Katherine E. Simmonds, MS, MPH, WHNP-BC Curriculum vitae MGH Institute of Health Professions, School of Nursing 36 1 st Ave. Charlestown, MA 02129 Tel: 617-726-8007 Email: ksimmonds1@mghihp.edu EDUCATION: 2001 MPH Family and Community Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 1993 MSN Women s Health Specialty, MGH Institute of Health Professions, 1986 BA Government, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1985 Visiting student, Friends World College San Jose, Costa Rica LICENSES AND CERTIFICATION 1992 RN Massachusetts 1994 NP Massachusetts 1994 WHNP National Certification Corporation 1998-present Controlled Substances Registration DPH, Commonwealth of MA ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2005-present Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, MGH Institute of Health Professions 2007-present Coordinator, Women s Health Specialty, School of Nursing, MGH Institute of Health Professions 2000-2005 Clinical Instructor, Graduate Program in Nursing, MGH Institute of Health Professions Fall 1999 Course Instructor, Women s Health Nursing, MGH Institute of Health Professions 1995-1996 Clinical Instructor, Community Health Nursing Program, Northeastern University 1995 Clinical Seminar Instructor, Women s Health, MGH Institute of Health Professions
CLINICAL POSITIONS 1993-present Nurse Practitioner, Women s Health Services, Martha Eliot Health Center Jamaica Plain, MA 2000-2006 Nurse Practitioner, Gynecology Clinic, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts-Boston 1991-1993 Clinic Nurse, Reproductive Health Educator and Abortion Counselor Gynecare 1992 Clinic Nurse, East Coast Migrant Farm workers Clinic Princess Ann, MD 1991 Post-partum Health Educator and Homecare Provider Mothercare Services Lexington, MA 1989 Labor Support and Clinic Assistant Holy Family Birthing Center Harlingen, TX OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 2001-2006 Director, the Reproductive Options Education Consortium for Nursing Cambridge, MA 2000-present 2005-present Trainer, Advanced Family Planning Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD)/Boston Family Planning (BFP) Faculty Fitzgerald Health Associates Andover, MA 2002-2004 Consultant, Adolescent Access Project Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD)/Boston Family Planning (BFP)
2001-2002 Consultant, The Abortion Access Project Cambridge, MA 2001-2002 Consultant, Clinical and Counseling Protocols Revision ABCD/BFP 1996-2001 Project Coordinator, The Abortion Access Project Cambridge, MA 2000 Consultant, Perinatal Smoking Surveillance Project City of Portland Public Health Division Portland, ME 2000 Associate, Navin Associates Assisted with project to assess impact of managed care on delivery of reproductive health services through ABCD/BFP 1990-1993 Research Assistant Health and Hardiness among Elderly and HIV+ Individuals Dr. Patrice Nicholas (PI), MGH Institute of Health Professions MEMBERSHIPS, OFFICES, AND COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES 2006-2008 Peer Reviewer, CORE Curricula, Association for Reproductive Health Professionals 2007-present Advisory Committee, Reproductive Options Education Consortium 2003-present Member, Association for Reproductive Health Professionals 2001-present Advisory Committee Member, Clinicians for Choice (National) 1998-2001 State Contact (MA), Nurse Practitioners for Choice 1994-2000 Member, Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners 2000-present Member, Nurse Practitioners in Women s Health 1998-2006 Member, American Public Health Association SCHOLARSHIP Research 2007 Assessing the Reproductive Health Content of Nursing Education in Massachusetts (in collaboration with Ibis Reproductive Health) 2002-2003 Women s Experiences of Medical Abortion (co-investigator with Dr. Linda Andrist, PI), MGH Institute of Health Professions,
1998 Massachusetts Nurse Practitioners Involvement and Perspectives on Abortion Related Services; the Abortion Access Project, Cambridge, MA 1997 Reproductive Choice and Abortion Content among Massachusetts Nursing Schools, the Abortion Access Project, Cambridge, MA. 1990-1993 Health and Hardiness among Elderly and HIV+ Individuals Research Assistant, Dr. Patrice Nicholas (PI). The MGH Institute of Health Professions, Grants 2002-2004 Reproductive Options Education Consortium for Nursing Funding from the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust ($80,000) Publications Cappiello, J., Beal, M., Simmonds, K. Post-abortion care for the primary care NP. The Nurse Practitioner (in review). Levi, A., Simmonds, K., Taylor, D. (2009) The Role of Nursing in Management of Unintended Pregnancy. Nursing Clinics of North America. 44(3): 301-314 Simmonds, K., Foster, A., Zurek, M. (2009) From the outside in: a unique model for stimulating curricula reform in nursing education. The Journal of Nursing Education (advance on-line publication currently available; print version publication date TBD ). Simmonds, K. Unplanned pregnancy, Options Counseling and Abortion. in Comprehensive Women s Health Care, Mosby/Elsevier Health Sciences. (in press) Simmonds, K. Reproductive Rights. (2008) In W. A. Darity, Jr. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition. Vol 7 (182-184). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. Andrist, L.C., Simmonds, K., Liebermann, E., Healey, K. (2006).Women s experiences of medical abortion using mifepristone and misoprostol. The American Journal for Nurse Practitioners 10 (7/8), 59-65. Foster, A., Polis, C., Allee, M., Simmonds, K., & Zurek, M. (2006) Abortion education in nurse practitioner, physician assistant and nurse midwifery programs: A national survey. Contraception, 73(4):408-414 Simmonds, K. & Likis, F. (2006) Unintended Pregnancy. In Schuiling, K. & Likis, F. (Eds.), Women's Gynecologic Health. (pp. 361-378) Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
