Janice Phillips, Ph.D., R.N., CENP, FAAN

Janice Phillips, Ph.D., is Manager of Nursing Research at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she assumes primary leadership in facilitating nursing research and evidence-based nursing practice. In addition, she is Research Associate/Assistant Professor in the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health, where she conducts breast cancer research among African American women.

Dr. Phillips career has focused on advancing breast cancer knowledge and reducing breast cancer disparities among African American women through service, education, research, and advocacy. The results of her work have been presented nationwide as well as on six continents and have served as a cornerstone for shaping numerous initiatives targeting minority and underserved women.

In November 2000, Dr. Phillips was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing for her contributions to oncology nursing nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of the 2003 Oncology Nursing Society/Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Excellence in Breast Cancer Education Award; the 2006 Martin Luther King, Jr., Humanitarian Award from the University of Chicago Medical Center; and the Distinguished Nurse Alumni Award from the University of Illinois College of Nursing and St. Xavier University. In 2007, Dr. Phillips received the Nursing Spectrum’s Nursing Excellence Award for Advancing and Leading the Profession. The author of over 60 publications, in February 2009 she published her second edited book Advancing Oncology Nursing Science.

Dr. Phillips holds a M.S. in community health from St. Xavier College, and a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago.