CURRICULUM VITAE Catherine C. McDonald, PhD, RN University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing Claire Fagin Hall 418 Curie Boulevard, 233 (2L) Philadelphia, PA 19104-4217 Phone: 215-898-0435 Email: mcdonalc@nursing.upenn.edu EDUCATION K99 Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA; K99-R00 Postdoctoral Fellow (, K99NR013548: McDonald (PI)). August 2012-Present Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA; Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellow (, T32NR007100: Sommers (PI)). June 2010-July 2012 Ph.D MSN BSN University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA; (Major Concentration: Nursing Science); Dissertation Title: Community Violence Exposure and Positive Youth Development in Urban Youth. (Dissertation Committee: Therese S. Richmond, PhD, RN, FAAN (Chair), Janet A. Deatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN and Nancy Kassam-Adams, PhD). September 2006-May 2010 Monmouth University, Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing and Health Studies, West Long Branch, NJ (Major Concentration School Nursing). August 2004 May 2006 Villanova University, School of Nursing, Villanova, PA; (Major Concentration: Nursing); Presidential Scholar, Magna Cum Laude; August 1996-August 2000 FELLOWSHIPS K99 Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA; K99-R00 Postdoctoral Fellow (, K99NR013548: McDonald (PI)). Primary Mentor: Dr. Marilyn Sommers, PhD, RN, FAAN; Co- Mentor: Dr. Flaura K. Winston, MD, PhD. August 2012-Present. Postdoctoral Fellowship Predoctoral Fellowship University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing; Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellow (National Institute of Nursing Research T32NR007100: Sommers (PI)), Research on Vulnerable Women, Children, and Families. Mentor: Dr. Marilyn Sommers, PhD, RN, FAAN. June 2010-Present University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing; National Institute of Nursing Research NRSA Individual Research Training Grant (F31NR011107) Community Violence Exposure and Positive Youth Development in Urban Adolescents. Sponsor; Dr. Therese Richmond, PhD, RN, FAAN, Co-Sponsor: Dr. Nancy Kassam-Adams, PhD; December 2008-May 2010 Page 1 of 7
Predoctoral Fellowship University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing; National Institute of Nursing Research NRSA Institutional Research Training Grant (2T32NR007100; Deatrick (PI)), Research on Vulnerable Women, Children, and Families. University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing; September 2007-August 2008 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2012-present Postdoctoral Fellow, (K99NR013548: McDonald (PI)), University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA. 2010-2012 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellow, (T32NR007100: Sommers (PI)), University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA 2007-2009 Research Assistant, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center (PCVPC) 2006-2007 Research Assistant, Center for Health Outcomes Research, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA 2004-2006 School Nurse, West Morris Regional School District, Chester, NJ 2004-2007 Staff Nurse Pediatric Emergency Room, St. Peter s University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ 2002-2004 Staff Nurse Float (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Room), St. Peter s University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ 2000-2002 Staff Nurse Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA HONORS AND AWARDS 2012 Fellow at the 12 th Annual Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials hosted by the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research 2011 Member, Board of Directors: Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research 2011- Affiliate Fellow, Center for Health Behavior Research, University of Pennsylvania 2010 Ann Wolbert Burgess Endowed Student Award for Excellence and Leadership in Nursing as evidenced by a doctoral dissertation that holds significant promise as a contribution to nursing knowledge 2008-2009 Pennsylvania Higher Education Foundation Independence Blue Cross Nurse Scholars Program Scholarship Recipient 2006-2010 Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course Certification 2006 Nursing Scholarship Award, Monmouth University 2005 Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing induction 2005 Monmouth County School Nurses Association Scholarship Recipient 2005 School Nurse Certification for the state of New Jersey 2004-2006 Graduate Fellowship Scholarship, Monmouth University 2004-2005 Marjorie K. Unterberg Scholarship, Monmouth University 2004-2005 W. & L. Sutcliffe Scholarship, Monmouth University 2003-2009 Certified Critical Care Nurse (CCRN) in Pediatrics-The American Association of Critical Care Nurses (2009-present Inactive Status) 2000 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Villanova University 1996-2000 Villanova University Presidential Scholar TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2012 Invited Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing Course Title: Psychological and Social Diversity in Health and Wellness (Undergraduate Level Course) 2012- Invited Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing Course Title: Quantitative Research Design and Methods (Doctoral Level Course) Page 2 of 7
