Janice Phillips, Ph.D., RN, CENP, FAAN
Director of Nursing Research and Health Equity, Rush University Medical Center
Dr. Janice Phillips is an experienced clinician, researcher, educator, nurse regulator, author, and public policy advocate in the health care arena. As the Director of Nursing Research and Health Equity at Rush University Medical Center, Dr. Phillips serves as a system wide leader in supporting health equity as a shared goal and integrating health equity across the Rush Health system’s training, research, and clinical endeavors. She is the author of over 100 publications and five edited textbooks. Her co-edited book “Health Equity and Nursing: Achieving Health Equity through Policy, Population Health and Interprofessional Collaboration, received a five-star review from Doody’s Review Service and is in 91 libraries worldwide. Her OpEds on health disparity and equity issues have appeared in Scientific American, the Hill, and U.S. News and World Report, to name a few. As a recipient of numerous awards including the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award and the Nursing Spectrum Advancing and Leading the Profession Award. In 2000, Dr. Phillips was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing for her distinguished contributions to reducing breast cancer disparities. Dr. Phillips holds a BSN from North Park College, an MS in Community Health from St. Xavier School of Nursing, and a PhD in Nursing from the University of Illinois, College of Nursing.