Assistant Professor, Area Coordinator, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Evanston, IL
Ellen M. Chiocca, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC
Dr. Chiocca is an Assistant Teaching Professor and the Area Coordinator of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing in Columbia, Missouri. She has taught the nursing of children for over 30 years, while maintaining her clinical practice as a pediatric nurse practitioner. She has published over 30 articles in nursing, in addition to one nursing textbook, which was the first-place recipient of the 2020 American Journal Book of the Year Award in Child Health. She has also co-authored the NAPNAP position statement, “Utilizing Positive Parenting to Eliminate Corporal Punishment. Dr. Chiocca is a board member of the U.S. Alliance to End the Hitting of Children, a member of the National No Hit Zone Committee and Arkansans Against School Paddling.
