Brittany L. Feijoo, PhD, MSN, RN, is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Conway Scholar Faculty Mentor in the Conway School of Nursing at The Catholic University of America. Dr. Feijoo completed the Clinical Research Medical-Surgical Nurse Residency Program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Clinical Center. She has worked extensively in inpatient, outpatient and clinical research settings. Dr. Feijoo has served as a Sub-Investigator on vaccine trials involving various bacterial and viral pathogens at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her nursing and clinical trial research expertise extend internationally as a consultant for research teams in Kenya and Singapore.
Dr. Feijoo’s research interests concentrate on healthy volunteer vaccine trial participation, community based participatory research, vaccine hesitancy and ethical considerations for clinical trial participation. Her dissertation work titled “Participation in Controlled Human Infection Model (CHIM) Vaccine Trials and COVID-19 Vaccine Trials” focused on the behavioral and social aspects of participation in early phase vaccine trials.
Dr. Feijoo holds a PhD in nursing from the Conway School of Nursing at The Catholic University of America. She completed her BSN at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and her MSN from Marymount University. Dr. Feijoo is an active member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and recognized as a Rising Star of Research and Scholarship in 2021. Dr. Feijoo is committed to educating future nurses by emphasizing the interplay of research, knowledge, human dignity and compassion within nursing practice.
Education
PhD, The Catholic University of America
MSN, Marymount University
BSN, University of Maryland, Baltimore