Gail Kieckhefer, ARNP, PNP-BC, Ph.D. Professor The Joanne Montgomery Endowed Professor in Nursing Family and Child Nursing Box 357262 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7262 Email Address: gailmk@u.washington.edu

Research: Dr. Kieckhefer's research expertise is in childhood chronic illness; childhood asthma most commonly. She was principal investigator on several studies examining health outcomes in children with asthma and on a randomized clinical trial examining the effects of a parent education program. In addition, she was co-investigator on two studies that recruited large number of ethnically diverse school age children with asthma and one testing a model of educating MD residents to work more effectively with parents of children having asthma.

Service/Practice: Dr. Kieckhefer has been a member of Washington Nurses' Association; American Nurses Association; Sigma Theta Tau; American Thoracic Society; National Organization of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and its Washington State Chapter; and the National Organization of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Faculties. Locally she chaired the Clinical Services Committee of the King County Asthma Forum and co-chaired the Practitioner Support Committee of the Washington Asthma Initiative.

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Current Projects

• Center for Research on the Management of Sleep Disturbances (Co-Investigator)
• Pediatric Pulmonary Leadership Training Center (Key Personnel)
• Testing Recruitment and Protocols for a Randomized Clinical Trial of an Intervention to Improve Sleep in 8-11 year old Children with and without Asthma (Principal Investigator)

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