Kathleen Curtin, BSN, MBA, EdD

After graduating from D’Youville’s Bachelor of Nursing Program, I discovered a neighborhood health center, the Lackawanna Community Health Center.  This foundational experience introduced me to a care team of physicians and Community Health Workers delivering primary care in an underserved neighborhood.  After several years, the role of nurse practitioner emerged, and I completed the Nurse Practitioner (NP) Program at SUNY Upstate Medical Center.  While working as a primary care NP at Health Care Plan, Buffalo's Staff Model HMO, my education continued at the University of Buffalo, completing a master’s degree in business administration and architecture.    

With a foundation in both direct care and the art of management, I was introduced to yet another new field, healthcare quality management.  With training and guidance from early adopters and leaders in the field, I served for fifteen years as Vice President for Quality Management for Health Care Plan through the transition to Univera Health Plan and acquisition by Excellus Blue Cross of Rochester.  

My experience in healthcare quality management clarified the essential need for digitized clinical information to make it possible to improve care and contain costs.  When offered the opportunity to participate in electronic health record (EHR) implementation, I served as Clinical Informatics Officer on the Kaleida Health EHR Leadership Team.  My responsibility on this team was to ensure that 5,000 Kaleida employees were prepared and trained to move from paper to electronic documentation. 

All these experiences were needed to prepare me to teach D’Youville students about health management and administration.
 

• Doctorate of Education, D’Youville College, Buffalo, NY
• Masters of Business Administration, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Management, Buffalo, NY
• Masters of Architecture, Research and Planning Tract, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Architecture, Buffalo, NY
• Certification as Adult Nurse Practitioner, State University of New York at Syracuse - Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY
• Bachelors of Science, D'Youville College - School of Nursing Buffalo, NY

Awards: 

• HSA Faculty of the Year Award Academic Year 2013 – 2014; 2022 - 2023
• American College of Healthcare Executives 2008 Edgar C. Haynow Article of the Year

Grants: 

• HRSA Primary Care Training and Enhancement Program T0BHP30017 Sub-award. “The Buffalo Interprofessional Advanced Primary Care Training Program”. Principal Investigator Andrew Symons, MD, 2017 – 2022. Associate Evaluator.
• School Health and Wellness Collaborative of Buffalo (2015 – 2017). Role: Evaluator. Funder: J. Warren Perry and Charles Donald Perry Memorial Fund, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo. Budget: $135,655. Cadzow, R.; Curtin, K.; Clay, L.; Rafalson, L.
• Improving Medication Outcomes (June 2013 – September 2013). Role: Principal Investigator. Funder: Health Foundation for Western and Central New York. Budget: $35,987.
• Western New York Consumer Survey Project (September 2013 – November 2013). Role: Recruit, manage, deliver data collected by student survey researchers. Budget: $10,000 plus student stipends.
• Robert Wood Johnson “Rewarding Results” Grant: “Rochester Rewards Results” (2002 – 2005). Role: Principal Investigator. Budget: $999, 999.
• Robert Wood Johnson “Roots and Wings” Grant (2007). Role: Program Director. Budget: $25,000.
• New York State DOH Contract: Managed Care Implementation of Clinical Guidelines in Prevention and Chronic Disease: The Use of Computer-Generated Reminders, Co-investigator, $174,251 in 1995-96, $173,485 in 1996-97
   

• Healthcare Delivery Systems
• Healthcare Quality Management
• Healthcare Information Technology

• Curtin, K. (2018). Performance funding in higher education (Publication No. 10822676) [Doctoral dissertation, DYouville College]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
• Curtin K, Beckman H, Pankow G, Milillo Y, Greene RA. ROI in P4P: A Diabetes Case Study. Journal of Healthcare Management. 51(6): 365-374, 2006. Edgar C. Hayhow Article of the Year awarded by the American College of Healthcare Executives at the Congress 2008. 
• Young GJ, Meterko M, Beckman H, Baker E, White B, Sautter K, Greene R, Curtin K, Bokhour B, Berlowitz D, Burgess J. Effects of Paying Physicians Based on their Relative Performance for Quality. Journal of General Internal Medicine. Accepted for Publication March 2007. 
• Curtin, Kathleen. Quality Initiatives, Pay for Performance Reporting and Decision Support Tools. First Illinois Speaks: HFMA Newsletter. October 2007.
• Wheeler JRC, White B, Rauscher S, Nahra T, Reiter K, Curtin K, Damberg C. Pay-for-Performance as a Method to Establish the Business Case for Quality. Journal of Health Care Finance. 2007: 33(4):17-30. 
• Endsley, S, Baker, G, Kershner, B, Curtin, K. What Family Physicians Need to Know About Pay for Performance. Family Practice Management. July/August 2006. Vol 13, Number 7.
• Bernstein, S., McGlynn, E., Siu, A., Roth, C., Sherwood, M., Keesey, J., Kosecoff, J., Hicks, N., Brook, R., Beloff, j., Mansheim, B., Goldfield, N., Lieb, F., Ferriss, D., Perry, B., Plotkin, G., Leaning, J., Marine, E., Curtin, K., Austin, J., Wiesenthal, A., Carr, T., Sapin, S., Johnson, I., Swanson, G., Leatherman, S. The Appropriateness of Hysterectomy: A Comparison of Care in Seven Health Plans. JAMA. 1993: 269(18): 2398-2402.
• Curtin K, Hayes D, Holland C, Katz L. Computer – Generated Intervention for Asthma Population Care Management. Effective Clinical Practice. August/September 1998. Vol I, Number I.