Martha Abshire Saylor is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her research interests include an emphasis on psychosocial sequelae of advanced illness, advanced heart failure management, biomarkers of stress, and patient-reported outcomes. Dr. Martha Abshire Saylor has current funding to develop interventions that use a strengths-based approach to support caregivers of persons with heart failure through goal-setting, instrumental and social support. She has methodological expertise in using mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to understand complex phenomena.