Gerene Bauldoff

Dr. Gerene Bauldoff’s research focuses on pulmonary nursing, especially patient-centered outcomes in pulmonary rehabilitation and lung transplantation. Her career-long program of research has advanced quality care in pulmonary rehabilitation internationally and in clinical outcomes of lung transplantation.

Her retirement from Ohio State has not stopped her service to the university or healthcare communities. Dr. Bauldoff continues to serve on The Ohio State University Biomedical Institutional Review Board (IRB). She is a nurse scientist in the Center for Nursing Excellence at Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH) in Columbus, where she also serves on the IRB. She is part of a team working with NCH clinicians in envisioning, developing and implementing clinical inquiry projects, collaborating on NCH’s 6th Magnet journey and developing processes to streamline and de-silo clinical projects across the enterprise.

Additionally, Dr. Bauldoff serves as an editor on the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation book, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Guidelines, 6th Edition. She also served as a primary author on the Pearson Higher Education textbook, Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Client Care, whose 8th edition is in development.

Dr. Bauldoff earned a PhD in nursing and MSN in medical-surgical nursing (cardiopulmonary clinical nurse specialist) from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing.