Donna K. Hathaway, PhD, FAAN

Professor and Dean
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
College of Nursing
877 Madison Avenue
Memphis, TN 38163
Office Phone: 901-448-6135
Toll Free: 800-733-2498
Fax: 901-448-6100
Email: dhathaway@utmem.edu
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Donna Hathaway received her baccalaureate and masters degrees in nursing from the University of Missouri-Columbia and her PhD in nursing from the University of Texas at Austin. During her career she has held a variety of clinical positions working primarily in post surgical units and has taught in all levels of nursing schools.

She joined the University Of Tennessee College Of Nursing in 1984 as Assistant Professor and subsequently was promoted to Associate Professor and to the rank of Professor. During this time she was also appointed as a Professor of Transplant Surgery in the College of Medicine where she held a position as Director of Clinical Transplant Research. She has also served as Director of the PhD program and in August 2000 was appointed Dean of the College of Nursing.

Dr. Hathaway is active, and has held positions in a variety of professional organizations; is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing; serves as a consultant to government, industry, and educational institutions; and has also served on several NIH review panels and workgroups. She is also a Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Fellow.

Currently she is a Professor and the Dean of Nursing at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. Her research, which examines quality of life and biobehavioral outcomes following organ transplantation, has been funded since the late 1980’s and has widely published in professional journals. As part of this program of research, Dr. Hathaway has been the sponsor of several K-awards and minority supplements. In addition, she has mentored numerous pre- and post-doctoral nurses, as well as pre- and post-doctoral transplant research fellows.

Funded Research, Clinical, and Education Projects

Nurse Practitioner Use of Telehealth for Transplant Care
Funding Institution: National Institute of Nursing Research
Co-Investigators: D. Hathaway

Dysautonomia, Exercise, & Post-transplant Quality of Life
Funding Institution: National Institutes of Health
Co-Investigators:Cowan, Cashion, Gaber
Purpose of Grant:Evaluate the effectiveness of an exercise intervention on improving functional capacity, heart rate variability, and quality of life in recent and long-term kidney and kidney-pancreas transplant recipients.

Dysautonomia, Exercise, & Post-transplant Quality of Life
Funding Institution: NCRR-GCRC
Co-Investigators: Cowan, Cashion, Gaber, George
Purpose of Grant: Evaluate the effectiveness of an exercise intervention on improving body composition, functional capacity, heart rate variability, and quality of life in recent and long-term transplant recipients.

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Cashion,A., Holmes S., Hathaway, D., Arheart S., Acchiardo, S. (2005) Heart Rate Variability and Mortality in Patients with End Stage Renal Desease. Nephrology Nursing Journal (32) 2
  2. Cashion, A.K., Holmes, S.L., Hathaway, D.K., & Gaber, A.O. (2004). Gastroparesis following kidney/pancreas transplant. Clinical Transplantation, 18, 306-11.
  3. Chang, C.F., Winsett, R.P., Gaber, A.O., & Hathaway, D.K., (2004). Cost effectiveness of post-transplantation quality of life intervention among kidney recipients. Clinical Transplantation, 18, 407-14.
  4. Cetingok, M., Winsett, R.P., & Hathaway, D.K. (2004). A comparative study of quality of life among the age groups of kidney transplant recipients. Progress in Transplantation, 14(1), 33-38.
  5. Miller, K.L., Bleich, M.R., Hathaway, D., & Warren, C. (2004). Developing the academic nursing practice in the midst of new realities in higher education. Journal of Nursing Education, 43(2), 55-9.
  6. Cowan, P.A., Cashion, A.K., Gower, G., Gaber, A.O. & Hathaway, D.K. (2004). Functional capacity and quality of life (QoL) in kidney transplant recipients. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 31, 138.
  7. Cowan, P.A., Cashion, A.K., Gower, G., Gaber, A.O. & Hathaway, D.K. (2004). Functional capacity correlates with quality of life in recent and long-term transplant recipients. American Journal of Transplantation, 4 (Supplement 8), 476.
  8. Cowan, P.A., Cashion, A.K., Kreider, R.B., Gaber, A.O. & Hathaway, D.K. (2004). Heart rate variability and exercise capacity in diabetic and non-diabetic kidney transplant recipient. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 36 (5 Supplement), page number pending.

Books/Book Chapters

Gaber, AO, Cashion A, Hathaway D, Shokouh-Amiri. Gastroenteropathy. In: Gruessner RWG, Sutherland DER (Eds), Transplantation of the Pancreas. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2003.

