Speaking with the Dean

Join Dr. Mike Martel and Harley Brown in an engaging interview with Dr. Leigh Small, who earned her master’s degree and PhD from the University of Rochester and is a pediatric nurse practitioner by training. She has a passion for high-quality healthcare, evidence-based practice, and the implementation of thought-provoking educational strategies challenging learners to always seek and provide best practices. For over two decades, she has integrated and applied these passions with the goals of impacting healthcare practices.  
 
Embracing education, research, and service, Dr. Small has served as a nursing educator and researcher for more than 20 years, and held multiple leadership roles in several professional nursing organizations and colleges and universities, while remaining continuously engaged in scholarship.  
 
Her research portfolio and scholarship are based on positive approaches to parenting, usual and unusual child development, motivational interviewing, and the synchrony of interactions between parents and young children. Dr. Small’s dedication to the healthcare of children and families has been recognized by acceptance of Fellowship in the National Academies of Practice, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, and the American Academy of Nursing.

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