University Of Southern Nevada

Janice L. Muhammad hails from Chicago, Illinois.   Prior to joining the University of Southern Nevada, she served as the Advanced Practice Nurse Liaison, providing clinical support to the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, to facilitate increased continuity of patient care to the high-risk obstetric service clients, for a regional Perinatal Center at St. Mary’s Health Center, St. Louis, Missouri. 

Mrs. Muhammad received her Diploma in Nursing form the Jewish Hospital School of Nursing, St. Louis, Missouri, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing form the University of Phoenix, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a Masters of Science in Nurse-Midwifery Education, Magna Cum Laude, from the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, College of Allied Health, Los Angeles, California.

Mrs. Muhammad is nationally board certified in Nurse-Midwifery with the American Midwifery Certification Board, of the American College of Nurse Midwives, and completed her internship integration experience at the Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, Bellflower, California, and the Accent on Women, at the Phoenix Memorial Hospital, Phoenix Arizona.  Additional professional cultural midwifery experiences includes work at the Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center,
St. Croix, Virgin Islands. 

Mrs. Muhammad’s professional career has humbly experienced culturally,  and ethnically diverse health care settings to include urban tertiary and ambulatory care, public health, Indian Health Service, and U.S. Military facilities, which includes over thirteen years of extensive Labor & Delivery, high risk obstetric and maternal/child clinical nursing.  Mrs. Muhammad’s advanced practice clinical experience includes service at the Clark County Health District Family Planning & Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinics, Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Barnes- Jewish Medical Center, Nurse-Midwifery Service, in St. Louis, Missouri, with primary responsibilities to the Teen Pregnancy Clinic.

Areas of special interest includes researching the phenomena of menopause as experienced by African-American women, traditional child birth practices, reducing infant mortality in high risk populations, and the elimination of health disparities through empowerment, by health promotion and disease prevention.  She is a participant in a major follow-up study since 1995, with over 59,000 women conducted by the Boston University School of Medicine and the Howard University College of Medicine.

Mrs. Muhammad primary academic responsibilities are Maternal/Child and Nursing Research.

Mrs. Muhammad is active in community service, and national professional organizations in roles as organizer, speaker, moderator, board member and servant.  She is a veteran of the U. S. Army, wife, and mother of three adult sons. Hobbies include reading, gourmet cooking, fashion sewing, and Chicago Style Stepping (dance).