Rate My Professor Komal Patel

Komal Patel Murali, PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, FPCN, serves as an Assistant Professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Her academic background includes a PhD from New York University, an MSN from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BSN from the University of Pennsylvania. With more than a decade of clinical experience as an ICU nurse and acute care nurse practitioner, she brings a clinician-informed perspective to her research, intervention co-design with clinicians, patients, and caregivers, and commitment to mentoring nursing students, clinicians, scientists, and leaders in end-of-life care.

Murali's research advances hospice and palliative care for seriously ill older adults across the care continuum, with a focus on developing and testing interventions to improve hospice transitions, end-of-life care management for persons living with dementia, and hospice and palliative care literacy and education in healthcare and community-based settings. She is supported by National Institute on Aging grants U54AG063546 and K23AG083125 for a scalable nurse-led care management model to reduce disparities in hospice utilization and enhance end-of-life transitions for dementia patients in home healthcare. As Co-Investigator for Enhancing Palliative Care Integration in Home Healthcare: Assessing Readiness, Identifying Needs, and Overcoming Challenges (R01AG089262), she works to integrate palliative care in home healthcare. She also leads a multimethod study on caregiving supports for South Asian families in faith-based settings (P50MD017356) and 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), developing a virtual education intervention to improve literacy, communication, and decision-making. Key publications include works in BMC Medical Education (2026), American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2026), Alzheimer’s and Dementia (2026), Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (2026), Nursing Reports (2025), Research in Gerontological Nursing (2025, DOI: 10.3928/19404921-20241211-02), and Home Healthcare Now (2025, DOI: 10.1097/nhh.0000000000001316).