Expert of the Month: Dr. Anne Rentfro

Dr. Anne Rentfro is an Associate Professor of Nursing in the College of Nursing at The University of Texas at Brownsville. She has taught Leadership in Professional Nursing, Promotion in Professional Nursing, Perspectives in Professional Nursing Practice and Transcultural Nursing since she joined UTB in 1990. Rentfro has received funding from The University of Texas BorderPlex Diabetes Project, the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities and Center for Disease Control and Prevention to fund her research interests in diabetes mellitus and evidence based practice in health belief patterns and chronic illness. Rentfro has authored or co-authored papers for the peer-reviewed journals The Journal of Men\u27s Health, Preventing Chronic Disease and Nurse Practitioner. Rentfro has presented at UTB\u27s annual Nursing Research Conference, the Western Institute of Nursing\u27s Communicating Nursing Research Conference in Portland, Ore. and the 17th International Nursing Research Congress Focusing on Evidence-Based Practice in Montreal, Canada. Rentfro, a native of upstate New York, has a bachelor\u27s degree in nursing from the University of Rochester in New York, a master\u27s degree in nursing from The University of Texas at Austin and a doctorate degree in nursing from the University of Arizona. Before coming to UTB, Rentfro was a Nursing Instructor at The University of Texas -- Pan American in Edinburg and a Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant and Clinical Instructor at The University of Texas at Austin. She has also been an Education Department Director and Intensive Care Department Director at Valley Regional Medical Center in Brownsville. Learn more about Dr. Rentfro\u27s research in this month\u27s Expert of the Month. To contact Dr. Anne Rentfro, call 956-882-5084 or anne.rentfro@utb.edu.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/utbmedia/1200/thumbnail.jp