Awards

2012 Distinguished Nurse Alumna

Janet M. Engstrom, PhD, MS, RN, CNM, WHNP-BC

Dr. Janet Engstrom is the Associate Dean for Research at Frontier Nursing University, the birthplace of nurse-midwifery in the United States, and Professor and Researcher, Department of Women, Children and Family Nursing, Rush University College of Nursing.
Dr. Engstrom was an early proponent of evidence-based practice and is a well-known scholar whose research focuses on the health benefits of human milk feeding for premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit, and the reliability and validity of physical measurements such as infant weight and length. She is both an alumna (PhD '85; MS '81) and former faculty member of the UIC College of Nursing where she also served as Program Director of the Nurse-Midwifery and Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner Programs.
In addition to having received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, Dr. Engstrom is a Fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, and a recipient of the Jonas Salk Health Leadership Award in Nursing from the Chicago Area March of Dimes Foundation.