Barbara Cochrane

Co-Director, University of Washington NW Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Center

For more than 30 years, Barbara Cochrane has dedicated her research and academic work to geriatrics education and training, older women's health, health promotion and disease prevention, and nursing research and theory. She is a former Director of the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging in the School of Nursing.  As faculty at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Dr. Cochrane served as a clinical coordinating center co-investigator for the Women's Health Initiative — the large, landmark study of postmenopausal women’s health. 

Her clinical work has included cardiovascular, critical-care and oncology nursing, as well as gerontological nursing. Cochrane has a bachelor’s in psychology from the University of Oregon and a BSN from the University of Alaska, Anchorage. She also has a master's of nursing and a PhD in nursing science from the University of Washington. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the Gerontological Society of America.