Jos Latour

Jos is a professor in clinical nursing at the University of Plymouth (UK) and a professor in pediatric nursing at Hunan Children’s Hospital, Changsha (China). Jos has been an intensive care nurse for over 30 years, with a special interest in children and families. His clinical post is based at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton in the UK where he is the director of the Clinical Schools aiming to drive research forward with clinical staff. The research programs of Jos are related to patient and family-centered care, end-of-life care, emergency care, and sepsis. Jos has published widely in peer-reviewed journals. He is an associate editor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Frontiers in Pediatrics and an international editorial board member of several other international journals. Internationally, Jos holds several visiting professorships including at Curtin University in Perth (Australia). He received several Fellowship awards such as Fellow of the Higher Education Academy; Fellow of the European Federation of Critical Care Nursing associations; and the ESPNIC Life-Time Achievement Award.