including quality improvement initiatives, stress research in preterm infants, and the epigenetic effects of early toxic stress in the NICU. She also investigates workforce equity, specifically pay disparities among nursing faculty educators.

Area of expertise: Toxic stress in premature infants and their families with a specific focus on perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder in parents after their infant’s discharge from the NICU; exploring the relationships among infant and parent stress in the NICU and social structures with the goal of laying a foundation for future nursing intervention development; research and clinical work is patient oriented with a goal of improving long-term health and development of premature infants and their families.

Bibliography

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1dI_alwEv2akg/bibliography/public/

Education

• 2020, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, PhD
• 2006, Rush University, MSN

Awards

Research

• McGlothen-Bell, K., Cartagena, D., Malin, K.J., Vittner, D., McGrath, J.M., Koerner, R., Vance, A.J., & Crawford, A.D. (2024). Reimagining supportive approaches at the intersection of mandatory reporting policies for the mother-infant dyad affected by substance use. Advances in Neonatal Care, in press.
• Christianson, J., Zemlak, J., Malin, K., & Grabert, L. (2024). Does money matter? Exploring pay disparities for nursing faculty educators. American Nurse Journal, in press.
• Malin, K.J., Vittner, D., Darilek, U.H., McGlothen-Bell, K., Crawford, A., Koerner, R., Pados, B.F., Cartagena, D., McGrath, J.M, & Vance, A. (2024). Application of the adverse childhood experiences framework to the NICU. Advances in Neonatal Care, Advance online publication. doi: 10.1097/ANC.0000000000001122.
• Malin, K.J., Gondwe, K.W., Kruschel, K., Lagatta, J., Carter, S.C, Nazarloo, H.P., Conley, Y., White-Traut, R. (2023). Feasibility of stress research in premature infant-maternal dyads during and after NICU hospitalization. Advances in Neonatal Care, 23(6), 583-595. doi: 10.1097/ANC.000000000001112.
• Malin, K.J., Gondwe, K., Fial, A., Moore, R., White-Traut, R., Conley, Y., & Griffin, T. (2023). Scoping review of early toxic stress and epigenetic alterations in the neonatal intensive care unit. Nursing Research, 72(3), 218-228. doi: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000652
• Malin, K.J., Johnson, T.S., Brown, R., White-Traut, R., Leuthner, J., Malnory, M., Rholl, E., & Lagatta, J. (2022). Uncertainty and perinatal posttraumatic stress disorder in the neonatal intensive care unit. Research in Nursing and Health, Dec45(6), 717-732, doi: 10.1002/nur.22261
• Acharya, K., Rholl, E., Malin, K., Malnory, M., Leuthner, J., Leuthner, S.J., & Lagatta, J. (2022). Parent health-related quality of life (HRQL) for infants with congenital anomalies receiving neonatal intensive care. The Journal of Pediatrics. 245, 39-46. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.02.008
• Vance, A.J., Malin, K.J., Benjamin, A., Shuman, C., Moore, T., & Costa, D. (2022). Pandemic visitor policies: Parent reactions and policy implications. Acta Paediatrica: Nurturing the Child, 111, 604-606. doi: 10.111/apa.16208
• Vance, A.J., Malin, K.J., Miller, J., Shuman, C.J., Moore, T.A., & Benjamin, A. (2021). Parent pandemic NICU experience in the United States: A qualitative study. BMC Pediatrics, 21(558). doi:10.1186/s12887-021-03028-w
• Vance, A.J., Malin, K.J., Shuman, C., & Moore, T.A. (2021). Impact of neonatal hospitalization on families during the 2019 coronavirus pandemic. American Journal of Perinatology, 38(110), 1201-1208. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1731649
• Lagatta, J., Uhing, M., Acharya, K., Lavoie, J., Rholl, E., Malin, K.J., Malnory, M., Leuthner, J., & Brousseau, D. (2021). Actual and potential impact of home nasogastric tube feeding program for infants whose neonatal intensive care unit discharge is affected by delayed oral feedings. The Journal of Pediatrics, 234(5). doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.03.046
• Sprecher, A., Malin, K.J., Finley, D., Lembke, P., Keller, S., Grippe, A., Hornug, G., Antos, N., & Uhing, M. (2021). Quality improvement approach to reducing admission hypothermia among preterm and term infants admitted to a level IV NICU. Journal of Hospital Pediatrics, 11(3), 270-276. doi: 10.1542/hpeds.2020-003269
• Malin, K.J., Johnson, T.S., McAndrew, S., Westerdahl, J., Leuthner, J., & Lagatta, J. (2019). Infant illness severity and perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit. Early Human Development, Nov 140: 104930. doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev
• Malin, K.J., & Johnson, T.S. (2019). A concept analysis of parental uncertainty in illness of an infant. The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing, 44(4), 206-211. doi: 10.1097/NMC.0000000000000535
• Malin, K.J., Johnson, T.S., McAndrew, S., Westerdahl, J., Leuthner, J., & Lagatta, J. (2018). Research abstract: Infant illness severity and development of parent posttraumatic stress disorder after the neonatal intensive care unit. Advances in Neonatal Care, 18(3), E11. doi: 10.1097/ANC.0000000000000501