CNR DIRECTOR

Gayle G. Page, RN, DNSc, FAAN is Professor and Director of the Center for Nursing Research and Sponsored Projects. Dr. Page received her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from California State College Bakersfield, and her Master's and Doctor of Nursing Science degrees from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She completed postdoctoral training in Biobehavioral Sciences with John C. Liebeskind and Herbert Weiner at UCLA.

Dr. Page came to Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in 1998 as Associate Professor and Independence Foundation Chair in Nursing Education. She became the Director of the PhD Program December 2002, and was promoted to Professor March 2006. Her program of research has focused upon showing that unrelieved pain has biological consequences using a model of cancer funded by the National Institute for Nursing Research. Most recently, Dr. Page, along with Dr. Jennifer Haythornthwaite in the School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, was awarded an NIH Roadmap Postdoctoral Training grant with a goal of preparing fellows to work within an interdisciplinary research team to address the complex challenge of pain.

She has served on numerous research review panels nationally and internationally.