Other Publications

  1. Cashion AK, Cowan PA, Lustig RH, Hathaway DK, Joplin P, Burgen GA, Christensen M, Velasquez-Mieyer P. (2003). Correlations between autonomic function and enteroinsular axis in obese subjects. Diabetes (supplement).
  2. Cowan P, Cashion A, Gower G, Gaber AO, Hathaway D. (2004). Functional capacity and quality of life in kidney transplant recipients. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 31(2), 138.

Invited Workshops/Seminars/Presentations

International

  1. Longitudinal Analysis of Quality of Life in Kidney and Liver patients in the Patient Outcomes Registry for Transplant Effects on Life (PORTEL) Hathaway, D. 3 rd International Congress on Immunosuppression December 8-11, 2004 San Diego, CA
  2. Hathaway, D.K. on behalf of the PORTEL Study Group. Quality of life and side effect profile of liver versus kidney recipients the first two years post-transplant: findings from the PORTEL. North American Transplant Coordinators Organization 2004 Annual Meeting, August 1-4, 2004, San Francisco, CA.
  3. Hathaway, D.K., Winsett, R.P., Prendergast, M.M., & Hung, P. Quality of life and side effects in kidney transplant patients treated with cyclosporine- and tacrolimus-based immuno-suppressive regimens. International Transplant Nurses Society, October 2-4, 2003, Scottsdale, AZ.
  4. Hathaway, D., Winsett, R.P., Prendergast, M., Smith, B. The impact of health and social factors and major health and life events on post-transplant quality of life (QOL): a report from the patient outcomes registry for transplant effects on life (PORTEL). International Transplant Nurses Society, October 2-4, 2003, Scottsdale, AZ.
  5. Cowan, P.A., Cashion, A.K., Gower, G., Gaber, A.O., & Hathaway, D.K. Functional capacity correlated with heart rate variability in recent and long-term kidney transplant recipients. International Transplant Nurses Society, October 2-4, 2003, Scottsdale, AZ.
  6. Cetingok, M., Winsett, R.P., Hathaway, D.K., & Martin, J. Effects of gender, race, and social class on social support among posttransplant recipients. International Transplant Nurses Society, October 2-4, 2003, Scottsdale, AZ.
  7. Cowan, P.A., Cashion, A.K., Kreider, R., Gaber, A.O., & Hathaway, D.K. Heart rate variability and exercise capacity in diabetic and non-diabetic kidney transplant recipients. International Transplant Nurses Society, October 2-4, 2003, Scottsdale, AZ.
  8. Cowan, P.A., Johnson, K., Hines, S., Gower, G., Sanchez, Z., Hathaway, D.K. Post-transplant nutrition and metabolic syndrome in African-American and Caucasian kidney transplant recipients. International Transplant Nurses Society, October 2-4, 2003, Scottsdale, AZ.
  9. Sanchez, Z., Cashion, A.K., Cowan, P.A., & Hathaway, D.K. Factors associated with obesity in kidney and kidney pancreas transplant recipients. International Transplant Nurses Society, October 2-4, 2003, Scottsdale, AZ.
  10. Hathaway, D, Winsett, R.P., Prendergast, M., Smith, B. The impact of health and social factors and major health and life events on post-transplant quality of life: a report from the patient outcomes registry for transplant effects on life. North American Transplant Coordinators Organization, July 27-30, 2003, New Orleans, LA.
  11. Hathaway, D.K., Winsett, R.P., Prendergast, M.M., & Hung, P. Quality of life and side effects in kidney transplant patients treated with cyclosporine- and tacrolimus-based immunosuppressive regimens. North American Transplant Coordinators Organization, July 27-30, 2003, New Orleans, LA.

National

  1. Cowan, P.A., Cashion, A.K., Kreider, R.B., Gaber, A.O. & Hathaway, D.K. Heart rate variability and exercise capacity in diabetic and non-diabetic kidney transplant recipient. American College of Sports Medicine, June 2-5, 2004, Indianapolis, IN.
  2. Hathaway, D.K. on behalf of the PORTEL Study Group. Side effects and daily life function in kidney transplant recipients at 1 to 3 years posttransplant: A report from the patient outcomes registry for transplant effects on life (PORTEL). American Transplant Congress, May 15-19, 2004, Boston, MA.
  3. Cowan, P.A., Cashion, A.K., Gower, G., Gaber, A.O., & Hathaway, D.K. Functional capacity correlated with heart rate variability in recent and long-term transplant recipients. American Transplant Congress, Boston, MA, May 15-19, 2004.
  4. Cashion, A.K., Cowan, P.A., Hathaway, D.K., Lo, A., Gaber, A.O. Changes in weight during the first year post renal transplant. American Transplant Congress, May 15-19, 2004, Boston, MA,.
  5. Cowan, P.A., Cashion, A.K., Gower, G., Gaber, A.O. & Hathaway, D.K. Functional capacity correlates with quality of life (QoL) in kidney transplant recipients. American Nephrology Nurses Association, April 15-18, 2004, Boston, MA.

