Kathleen N. Lohr
Distinguished Fellow, Health Care Services and Policy
Kathleen N. Lohr, PhD, has more than 35 years of experience in health services and policy research. She was the founding director of the RTI International–University of North Carolina Evidence-based Practice Center and the RTI DEcIDE Center, and is now senior advisor to both. Dr. Lohr was the founding editor-in-chief of RTI Press and continues on its editorial board. Before coming to RTI in 1996, Dr. Lohr spent nine years at the Institute of Medicine and 12 years at The RAND Corporation, leading work on quality of care, health insurance, and other health care topics. She has more than 80 books, monographs, and reports and more than 135 peer-reviewed articles to her credit. She was associate editor of Quality of Life Research and has participated on numerous national advisory committees, including the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (and its subcommittees on quality measures for children and adults) and the core editorial board for the National Guidelines and National Quality Measures Clearinghouses. In 2005, she received ISPOR's Avedis Donabedian Outcomes Research Lifetime Achievement Award.
Education
PhD, Public Policy Analysis, RAND Graduate Institute; MA, Education, Stanford University; BA (with distinction), Sociology, Stanford University.
Publications
Forneris, C.A., Gartlehner, G., Brownley, K.A., Gaynes, B.N., Sonis, J., Coker-Schwimmer, E., Jonas, D.E., Greenblatt, A., Wilkins, T.M., Woodell, C.L., & Lohr, K.N. (Apr 2013)
Viswanathan, M., Golin, C., Jones, C.D., Ashok, M., Blalock, S.J., Wines, R.C.M., Coker-Schwimmer, E.J.L., Rosen, D.L., Sista, P., & Lohr, K.N. (Dec 2012)
Viswanathan, M., Nerz, P., Dalberth, B., Voisin, C., Lohr, K.N., Tant, E., et al. (Jul 2012)
Thaler, K.J., Morgan, L.C., Van Noord, M., Gaynes, B.N., Hansen, R.A., Lux, L.J., Krebs, E.E., Lohr, K.N., & Gartlehner, G. (Jun 2012)
Gartlehner, G., West, S.L., Mansfield, A.J., Poole, C., Tant, E., Lux, L.J., & Lohr, K.N. (Jan 2012)
Expertise
- Quality of Care and Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Evidence-Based Practice and Methods
- Health Status and Quality of Life Assessment