Susan T. Blackburn, PhD, FAAN, RN Professor Family and Child Nursing Box 357262 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7262 Email Address: sblackbn@u.washington.edu

Susan Blackburn is a Professor in the Department of Family Child Nursing. Her teaching, research, service and practice activities focus on care of preterm and other high-risk infants and their families.

Dr. Blackburn coordinates the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Nurse Specialist focus area in the Master's Program, is co-director of the Advanced Practice Genetics Nurse Program and is a faculty in the Nurse Midwifery Program. She currently teaches courses focusing on content related to maternal, fetal and neonatal physiology, human embryology and genetics, neonatal nursing, including developmental care, and management of neonatal health problems. Her research focuses on the effects of the neonatal intensive care unit environment on preterm infants and interventions to reduce the stresses of this environment. She is Neonatal Editor of the Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing, leader for the Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing Test Work Group for the National certification Corporation for the Obstetrical, Gynecological and Neonatal Nursing Specialties, and a member of the Nurse Advisory Council of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. Dr. Blackburn serves as the professional consultant for a community-based peer support group for parents of preterm infants.

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Current Projects

• Technology-Enhanced Nurse-Midwives and Neonatal Nurse Practitioners Distance Learning (Key Personnel)

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