Diana White, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Institute on Aging
Office: 470N URBN
Phone: 503-725-2725
Fax: 503-725-5100
E-mail: dwhi@pdx.edu
Diana White, PhD, is senior research associate at the Institute on Aging at Portland State University where she works on a variety of education and evaluation projects related to long-term care. These include Enriched Clinical Learning Environments through Partnerships (ECLEPs), funded by the Northwest Health Foundation to attract nursing students into long-term care careers, and Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to evaluate a work-based learning program targeting direct care workers in assisted living facilities. Until recently, she served as project director of the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at OHSU (2001 until June 2007). In addition to supporting Center goals, she worked as the liaison between the Center's Best Practices Initiative and Oregon's Department of Seniors and People with Disabilities. Dr. White conducted the local evaluator of the Better Jobs Better Care Demonstration project in Oregon, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies. Prior to her work with CGNE, Dr. White was Deputy Director of the Oregon Geriatric Education Center and before that was a co-investigator on a VA Health Services Research & Development; her work there included development of information synthesis methodology. Her research interests include person-centered environments for elders and the direct care workers who support them, intergenerational relationships, and family bereavement.
