PABI Plan - The Sarah Jane Brain Project

Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, First, Middle):
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Provide the following information for the key personnel and other significant contributors in the order listed
on Form Page 2.
Follow this format for each person. DO NOT EXCEED FOUR PAGES.
NAME
Degutis, Linda C.
POSITION TITLE
eRA COMMONS USER NAME
ldegutis
Associate Professor
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as
DEGREE
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
(if
applicable)
YEAR(s) FIELD OF STUDY
DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois BS 1975 Major in Nursing
DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois 1976-78 Basic Science
Yale University Graduate School of Nursing,
New Haven, Connecticut
MSN 1982 Cardiovascular CNS
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven,
CT
A. POSITIONS AND HONORS
DrPH 1994
Chronic Disease
Epidemiology
1975-1976 Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse, Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, IL
1978 Staff Nurse, Emergency Department, Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, CT
1978-1982 Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
1982-1990 Trauma Program Coordinator, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
1982-1994 Clinical Instructor, Yale University Graduate School of Nursing, New Haven, CT
1984-1995 Lecturer, Dept of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
1986-1987 Research Assistant, National Acute Spinal Cord Injury Study, II, Section of Neurosurgery,
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
1990-1991 Trauma Program Director, Dept of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
1991-1992 Trauma Coordinator, Dept of Surgery, Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, CT
1992-1995 Trauma Program Coordinator, Dept of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
1993-1996 Subinvestigator\Research Associate, National Acute Spinal Cord Injury Study III, Section of
Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
1994-2001 Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale University Graduate School of Nursing, New Haven, CT
1994-1998 Co-Director, New Haven Regional Injury Prevention Program, Dept of Surgery, Section of
Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
1995-2001 Assistant Professor, Section of Emergency Medicine, Dept of Surgery, Yale School of
Medicine
9/96-10/97 Health Policy Fellow Office of Senator Paul Wellstone, Washington, DC, Robert Wood
Johnson Health Policy Fellowship Program and Institute of Medicine
1997- 2004 Associate Research Director, Section of Emergency Medicine, Dept of Surgery, Yale School
of Medicine
1998-2002 Director, New Haven Regional Injury Prevention Program, New Haven, CT
1991-2001 Assistant Professor, Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine
1999 - Co-Director, Project ASSERT: A Program to Provide Health Assessment and Substance
Abuse Screening in the Emergency Department, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
1999-2002 Director, New Haven Community Epidemiology Work Group, New Haven Fighting Back
Project, New Haven, CT
1999-2001 Member, Technical Advisory Group for the redesign of DAWN (Drug Abuse Warning Network)
SAMHSA
2000-2003 Mentor, Project MAINSTREAM, HRSA/AMERSA/SAMHSA-CSAT Faculty Development
Program in Substance Abuse Education
2001 - Affiliate Faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale School of Medicine
PHS 398/2590 (Rev. 09/04, Reissued 4/2006) Page 1 Biographical Sketch Format Page