Shearer Endowed Term Chair in Healthy Community Practices: Janet Deatrick	Print Issue
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Janet A. Deatrick has been appointed to the Shearer Endowed Term Chair in Healthy Community Practices.

Dr. Deatrick’s research focuses on families caring for children with chronic conditions, ethical aspects of care and decision making processes of children and qualitative research methods. She has achieved national and international recognition for her work related to advancing the understanding of family dynamics and responses to children’s chronic conditions. In addition, Dr. Deatrick’s conceptual model considers a variety of influences within the environment and the family. She developed tools which created the framework for studies in the field, which are considered a template for family research and are translated and used in many countries. Hence, her work has made substantial contributions to the field of family research.

Dr. Deatrick has a distinguished publication record that includes publication in scholarly journals such as Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, Journal of Community Health, Journal of Pediatric Psychology and The American Journal of Maternal-Child Nursing.

Dr. Deatrick’s national and international reputation is further evidenced by the number of conferences, panels, boards and professional societies to which she is invited or on which she serves. Dr. Deatrick serves as Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity Research, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and is a member of the Child and Adolescent Expert Panel for the American Academy of Nursing.