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Janet Shim, PhD
Professor
School of Nursing
490 Illinois Street, #1200
San Francisco, CA 94158
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Education and Training
Awards and Honors
President's Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, 2001-2002
Distinguished Dissertation Award in Sociology, University of California, San Francisco, 2002
Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award, American Sociological Association, 2003
Mentor of the Year Award, UCSF School of Nursing Graduating Class of 2012, 2012
Excellence in Teaching Award for Supportive Learning Environment, UCSF School of Nursing, 2012
Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award nomination, UCSF Graduate Students Association and the Graduate Division Alumni Association, 2014
Finalist, C. Wright Mills Award, for Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2014
Distinguished Faculty Distinction in Teaching Award, UCSF Academic Senate, 2016
Overview
Areas of Interest: Sociology of health and illness; social inequalities in health; science, technology, and medicine studies; race, gender, and class; qualitative research methods.