DEBORAH GROSS, DNSC, RN, FAAN
Professor, Leonard and Helen Stulman Endowed Chair in Mental
Health and Psychiatric Nursing
Department of Acute and Chronic Care
Dr. Gross is the Leonard and Helen Stulman Chair in Mental Health and
Psychiatric Nursing at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and in the
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine.
Prior to her appointment at the School of Nursing, she served as the Associate
Dean for Research and as department chair at Rush University College of
Nursing. Dr. Gross’ research focuses on promoting positive parent-child
relationships and preventing behavior problems in preschool children from
low-income neighborhoods. With colleagues at Rush, she developed the Chicago
Parent Program, an innovative parenting program that has been shown to improve
parenting behavior and reduce child behavior problems. This program is currently
being used in a number of settings including Head Start centers in Chicago and
New York City. Dr. Gross is a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow in the Executive Nurse
Fellows Program and—in recognition of her mentoring work with pre- and
post-doctoral students and junior faculty—is a 2007 recipient of the Sigma Theta
Tau Gamma Phi Chapter Mentorship Award. She has published over 100 articles,
book chapters, and a bstracts related to parenting, children’s mental health,
prevention, and research methods and has served on numerous National Institutes
of Health and editorial review panels.
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