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 Joan
Shaver, PhD, RN, FAAN, is currently Professor and Dean of the College
of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She also
serves as Research Core Co-Director of the UIC National Center of
Excellence in Women's Health. She is a member of the National Advisory
Council for the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National
Institutes of Health (2001-2005) and President-elect of the American
Academy of Nursing. She holds a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics
(U. of Washington), as well as a master's (U. of Washington) and
a baccalaureate degree (U. of Alberta) in nursing.
Dr. Shaver
has had funded research in women's health and sleep for nearly
two decades. She works with a team of researchers that was among
the first to study insomnia as part of menopause transition. Her
interests are currently focused on stress and sleep-related issues
within a set of debilitating and mystery conditions that disproportionately
affect women, including fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
She has published her scientific work in sleep, medical, and nursing
journals, including Sleep, Journal of Rheumatology and
Research in Nursing & Health. Dr. Shaver co-edited the
Handbook of Clinical Nursing Research with two colleagues.
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