Ronald Chenail

Ronald J. Chenail, Ph.D., is Professor of Family Therapy and Director of the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research Program at Nova Southeastern University (NSU). He founded The Qualitative Report (TQR), the world’s first online, open-access trans-disciplinary qualitative research journal in 1990, and remains the journal’s editor-in-chief. Chenail has secured 12 grants and contracts for NSU totaling over $1 million; produced over 120 publications including four books (Medical Discourse and Systemic Frames of Comprehension; Practicing Therapy: Exercises for Growing Therapists; The Talk of the Clinic: Explorations in the Analysis of Medical and Therapeutic Discourse; and Qualitative Research Proposals and Reports: A Guide), and given more than 180 formal academic presentations at conferences and meetings.