Komal Patel Murali

Faculty

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Komal Patel Murali

PhD RN ACNP-BC

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NEW YORK, NY 10010
United States

Komal Patel Murali, PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, FPCN is an Assistant Professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing dedicated to advancing palliative and hospice care for seriously ill persons across care settings. Overall, she aims to illuminate and address the challenges of end-of-life decision-making through improved care delivery, communication, and education surrounding the care of persons with serious illness.

Prof. Murali is currently supported by the National Institute on Aging (K23AG083125) to develop a care management intervention aimed at reducing disparities in hospice care utilization and improving care transitions at the end of life for persons with dementia and their family caregivers in home healthcare. Another area of her research includes exploring and designing family-centered programs for caregiving support of South Asian older adults with multiple chronic conditions in faith- and community-based settings (P50MD017356).

Drawing directly on a decade of clinical experience as an ICU nurse and nurse practitioner, Murali has also focused on clinician-informed palliative care integration in the ICU. These foundational nursing experiences shaped Murali’s scholarship and consistently inform the “why” behind her work. She is dedicated to teaching and mentoring nursing students, clinicians, leaders, and scholars focused on end-of-life care for seriously ill older adults and their families.

PhD, New York University
MSN, University of Pennsylvania
BSN, University of Pennsylvania

Critical care
Nursing education
Palliative care
Serious illness
Theoretical and conceptual models

American Association of Critical Care Nurses
Eastern Nursing Research Society
Gerontological Society of America
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society

Fellow in Palliative in Palliative Care Nursing, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (2025)
NYU Meyers Dean’s Excellence in Research Award, Early Career Faculty Award (2025)
Nessa Coyle Leadership Lecture and Award, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (2024)
Research Scholar, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (2023)
NYU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Research Education Component Scholar (2023)
Emerging Leaders Award, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (2022)
Distinguished PhD Student Award, NYU Meyers (2020)
President’s Service Award, New York University (2018)
Jonas Nurse Leader Scholar, Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence (2018)
Norman Volk Doctoral Scholarship, NYU Meyers (2018)
HRSA Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program (2012)
Sigma Theta Tau Inductee, University of Pennsylvania (2008)
Mary D. Naylor Undergraduate Research Award, University of Pennsylvania (2008)
Pennsylvania Higher Education Foundation Scholarship (2008)
Promise of Nursing Regional Scholarship Award, Foundation of the National Student Nurses Association (2008)
Scholar, Center for Health Disparities Research, Penn Nursing (2007)

The implementation of an early rehabilitation program is associated with reduced length of stay: A multi-ICU study.

Murali, K. P. (2015). 10.1177/1751143715605118
Abstract
Abstract
IntroductionSurvivors of critical illness face many potential long-term sequelae. Prior studies showed that early rehabilitation in the intensive care unit (ICU) reduces physical impairment and decreases ICU and hospital length of stay (LOS). However, these studies are based on a single ICU or were conducted with a small subset of all ICU patients. We examined the effect of an early rehabilitation program concurrently implemented in multiple ICUs on ICU and hospital LOS.MethodsAn early rehabilitation program was systematically implemented in five ICUs at the sites of two affiliated academic institutions. We retrospectively compared ICU and hospital LOS in the year before (1/2011-12/2011) and after (1/2012-12/2012) implementation.ResultsIn the pre- and post-implementation periods, respectively, there were a total of 3945 and 4200 ICU admissions among the five ICUs. After implementation, there was a significant increase in the proportion of patients who received more rehabilitation treatments during their ICU stay (p p p p ConclusionsA multi-ICU, coordinated implementation of an early rehabilitation program markedly increased rehabilitation treatments in the ICU and was associated with reduced ICU and hospital LOS as well as increased ICU admissions.