Alic G. Shook, PhD, RN

Alic Shook, PhD, RN is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at Seattle University, Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Pediatric Nursing Research at Seattle Children’s Hospital, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar.  He is a pediatric emergency medicine nurse and works clinically at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital.  His research focuses on understanding how inequality is naturalized in healthcare contexts and involves historically situated attention to power dynamics, community engagement and participatory methods, a concern with intersectionality & plurality, and system-level analysis about the function of language in shaping clinical encounters & producing inequities.  He is currently working on development of a sexual health curriculum for transgender and non-binary youth with collaborators at Seattle Children’s Hospital & the University of Washington and a qualitative study aimed at furthering the conceptual understanding of how stigma impacts young people living with sickle cell disease. His work has been funded by the Fulbright Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health, among others.

Areas of Interest

Social construction of health conditions, biopolitics, stigma, transgender health, sexual and gender minorities, marginalized populations, intersectionality research, LGBTQ health disparities, substance use, HIV prevention research, social determinants of health, nursing practice, nursing theory, health services, qualitative research, health communication, discourse, consent in healthcare 

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