The 2013 Fagin Award recipient is Dr. Martha A. Q. Curley, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Ellen and Robert Kapito Professor in Nursing Science. Dr. Curley is nationally and internationally renowned for her work related to clinical management of critically ill infants and children and their families, and also for her contributions to the field of pediatric critical care nursing. For more than twenty years, Dr. Curley’s research has focused on multi-site clinical trials to advance knowledge in the care of critically-ill pediatric patients, to develop instruments that could provide clinicians with better tools to assess patient status and risk, and to experiment with different interventions to support parental needs and priorities in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). A major component of Dr. Curley’s research focuses on the interactions and crossing points between physicians and nurses who care for these critically ill children which is vital to improving health outcomes and in providing the needed support to families.