Simmonds, K. & Likis, F. (2005) Providing Options Counseling for Women with Unintended Pregnancies. JOGNN, 34 (3), 373-379. Beal, M.W. & Simmonds, K.E.. (2002) Clinical uses of mifepristone: an update for women s health practitioners. Journal of Midwifery and Women s Health, 47(6), 451-460. Simmonds, K.E. (2002) Pregnancy. In J. Fox (Ed.) Primary Care of Children, 2 nd edition; CV Mosby Corporation. Simmonds, K.E. (1997) Pregnancy. In J. Fox (Ed.) Primary Care of Children, 1st edition; CV Mosby Corporation The Boston Women s Health Book Collective. (1992) Our Bodies, Ourselves. Contributor and reviewer. Presentations 2009 Advancing Scope of Practice: Using the Case Study of Nurse Practitioners and Abortion Care, Poster presentation, National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women s Health Annual Conference, Providence, RI. 2008 Values clarification workshop: Unintended pregnancy and abortion. Presented to students at Tufts Medical School, Harvard Medical School and the University of New England. 2008 Foster, AM, Simmonds K, Jackson, CB & Martin SB. What Are Nursing Programs Teaching Students about Reproductive Health? A Survey of Program Directors in Massachusetts. Poster at Annual Meeting of the National Abortion Federation, April 2008, Minneapolis. MN. 2005 The role of the nurse in patient education on birth control and reproductive health. Annual convention of the New York State Nurses' Association. Atlantic City, NJ. 2005 Making Abortion accessible: The ROE Consortium. The Association for Reproductive Health Professionals, St. Petersburg, FL. 2005 The ROE Consortium for Nursing: An Innovative Program to Increase Reproductive Options Education Curricula in Nursing. Poster presentation, The Association of Women s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Annual conference. 2005 Tools and Strategies for Integrating Reproductive Health into Nurse Practitioner Curricula. The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, Annual meeting, Workshop presentation
2005 The ROE Consortium for Nursing: An Innovative Program to Increase Reproductive Options Education Curricula in Nursing. The Association of Women s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Annual conference. (accepted for Poster presentation) 2004 Women s Experiences of Medical Abortion. Podium presentation. National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women s Health (NPWH), Annual Conference, October 2004. 2004 Caring for the Woman with an Unintended Pregnancy: Teaching What Midwives Need to Know. American College of Nurse Midwifery (ACNM) annual meeting, June 2004. 2003 Challenges of Teaching Reproductive Options; Co-presented with Linda Andrist at the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. 2003 Challenges of Teaching about Reproductive Options, and Additional Resources for Teaching about Reproductive Options. The ROE Consortium Training: Caring for the Woman with an Unintended Pregnancy: Teaching What Nurses Need to Know, Yale University, New Haven, CT. 2002 Additional Resources for Teaching about Reproductive Options. The ROE Consortium Training: Caring for the Woman with an Unintended Pregnancy: Teaching What Nurses Need to Know; MGH-Institute of Health Professions,. 1998-2002 Caring for the Woman with an Unintended Pregnancy Presented at: Nursing schools throughout Massachusetts and New England ABCD/Boston Family Planning Counselor and Provider Training Programs Neighborhood Health Plan Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners/New Hampshire Nurse Practitioner Annual Primary Care Conference (2001) BayState Health Center (2001) 1998-2000 The Role of Midlevel Providers in Abortion Care Presented at conferences in: Portland, Maine (1999) Amherst, MA (1999) Boston (2000, 1998) 1993-1995 The Prevalence of Battering Among Pregnant Women Presenting to the Chelsea- MGH Memorial Health Center Prenatal Clinic
Presented at: Clinical Forum, Martha Eliot Health Center (1995) Children s Hospital, Nursing Grand Rounds (1995) 6 th Annual Nursing Network on Violence Against Women, International Conference (1994) Eastern Regional Nursing Research Conference (1993) COMMUNITY SERVICE 2008-present Steering Committee member, Reproductive Empowerment and Decisionmaking for Young Adults Project 2007-present Member, Reproductive Options Education Consortium 2006-present Peer reviewer, CORE, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals 2000-present Member, Advisory Committee, Clinicians for Choice (National) 1998-2001 State contact, Clinicians for Choice-Massachusetts 2002-2007 Medical Advisory Committee Massachusetts NARAL 2002-2005 Board Member, AGELESS (Avra Greenspan Early Loss Education and Support Services) for All Foundation 2002-present Member, True Story Theater Troupe 2002-2004 Volunteer, Tufts Center for Conservation Medicine 2001-2003 Emergency Contraception Working Committee Massachusetts Department of Public Health 2001-2001 Volunteer, Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund 2002 Member, Children s Hospital Kids at Heart Marathon Team