Christine Griffin is a nurse at Children's Hospital Colorado. For the past 15 years she has provided care not just for the patients and families, but also for the care providers as each search for health and wellness. She is a board-certified nurse in professional development, matching expertise in adult learning with a passion to heal the healers in healthcare. She serves as chair and co-chair for many resiliency programs at Children's Hospital Colorado, including the Resiliency Collaborative, Caring Science and HeartMath; she also serves as a resiliency coach and mentor. Griffin received her nursing degree and master of nursing at Regis University and is currently enrolled in a PhD program at University of Colorado. She became a Caritas coach in 2010 and a HeartMath trainer in 2011.
For the past 10 years, Griffin has developed a resiliency curriculum, presented at national and international conferences on resiliency and offered resiliency workshops at healthcare organizations and hospitals around the country. In her PhD program, she is studying effective compassion fatigue interventions to decrease burnout, mediate secondary trauma and increase compassion satisfaction for healthcare providers.