Dr. Janie Canty-Mitchell
Chair, Board of Directors, CFCC FoundationDr. Janie Canty-Mitchell
Dr. Canty-Mitchell’s career includes clinical, teaching, and leadership experiences in hospitals, public health departments, and higher education. She earned a diploma in nursing from Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing (Durham, NC); associate degree from Sante Fe Community College (Gainesville, FL): B.S. degree in nursing from Florida State University; M.S. and PhD degrees from the University of Miami (FL).
Her early clinical experiences include: staff and assistant head nurse in psychiatric/mental health nursing at Duke University Medical Center; clinical research nurse at the University of Florida Medical Center; and public health nursing supervisor/assistant county nursing director at the Broward County Health Department in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
In her 30 plus years of work in higher education, she held assistant professor, tenured associate and full professor, and endowed professor ranks. Her areas of teaching included research, leadership, community health nursing, and doctoral mentorship. Among academic leadership positions, she served as assistant dean for research and community partnerships at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and as department chair in the School of Nursing, University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center San Antonio (now UT Health San Antonio). She currently works part-time at Capella University as a dissertation mentor, dissertation committee chair, and member on multiple dissertation committees for doctoral candidates in the PhD in Nursing Education Program.
Dr. Canty-Mitchell published numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters, and presented at national and international conferences, focusing on children and adolescents, women’s health, health disparities, and urban stressors.
