Stacey Williams CPNP-AC is a nurse practitioner at Monroe Carell Jr Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. She received her BSN and MSN at the University of Alabama in Birmingham in Birmingham, AL and her DNP at Vanderbilt University. She is a member of SCCM and ADS where she has been involved in the ICU liberation committee, author on the PANDEM guidelines, and currently pre-conference planning co-chair for ADS. Stacey is a member of the pediatric delirium team with the CIBS center, a member of the validation team for the preschool CAM-ICU and the pediatric CAM-ICU, and is  a co-investigator on the research grant for miniMENDs. Her research and quality improvement focuses on pediatric delirium, early mobility, and sedation.

She is currently a co-investigator mini-MENDS (Maximizing the Efficacy of Goal-Directed Sedation to Reduce Neurological Dysfunction in Mechanically Ventilated Infants and Children Study) NHLBI Grant R61 HK151951-01 and FDA-IND #68658.