Steven Busby

Biography

Dr. Busby has been involved in healthcare delivery for more than 40 years. He worked as an EMT/Paramedic for many years. He has experience as an RN in CVICU, CCU, ER and as a hospital nursing educator teaching critical care content. He has been a family nurse practitioner for 28 years and has worked in a private rural practice, an ER and in a faith-based community clinic focused on the uninsured. Dr. Busby has 22 years of higher education teaching experience. He earned his PhD from the University of TN in Knoxville and earned a graduate certificate in Homeland Security Nursing. His research experience includes having collaborated with members of the United States Space and Rocket Center’s Geo-Spatial Lab and the Alabama Department of Homeland Security on a first-of-its-kind in the nation, state-wide situational awareness program. He has done consulting work for a Huntsville-based engineering firm working on a Department of Defense combat casualty care program. He was a member of a federal Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) from Alabama. His original research and theory on Situational Awareness in Multi-Casualty Incidents is published in the Journal of Emergency Nursing. Though Dr. Busby has varied research interests, he specializes in qualitative research. He serves as a Senior Data Fellow and consultant with the Belmont Data and AI Collaborative. Dr. Busby has co-led study abroad trips to Cambodia and Indonesia and used a portion of his sabbatical teaching critical care in Indonesia for more than 5 weeks.