She graduated from Villanova University with a Nursing Science degree in 1995 and obtained her Master’s in Acute Care Adult Nursing from Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions in 2000. Theresa Pileggi is a strong, experienced clinician with a great passion for Neurotrauma, Neurosurgical, Cerebrovascular, Orthopedic, and General Surgical Critical Care patients. The sense of s
atisfaction and fulfillment derived from witnessing a critically ill patient recover and go on to live the rest of their lives is worth each moment of struggle and hard work that the health care team endures! As an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner with more than 20 years of inner city hospital experience, Theresa believes that it is critical to treat the whole patient, and to appreciate the patients' "Big Picture" in all of its parts... medical, surgical, social, mental, spiritual and physical, and to work with the patients' families and significant others to obtain the best possible outcomes. Theresa is a great proponent of working with families on end-of-life issues in the ICU, as well as aggressively treating the sickest trauma patient, always considering the individual patients' quality of life and personal goals as the focus of treatment.
