Janet S Wyatt PhD, RN, FAANP
Janet Stearns Wyatt, PhD, RN, FAANP - Executive Director, Institute of Pediatric Nursing, Gaithersburg, MD. Jan Wyatt served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, Inc. from 1998 to the March 2011, leading the development of advanced practice pediatric nurse practitioner and general practice pediatric nursing certification programs for more than 30,000 nurses in the US and Canada. In 2009, Dr. Wyatt led the establishment of the new Institute of Pediatric Nursing and as its current Executive Director works with nursing leadership from children's hospitals and pediatric nursing organizations to improve education, research and pediatric nursing practice to secure the future health and well-being of children and youth. Prior to her focus on certification strategy and association management, Dr. Wyatt served more than 20 years as a faculty member in a number of graduate nursing programs leading the development of nurse practitioner programs at several universities throughout the US. As a nurse practitioner Dr. Wyatt spent more than 30 years in primary care clinical practice, focusing on health promotion and chronic disease management. Her clinical experiences range from nursing director of the first Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit at the Veterans Hospital Baltimore, MD to director of Community Health Nursing services for the NATO military family community at SHAPE, Belgium. She also completed 2 years of active service in the US Navy Nurse Corps and more than 15 years in the US Army Nurse Corps Reserves. As a result of Dr. Wyatt's experiences in health education, research and practice, she was selected for appointment in 2011, to the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the US Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Wyatt also serves as a member of the Board of the Arthritis Foundation Mid-Atlantic Region, is voluntary Chair of the national Arthritis Foundation's Public Policy Committee and serves on the national Board of Directors of the Arthritis Foundation. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the US Bone and Joint Initiative and the Board of Directors of the Institute for Credentialing Excellence. Dr. Wyatt received her B.S.N. from Keuka College, her M.S.N. from the University of Alabama Birmingham - School of Nursing and her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. She was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners in 2007.