Gregory Marler, PhD, DNP, ACNP-BC, FCCP
Associate Professor, Department of Nursing
Dr. Gregory Marler has over 27 years of nursing experience, including more than 20 years as a Nurse Practitioner and is Board Certified as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. He holds degrees from Lenoir-Rhyne University (BSN, 1998), Duke University School of Nursing (MSN, 2005; DNP, 2019), and most recently completed his PhD in Nursing at Duquesne University in May 2025.
Dr. Marler maintains clinical practice in the cardiothoracic, neurosurgical, and medical oncology intensive care units at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. He is an active national presenter with the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurse Association and the American College of Chest Physicians, where he contributes to the difficult airway taskforce.
His academic and clinical interests center on simulation-based learning in critical care and reducing healthcare-provider weight bias. His recent dissertation employed a quantitative intervention to mitigate weight bias among nurses.
Dr. Marler resides in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with his wife, Bridget, and their three daughters, Ruth, Kate, and Alice.