Cecily L. Betz, PhD, RN, FAAN is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, USA. Dr. Betz serves as the Nursing and Research Director of the USC UCEDD at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She has extensive clinical research and policymaking experience in the field of health care transition, on which she published extensively. Dr. Betz has served as a consultant nationally and internationally. She is the Co-Chair of the International and Interdisciplinary Health Care Transition Research Consortium and served as the Chair of the Society of Pediatric Nurses (SPN) Task Force that formulated the 2017 SPN position statement entitled, Transition of Pediatric Patients into Adult Care.
She recently co-edited with Dr. Imelda Coyne of Trinity College, Dublin Ireland the book 'Transition from Pediatric to Adult Healthcare Services for Young Adults with Long-term Conditions: An International Perspective on Nurses Roles and Interventions' (2020). She is the Founder and formerly the Editor-in-Chief of the 'Journal of Pediatric Nursing: Nursing Care of Children and Families', the official journal of the Society of Pediatric Nurses and the Pediatric Endocrinology Nursing Society. She served as one of the organizers and founding members of the Society of Pediatric Nursing, a national pediatric nursing association founded 30 years ago.