Diane Doran, RN, PhD, FCAHS
Co-Principal Investigator, University of Toronto
Dr. Doran is a full Professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, where she also hold a Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Nursing Senior Researcher Award. She is an adjunct professor at the School of Nursing, Queens University, and the School of Nursing, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. She is Scientific Director of the Nursing Health Services Research Unit, University of Toronto site, and a member of the Research and Evaluation Committee of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, and member of the Mount Sinai Hospital Quality and Safety Board Committee. She completed a five-year term as Associate Dean of Research (2001-06) and Interim Dean (2005), and is now focusing her full-time academic activities on research and teaching. She is Theme lead for an NSERC funded strategic research network in Health Care Support through Information Technology Enhancements (hSITE). She has recognized expertise in health-services research, outcomes measurement, patient safety, and e-Health. Her research has earned her the Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award (1999), the Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing Award of Excellence in Nursing Research (2000), the Dorothy Pringle Research Excellence Award, Sigma Theta Tau International, Lambda Pi Chapter (2000), and the Canadian Nurses Association Centennial Award (2008).
In collaboration with Dr. Sidani, Doran developed the Therapeutic Self-Care scale that is currently used in Ontario to assess acute care patients’ and home care clients’ readiness for health care discharge under the provincial Health Outcomes for Better Information and Care Initiative. She has recently been awarded over $1M from the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and Ontario Change Foundation, to conduct a pan Canadian study of home care safety.