Biography

About Me

Christa is a Clinical Nurse Scientist at Cooper University Hospital and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Cooper Medical School at Rowan University.  During her 25+ years in nursing, she has practiced clinically, directed critical care quality improvement and clinical research and was the Program Manager for a North American sepsis clinical trial. Christa received her Diploma in Nursing from Helene Fuld School of Nursing, Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Thomas Jefferson University and her Masters of Science in Nursing and Doctorate of Nursing Practice degrees from Drexel University.  Christa has lectured nationally and internationally and authored or co-authored over 170 peer reviewed articles, book chapters and abstracts.  Working with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Dr. Schorr was part of the three member team that developed, field tested and finalized the content of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) performance improvement (PI) software and revision, which was used worldwide. Dr. Schorr has served as national faculty for Phase III and IV Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) SSC Collaboratives and three statewide collaboratives in NJ, RI and MD. 

Dr. Schorr is a member of the SCCM’s Thrive Task Force Committee, the SSC Executive Committee, is the current SSC Guidelines Committee Group Head for long term outcomes and goals of care and is the SSCM’s Quality & Safety Committee liaison to the CDC Heathcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. Dr. Schorr continues to stress the importance of early sepsis identification, care processes, outcomes and the significance of patient and family engagement.

Dr. Schorr is faculty for CMSRU Scholar’s Workshop for M1 and M2 students and serves as a mentor for several Capstone projects.