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NAME
Gary W. Donaldson, Ph.D

POSITION TITLE
Professor, Dept. of Anesthesiology

EDUCATION/TRAINING

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE)

YEAR(s)

FIELD OF STUDY

Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
University of Denver, Denver, CO
University of Denver, Denver, CO

 

Gen
BA
MA
PhD

1969
1972
1979
1979

Math, Physics
Psychology
Psychology
Psychology

Positions

1974-1978   Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO

1976-1979   NIMH Predoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO

1979-1988     Associate, Senior Research Associate (1986-1988), Department of Community Health Care Systems, University of Washington, Seattle,WA

1986-2001   Assistant, Associate (1994-2001) Member, Division of Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

1995-1997   Lecturer, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2001-Pres   Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah

 

Federal Government Advisory Committees

1995-Present     Quality of Life Review Panel, PROSCAR trial

June 1995          Department of Health and Human Services, PORT-II Special Emphasis Panel, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research            

January 1999     National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Pain and Neurobiology Science Review Panel

 

Publications

Donaldson G: Confirmatory factor analysis models of information processing stages: An alternative to difference scores. Psychol Bull 94:143-151, 1983

Donaldson G, McCorkle R, Georgiadou F, Benoliel J: Distress, dependency, and threat in newly diagnosed patients with cancer and heart disease. Multivariate Behavioral Research 21:267-298, 1986

Donaldson GW: A new approach to calculating pain measurements for cancer patients. Scientific Computing & Automation 1:45-48, 1992

Donaldson GW, Moinpour CM: Strengthened estimates of individual pain trends in children following bone marrow transplantation. Pain 48:147-155, 1992

Syrjala KL, Cummings C, Donaldson GW: Hypnosis or cognitive-behavioral training for the reduction of pain and nausea during cancer treatment: A controlled clinical trial. Pain 48:138-146, 1992

Donaldson GW, Horn JL: Age, cohort, and time and developmental muddles: Easy in practice, hard in theory. Exp Aging Res 18:213-222, 1992

Donaldson GW: Issues in quantifying and analyzing individual differences. In: Chapman CR, Foley KM (Eds): Current and Emerging Issues in Cancer Pain: Research and Practice. Raven Press, New York, 1993, 99 307-319

Collins C, Eary JF, Donaldson GW, Vernon C, Bush NE, Petersdorf S, Livingston RB, Gordon EE, Chapman CR, Appelbaum FR: Samarium-153EDTMP in hormone refractory prostate carcinoma: A phase I/II clinical trial. J Nuclear Med 34:1839-1844, 1993

Donaldson GW: Statistical power in clinical pain research. American Pain Society Bulletin 3:11-13, 1993

Coda BA, Brown MC, Schaffer R, Donaldson GW, Jacobson R, Hautman B, Shen DD: Pharmacology of epidural fentanyl, alfentanil and sufentanil in volunteers. Anesthesiology 81:1149-1161, 1994

Bush NE, Haberman M, Donaldson GW, Sullivan KM: Quality of life of 125 adults surviving 6-18 years after bone marrow transplantation. Soc Sci Med 40:479-490, 1995

Coda BA, Brown MC, Schaffer R, Donaldson GW, Shen DD: A pharmacokinetic approach to resolving spinal and systemic contributions to epidural alfentanil analgesia and side-effects. Pain 62:329-337, 1995

Donaldson GW: The factorial structure and stability of the McGill Pain Questionnaire in patients experiencing oral mucositis following bone marrow transplantation. Pain 62:101-109, 1995

Chapman CR, Donaldson GW: Can structural equation models guide research on chronic pain? Pain Forum 4:277-279, 1995

Pavlin DJ, Coda B, Shen DD, Tschanz J, Nguyen Q, Schaffer R, Donaldson G, Jacobson RC, Chapman CR: Effects of combining propofol and alfentanil on ventilation, analgesia, sedation and emesis in human volunteers. Anesthesiology, 84:23-37, 1996

Syrjala KL, Donaldson GW, Davis MW, Kippes ME, Carr JE: Relaxation and imagery or cognitive-behavioral training reduce pain during cancer treatment: A controlled clinical trial. Pain, 63:189-98, 1995

Chapman CR, Donaldson GW, Jacobson RC, Hautman B: Differences among patients in opiod self-administration during bone marrow transplantation. Pain, 71:213-223, 1997

Agura, E.D., Brown, M.C., Schaffer, R., Donaldson, G.W., and Shen, D.D. Antiemetic efficacy and pharmacokinetics of intravenous ondansetron infusion during chemotherapy conditioning for bone marrow transplant. Bone Marrow Transplantation, 1995, 16:213-22.

Coda, B., Tanaka, A., Jacobson, R.C., Donaldson, G., Chapman, C.R. Hydromorphone analgesia after intravenous bolus administration. Pain, 1997, 71:41-48.

Coda, B.A., O’Sullivan, B., Donaldson, G., Bohl, S., Chapman, C.R., Shen, D.D. Comparative Efficacy of Patient-Controlled Administration of Morphine, Hydromorphone, or Sufentanil for the Treatment of Oral Mucositis Pain Following Bone Marrow Transplantation. Pain, 1997, 72:333-346.

Donaldson, G.W. Ridit scores for analysis and interpretation of ordinal pain data. European Journal of Pain, 1998, 2:221-227.

