Genevieve Chandler

Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Dr. Chandler’s passion is understanding how to build resilience to interrupt the effect Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) have on health risk behaviors, hard-to-treat symptoms, and chronic disease conditions. Her resilience model is the framework for strength-based interventions to develop the capacity to bounce back from stress to promote young adult health and wellbeing. She is a leader in promoting trauma informed care to eliminate seclusion and restraints and create a safe environment for patients and staff on inpatient mental health units. Mentoring as strategy to empower students, nurses, and faculty is the focus of Dr. Chandler’s educational research, which has resulted in two books, the award-winning Ultimate Guide to Getting into Nursing School and New Nurse’s Survival Guide, as well as two Robert Wood Johnson New Careers in Nursing awards.