Ginny L. Schulz, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC, is a pediatric nurse practitioner in stem cell transplant and cellular therapy at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Her recent doctoral work at University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing in Columbia, Missouri, USA, focused on treatment decision making and decisional conflict in families of children and adolescents with sickle cell disease considering stem cell transplant using case study methods. This underutilized research method demonstrated an innovative approach to investigating complex family processes. Her doctoral work was supported by the American Cancer Society Doctoral Degree Scholarship in Cancer Nursing and a Small Project Award from the Center for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Through this work and other collaborative projects, she has worked with multiple family, decision, and communication scientists from numerous disciplines to lay the foundation to her program of research in pediatric and family communication and treatment decision-making. As she continues to build her program of research, her emphasis will shift to exploring the ethics of child voice and family-level health disparities in communication and treatment decision-making. For more information, contact IFNA member Ginny Schulz.
