Heather L. Tubbs Cooley
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Dr. Heather Tubbs Cooley’s research focuses on improving quality and safety outcomes in pediatric care, with a specific focus on the care delivery mechanisms linking the organization and financing of health care with patient outcomes. Her work spans pediatric populations and settings including general pediatrics and neonatal intensive care environments. Dr. Tubbs Cooley teaches and advises across the undergraduate and graduate curriculums and welcomes PhD students and post-doctoral research Fellows into her lab for training in health services research methods and analytic approaches.
Dr. Tubbs Cooley is an affiliated faculty member of The Ohio State University Translational Data Analytics Institute and director of the College of Nursing’s Health Services Research (HSR) Collaborative. The HSR Collaborative serves as the synergistic hub for faculty and students pursing research programs focused on health care quality, outcomes and value.
Dr. Tubbs Cooley began her clinical career as a pediatric medical-surgical nurse and has worked in pediatric inpatient and home care settings. She has more than a decade of experience as a clinically based nurse scientist at top children’s hospitals and is currently appointed as a principal investigator in the Center for Perinatal Research at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Education
- Post-doctoral Fellowship, quality improvement and implementation science, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
- PhD, nursing, University of Pennsylvania
- BS, nursing, Western Michigan University
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