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Cathy Donald Sherbourne
(Ph.D., Public Health, UCLA, 1986)
Cathy is a medical sociologist and health services researcher specializing in health outcome measurement for both adults and children with a focus on mental health issues. Dr. Sherbourne has been the primary sociologist working on health status measurement, satisfaction, and the analyses of life stress, social and role functioning, social support, and mental health status, for several of RAND's large-scale health policy evaluations, including the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE), the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), the AHRQ-funded Depression PORT, Health Care for Communities (HCC); the HIV Costs and Service Utilization Study (HCSUS) and the Collaborative Care for Anxiety and Panic (CCAP) study. She has had extensive experience in the development of self-report health and satisfaction measures for children and adults and participated in the main analyses of general health outcomes for the HIE, MOS, PORT, HCC and numerous other studies. Dr. Sherbourne was one of the developers of the 20 and 36-item short form health surveys (SF-20 and SF-36), which were constructed for use in surveying general health in clinical practice and research, health policy evaluations, and in general population surveys. She served as a member of an Institute of Medicine's committee to develop an agenda for health outcomes research for the elderly; recommendations were published in 1996. She also served as PI of a project called "Social and Psychological Factors in Health and Functioning," one of five subprojects in RANDŐs program project on Social and Economic Functioning in Older Populations, funded by the National Institute on Aging beginning in 1992; and PI of a Pepper Center project exploring age differences in preferences for health states
Currently, Dr. Sherbourne is Co-PI of the Clinical Services Core of the UCLA/RAND NIMH-Center for Research on Managed Care for Psychiatric Disorders; and RAND PI of an NIMH-funded grant related to stigma and depression. Other relevant experience has included PI of an NIMH funded project examining the extent to which comorbid anxiety disorder affects the functioning and well-being of chronically ill patients; CO-PI for a RAND contract reviewing health-related quality of life measures for persons with all types of anxiety disorders; and CO-PI of an NIMH funded project examining the association between panic disorder and limitations in functional status and well-being.
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