Congratulations to UWSON PNP Faculty member Jen Sonney, President Elect of NAPNAP

Co-Lead, Advanced Practice Pediatric Nursing Tracks

Endowed Faculty Fellow in Symptom Science

Core Faculty, UW Pediatric Pulmonary Center

Associate Editor, Families, Systems, & Health journal

Dr. Sonney is a scientist-clinician dedicated to improving the health of children with chronic health conditions. Her program of research spans the spectrum of theoretical modeling, descriptive, and now intervention and mechanistic work. She aims to improve the outcomes of children with asthma by reducing symptom burden and establishing lifelong self-management skills.

My program of research is dedicated to improving the health of children with chronic conditions, with a particular emphasis on children with asthma.  As a scientist-clinician, I draw upon my experience as a primary care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner to inform novel approaches to improving asthma outcomes in children by reducing symptom burden and establishing lifelong self-management skills.  Presently, the foci of my scholarly work are determining the cognitive capacity of a child to assume asthma management responsibility and developing and testing family-centered health technologies to support parent-child shared asthma management.  I use a variety of approaches in my interdisciplinary research, including human-centered design, family informatics, behavior change theory, and dyadic methodology.  I also serve on the Executive Committee of my professional organization, the National Association for Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.