Full Name
Megan Arbour
Job Title
Professor of Nursing
Company
Frontier Nursing University
Speaker Bio
Megan W. Arbour, PhD, CNM, CNE, FACNM, is a leading expert in neurodiversity and disability inclusion in nursing education. She brings established scholarly expertise, sustained research productivity, and meaningful lived experience as a neurodivergent clinician, academic, and parent of neurodivergent children. Dr. Arbour directs the international Neurodiversity in Nursing Education (NINE) Collaborative, partnering with scholars across the United States, Canada, Ireland, and Australia to advance research on faculty preparedness, inclusive pedagogy, and equitable clinical education. Their foundational contributions include developing and validating the Faculty Preparedness Questionnaire–Neurodiversity (FPQ‑N), now widely used in nursing and medical education to evaluate faculty knowledge, attitudes, and readiness to teach neurodivergent learners. Dr. Arbour’s scholarship also integrates Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT), Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and competency‑based education to provide a comprehensive framework for inclusive instructional design in the health professions. She further strengthens her qualifications through postgraduate training in interdisciplinary disability studies, service as faculty mentor for a Neurodiversity Special Interest Group, and her role on the National League for Nursing’s Strategic Action Group developing a national Vision Statement on Disability in Nursing. Through these leadership roles, Dr. Arbour actively shapes policy, standards, and educational practices to advance disability inclusion across nursing education.
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