Lois S. Sadler, PhD, APRN-BC, PNP

• Associate Professor
• Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs
• Pediatric Nursing Practitioner Specialty
• Associate Professor - Yale Child Study Center

Yale School of Nursing - Rm 298B
100 Church Street South
P. O. Box 9740
New Haven, CT 06536
USA

lois.sadler@yale.edu

203.737.2561
203.737.2685 fax

About

Lois Sadler is an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Nursing and the Yale Child Study Center. She practices as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and teaches master's and doctoral nursing students in the areas of family studies, child development, pediatric health promotion, research, and adolescent primary care. Dr. Sadler received her B.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts, her M.S.N. degree from Yale University School of Nursing, and her Ph.D. from the School of Family Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her research is in the area of the transition to parenthood among urban adolescent mothers and their families, adolescent pregnancy prevention, and evaluation of specialized support programs for adolescent parents. Her publications and presentations are in the area of adolescent primary health care issues, high risk families and adolescent parenthood.

Dr. Sadler has worked clinically with teen parents in New Haven since 1979, and currently teaches parent education classes to middle school and high school student-parents enrolled in the Polly T. McCabe Center in New Haven, CT. Her current research includes studies with teen mothers and a pilot study with colleagues at the Yale Child Study Center and the Fair Haven Community Health Center of a home visitation program, "Minding the Baby," for high risk young families.

Research interests

Adolescent health risk behaviors, adolescent pregnancy prevention and sexual risk reduction, adolescent parenthood, family contexts of adolescent health issues, health and mental health preventive interventions for vulnerable young families

Clinical practice

The Polly T. McCabe Center, New Haven, CT, Parent Education Program

“ My role as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner encompasses clinical research, education, and interdisciplinary collaboration and extends the lessons learned from this work into policy and program design. All of this work is designed to improve both the quality of care and long term outcomes for vulnerable teens and young families. It is evident to me that if we do not provide preventive programs and approaches to teens, the cost in lives, educational remediation, specialized medical care, and emotional suffering far exceeds the costs of adolescent-friendly programs for preventing unplanned pregnancies and supporting young parents and children. I believe that we need rigorous evaluation and dissemination of the positive outcomes that are achieved when adolescents have access to comprehensive reproductive health care, and programs to support them through the parenting process.”

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