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School of Nursing
P.O. Box 9740
New Haven, CT
06536-0740
203.785.2389

Yale School of Nursing, Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut 06536-0740, USA Tel-203.785.2389
Home URL: http://nursing.yale.edu/

Jacquelyn Taylor, PhD, PNP-BC, RN

Assistant Professor
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Specialty

Yale School of Nursing - Rm 295
100 Church Street South
P. O. Box 9740
New Haven, CT 06536
USA

jacquelyn.taylor@yale.edu

203.737.2364
203.785.6455 fax

About

Jacquelyn Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Specialty. Her undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees in nursing are from Wayne State University College of Nursing in Detroit Michigan. She is prepared as both a pediatric nurse practitioner and a school nurse practitioner. She holds a certificate in molecular genetics from Georgetown University and has completed additional coursework in cardiovascular epidemiology at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Dr. Taylor also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Urban Health of Older Populations at the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University in Detroit. Prior to coming to Yale, Jacquelyn Taylor served as a faculty member and coordinator of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Research

Her career has focused on addressing health disparities in hypertension among African Americans. Her interest developed from research experiences early in her career and clinical practice. As an undergraduate nursing student she spent 5 years working as a research assistant in a physiology laboratory examining the effects of various drugs on vascular smooth muscle cells for the treatment of hypertension. In 2001 she completed the Summer Genetics Institute at NIH/NINR. As she continued her graduate work for the PhD, she practiced as a PNP for the School Mobile Health Center at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. In 2008 she completed an NIH/NHLBI funded course on cardiovascular genetic epidemiology and bioinformatics at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. These research and clinical experiences led her to study both genetic and environmental influences on blood pressure. Her work has been funded by several NIH agencies and her current study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program, examines the interaction between genome-wide association and social environmental factors related to blood pressure among African American hypertensive parents and early risks for high blood pressure among their untreated children. Her long-term goals are to develop nursing interventions to prevent and reduce gene-environment risks associated with hypertension.

As a faculty member at the Yale School of Nursing I am committed to teaching students and conducting research that focuses on improving health outcomes, particularly among underrepresented minority children and their families. In my role as assistant professor, I am well-positioned to recruit and mentor nursing students to participate in genetics research that can be clinically translated to nursing practice aimed at reducing health disparities across the lifespan. This early introduction into bench to bedside type science will provide a solid foundation for YSN students to apply and expand their knowledge into evidenced based clinical practice and
research upon graduation.

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