Regional

  1. The Transplant Recipient's Qualtiy of Life: Taking the Research from Bench to Bedside. Hathaway, D. American Transplant Congress Pre-Meeting Symposia, May 21-25, 2005, Seattle, Washington

  2. Sanchez, Z., Cashion, A.K., Cowan, P.A. & Hathway, D.K. Factors associated with obesity in kidney and kidney-pancreass transplant recipients. Southern Nursing Research Society, February 19-21, 2004, Louisville, KY.

Invited

  1. Hathaway, D. What is the impact on quality of life and cost benefit ratio of islet transplantation? Islet Transplantation 3rd Annual Symposium, December 4-6, 2003, Rancho Mirage, CA.
  2. Hathaway, D. Research basics. Nursing Ground Rounds, Le Bonheur Children's Research Hospital, November 5, 2003, Memphis, TN.
  3. Hathaway, D. Partnering on center grants. Annual Founders' Day Research Symposium: Center of Building Healthy Communities, University of Mississippi School of Nursing, Theta Beta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, Inc., October 13, 2003, Jackson, MS.
  4. Winsett, R.P. and Hathaway, D.K. Measuring the impact of patient-reported immunosuppression side effects on post-transplant quality of life. North American Transplant Coordinators Organization, July 27-30, 2003, New Orleans, LA.

Refereed Workshops / Seminars / Presentations

Local

University of Tennessee Health Science Center Response to the need for Interprofessional Education. Peppler, R. D., Hathaway, D., 2005 Feurt Symposium on Interprofessional Education, February 23. 2005, Memphis, TN

Regional:

Exercise Improves Functional Capacity and Cardiac Autonomic Function in Recent and Long-Term Kidney and Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipients. Hathaway, D. American Transplant Congress Pre-Meeting Symposia, May 21-25, 2005, Seattle, Washington

The Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) role and the Doctor of Nursing practice (DNP) are two recent examples of innovative responses to both internal directions from the nursing profession and external opportunities. Hathaway, D.K., Jacob-Dunbar.J., Stefaniak, K., Robert Woods Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program Leadership Seminar, April 6-8, 2005, Chicago, IL

Longitudinal analysis of quality of life in kidney and liver patients in the Patient Outcomes Registry for transplant effects on life (PORTEL). Hathaway, D.K. on behalf of the PORTEL Study Group. Third International Congress on Immunosuppression, December 8-11, 2004, San Diego, CA.

Quality of life and side effect profile of liver versus kidney recipients the first two years post-transplant: Findings from the Patient Outcomes registry for transplant effects on life (PORTEL). International Transplant Nurses Society Symposium, October 14-16, 2004, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Post-transplant Quality of Life: issues for patient Well-Being. Hathaway, D.K. Fujisawa Roundtable, September 24, 2004, Chicago, IL.

Quality of life and side effect profile of liver versus kidney recipients the first two years post-transplant: findings from the PORTEL. Hathaway, D.K. on behalf of the PORTEL Study Group. North American Transplant Coordinators Organization 2004 Annual Meeting, August 1-4, 2004, San Francisco, CA.

International

Quality of Life Issues after Transplantation, Hathaway, D. Enhancing Wellness: Lifelong Success for the Transplant Patient Summit. March 20, 2005, Banff, Alberta Canada

Patients' prospective of long-term outcomes: A view through the PORTEL. Hathaway, D. International Transplant Nurses Society Winter Transplant Nursing Workshop 2005, March 16-17, 2005, Banff, Alberta Canada

Functional capacity correlates with quality of life in recent and long-term transplant recipients. Cowan, P A., Hathaway, D., Cashion, A.K., Gower, G., Gaber, A.O. Beta-Theta-At-Large Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society Bi-Annual Research Day, February 25, 2005, Memphis, TN

Professional Achievements and Activities

Journal Editorial Boards

Journal of Professional Nursing
Journal of Nursing Education

Review Panels

National Institutes of Health Federal Advisory Committee
Nephrology Nursing Journal
Progress in Transplantation

Organizations

American Association of Colleges of Nursing – Hot Topics Committee 2004 - 2005
American Association of Colleges of Nursing – DNP Essential Task Force
Beta Theta Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau
Southern Nurse Research Society, 2004-2005

Honors Received

Distinguished Alumna Award (2004), University of Texas at Austin, School of Nursing

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