Kathryn McDonald
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Johns Hopkins University
Kathryn McDonald | |
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| Alma mater | Stanford University Kellogg School of Management University of California, Berkeley |
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| Institutions | Stanford University Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis | Ambulatory Care Organizations : Improving Diagnosis (2017) |
Kathryn McDonald is an American scientist who is Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins University. She serves as co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Diagnostic Excellence. McDonald previously led the Centre for Health Policy at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Her research considers what makes for high-quality and safe healthcare delivery systems.
McDonald was an undergraduate student at Stanford University, where she majored in chemical engineering. She moved to the Kellogg School of Management for graduate studies, where she earned a Master of Management (MM) in 1992. She returned to Stanford University in the early 1990s, where she worked in the Medical School.[citation needed] McDonald eventually completed a doctorate in public health at the University of California, Berkeley in 2017.[1] Her doctoral research looked at ambulatory care organizations and how they can help to improve the diagnosis of medical conditions.[2] She was the member of a committee who found that the majority of United States physicians had made one faulty diagnosis.[3][4] She estimated that over 12 million adults were misdiagnosed every year.[3]
