My Approach

Annette S. Nasr PhD, RN, MPA, NE-BC currently serves as the Director of Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice at Âé¶¹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Children’s Health. Dr. Nasr holds academic appointments as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine and Assistant Clinical Professor at University of California San Francisco School of Nursing. She is also a proud member of the Western Institute of Nursing serving as the current President Elect.

Dr. Nasr has served as a pediatric nurse for over 30 years and throughout her professional career has worked in the pediatric intensive care nurse at University of California San Francisco, served as a liver transplant coordinator at Stanford Children’s Hospital, and worked for the Immunology Group at Novartis Pharmaceutical Company in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Nasr’s Stanford affiliations include participating as a voting member on the Stanford IRB, serving as the Course Director for a Qualitative Methods Course in the Stanford School of Medicine and collaborating as a member of the Pediatric Transplant Center as the Independent Donor Advocate for liver and kidney transplant. 

As a nurse scientist, Dr. Nasr mentors’ clinicians on a variety of research topics, yet her passion is focused on the adolescent young adult and the impact living liver donation has on them and their families. Throughout her career, Dr. Nasr has been dedicated to creating a healthy healing environment for patients and families.