
Sheridan Miyamoto, Ph.D.
title
Assistant Professor, College of Nursing
Principal Investigator: DOJ/OVC Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Telehealth (SAFE-T) Center
Phone
814-863-4141Office
315c Nursing Sciences Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Brief Bio
Sheridan Miyamoto is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing and the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network at Penn State University. Dr. Miyamoto received her Ph.D. in Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership from the Betty Irene Moore School ofNursing at UC Davis. Her clinical work as a Nurse Practitioner at the UC Davis Child and Adolescent Abuse Resource and Evaluation Center focused on providing health and child maltreatment forensic services to children in Northern California. She supported six rural sites through live telehealth sexual assault consultations, allowing children to receive quality care within their own community. Miyamoto’s research interests include utilizing administrative databases to improve risk tools to identify childrenat risk of maltreatment, identification and prevention of commercial sexual exploitation of children (trafficking), the use of telehealth technology to improve sexual assault forensic care in rural communities, and the use of technology and innovation to improve patient outcomes. Miyamoto is the principal investigator of the Pennsylvania Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Telehealth (SAFE-T) Center, a project funded by the Department of Justice to enhance access to quality forensic services in underserved communities.
Education
2014 University of California Davis, Davis, CA
Doctorate of Philosophy, Nursing Science and Health Care Leadership
Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
1996 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Master of Science, Nursing
Family Nurse Practitioner Program
1994 University of California Davis, Davis, CA
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
Expertise
child sexual abuse, sexual assault, telehealth, telemedicine, forensic nursing, child maltreatment, commercial sexual exploitation of children
Research Interests
sexual assault, sexual abuse, telehealth, mhealth, commercial sexual exploitation of children
Labs
Courses
- CMAS 466
Community and System Response to Child Maltreatment