Deborah Storm, PhD, RN
Deborah Storm, PhD, RN, directs programmatic research and evaluation at the FXB Center and is a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at UMDNJ. A clinical nurse specialist and nurse researcher with a focus on chronic illness, Dr. Storm has worked more than 10 years in the field of pediatric and perinatal HIV infection. She previously managed the New Jersey Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Unit and continues to be an active member of the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group as a team member on long term outcome and adherence protocols. She was the principal investigator on a grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR/NIH) studying Quality of Life in Children with HIV Infection. Findings from this project, a secondary analysis of data from the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG), have been published in Pediatrics and were presented at a NINR invitational meeting regarding cultural dynamics in HIV/AIDS biomedical research. Dr. Storm is leader in evaluation and research for FXB Center programs including Health Care Connections, a community outreach program; the Child Health Program, which provides specialized nursing services for New Jersey's Child Welfare Agency; FXB Center HIV/AIDS National Resource Center (NRC); and the CDC-Global AIDS Program University Technical Assistance Project (UTAP), and the FXB-PACTG Global Training Program. Current FXB initiatives include the evaluation of outcomes of training using the WHO/HHS-CDC PMTCT Generic Training Package and analysis of a Caring for Health Workers Needs Assessment in Botswana. Dr. Storm received a master's degree in nursing from Vanderbilt University and received her doctorate in Nursing Research from the University of Michigan. She completed post-doctoral training at the Department of Pediatrics at UMDNJ.