Marion Leary, MSN, MHP: Innovation educator, resuscitation researcher, nurse advocate

Marion Leary is walking, talking, and teaching innovation. She is the director of innovation for the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing. She earned her master's degree in nursing at Penn in health leadership, a master's degree in public health at Penn, and is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing, focusing on innovation and technology. She’s been a contributor to the Huffington Post, host of a podcast or two, and in the last decade founded ImmERge Labs, LLC, which uses augmented and virtual reality platforms to reimagine how we prepare for emergencies, and Sink or Swim Philadelphia, a non-profit working to assist people who were uninsured or underinsured raise funds to pay for medical expenses using social media and medical crowd-funding.