Christiana Powers started her nursing career in high school where she received her Certified Nursing Assistant certificate and worked first on a Medical-Surgical floor and then as an Emergency Department Critical Care Technician. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Florida. She worked as an Emergency Department/Trauma Nurse until deciding to pursue a Master of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated from the UPenn Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program in 2010. Upon graduating, she began her career in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's Cardiac Surgery department as a Nurse Practitioner on the Telemetry/Step Down Unit. Her clinical interests include valvular heart diseases and ventricular assist device management.

• American Heart Association
• American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

1. Powers C: Use of Alteplase Beyond 3 Hours of Ischemic Stroke Onset. Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal 33 (1): 65-70, March 2011.
2. Goldstone AB, Atluri P, Szeto WY, Trubelja A, Howard JL, MacArthur JW, Newcomb C, Donnelly JP, Kobrin DM, Sheridan MA, Powers C, Gorman RC, Gorman JH, Pochettino A, Bavaria JE, Acker MA, Hargrove WC, Woo YJ.  Minimally Invasive Approach Provides at Least Equivalent Results for Surgical Correction of Mitral Regurgitation: A Propensity Matched Comparison. J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg 2013 (accepted)