2010- University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Course for Teaching and Learning Invited Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing Course Title: Qualitative Paradigm Empirical Nursing Research (Doctoral Level Course) 2008 Invited Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing Component of the Teaching Residency with Dr. Martha Q. Curley, PhD, RN, FAAN Course Title: Nursing of Children (Undergraduate Level Course) Teaching Residency with the Undergraduate Curriculum Revision Committee (University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) with Dr. Martha Q. Curley, PhD, RN, FAAN REVIEWER 2012- Journal of Adolescent Health 2011- Qualitative Health Research 2011- Eastern Nursing Research Society (Abstract Reviewer) 2011 Health Psychology 2010- Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 2010- Journal of School Nursing 2010- Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2010- Sigma Theta Tau International (Abstract Reviewer) 2010- American Public Health Association (Abstract Reviewer-School Health and Education Services) PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS [*Indicates data-based] McDonald, C.C., Richmond, T.S., Guerra, T., Thomas, N.A., Walker, A., Branas, C.C., TenHave, T.R., Vaughn, N.A., Leff, S.S., & Hausman, A.J. Methods for Linking Community Views to Measureable Outcomes in a Youth Violence Prevention Program, Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, In Press. *McDonald, C.C, Tanenbaum, J. B., Lee, Y.-C., Fisher, D. L., Mayhew, D. R., & Winston, F. K. (2012). Using crash data to develop simulator scenarios for assessing young novice driver performance. Transportation Research Record, In Press. Alexander, K. A., Dovydaitis, T., Beacham, B., Bohinski, J., Brawner, B.M., Clements, C., Everett, J., Gomes, M., Harner, H., McDonald, C.C., Pinkston, E., & Sommers, M.S. (2011). Learning health equity in a community of scholars. Journal of Nursing Education, 50(10), 569-574. (PMC Journal-In Process) *McDonald, C.C., Deatrick, J.A., Kassam-Adams, N., & Richmond, T.S. (2011). Community violence exposure and positive youth development in urban youth. Journal of Community Health, 36(6), 925-932. (NIHMS: 293415, PMC Journal-In Process) *McDonald, C.C., Wiebe, D.J., Thomas, N., Guerra, T., & Richmond, T.S. (2011). The importance of family to youth living in violent environments. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 18(7), 653-656. (NIHMS: 300990; PMCID: 3158488). *Teitelman, A., Ratcliffe, S., McDonald, C.C., Brawner, B.M., & Sullivan, C.M. (2011). Relationship between physical and non-physical forms of intimate partner violence and depression among urban minority adolescent females. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 16(3), 92-100. (NIHMS: 216189; PMCID: 3100197) McDonald, C.C. & Deatrick, J.A. (2010). The Role of Family Phenomena in Posttraumatic Stress in Youth. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, 24(1), 38-50. (NIHMS: 250406, PMCID: 3076318). *Teitelman, A., McDonald, C.C., Wiebe, D.J., Thomas, N., Guerra, T., Kassam-Adams, N., & Richmond, T.S. (2010). Youth s strategies for staying safe and coping with the stress of living in violent communities. Journal of Community Psychology, 38(7), 874-885. (NIHMS: 293415; PMCID: 3134540) Page 3 of 7
McDonald, C.C., & Richmond, T.R. (2008). The relationship between community violence exposure and mental health symptoms in urban adolescents. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 15, 833 849. (PMID: 19012675; PMCID: 2821658; NIHMSID: 164831). McDonald, C. (2006). Self-mutilation in adolescents. Journal of School Nursing, 22(4), 193-200. PMID: 16856772 PEER-REVIEWED PUBICATIONS IN REVIEW *Sommers, M.S., Lyons, M.S., Fargo, J.D., Sommers, B.D., McDonald, C.C., Shope, J.T., & Fleming, M.F. Effects of a brief intervention to reduce risky driving and alcohol misuse among young adults: A randomized control trial. Under Review *McDonald, C.C. & Winston, F.K. Serious motor vehicle crash categories and configurations in a nationally representative sample of 16- to 18-Year-old drivers. Under Review *McDonald, C.C., Lee, Y-C., Tanenbaum, J., Seacrist, T.R., Romoser, M.E., & Winston, F.K. Evaluation of unintended training effects from collision scenarios in a simulated assessment for young novice drivers. Under Review PEER-REVIEWED PUBICATIONS IN PREPARATION McDonald, C.C., Tanenbaum, J., Lee, Y-C., Sommers, M.S. & Winston, F.K. Use of driving simulators to evaluate young novice driving performance: A survey of the literature. In preparation *McDonald, C.C., Fargo, J.D., & Sommers, M.S. Conduct disorder, depression, sleep and risky driving: A comparison of younger and older adults. In preparation PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS ORAL Sommers, M.S., Fargo, J.D., Sommers, B.D., Shope, J.T., McDonald. C.C., & Lyons, M. Effects of an ED intervention to reduce risky driving and alcohol misuse among young adults: A randomized controlled trial. American Public Health Association, October 30, 2012, San Francisco, CA. Sommers, M.S., Lyons, M., Shope, J., Sommers, B., McDonald, C.C., & Fargo, J.D. Preventing risky driving and alcohol misuse among