National Program Office Bios

Jacquelyn (Jackie) Campbell, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
Program Director

Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD, RN, FAANJackie Campbell is the Anna D. Wolf Chair and a professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing with a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her B.S.N., M.S.N. and Ph.D. are from the schools of nursing at Duke University, Wright State University and the University of Rochester, respectively. She has been engaged in advocacy policy work and has conducted research in the areas of family violence and health disparities related to trauma since 1980. Campbell, who has been at Hopkins since 1993, has received funding continuously as a primary investigator since 1984 on National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other governmental research awards, including 10 major NIH, National Institute of Justice or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research grants and has published more than 150 articles and seven books on violence against women. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Nursing and was a member of the congressionally appointed U.S. Department of Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence. In addition, she has served on the Board of Directors of the House of Ruth Battered Women's Shelter. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Family Violence Prevention Fund and has served on three major Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committees and on the Planning Committee for the 2007 IOM Global Violence Prevention Workshop. She received the 2005 American Society of Criminology Vollmer Award, the 2006 Pathfinder Award for Nursing Research of the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research, and was the IOM Senior Nurse Scholar in Residence for 2005-06.

Jeane Ann (JA) Grisso, M.D., M.Sc., F.A.C.P.
Senior Program Officer

Jeane Ann Grisso, M.D., M.Sc., F.A.C.P., joined the Foundation in 2001 as a senior program officer. She serves on the Human Capital and Vulnerable Population Teams, working in the areas of violence prevention, vulnerable populations and leadership development. Grisso brings her skills as a physician to serving as program officer for an array of national programs that support future leaders in health care, including the RWJF Clinical Scholars, the Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars, the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program, the Physician Faculty Scholars, and the Nurse Faculty Scholars programs. She also manages a special program that provides policy and advocacy training to a select group of the more than 1,200 alumni of RWJF Scholar programs. In addition, Grisso works with multiple programs that focus on intimate partner violence, prisoner entry and childhood obesity.

Before joining RWJF, Grisso was a tenured professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She was a senior scholar at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute, senior fellow of the Institute on Aging, and director of the FOCUS on Health & Leadership for Women program. She is a fellow of the Society for Epidemiological Research and the American College of Physicians and has conducted large-scale epidemiological and community-based projects in urban health issues, women's health, violence and aging.

Grisso earned her medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia followed by a Milbank Scholar Award during which she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Angela Barron McBride, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
NAC Chair

Angela Barron McBride is Distinguished Professor-University Dean Emerita at Indiana University School of Nursing. During her tenure as dean, she served as Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs-Nursing within Clarian Health Partners, the largest hospital network in Indiana and one of the largest in the United States. Currently, she is a member of the Clarian Board and chairs the board's Committee on Quality and Patient Safety. McBride is known for her contributions to women's health, particularly the psychology of parenthood, and to psychiatric-mental health nursing. Her 1973 book The Growth and Development of Mothers was selected as a book-of-the-year by both The New York Times and the American Journal of Nursing. She served as president of Sigma Theta Tau International (1987-1989) and the American Academy of Nursing (1993-1995). In 1995, she received the "Outstanding Contributions to Nursing and Health Psychology" Award from the American Psychological Association's Division 38 on Health Psychology; that same year, she was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine. In 2006, she was named a "Living Legend" by the American Academy of Nursing.