Dr. Pamela H. Mitchell
Professor of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, School of Nursing Adjunct Professor of Health Services School of Public Health and Community Medicine University of Washington Founding Director of the Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education and Research.
Pamela Mitchell received a BSN from the University of Washington, an MS with a focus on medical-surgical clinical specialization from the University of California, San Francisco, and a Ph.D. in Health Care Systems Ecology from the University of Washington. She has been engaged in advanced nursing practice, clinical and systems research and nursing education for 40 years. Her practice and research are in neuroscience and critical care nursing, with expansion into studying care delivery systems as they affect clinical outcomes. She is actively engaged in enabling staff nurses to use and develop evidence-based practices at the University of Washington and at Duke University. In addition to leading several interdisciplinary research teams in studies funded by the National Institutes of Health, she is directing interdisciplinary clinical and translational research training programs through the University of Washington Institute for Translational Health Sciences, funded through the National Institutes of Health Roadmap Initiative. Her work in interprofessional education stems from grants from the University of Washington, Josiah Macy Foundation, and the Health Resources Service Administration to the Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education & Research to develop and sustain models for interprofessional clinical education, as well as a national curriculum for Faculty Leadership in Interprofessional Education to Promote Patient Safety. She served on the Patient Safety Steering Committee for the portfolio of patient safety research and dissemination funded by HRSA and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Work Environments in Nursing and Patient Safety. She has also served as a member of the Department of Defense Patient Safety Teamwork Study Advisory Panel, and as a core member of the Robert Wood Johnson Quality and Safety Education in Nursing initiative led by the University of North Carolina.
Nationally, she is a member and past chair of the American Academy of Nursing Expert Panel on Quality Care and is immediate Past-President of the American Academy of Nursing. She has chaired the Nursing and Rehabilitation Professions Committee for the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association/American Stoke Association, served on the Leadership and Strategic Planning Committees of the Stroke Council and is a fellow of the American Heart/American Stroke Association. Internationally, she has been a visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, Flinders University in Australia and the University of Toronto in Canada.