Meet the 2025 Winner: Christine Mary Garvey, FNP, MSN, MPA, MAACVPR
Chris Garvey FNP, MSN, MPA, MAACVPR is a nurse practitioner who leads the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) Reimbursement working group charged with PR access, awareness, payment and understanding virtual PR models. Ms. Garvey’s clinical role, research and publications have focused on exercise prescription, hypoxemia, outpatient oxygen systems and ambulatory ventilation, PR in interstitial lung disease, and virtual PR. Chris helped lead the development and implementation of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) national PR registry, AACVPR PR outcome resource guide, and PR Reimbursement Toolkit. Chris has authored over 100 peer-reviewed chapters, guidelines, and manuscripts.
Chris is a former co-chair of the ATS PR Section and chaired the ATS PR section’s Program Committee. She is an active member of the ATS PR Assembly Executive Committee.
She is a recipient of the ATS National Public Service award, ATS PR Assembly Recognition Award, AACVPR Kent Smith National Award for Excellence and the Presidential Award, and past president of the California Thoracic Society. She has twice received the Research Fellowship Award from the American Respiratory Care Foundation.
Ms. Garvey’s clinical background includes PR and sleep disorders at University of California San Francisco, PR and cardiac rehabilitation manager and clinician in the community, director of home care at the Visiting Nurses and Hospice of San Francisco, and 12 years of critical care.
Description
This award is to recognise a clinician and/or researcher who is considered to have made a lifetime contribution to the advancement of Pulmonary Rehabilitation. The award could be posthumous or post-retirement.
Criteria
- Recognized for making an outstanding life-time contribution to the science or practice of pulmonary rehabilitation.
- Recognized by his/her peers as an outstanding pulmonary rehabilitation clinician, and/or researcher, and/or teacher, and/or mentor, and/or advocate.
- May have previously received the PR Assembly Recognition Award (or similar previous PR Assembly Award).
- This award is open to all health disciplines.
- Nominations for this award should be by a letter from a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Assembly member describing why the award is appropriate. The cover letter should be limited 2 pages and up to 1000 words.
- Nominee's curriculum vitae should be included, if available.
Applications will be scored on the basis of the details provided in the submitted nomination.
Awards will only be given where suitable candidates are nominated.