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Alic G. Shook, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor

Biography

Alic Shook, PhD, RN is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at Seattle University, Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Pediatric Nursing Research at Seattle Children's Hospital and the University of Washington School of Medicine Department of Bioethics & Humanities, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar. He has research expertise in HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ health, pediatrics, and qualitative and participatory methods. His work has been funded by the Fulbright Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health, among others. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Transgender Law Center.

Education

  • 2020. Doctor of Philosophy, Nursing. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
  • 2013. Bachelor of Science, Nursing. Goldfarb School of Nursing, Barnes-Jewish College, Saint Louis, MO.
  • 2006. Fulbright Fellow, Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Southeast Asian Studies Program, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • 2005. Bachelor of Arts, English, Minor: Ethnic Studies. Mills College, Oakland, CA.

Publications

  • Restar, A., Layland, E. K., Hughes, L., Dusic, E., Lucas, R., Bambilla, A. J., Widmann, N.M., Suen D., Martin A., Shook A., Schwarz D... & Kershaw, T. (2024). Antitrans Policy Environment and Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Transgender and Nonbinary Adults. JAMA Network Open7(8), e2431306-e2431306.

  • Shook A, Tordoff D, St. Pierre-Nelson W, Clark A, Hardwick R, Kantrowitz-Gordon, I. (2024). “Age, Autonomy, and Authority of Knowledge: The Role of Consent in Regulating Access to Care for Transgender Youth Under 18”. Journal of Adolescent Research, 39(1), 104-132.

  • Tordoff D, Minalga B, Trejo A, Shook A, Kerani R, Herbeck J. (2023). “Lessons Learned from Community Engagement regarding Phylodynamic Research with Molecular HIV Surveillance Data”. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 26(S1):e26111.

  • Shook A, Espina C., Narruhn R. (2023). Suffering Among the Overlooked, Unseen, and Systematically Excluded. In B. Rosa & B. Ferrell (Eds.). The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Nursing (2nd Ed.). Oxford University Press. AJN Book of the Year Award Palliative and Hospice Category.

  • Rosa, W.E., Metheny, N., Shook, A., Adedimeji, A.A. (2023). Safeguarding LGBTQ+ lives in an epoch of abandonment. The Lancet Global Health, 11(9), e1329-e1330.

  • Shook A, Tordoff D, St. Pierre-Nelson W, Clark A, Hardwick R, Kantrowitz-Gordon, I. (2022). “Trans Youth Talk Back: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Transgender Minors’ Accounts of Healthcare Access”. Qualitative Health Research, 32(11), 1672-1689.

  • Shook A, Buskin S, Golden M, Dombrowski J, Herbeck J, Lechtenberg R, Kerani R. (2022). “Developing an Intervention to Interrupt Transmission of Molecular HIV Clusters: Perspectives from community members & providers in Seattle-King County”. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 33(3), 270-282

  • Tordoff D, Sequeira GM, Shook A, Williams F, Hayden L, Kasenic A, Inwards-Breland D, Ahrens K. (2022). “Factors associated with time to receiving gender affirming hormones and puberty blockers at a pediatric clinic serving transgender and non-binary youth”. Transgender Health, 8(5), 420-428.

  • Rosa WE, Harley K, Hassmiller S, Bennett S, Breen K, Frisch S, Goldberg J, Koschmann K, Missel A, Parekh de Campos A, Pho A, Rausch J, Shook A, Schlak A, Tierney M, Umberfield E, Fairman J.A. (2022). Three-year nursing PhD model recommendations from the RWJF Future of Nursing Scholars. Journal of Nursing Education, 61(1), 19-28.

  • Minalga, B., Chung, C., Davids, J. D., Martin, A., Perry, N. L., & Shook, A. (2022). Research on transgender people must benefit transgender people. The Lancet, 399(10325), 628.

  • Tordoff D, Gridley Haley S, Shook A, Kantor A, Crouch J, Ahrens K. (2020). “Talk About Bodies”: Recommendations for Using Transgender Inclusive Language in Sex Education Curriculums. Sex Roles, 84, 152-165.

  • Rosa W, Shook A, Acquaviva K. (2020). “LGBTQ+ Inclusive Palliative Care in the Context of COVID-19: Pragmatic Recommendations for Clinicians.” Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 60(2), e44-e47.