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Donna L Berry

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donnalb@uw.edu

Professor

Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Informatics

Profile
My program of scientific inquiry concerns the human response to cancer; specifically, but not exclusively, in genitourinary (GU) malignancies. I have received external funding (post-doctoral) for over three decades, primarily as a Principal Investigator. I am a multi-method investigator with expertise in patient-centered technologies I led a large interdisciplinary team to develop and test the Personal Patient Profile-Prostate (P3P), the first and only efficacious web-based intervention based on personal factors to support treatment decision-making by men with prostate cancer. P3P (p3p4me.org) helps men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer build a personal profile of top concerns and then educates men about localized prostate cancer based on top concerns. Our current efforts aim at implementation of P3P, especially for underserved men. Our team also developed and tested the Electronic Self Report Assessment, a self-management education and communication coaching intervention that significantly improved patient-clinician communication about cancer symptoms and quality of life concerns and significantly reduced symptom distress and depression in patients undergoing active therapy. Renamed eSAC, the web-based program has been implemented in gynecologic oncology with women diagnosed with ovarian cancer and found feasible and acceptable by patients and clinicians. I have mentored over 100 students, trainees and young investigators from disciplines such as nursing, physical therapy, epidemiology, sociology and medicine.
Classes
  • NMETH 526: Patient-Centered Technologies
  • NMETH 535: Nursing Inquiry to Support Evidence-Based Practice
  • NURS 537: Symptom Science and Patient-reported Outcomes Research
  • NURS 599: Selected Readings in Nursing Science
  • NURS 610: Teaching Practicum
Grants
  • Disseminating Decision Support to Men with Localized Prostate Cancer, National Institutes of Health
  • Patient-centered Education and Support for Women with Advanced Ovarian Cancer, National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Inc.
  • , National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Inc.
  • Engaging and Amplifying Women’s Voices in Stress Urinary Incontinence Research Prioritization, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason
  • , Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason
  • , National Institutes of Health