Anita Catlin, DNSc, FNP, FAAN
E-mail: catlin@sonoma.edu
Dr. Anita Catlin is a nurse researcher and professor of nursing from California who specializes in perinatal ethics. She has a nurse practitioner master’s degree, a doctorate, and a certificate in ethics consultation. She has published extensively and serves as ethics editor for the journal Pediatric Nursing, writes for the NANN journals and reviews for eight other nursing and medical journals. She is the past president of the Nurses Subsection of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, on Medical Advisory Board for the Intersex Society of North America, on the Board of the National Perinatal Association, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, past-president of the Sonoma State Sigma Theta Tau chapter, and a member of the Johnson and Johnson Maternal Child Leadership Institute. She been funded by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Nurses Foundation, the National Perinatal Foundation and Lambda Gamma Sigma Theta Tau for her research in perinatal ethics. In 2001 she received the Model of Care Award for the Neonatal End of Life Protocol from the National Perinatal Association and in 2005 for research contributions from the National Association for Neonatal Nurses.