Nancy R Newton, MS, RN

Nancy Newton is a clinical nurse V in the Pediatric Clinical Research Center (PCRC) at UCSF. She is the coordinator of the PCRC program which provides clinical research nursing support in the neonatal and pediatric intensive care units at UCSF Children’s Hospital.

Ms. Newton received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Iowa and a Master of Science in Nursing and Neonatal Nurse Practitioner training at the University of California, San Francisco. She began her nursing career in adult surgical intensive care but transferred to pediatrics when she moved to San Francisco and joined the UCSF staff in 1975.

Over the next 15 years, Ms. Newton held various clinical nurse positions in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit before becoming a clinical research coordinator in 1988. Since then, she has overseen the conduct of over 50 clinical research studies in the critical care units at UCSF Children’s Hospital. She has been involved with the newborn brain imaging studies since their inception, beginning with the BAMRI Study in 1993. Ms. Newton was centrally involved in the design of the MRI-compatible isolette and development of methods to safely perform MRI imaging prodecures for premature and critically ill newborn infants.