Sharron L. Docherty, Ph.D., PNP, is Vice Dean for Research and Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and in the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine at Duke University. Her program of research focuses on examining how chronic illness and associated life-sustaining treatments affect the short- and long-term functioning of children, adolescents, and young adults, as well as their families, and the development, testing, and translation of interventions to address these impacts. She has methodological expertise in qualitative and mixed-methods, trajectory science and visualization methods for complex data exploration.

Dr. Docherty has a strong history of external research funding for her research. She has served on numerous federal grant review panels, including NIH NINR-NRRC (training grants and career development awards), NCI, NIMHHD, and special review panels for RFAs/PAs/FOAs, as well as foundation and private review panels. She recently chaired the review panel for Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes and Advance Health Equity in Rural Populations (RFA-NR-24-005). She has taught graduate-level courses in qualitative and mixed methods and has served as co-faculty in the Summer Institutes in Qualitative Research offered through the Center for Lifelong Learning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.