Joycelyn Rene Thomas

Assistant Teaching Professor

My scholarship and clinical work center on the most marginalized communities. As a Family Nurse Practitioner, I have cared for patients across the lifespan and have over 25 years of clinical experience working in collaboration with specialty healthcare providers throughout my nursing career. Clinically, I have been immersed in Level III high-risk inpatient settings in the Puget Sound Region and have served as an expert and resource in those clinical settings.

I conduct scholarship and research activities with the University of Washington (UW) Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology on racial disparity in preterm birth, NIH clinical trials involving HIV/AIDS-infected pregnant women, and the “Wait One Year Program,” developed in collaboration with a UW Maternal Fetal Medicine Provider and UW Registered Nurses, as well as with the Center for Anti-Racism in the UW School of Nursing.