Department of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Kathleen O. Lindell, PhD, RN
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Clinical Nurse Specialist Phone: 412-647-3156 |
Bio
Kathleen Oare Lindell, PhD, RN, is the clinical nurse specialist and nursing manager for the Dorothy P.and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA.
Dr. Lindell is a graduate of the St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing and received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in nursing from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. Her early nursing career began as a critical care nurse in the Medical ICU and Emergency Department at St. Francis Hospital, and later she was the Nurse Manager of the Emergency Department. She also taught in the nursing school at St. Francis. After obtaining her Master’s Degree in Nursing with a pulmonary nursing focus, she was the clinical nurse specialist at the PENN Lung Center at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. She developed the PENN Quit Smoking Program while at PENN Lung Center which became the tobacco cessation program for the entire University of Pennsylvania Health System. Kathy returned to the University of Pittsburgh in 2000 and began working for the Simmons Center since its inception. Kathy is also adjunct faculty at the School of Nursing for the University of Pittsburgh. Currently she is on the Board of Directors for the American Thoracic Society, serving as the Chair of the Nursing Assembly and is also on the Strategic Advisory Board for the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis.
Clinical Interests
Dr. Lindell’s nursing focus has been on caring for patients with lung disease. More recently, she has focused on patients with interstitial lung disease, particularly patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and their care partner. She has also participated in several clinical and research projects about asthma, smoking cessation, oxygen therapy, and IPF.
Academic and Research Interests
Dr. Lindell’s current research involves interventions to improve quality of life for patients with lung fibrosis and their family members, and she leads the Simmons Center IPF patient support group. Kathy has several publications, including manuscripts, book chapters, and Web articles on a number of lung-related topics and has presented her work at several international meetings. She is involved with the nurses associated with the PACCM at the University of Pittsburgh in the Nursing Journal Club.
Dr. Lindell describes her role at the Dorothy P. And Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease in this short video.
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Section Editors: Kathleen Ellstrom, Kathleen Lindell, Anne Perry Kathy contributed two chapters "Interstitial Lung Disease" and "Tobacco and Other Substance Abuse" |
Key Publications
Lindell, K.O. & Mazzocco, M.C. (1990). Breaking bronchospasm’s grip with MDI’s.
(CE article). American Journal of Nursing. 34-39.
Lindell, K.O. & Jacobs, S. S. (2003). Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: New guidelines for diagnosis and management demand a fresh approach to nursing care. American Journal of Nursing, 103, 32-42. CE Feature.
Lindell, K. O., Erlen, J.A., & Kaminski, N. (2006). ESSAY Lessons from our Patients:
Development of a Warm Autopsy Program. PLoS Med, 3(7), e234.
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News
Dr. Lindell was recently honored in the Leadership section of the Summer 2009 edition of the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing Magazine. You can read her article on page 18-19 here.