young adults: a randomized controlled trial in the emergency department. Safety 2012 World Conference: 11 th World Conference on Injury, October 3, 2012, Wellington, New Zealand. McDonald, C.C., Fargo, J.D., & Sommers. High-Risk Younger and Older Adults: Conduct Disorder, Depression, Sleep and Risky Driving. The Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science 2012 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research, September 15, Washington, DC. McDonald, C.C., Tanenbaum, J, B., Lee, Y-C., & Winston, F.K. A Standardized Driving Simulator Protocol for Novice Teen Drivers: An Innovative Research Technology for Nursing Science. The Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science 2012 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research, September 14, 2012, Washington, DC. Sommers, M.S., Fargo, J.D., Shope, J.T., Sommers, B.D., McDonald, C.C., & Lyons, M. (Refereed presentation). Randomized controlled trial of an ED-based brief intervention to reduce risky driving and alcohol misuse among young adults. The Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science 2012 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research, September 15, 2012, Washington DC. Page 4 of 7
McDonald, C.C., Bohinski, J.M., & Everett, J.S. Promoting Health Equity: A Charge for Nursing Science. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) Conference and CNR, May 7, 2011, Valletta, Malta. McDonald, C.C., Guerra, T., Teitelman, A., Wiebe, D.J., Thomas, N., & Richmond, T.S. Stress and the city: Assets and stressors for girls living in violent neighborhoods. The 2011 Joint Annual Meeting of Safe States, SAVIR and CDC Core I & II State Injury Grantees, April 8 th, 2011. Coralville, Iowa. McDonald, C.C., Fargo, J.D., & Sommers, M.S. Mental health syptomatology as risk factors for risky driving behaviors in 18-24 year-olds. The 2011 Joint Annual Meeting of Safe States, SAVIR and CDC Core I & II State Injury Grantees, April 8 th, 2011. Coralville, Iowa. McDonald, C.C., Fargo, J.D., & Sommers, M.S. Conduct disorder, depressive symptoms, and risky driving behaviors in an at-risk sample of late teens and young adults. The 23 rd Annual Scientific Session for the Eastern Nursing Research Society, March 25, 2011. Philadelphia, PA. McDonald, C.C, Deatrick, J.A., Kassam-Adams, N., Wiebe, D.J., & Richmond, T.S. Community Violence Exposure and Positive Youth Development in Urban Youth. The 2010 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research: Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, September 28, 2010. Washington, DC. Bohinski, J., Everett, J., & McDonald, C.C. Promoting health equity through nursing science. The 2010 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research: Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, September 27, 2010. Washington, DC. Teitelman, A., McDonald, C.C., Wiebe, D.J., Thomas, N., Guerra, T., & Richmond, T.S. Future hopes and aspirations of African American girls living in violent urban communities. The 18 th Congress on Women s Health Issues at the International Council on Women s Health Issues, April 8, 2010-Philadelphia, PA. Hausman, A.J., Hohl, B., McDonald, C.C., Branas, C., Borradalie, K., Ten Have, T., Thomas, N., Leff, S., & Fein, J. Improving communication to assist implementation of best practice. The 3 rd Annual NIH Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Methods and Measurement, March 15-16th, 2010. Bethesda, MD. Hausman, A., McDonald, C.C., Richmond, T.S., Guerra, T., & Thomas, N. How the Community Views Success: Closing the gap between local relevancy and academic standards. Roundtable Discussion for the 137 th American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Exposition, November 10, 2009-Philadelphia, PA. Richmond, T., Teitelman, A., McDonald, C.C, Guerra, T., Thomas, N., Kassam-Adams, N., & Haegerich, T. (2008). Living healthy in Philadelphia: How youth deal with the stress of living in violent communities. The 136th American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Exposition, October 27, 2008-San Diego, CA. POSTER McDonald, C.C., Lee, Y-C., Tanenbaum, J, B., Seacrist, T. & Winston, F.K. Preliminary results on crashes in a validation study for a new simulated assessment of driving performance for novice teen drivers. Safety 2012 World Conference: 11 th World Conference on Injury, October 4, 2012, Wellington, New Zealand. McDonald, C.C., Tanenbaum, J., Lee, Y-C., & Winston, F.K. Measuring young novice driver performance in a simulator: A pathway to prevention of motor vehicle crashes. The 139 th American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Exposition, October 31, 2011, Washington, DC. McDonald, C.C., Fargo, J.D., & Sommers, M.S. Conduct disorder, depression, sleep and risky driving: A comparison of younger and older adults. The 19 th Annual Meeting for the Society for Prevention Research, June 2 nd 2011. Washington, DC Page 5 of 7
