The University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies (SONHS) is happy to announce that Hudson P. Santos Jr., Ph.D., R.N., has been hired as a full professor to fill the Dolores J. Chambreau, RN Endowed Chair in Nursing.
Dr. Santos joins SONHS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), where he was the Beerstecher-Blackwell Distinguished Term Scholar and an associate professor at the School of Nursing. He was also director of UNC’s Biobehavioral Laboratory, and founder and director of the Health Resilience and Omics Science (HEROS) Hub for identifying protective and risk factors and genetic/genomic mechanisms affecting child neurodevelopmental trajectories.
His research evaluates how early life stressors interact with the genome and affect perinatal health and child developmental outcomes in high-risk populations, as well as across socioeconomic status levels, and racially and ethnically diverse communities.
Growing up in Brazil, Dr. Santos discovered his passion for nursing early, through his mother, an LPN, and his uncle, a hospital director. He completed his LPN at Bahia State College of Health and his BSN at the State University of Paraiba in Campina Grande in Brazil. He maintains his RN license in Brazil and the U.S. and is an adjunct associate professor at the Federal University of Bahia School of Nursing. After working clinically for a time, Dr. Santos earned his PhD in nursing, summa cum laude, from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was a Visiting Scholar at UNC-CH and the University of British Columbia before completing his postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University School of Nursing.
