Komal Patel Murali

Komal Patel Murali, PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, FPCN is an Assistant Professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing whose research advances hospice and palliative care for seriously ill older adults across the care continuum. She focuses on developing and testing interventions to improve hospice transitions, strengthen end-of-life care management for persons living with dementia, and enhance hospice and palliative care literacy and education in both healthcare and community-based settings.

Prof. Murali is supported by the National Institute on Aging (U54AG063546; K23AG083125) to design and test a scalable nurse-led care management model to reduce disparities in hospice utilization and improve end-of-life transitions for persons living with dementia receiving home healthcare. In addition, she serves as a Co-Investigator for Enhancing Palliative Care Integration in Home Healthcare: Assessing Readiness, Identifying Needs, and Overcoming Challenges (EPIC-HHC) (R01AG089262), which aims to advance integration of palliative care services within home healthcare.

Murali also leads two projects focused on developing and implementing interventions that enhance hospice and palliative care literacy, communication, and caregiving support within community and faith-based settings. The first project aims to conduct an environmental scan and multimethod study characterizing caregiving supports accessed by South Asian families in faith-based settings (P50MD017356). The second is entitled Bridging Faith and Care: Hospice and Palliative Care Education for Black and South Asian Faith Leaders Supporting Caregivers of Persons with Dementia (NYU Meyers SEED Project) which focuses on developing a virtual hospice and palliative care education intervention to strengthen literacy, communication, and end-of-life decision-making.

Drawing on more than a decade of clinical experience as an ICU nurse and acute care nurse practitioner, Murali brings a clinician-informed perspective to intervention co-design with clinicians, patients, and caregivers, and is deeply committed to mentoring nursing students, clinicians, scientists, and leaders interested in end-of-life care.