Barbara Damron, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN

Barbara Damron is associate professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Nursing, where she teaches in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nursing and Health Policy Collaborative doctoral program. She also directs the Office of Community Partnerships & Cancer Health Disparities and the Hispanic and Native American Community Outreach program at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center. She conducts community-based participatory research focused on impacting health behaviors along the cancer trajectory, and has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, UNM Institutional Grants, and private foundations. She is also a senior fellow at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico.

Damron has served as a head nurse, supervisor, administrator, clinical nurse specialist, educator, and researcher. She was the founding director of the first statewide comprehensive cancer nursing education program in the country. In addition, she is past chair of the Oncology Nursing Foundation Board of Trustees.

Damron received her PhD in social/development/personality psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, her MSN from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and her BSN from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska.