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Debbie Fraser Askin, MN, RNC
Neonatal Network

Executive Editor, Neonatal Network (2003)
Senior Editor, Neonatal Network, (1995-2002)

Years as editor: Since 1995

Years in INANE: Since 2004

Other position: Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Manitoba
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, St. Boniface General Hospital

Accomplishment: Neonatal Infections (textbook) won the AJN Book of the Year Award.

Best: Working with great authors, reviewers and journal staff

Worst: Rejecting someone’s life work

3 words: Active, pragmatic, straightforward

Strangest request: "Could you please write a letter stating that I submitted something for publication?" The "something" were three practice vignettes written by her colleagues, for which she intended to, but had not written an introduction.

If not editor?: Be a landscape architect.

Relax: I run. I just completed my 8th half and full marathon. I garden and chase four kids.