ONSITE PROGRAM - American Academy of Nursing

Catherine DesRouches, PhD
Karen Donelan, ScD, EdM
October 11 – 13, 2012. Hyatt Regency washington on Capitol Hill. Washington, DC
CATHERINE DESROUCHES, PHD
Catherine DesRouches is a Senior Researcher at the Mathematic Policy Research
Dr. DesRoches has been involved in more than 85 national and international surveys on a
variety of health policy and public health issues. Before coming to Mathematica in 2010, Dr.
DesRoches spent 10 years as a faculty member and researcher at the Mongan Institute for Health
Policy/Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. DesRoches has led or
collaborated on national studies of physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, health care
executives, and the public. These studies have addressed, among other topics, clinicians’ adoption
and use of health information technology (HIT), the role of nurse practitioners in providing care to
Medicare beneficiaries, physician-industry relationships, nursing workforce issues, and access to
and satisfaction with health care. In addition, she has extensive experience leading and managing
interdisciplinary research on health care related topics using wide range of research methods.
Her work has received support from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, the National Institute of Health’s Office of Research Integrity, and the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality.
KAREN DONELAN, SCD, EDM
Karen Donelan is a Senior Scientist at the Mongan Institute for Health Policy (MIHP) at
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston MA, and a faculty member at Harvard Medical
School. Dr. Donelan is a prominent survey scientist who has conducted numerous national and
international surveys of the experiences of patients and health professionals in health care
systems. She has designed and led several dozen surveys of physicians and nurses about health
information technology, labor supply and workplace environment issues, and published more than
80 peer reviewed original articles reporting the results. Dr. Donelan has been a collaborator with
Dr. Peter Buerhaus for nearly 20 years, and provides critical expertise in designing surveys to
measure the experiences of diverse professional and patient/consumer populations. Their recent
collaborative research involves surveys of nurses, nursing students and faculty, physicians, health
care executives and thoughtleaders, all focused on nurse labor supply, recruitment, retention
and quality of care as part of an evaluation for the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing´s
Future. Recently they have been involved in an important project looking at training and recruiting
nurses for military service in collaboration with the Graduate School of Nursing of the Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences.
Dr. Donelan joined the MIHP faculty in 2003, following more than a decade at the Harvard
School of Public Health and several years in leadership at a company that provided assistance to
patients confronting critical and complex illnesses. She has received considerable external support
for her survey research, including the National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society, as
well as multiple charitable foundations (Commonwealth Fund, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Avon Foundation, and Gillette Foundation). Building on an
interest in strategic marketing to consumers, beyond her work with Vanderbilt she has played a
leading role in projects for the marketing departments in several health systems, and assessments
of the impact of internet health information and direct-to-consumer advertising. She has published
extensively in major medical, nursing, and health policy journals, and is a peer reviewer of survey
and disparities research for seven journals. She is a member of AcademyHealth and the American
Association of Public Opinion Research and is past president of the New England Association of
Public Opinion Research. She also is a past member of the editorial board at WebMD Medscape.
She holds degrees in English and American Literature (AB), Education (EDM) and Health Policy
and Management (ScD) all from Harvard University.
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