Mary A. Paterson, PhD, RN, MSN
School of Nursing
Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Programs
Telephone: 202-319-6457
E-Mail: paterson@cua.edu

Education
Ph.D., Health Services and Policy Analysis, 1992, University of California,Berkeley,California.
MSN, 1987, Area of Concentration: Nursing Administration, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
BSN, 1980, Catholic University, Washington D.C.

Research Interests
Community Involvement in Health
Primary Health Care Services
Quality of Primary Health Services
Household Participation in Health Care Financing for the Elderly.

Professional Activities

Catholic University of America, Clinical Instructor Community Health Nursing, Spring 2005.

South University, Subject Matter Expert, Health Care Marketing, 2005.

Abt Associates, Principal Associate, 1998-2003.

Abt Associates Health Policy Institute, Faculty,   International Health Division Practice Manager and Chief-of-Party, USAID Egypt Primary Health Reform Project, 2000-2003.

University of Nevada School of Medicine, Director of the Health Care Policy and Research Development Office, 1997-1998.

Oregon State University School of Public Health, Associate Research Scientist, 1996-1997.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas College of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing and Health Administration, Tenured faculty College of Health Sciences 1991-1996. 

St Mary’s College, Moraga, California, Adjunct Faculty, 1990-1993.

Patient care supervisor and relief house supervisor, St. Frances Memorial Hospital San Francisco California, 1988-1991.

Prince George’s Foundation, State Quality Assurance Director for the Maryland Foundation (Maryland PRO) and as the Executive Director for the Prince George’s Foundation (Former PSRO), 1985-1987.

Prince George’s County Hospital, Assistant Head Nurse, Intensive Care and Trauma 1983-1985.

Washington Hospital Center, Staff Nurse, Medical Intensive Care Unit 1983.

John’s Hopkins Hospital, Staff Nurse, Oncology Research Unit, 1980-1982. 

U.S. Army Reserve Nurse Corps, Commissioned 1980, Served with the USAR Maus-Warfield Mobile Field Hospital Unit and the Walter-Reed Army Medical Center, 1979-1985.

Recent Community and Public Health Experience

Investigator, American Academy of Pediatrics:  Community Services Delivery Planning Grant to School of Medicine /Department of Pediatrics at University of Nevada.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:  Demonstration projects to promote Integrated Public Health Information Infrastructure.  (State of Nevada Health Division Application).

Program Evaluation Consultant, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: All Kids Count Program,  Phase 2,  State of Nevada Proposal for Statewide Immunization Database.

Consultant on clinical outcomes analysis,  PacifiCare Nevada:  Medical Quality Assurance Committee, University of Nevada College of Health Sciences.

Principal Investigator, Nevada Peer Review Organization: Dissemination of practice guidelines and evaluation of outcome in sickle‑cell disease, a total quality management approach, University of Nevada College of Health Sciences.

Co-Principle Investigator,  State of Nevada Division of Health:  Training, planning and feasibility study for Nevada NIV/AIDS programs, University of Nevada College of Health Sciences. 

Selected Publications

Strengthening resource allocation in the five-year population action program of Yemen, August, 2004. 119 pp + Annexes w. A Telyukov.  World Bank Publication.

Resources, costs and utilization of care in the primary health care sector of Iraq: preliminary findings. November 2003, 50 pp. + Annexes, w. A.Telyukov, Imad A. Salam Al-Shiakhli.

Situation Analysis for New Strategy of Technical Assistance in the Health Care Sector of Georgia.  March 2003.  PHRplus Technical Report (in-co-authorship with Telyukov A., Gotsadze G., Jugeli, L.

Bennett, Sara and Paterson, Mary.  Piloting health system reforms.  A review of experience.  PHRplus Technical paper.  2003. http://www.phrplus.org/Pubs/Tech019_fin.pdf.

Paterson, Mary A.  Public Hospital Strengthening.  Insights for Implementers PHRplus series.  2002.  http://www.phrplus.org/Pubs/IS2.pdf.

Russia's Health Care System: Caring in a Turbulent Environment  in Handbook of International Healthcare Systems.  V. 96 Public Administration and Policy Series.  New York:  Marcel Dekker Inc., 2002 (in-coathorship with Elena Bourhanskaia A. and Kubataev A.).

Pudil, Pavel and Paterson, Mary.  Improving the Quality of Decision-Making in Healthcare Management:  A Project Report from the Nevada/Bohemia Health Management Education Partnership.  Journal of Health Administration Education.  Summer, 1998.

Banks, Dwayne, Paterson, Mary A., and Wendel, Jeanne.  Uncompensated Hospital Care: Charitable Mission or Profitable Business Decision?  Health Economics, March/April 1997.

Health Care in Nevada: cost, access, and quality. In: Soden, Dennis L. and Herzik, Eric. Towards 2000: Public Policy in Nevada:  Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Co, 1997 pp 231-246.

Lewis, S., Paterson, M., and Wendel, J. Regulating Healthcare in the 21^st Century:  Information and Consumer Choice.  Nevada Public Affairs Review, Legislative Issues: 1997.

Paterson, Mary A.  “Federal health policy: an overview”  in  Dennis L. Soden ed.  At the Nexus: Science and Public Policy New York:  Nova Science Publishers, 1996 pp 163-171.

Paterson, Mary A. and Wendel, Jeanne.  Managing Risk in a Changing Health Care System.  Journal of Health Care Finance.  1996 22 Spring 15-22.

Paterson, Mary A.  and Wendel, Jeanne. Quality in State Government Managed Care Programs: Process and Politics.  American Journal of Medical Quality.  1996  11:4 Winter, 198-204.

Paterson, Mary A. “Informal caregiving: financing issues” In: Romaine-Davis, Ada; Boondas, Jenifer and Lenihan, Ayeliffe,  Encyclopedia of Home Care for the Elderly. Greenwood Press, 1995.

Paterson, Mary A. Public spending for health and other social programs: A Canadian example.   Public Budgeting and Financial Management. 1995 7 2 231-250.

Paterson, Mary A. Immortality Through the Fertility Clinic. Commentary.  Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 1995 4 375-386.

Baker, Doris J., Paterson, Mary A. Marketed sperm: Use and regulation in the United States. Fertility and Sterility: Journal of the American Fertility Society. 1995 63: 5 947-952.

Banks, D. and Paterson, M. Regulating Hospital Costs in Nevada:  Information, Transactions Cost, and Future Reform. Nevada Public Affairs Review. 1994. pp 16-19.

Paterson, Mary A., Wendel, Jeanne.  Quality improvement boon or boondoggle? Hospital Topics 1994 72: 4, 10-13.

Baker, D. and Paterson, M. Distributive justice and the regulation of fertility centers: an analysis of the fertility clinic success rate and certification act.  Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 1994 3, 383-390.

Paterson, Mary A.  The financial impact of disability on the family. Family and Community Health, 1993 16:3 46‑55.

Paterson, Mary A. and Harrell, Bert.  “The cost/benefit ratio: financial issues associated with discharge planning.”  In Volland, Patricia J. [Ed.]  Discharge Planning: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Continuity of Care.  Baltimore, National Health Publishing, a division of Williams and Wilkins, 1988.

Affiliations
American Public Health Association
Sigma Theta Tau

Awards
Received the Outstanding Teacher Award for the University of Nevada System in 1994. 
Selected as a Teacher Worthy of Recognition in the University System in 1993 and 1994.

Nursing Licensure
Current State of California.  
Current District of Columbia.