Janine Barnett, RN, MSN, CTTS

Janine Barnett, RN, MSN, CTTS received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2000 and her Master of Science in Nursing as a Perinatal/Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist in 2007, both from the University of Kentucky. Her past experience includes working as a labor and delivery nurse, childbirth educator, obstetric nursing clinical instructor and lecturer, and maternal-fetal medicine clinic nurse. She has been the Perinatal Research Nurse Coordinator for the University of Kentucky Perinatal Research and Wellness Center since 2011. She achieved the designation of a Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist by the Council for Tobacco Treatment Training Programs, Duquesne University Mylan School of Pharmacy in 2016 and supplemented her tobacco treatment expertise by completing the American Lung Association Freedom from Smoking facilitator training in 2019. She is an American Council on Exercise (ACE)-certified Group Fitness Instructor (2018), a Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Coach (2015), and a Centering Pregnancy facilitator (2012). She has coordinated and implemented multiple large multi-site research studies focused on improving the health of pregnant women and women of childbearing age, specifically those who battle with addictions to tobacco, electronic cigarettes, and other illicit substances. She developed the Get Fit and Quit program in 2017 and has facilitated ten cohorts of women in two different residential substance use disorder treatment facilities since its inception. She has assisted in the presentation of her team’s research findings at local and national conferences as well as in publications in professional journals.