Chapman CR, Oka S, Bradshaw DH, Jacobson RC, and Donaldson GW. Phasic pupil dilation response to noxious stimulation in normal volunteers: relationship to brain evoked potentials and pain report. Psychophysiology, 1999, 36:44-52.

Donaldson, G.W., Moinpour, C.M., Bush, N.E., Chapko, M., Jocom, J., Siadak, M., Nielsen-Stoeck, M., Bradshaw, J.M., Bichindaritz, I., and Sullivan, K.M. Physician participation in research surveys: a randomized study of inducements to return mailed research questionnaires. Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1999, 22:427-441.

Bush NE, Donaldson GW, Haberman M, Dacanay R, and Sullivan KM. Conditional and unconditional estimation of multidimensional quality of life following marrow or stem cell transplantation: a longitudinal follow-up of 412 patients. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant, 2000, 6:576-91.

Erjavec MK, Coda BA, Nguyen Q, Donaldson G, Risler L, Shen DD. Morphine-fluoxetine interactions in healthy volunteers: analgesia and side effects. J Clin Pharmacol , 2000, 40:1286-95.

Moinpour, C.M., Lovato, L.C., Thompson, I.M., Ware, J.E., Ganz, P.A., Patrick, D.L., Shumaker, S.A., Donaldson, G.W., Ryan, A., and Coltman, C.A. A profile of the men randomized to the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial: Health-related quality of life, urinary and sexual functioning, and lifestyle characteristics at study entry. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2000, 18:1942-1953.

Chapman, CR, Nakamura, Y, Donaldson, GW, Jacobson, RC, Bradshaw, DH, Flores, L, and Chapman, CN. (2001). Sensory and Affective Dimensions of Phasic Pain are Indistinguishable in the Self-Report and Psychophysiology of Normal Laboratory Subjects. The Journal of Pain, vol 2, No 5, pp 279-294.

Rowley SD, Donaldson G, Lilleby K, Bensinger WI, Appelbaum, FR. Experiences of donors enrolled in a randomized study of allogeneic bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. In press, Blood, 2001.

Chapman, C.R, Donaldson, G.W, Nakamura, Y, Jaconson, R.C, Bradshaw, D.H, and Gavrin, J.A. Psychophysiological Causal Model of Pain Report Validity. The Journal of Pain, 2001, in press.

Donaldson, T.W, Moinpour, C.M. Individual Differences in quality of life treatment response. Medical Care, in press, 2001.

Research Support

Ongoing:

RO1CA 70866-05 Donaldson (PI)                         2/12/01 – 12/31/04

NIH/NCI                                                           

Dynamic Quality of Life After Hematopoietic Transplant

 

This project will imrove measurement and understanding of the quality of life (QOL) of patients who receive hematopoietic transplants (HT). It will quantify how QOL changes over the long term (several years) and in

very short term (daily or weekly) and will implemenmt new Internet technologies for conducting dynamic assessments.

Role: PI

 

R01AR046303-03 Okifuji (PI)                                          9-11-2000 – 7/31/05

NIAMSD

Sex Hormones, Stress, and Pain in Fibromyalgia

 

The primary goals of this project are to test several components of a conceptual model hypothesizing how hormonal and stress factors are related to fibromyalgia syndrome, a chronic musculoskelatal pain disorder.

Role: Co-Investigator

 

RO1CA74249-04 Chapman (PI)                           2/01/2000-1/31/02

NIH/NCI                                                           

Pain and the Defense Response

 

The major goals of this project are to investigate the emotional dimension of pain in the human studies laboratory, to identify patterns of psychophsyiological response associated with pain and to relate these patterns to the classically defined defense response, and to explore and quantify individual differences in sensory and emotional dimensions of pain.

Role: Co-Investigator

 

Completed:

RO1CA 74269-04 Chapman (PI)                           4/01/97 – 3/31/2001

NIH/NCI                                                           

Pain Measurement in Bone Marrow Transplantation

 

The specific aims of this study are: 1. implement an interactive, multidimensional, portable electronic tool for pain interviews with BMT patients and compare its performance to that of a standard pain assessment procedure involving real time physicians data entry. 2. Develop and refine new pain scaling methods derived from the fields of psychophysics and psychometrics that take advantage of available tissue trauma scores. 3. Compare the quality of pain measurement achieved with the two new methods and the standard raw score method, determining which approach permits the most accurate forecasting of future pain from past pain. 4. Clarify the nature and extent of individual differences in oral mucositis pain in the bone marrow transplant setting.        

Role: Co-Investigator

 

Completed:

RO1CA 70866001-04 Donaldson (PI)                     4/01/96 – 3/21/2000

NIH/NCI

Logitudinal Quality of Life After Marrow Transplant

 

This project incorporated improved methods of longitudinal analysis to identify the multidimensional course of quality of life in the four years following bone marrow transplant. The project produced a brief psychometric inventory amenable to future research.

Role: PI

 

Completed:

HS 09407-03 Sullivan (PI)                                    01/01/98 – 09/29/99

AHCPR

Computerized Decision Support for Post-Transplant Care

The goals of this study were to complete and refine a networked computerized support system to facilitate information exchange and guide interactions between primary care providers and the marrow transplant team, evaluate the impact of this system on clinical practice, and to determine factors that influence practitioners use of the system.

Role: Co-Investigator