Marie Berry DNP, MHR, RN

  • Clinical Assistant Professor
  • College of Nursing
  • Phone: 401.874.5345
  • Email: mlberry@uri.edu

Biography

Dr. Marie Berry is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the College of Nursing following an extensive career in military nursing in the United States Air Force. She served as the Nursing Section Chief of the Trauma Intensive Care, Post Anesthesia Care, and Pre/Post Procedure Care Units at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl Germany. 

As a former nurse manager for the Intensive Care Unit and Medical-Surgical Step-down Unit at Malcom Grow Medical Center, in Camp Springs Maryland, Dr. Berry was responsible for establishing critical care clinical rotations to increase trauma care readiness of Critical Care Air Transport nurses prior to deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. As a flight nurse, Dr. Berry was certified to care for critically ill patients on three different military aircraft and served as the Director of Aeromedical Aeromedical Evacuation Training in Fayetteville North Carolina. She also has experience as a staff nurse in surgical, cardiac and medical intensive care units at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, in Dayton Ohio, where she held certifications in critical care nursing and hyperbaric nursing. Dr. Berry was the nurse manager of the Sembach Family Practice Clinic, Sembach, Germany, and the Flight Medicine and Emergency Response Units at the Air Force Medical Group, Ramstein, Germany.

Dr. Berry’s teaching experience includes advanced cardiac life support and clinical nurse precepting. She was an administrator and instructor for the Intermediate Leadership School at the U.S. Air Force Squadron Officers’ School at Air University in Montgomery Alabama. Dr. Berry is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society for Nursing, the American Nurses Association, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and the National League for Nursing.

Research

Development, design and application of novel ventilator devices for use in the acute care setting.

Education

DNP, Northeastern University

MS, Military Operational Art and Science, Air Command and Staff College, Air University, U.S. Air Force

MS, Human Relations, University of Oklahoma

BSN, Northeastern University