Assistant Professor
Education
Biography
Dr. Janet Brown is an Assistant Professor at the Capstone College of Nursing. Dr. Brown earned her PhD in Nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2021 and her MSN in Nursing Education in 2013 from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. She completed her Associate Degree in Applied Science in Registered Nursing in 1983 at Walker Junior College.
Her primary research focus includes improving health outcomes for children and families. Her current work focuses on families in rural Alabama. She is a principal investigator of a Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 5-year REACH grant Expanding the REACH of On Track to Wellness that focuses on physical activity, increasing fruit and vegetable consumption, food service guidelines, and immunizations. Her community-engaged, family-centered research encompasses her passion for pediatrics and family-centered care. Her On Track to Wellness program provides education to children on the topics of physical activity, nutrition, accidental poisoning prevention, and stress at a local elementary school.
Dr. Brown teaches in the BSN program and is the pediatric high-fidelity simulationist. She has an interest in interprofessional education, specifically simulation interprofessional education (Sim-IPE). She has publications and presentations on the topic and works with UA Child Life Specialist Dr. Sherwood Burns-Nader to provide high-fidelity Sim-IPE experiences to undergraduate BSN and Child Life students.
She is nationally credentialled as a Certified Pediatric Nurse with a strong pediatric clinical background, including 22 years of clinical experience at Children’s of Alabama. She worked for a decade as a clinician in the Pulmonary Division at Children’s of Alabama, focusing on children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis and asthma. Dr. Brown taught in the Alabama Community College System for 3.5 years, leading the pediatric nursing course, including pediatric high-fidelity simulation, and pediatric clinicals at Children’s of Alabama.