Professor Jeanette Lancaster served as Dean and Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing at the University of Virginia from 1989 until 2008.  During that time, she also served as Associate Chief Nursing Officer at the University of Virginia Medical Center. From 2008-2009, she served as a visiting professor of nursing at the University of Hong Kong. She continued teaching at the University of Virginia until 2012.  She taught on Semester at Sea Spring 2013 and Fall 2014.  She served as a Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt University working with PhD and Doctor of Nursing Practice students from 2010 until 2014. Professor Lancaster continues to return to the University of Hong Kong to teach master’s and doctoral courses in nursing. She is the editor or coeditor of16 text books in the areas of public health and mental health nursing, leadership and change. She is currently co-editing the 9th edition of Public Health Nursing. She has given talks and workshops in the United States and internationally on stress management, change and resilience. She edited from 1984 until 2013 the interdisciplinary journal, Family & Community Health.  

Professor Lancaster received her PhD in public health from the University of Oklahoma, her master’s degree in psychiatric mental health nursing from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio, and her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Tennessee College of Nursing in Memphis, Tennessee.