DEBORAH GROSS, DNSC, RN, FAAN
Professor, Leonard and Helen Stulman Endowed Chair in Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing
Department of Acute and Chronic Care

"The most cost-effective investments we can make as a society are those targeting the mental and physical health of young children."

Dr. Deborah Gross is best known for her work in promoting positive parent-child relationships and preventing behavior problems in preschool children from low-income neighborhoods. At the Johns Hopkins University, she holds joint appointments at both the School of Nursing and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine. Previously, as the Associate Dean for Research and a department chair at Rush University College of Nursing, Dr. Gross and colleagues developed the Chicago Parent Program, an innovative parenting program that improves parenting behavior and reduces child behavior problems. The program currently is used in a number of settings including Head Start centers in Chicago and New York City. Dr. Gross was a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow, and among her many recognitions are the Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research President's Award for outstanding research and the American Academy of Nursing Edge Runner award honoring developers of model programs offering solutions to health care challenges. She has served on numerous review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the Institute of Medicine, published more than 100 articles, book chapters, and abstracts, and currently serves on the editorial board of Research in Nursing & Health and Nursing Outlook.

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