Midori Asano, RN, PHN, PhD, is a professor and Vice Director of the School of Health Sciences, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Nursing, Health Development Nursing, in Japan. Her research focuses on family well-being in families living with children who have special health care needs, such as allergic diseases, Autism spectrum disorder, and cancer. She also studies child-rearing in a variety of family structures such as single parent families and within various settings such as neonatal and general intensive care settings. She and her research team are utilizing “cards of the family value” to examine family strengths using a narrative approach. She recently collaborated with researchers in Sweden. For more information contact IFNA member, Midori Asano.