Name: Janet M. Banks, PhD, RN, CPNP

Title: Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program

Department: Family Nursing Care

Location: School of Nursing, Room 2.352

Phone: 210-567-3141

Fax: 210-567-5822

E-mail: banksj@uthscsa.edu

 

 

Research Interests:

Feeding Patterns during Infancy; Infant Outcomes of Preterm Birth; Maternal Stress and Infant Growth and Development

 

Unique Technical and Clinical Research Capabilities/Instrumentation:

Basic and Advanced laboratory techniques; Lumbar punctures in neonates

Publications:

Banks, J. M. (2002). Chapter 32: Assessment and care of the normal newborn. In L. Littleton & J. Engebretson (Eds.), Maternal, neonatal, and woman's health nursing. Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers, Inc.

Banks, J. M. (2002). Creating the safe nursery. In S. S. Richard & E. Marotta (Eds.), Your Safe Baby. Darien, CT: iVillage Integrated Media.

Coody, D., Banks, J. M., Yetman, R. J. & Musgrove K. (1997). Eye trauma in children: Epidemiology, management, and prevention. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 11, 182-188. *

Banks, J., Montgomery, D., Coody, D. & Yetman, R. (1996). Hyperbilirubinemia in the term newborn. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 10, 228-230. *

Denby, M., Banks, J., Coody, D., Smith, K. C., & Yetman, R. (1996). Infant born to a mother with a positive Tuberculin skin test result. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 10, 31-34. *

Green, H. L., Coody, D., Banks, J. M., & Atkins, J. T. (1995). Congenital Syphilis a spiraling epidemic. JAAPA, 8(2), 20-40. *

Chan, L-N. L., Grammatikakis, N., Banks, J. M. & Gerhart, E. M. (1989). Chicken transferrin receptor gene: Conservation of 3í noncoding sequences and expression in erythroid cells. Nucleic Acids Research, 17(10), 3763-3771. *

 

Key Words:

Infant Feeding; Infant Behavior; Maternal Behavior, Maternal Attitudes; Stress and Preterm Birth; Irritable Infant