Janice Nevin

Nevin was raised in Delaware after and moving to the United States from England in 1970.^[5] Her father was a priest and her mother worked as a secretary in the school district.^[5]

Nevin graduated from St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware.^[6] She graduated from Harvard University in 1981,^[7] and then attended Thomas Jefferson University medical college^[3] where she earned her M.D. in 1987.^[8] She specialized in family medicine and was the residency director at Sidney Kimmel Medical College.^[3] She also earned a Masters in Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992.^[7][9]

Nevin and co-authors have published on primary care within a community,^[10] preventative care for children^[11] and menopausal women.^[12] In 2002 she joined ChristianaCare as the senior vice president of their Wilmington campus.^[5] She served as the chief medical and patient safety officer, before being named as CEO in 2014.^[5]

During a podcast hosted by the Academy Table, Nevin described the arc of her career, women and leadership, and the COVID-19 pandemic.^[13] In a 2021 conversation at the National Academy of Medicine, Nevin shared her work in preventing burnout in clinicians during the pandemic.^[14]

In 2017, Nevin was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Delaware Women along with Carolyn Berger, Debra Heffernan, Kendall M. Wilson.^[15] That year she also received the Grassroots Champion Award for Delaware from the American Hospital Association^[16] and the David G. Menser award from the Wilmington Senior Center for her contribution to the community.^[17] In 2018, Nevin was honored with the Amethyst Ball Humanitarian Award from Limen House, a sober living residence in Delaware.^[18] In 2020, the Del-Mar-va Council of the Boy Scouts of America named her the Citizen of the Year^[6] and Connected World honored her as one of fifty women of technology for her work at ChristianaCare using technology during interactions with patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[19]