Christine Garvey, MS
Clinical Nurse II
Community Health Systems
School of Nursing

Garvey's research interests include exercise and self-management for patients with chronic lung disease.

Garvey earned a bachelor's degree in nursing and a master's degree in public administration with a focus on health services at the University of San Francisco. She earned a master's degree in nursing from Holy Names College.

Garvey has authored chapters in the Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice and has had her work published in several national professional journals. She is a former president of the California Thoracic Society. She has also served on many national and state committees, including as co-chair of the American Thoracic Society's pulmonary rehabilitation group. In addition, she has assisted with developing numerous international guidelines on helping patients with pulmonary conditions improve their functional abilities, symptoms and quality of life. Her awards include the Mary Burns Award from the California Society for Pulmonary Rehabilitation and a research scholarship from the American Lung Association in California.

Outside of work, Garvey enjoys improving her Italian language skills, traveling and exploring San Francisco.

• Survey of Exercise Prescription in US Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs.
  Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention 2020 Garvey C, Casaburi R, Spruit MA, De Brandt J
• Healing Pulmonary Rehabilitation in the United States. A Call to Action for ATS Members.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2019 Garvey C, Novitch RS, Porte P, Casaburi R
• Strategies for recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for a clinical trial.
  BMC medical research methodology 2019 Huang B, De Vore D, Chirinos C, Wolf J, Low D, Willard-Grace R, Tsao S, Garvey C, Donesky D, Su G, Thom DH
• Optimizing Home Oxygen Therapy. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2018 Jacobs SS, Lederer DJ, Garvey CM, Hernandez C, Lindell KO, McLaughlin S, Schneidman AM, Casaburi R, Chang V, Cosgrove GP, Devitt L, Erickson KL, Ewart GW, Giordano SP, Harbaugh M, Kallstrom TJ, Kroner…
• The Road to Improving Home Oxygen Access: Research, Education, and Advocacy.
  Respiratory care 2018 Garvey C, Jacobs S
• Optimizing Adherence to Improve Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
  The Journal of family practice 2018 Garvey C, Kaplan AG
• Prioritization, Development, and Validation of American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Performance Measures.
  Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention 2018 Pack QR, Bauldoff G, Lichtman SW, Buckley M, Eichenauer K, Gavic A, Garvey C, King ML, American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Quality of Care Committee
• Reply: Access to Supplemental Oxygen Therapy: A Crisis.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2018 Jacobs SS, Lindell KO, Collins EG, Garvey CM, Hernandez C, McLaughlin S, Schneidman AM, Meek PM
• A mobile health technology enabled home-based intervention to treat frailty in adult lung transplant candidates: A pilot study.
  Clinical transplantation 2018 Singer JP, Soong A, Bruun A, Bracha A, Chin G, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Rigler J, Golden JA, Greenland JR, Garvey C
• Impact of Comorbidities on the Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
  The American journal of medicine 2018 Garvey C, Criner GJ
• Moving Pulmonary Rehabilitation Into the Home: A CLINICAL REVIEW.
  Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention 2018 Garvey C, Singer JP, Bruun AM, Soong A, Rigler J, Hays S
• Patient Perceptions of the Adequacy of Supplemental Oxygen Therapy. Results of the American Thoracic Society Nursing Assembly Oxygen Working Group Survey.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2018 Jacobs SS, Lindell KO, Collins EG, Garvey CM, Hernandez C, McLaughlin S, Schneidman AM, Meek PM
• The Unmet Educational Needs of Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease. Setting the Stage for Tailored Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2016 Morisset J, Dubé BP, Garvey C, Bourbeau J, Collard HR, Swigris JJ, Lee JS
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation Exercise Prescription in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Review of Selected Guidelines: AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CARDIOVASCULAR AND PULMONARY REHABILITATION.
  Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention 2016 Garvey C, Bayles MP, Hamm LF, Hill K, Holland A, Limberg TM, Spruit MA
• Recent updates in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
  Postgraduate medicine 2015 Garvey C
• Field walking tests in chronic respiratory disease.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2015 Garvey C, Boylan AM, Miller DL, Holland AE, Singh SJ, Spruit MA, Wilson KC, Thomson CC, American Thoracic Society Implementation Task Force
• International COPD Coalition Column: pulmonary rehabilitation-reaching out to our international community.
  Journal of thoracic disease 2013 Garvey C, Spruit MA, Hill K, Pitta F, Shioya T
• Depression in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
  Postgraduate medicine 2012 Garvey C
• Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
  The open nursing journal 2012 Garvey C, Ortiz G
• Pulmonary rehabilitation: an underutilized resource in primary COPD care.
  The Physician and sportsmedicine 2010 Garvey C, Fromer L, Saver DF, Yawn BP
• Pulmonary rehabilitation in interstitial lung disease: benefits and predictors of response.
  Chest 2008 Ferreira A, Garvey C, Connors GL, Hilling L, Rigler J, Farrell S, Cayou C, Shariat C, Collard HR
• Parent training of toddlers in day care in low-income urban communities.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 2003 Gross D, Fogg L, Webster-Stratton C, Garvey C, Julion W, Grady J