Kathryn Mcdonald

Patient-safety expert Kathryn McDonald explores what makes for safe, affordable, and high-quality health care delivery systems and the factors that prevent health organizations from achieving that standard of care. As the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Systems, Quality and Safety, Dr. McDonald holds primary appointments in the Schools of Nursing and Medicine and joint appointments in the Carey Business School and Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. McDonald will also be affiliated with the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. Before joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. McDonald was founding executive director of the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at Stanford University’s School of Medicine and executive director of Stanford’s Center for Health Policy.

Specialties and Expertise

• Care Coordination
• Chronic Care
• Disparities
• Equity
• Health Policy
• Integrated Health
• Interprofessional
• Leadership/Organizational Culture
• Primary Care
• Public Health
• Quality Improvement
• Safety
• Transition of Care

Education

• 2017 PhD, Health Policy (Organizations & Management)
  Berkeley, California
• 1992 MM (MBA) Northwestern University
  Kellogg School of Management
• 1984 BS, Chemical Engineering
  Stanford University

Professional Experience

• 2021-Present Interim Director School of Nursing,Center for Innovative Care in Aging
  Baltimore, Maryland
• 2021-Present Faculty (Joint) Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare (MCEH), Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
  Baltimore, Maryland
• 2020-Present Bloomberg Distinguished Professor (Joint) The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (Health Policy and Management)
  Baltimore, Maryland
• 2020-Present Core Faculty Armstrong Institute for Quality and Patient Safety, Johns Hopkins University
  Baltimore, Maryland
• 2020-Present Co-Director Johns Hopkins University Center for Diagnostic Excellence
  Baltimore, Maryland
• 2019-Present Bloomberg Distinguished Professor (Joint) The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
  Baltimore, Maryland
• 2019-Present Core Faculty, Leadership Team Hopkins Business of Health (Hbhi)
  Baltimore, Maryland
• 2019-Present Bloomberg Distinguished Professor (Primary) The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
  Baltimore, Maryland
• 2019-Present Bloomberg Distinguished Professor (Primary) The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
  Baltimore, Maryland
• 2003-2019 Executive Director Stanford University – Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Center for Health Policy
  Palo Alto, California
• 2002-2019 Senior Research Scholar/Senior Engineering Research Associate Stanford University - Department of Medicine
  Palo Alto, California
• 1998-2019 Executive Director (founding) Stanford University- School of Medicine Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR)
  Palo Alto, California
• 2002-2011 AHRQ Support for Quality Indicators Program Director Stanford University
  Palo Alto, California
• 1998-2004 TECH International Network Director Stanford University
  Palo Alto, California
• 1997-2002 Center Coordinator Stanford University-UCSFStanford Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC)
  Palo Alto, California
• 1994-2000 Project Director Stanford University-Cardiac Arrhythmia and Risk of Death (CARD) Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT)
  Palo Alto, California
• 1991-1994 Business Development and Technology Optimization Manager Stanford University Hospital/Stanford Health System
  Palo Alto, California
• 1987-1990 Engineer BIOTRACK, Inc. Mountain View, California Program Manager, R&D BIOTRACK, Inc. Mountain View, California Senior Development Engineer, R&D BIOTRACK, Inc.
  Mountain View, California
• 1984-1987 Engineer SIGNETICS CORPORATION
  Sunnyvale, California
  Supervising Engineer & Process Engineer, Advanced Process Development Fabrication SIGNETICS CORPORATION
  Sunnyvale, California