Marilyn Pattillo, PhD, RN, APRN, BC
The University of Texas at Austin, School of Nursing
1700 Red River Street
Austin, TX 78701-1499
NUR 5.127 (office location)
512 471-7970 (office phone)
512 471-3688 (fax)
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Pattillo is Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing, board certified and currently teaching and practicing as an Advance Practice Nurse (nurse practioner and clinical nurse specialist) in Geriatrics, Gerontology and Adult Health. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of the Philippines and master's degree from Texas Women's University in Houston with emphasis in cardiovascular clinical specialty. Her doctorate is from the University of Texas at Austin with a focus on adult health and gerontology.
Dr. Pattillo has served over 20 years in the Air Force Nurse Corps, both on active duty and reserve. She was trained as a flight nurse and flew many aerovacuation missions in Europe, Central America and Asia. After flight nursing, she was an individual mobilization augmentee to select Air Force hospitals, the latest being Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. She retired as Colonel (ret), United States Air Force Reserve Nurse Corps in 1998.
The training learned from 20 years of military nursing and as a volunteer Red Cross disaster health instructor helped her develop and teach two Disaster Nursing elective classes in Summer 2002 and 2003 in response to the events on September 11, 2001. Content from those classes have since been integrated into the undergraduate curriculum so that all students have basic disaster nursing competencies before graduation. Dr. Pattillo serves as an active member of the University of Texas at Austin Emergency Preparedness efforts and was selected to be Deputy Team Commander, National Nurse Response Team, National Disaster Medical System, a Department of Health and Human Services asset prepared to respond to a national emergency.
In 2001, Dr. Pattillo was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Vietnam Education Foundation, an international fellowship program of graduate and post-graduate training in the sciences, mathematics, medicine, and information technology. Board members include US and Vietnamese business leaders, representatives from the Departments of Treasury, Education and State, and fellow scientists from leading US universities.