Heidi Donovan PhD, RN

Heidi Donovan's expertise is in symptom management and the development and testing of theoretically-guided psycho-educational interventions to improve outcomes for patients with cancer and their family caregivers. Heidi Donovan the co-developer of the Representational Approach (RA) to patient education, and intervention theory designed to promote behavior change to improve self-management of complex health problems. Heidi Donovan has had sustained funding to develop and test a Web-based symptom management intervention (WRITE Symptoms) based on the RA with the aim of improving symptoms, patient-health care provider communication, and quality of life among women with recurrent ovarian cancer (NR010735). Heidi Donovan also a Co-PI with Dr. Paula Sherwood on a 3 arm RCT evaluating the impact of a Web-based caregiver intervention (SmartCare) on biobehavioral outcomes for caregivers of patients with a primary malignant brain tumor (NR013170).