Jane Nelson Bolin PhD, JD, BSN

Jane Nelson Bolin, BSN, JD, Ph.D., is the associate dean for research at the Texas A&M College of Nursing and a professor at the Texas A&M School of Public Health. Dr. Bolin is an attorney, and she teaches health law and ethics and human resource management to graduate students. She also serves as deputy director of the Texas A&M Southwest Rural Health Research Center (SRHRC). Dr. Bolin's research focus is diabetes and chronic diseases, cancer prevention and screening, rural health disparities and health law, regulation, and ethics.

Dr. Bolin has led several projects, research, and interventions for rural and underserved populations nationally and within Texas. She is currently the principal investigator (PI) for SRHRC, which received a four-year $2.8 million grant as one of seven cooperative research center agreements funded nationally by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to research critical health issues facing rural populations. She is also co-PI on a recently funded HRSA grant to assist vulnerable rural hospitals as well as co-PI on two Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas grants focusing on colorectal, breast, and cervical cancer screening, education, and outreach in rural and underserved regions of Texas.

Dr. Bolin is also the co-developer of the Diabetes Education Kiosk (Disk), a low-literacy, touch screen computer module designed to encourage healthy behavior changes and self-management of health. She served as PI and co-PI on several Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) grants studying cancer screenings for uninsured and low-income Texans and a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Research Center grant to examine diabetes self-management.

Dr. Bolin received her Bachelor of Science in nursing from Oregon Health Sciences University (1978), Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Oregon in 1982, and a doctorate in health services research from Pennsylvania State University in 2002.