Meredeth Rowe is a professor at the University of South Florida College of Nursing. Rowe’s research focuses on improving the lives of people with cognitive impairment and their caregivers. She has developed a home monitoring system for caregivers of persons with dementia and parents of autistic children called CareAlertTM, is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the Gerontological Society of America and served on the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health.