Leanne M. Boehm, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FCCM, FAAN, is an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and an ICU nurse by training. For 17 years, she has partnered with Vanderbilt’s Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center.

Her work aims to eliminate delirium, oversedation, and immobilization in intensive care and to maximize survivorship for patients and families. She has led and collaborated on efforts to reduce ICU delirium and post‑intensive care syndrome (PICS) through implementation of the ABCDEF bundle, development of ICU recovery clinics, and ICU peer support programs. She brings advanced training in implementation science and quality improvement, with expertise in intervention design/testing, mixed methods, and qualitative inquiry. Current studies evaluate telehealth ICU recovery services and digital interventions to enhance family engagement and empowerment in the ICU.

Dr. Boehm serves on the American Delirium Society Board of Directors and contributes to society governance and conference programming, and is a recipient of the ADS Delirium Hero Award. She also serves on Society of Critical Care Medicine committees focused on ICU Liberation.

She is on the editorial boards of Critical Care Explorations, the American Journal of Critical Care, and the Journal of Nursing Care Quality. Prospective authors are welcome to reach out—she is happy to advise on submissions and connect you with editorial resources.

Leanne loves mentoring and developing people. Outside work, she is a proud cat mom (five cats), lives with her elderly in-laws, and is a voracious reader and consumer of k-pop and k-dramas.