McDonald, C.C., Wiebe, D.J., Thomas, N., Guerra, T., & Richmond, T.S. Living Healthy in Philadelphia: The Role of Family for Youth in Violent Environments. The Penn Injury Science Forum, March 3, 2010- Philadelphia, PA. Received 2 nd Prize. Wiebe, D.J., McDonald, C.C., Thomas, N., Guerra, T., & Richmond, T.S. Living Healthy in Philadelphia: The Role of Family for Youth in Violent Environments. The 137 th American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Exposition, November 10, 2009-Philadelphia, PA. McDonald, C.C, Deatrick, J.A., Kassam-Adams, N., & Richmond, T.S. What is positive youth development and how can it be measured? NINR Networking Session at the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science Conference, October 14, 2009-Washington, DC. McDonald, C.C. & Deatrick, J.A. The role of family phenomena in posttraumatic stress in youth. The 9th International Family Nursing Conference, June 2009. Iceland. McDonald, C.C. (2008). Thriving and adolescent thriving: A concept comparison. University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Doctoral Student Organization Spring Colloqium. April 14, 2008. McDonald, C. & Gieser, E. (2006). Comparison of coping strategies of novice versus expert secondary school teachers of students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. 16 th Annual Nursing Research Day of the Lambda Delta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International at Monmouth University, May 2006. Received 3 rd Prize. INVITED TALKS Invited speaker: University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Building Blocks in Research Training on Young Risky Drivers: A Nursing Science Perspective, September 19, 2012. Ann Arbor Michigan. Invited keynote speaker: Union County School Nurses Association (New Jersey), October 23, 2012. Clark, NJ. Invited panel speaker: Penn Injury Science Day: 60 Second Science, Mental health symptomatology and risky driving behaviors in 18-24 year-olds, February 28, 2011. Philadelphia, PA. Invited keynote speaker: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Gamma Epsilon Philadelphia City Chapter, What lies beyond the casket: The true consequences of community violence on urban youth, February 17, 2011. Philadelphia, PA. Invited panel speaker: Penn Institute of Urban Research Doctoral Student Symposium. May 14, 2010. Philadelphia, PA. Invited panel speaker: Office of Nursing Research at the University of Pennsylvania February 25, 2009 Community based participatory research: The Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center designing and implementing research as a partnership and lessons learned. Philadelphia, PA. Invited panel speaker: Penn Injury Science Forum December 2, 2008 Panel Discussion on Violence and Stress: Exploring Community Strengths. Philadelphia, PA. RESEARCH SUPPORT Children s Hospital of Philadelphia Internal Grant 5/1/2012-4/30/2013 Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies: Curry & McDonald (Co-PIs) Serious teen crashes: identification of the most common scenarios and factors The overall objectives of this study are to: (1) gain a comprehensive understanding of the nature of teen crashes and (2) explore the similarities and differences of teen versus adult crash scenarios. Role: Co-PI Page 6 of 7
K99NR013548: McDonald (PI) 8/1/12-7/31/17 Promoting Teen Health: A Web-based Intervention to Prevent Risky Driving The overall goal of the K99 is to gain advanced research training in attention and adolescent development, driving outcome measures, intervention development, and RCT methodology in order to develop and refine a web-based intervention that promotes safe driving behaviors and driving risk reduction in novice teen drivers. The overall goal of the R00 is to implement a Phase I RCT feasibility study of an advanced version of the K99 developed web-based intervention. Role: PI T32NR007100: Sommers (PI) 6/1/10-7/31/12 Research Training to Promote Health in Vulnerable Populations Goal: To train pre- and post-doctoral fellows as nurse scientists to develop expertise to study multi-system level factors contributing to health disparities among vulnerable women, children, and families. Role: Postdoctoral Fellow F31NR011107: McDonald (PI) 11/1/08-05/31/10 Community Violence Exposure and Positive Youth Development in Urban Adolescents Goal: The goal of this training plan is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between community violence exposure, posttraumatic stress and positive youth development in urban adolescents. Role: PI Mentors: Therese Richmond, PhD, RN, FAAN and Nancy Kassam-Adams, PhD T32NR007100: Deatrick (PI); Jemmott (Co-PI) 9/1/07-8/31/08 Research Training to Promote Health in Vulnerable Populations Goal: To train pre- and post-doctoral fellows as nurse scientists to develop expertise to study multi-system level factors contributing to health disparities among vulnerable women, children, and families. Role: Predoctoral Fellow PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 2010- Member-Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research 2009- Member Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science 2008- Member Eastern Nursing Research Society 2008- Member American Public Health Association 2006- Member of the Pennsylvania State School Nurses Association 2005- Member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 2004- Member of the National Association of School Nurses 2003- Member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses 2004-2007 Member of the New Jersey State School Nurses Association 2004-2007 Member of the Morris County School Nurses Association 2004-2006 Member of the Monmouth County School Nurses Association Page 7 of 7