Sharon Wrona, DNP, PMGT-BC, PNP, PMHS, AP-PMN, FAAN

Dr. Wrona is the Director for the Comprehensive Pain and Palliative Care Services at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.  She has been a pediatric nurse for 37 years and has spent the last 23 years working in pediatric pain management as a pediatric nurse practitioner.  Dr. Wrona was instrumental in helping to build the Comprehensive Pain Services at Nationwide Children's Hospital and our newest program with our Intensive Pain Rehabilitation and Education Day Program iPREP.  She completed diploma in nursing and BSN and Mount Carmel School and College of Nursing.  She completed her master’s degree at Wight State University in 2003, her DNP at The Ohio State University as well as her Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner in 2015.  Dr. Wrona is board certified in Pain Management Nursing and has an Advance Practice Recognition in Pain Management Nursing.  She is very active in the American Society for Pain Management Nursing, received the Pediatric Nurse Exemplar Award in 2014, Advocacy Award in 2019, and a Past President, and currently in the role as Treasurer for ASPMN. Dr. Wrona is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.  Dr. Wrona has multiple publications on pediatric pain including a more recent publication Chronic Pain and Mental Health Co-Morbidity in Children and Adolescents: An Urgent Call for Assessment and Evidence-based Intervention. Dr. Wrona has presented at numerous local, regional, and national conference on pediatric pain. Dr. Wrona has met with policy leader and testified at the FDA on improving opioid prescribing and education while continuing to individualize patient care for pain management. Dr. Wrona is the Co-Chair of the Opioid Stewardship program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and has helped the organization decrease the unneeded home going opioid prescriptions for acute pain by over 50% over the past 9 years. Most of her clinical work is in the Comprehensive Pain Clinics at Nationwide Children's Hospital and with the Acute Pain Service.