Catherine McDonald, PhD, RN, FAAN is a pediatric nurse scientist with a focused program of research aimed at promoting health and reducing injury in youth. She leads a strong portfolio of research on adolescent injury prevention funded by the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control. She has published >100 peer-reviewed journal articles on injury prevention related to children and adolescents, in the topics of driving behaviors, motor vehicle crashes, child passenger safety, concussion, and community violence exposure. McDonald is Co-Director of the PENN Injury Science Center (PISC)-a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) funded Injury Control Research Center. She has led research initiatives in the development of interventions for young drivers, as well as randomized controlled trial design, novel assessment of adolescent driver behavior, and recruitment and long-term retention of adolescent drivers. In her collaboration with the Minds Matter Concussion Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), she contributes to the advances related to school health and identifying implications for returning to driving after concussion. She is also the Nursing Discipline Director for the Leadership Education in Adolescent Health Program at CHOP.
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