Kathryn McDonald
has extensive research management experience in health care and academia. She has an academic appointment as a Research Associate, and is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at Stanford University. As part of this position, she coordinates our current EPC and has overseen seven Task Order projects on a wide range of clinically and organizationally important topics. She has knowledge and experience in the development of research leading to Evidence Reports disseminated by AHRQ, and is a co-author on all completed or underway reports. In her most recent previous position as the Project Director for a six-year multi-disciplinary health services research project, the Cardiac Arrhythmia Patient Outcomes Research Team (CARD PORT), she coordinated the scientific work and oversaw the administrative aspects of seven distinct projects housed in four separate institutions. She participated in all budget meetings for the grant, managed sub-contract relationships, and contributed intellectually, co-authoring a number of papers. In her work with the PORT and with EPC teams, she has worked closely with evidence synthesis projects that include meta-analysis, decision modeling, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Ms. McDonald’s career has been built based on a keen interest in research combined with an ability to offer pragmatic leadership to talented professionals. In addition to formal, graduate training in management, she has experience in the management of product development, business planning, a hospital-based technology assessment program, production support, and over the past eight years, academic research. She is a flexible manager, who understands and has experience guiding projects to a quality completion within planned budgets. Her background in a variety of settings is instrumental to the current EPC’s success working with AHRQ, topic nominators (i.e., Partners), Technical Advisory Panels, peer reviewers, stakeholders, and scientific teams at UCSF, Stanford, and other institutions as necessary. She is an active participant in several health services professional groups, and is currently serving as the Chair of the Publications Committee, and in an elected Board position (Secretary-Treasurer) for the Society of Medical Decision Making. She also directs the coordinating center for an international network of researchers studying the determinants and consequences of changes in health care technologies in 17 developed countries. She has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Masters in Management (MBA equivalent) with a Health Care emphasis from Northwestern University.
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