Dr. Victoria Keeton

Biography

Victoria F. Keeton is an Assistant Professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, bringing expertise in pediatric maternal-child health to research on health inequities and the biopsychosocial impacts of social needs on children and families in minoritized communities. Her research primarily focuses on the social causes and health consequences of stress experienced by caregivers of children, particularly in Latinx families and communities of color facing socioeconomic disadvantage. Dr. Keeton employs quantitative research methods, including statistical analyses, multi-level modeling, and specialized approaches to dyadic data analysis, to study how stress acts as a physiological contributor to metabolic disease and emotional dysregulation and how it leads to maternal-fetal programming that predisposes children to metabolic and mental health conditions. In addition to her academic role, she is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner with 20 years of clinical experience in pediatric primary care, particularly serving Latinx under-resourced populations in urban community and school-based health settings. Committed to increasing the number of Latinx-identifying scholars in nursing science, she actively promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion in health care. Dr. Keeton has previously held a role as nursing clinical faculty and program leader at the University of California, San Francisco, and has presented at local, national, and international audiences on topics related to pediatric health care, research, and education.

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