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Donna L. Washington, M.D., M.P.H.
 Donna L. Washington, M.D., M.P.H.
Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Los Angeles, CA
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Dr. Washington received her undergraduate training at Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges (Applied Mathematics); medical training at Boston University School of Medicine (1989); residency training in the UCSF-San Francisco General Hospital primary care Internal Medicine program (1989-92); and research training in the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and UCLA School of Public Health (M.P.H., Epidemiology, 1995). Dr. Washington joined the VA in 1995, and is currently at the VA GLAHS West Los Angeles Healthcare Center.
Dr. Washington's research focuses on ambulatory care and emergency department access and use, and on racial/ethnic and gender disparities in care. Her earlier work in these areas included studying racial/ethnic variations in VA ambulatory care use and its association with unmet healthcare needs, and developing and validating clinical guidelines for direct primary care referral of emergency department users with nonacute conditions. As an investigator on the research team that evaluated the National Women Veterans Health Program as part of the VA strategic planning activities to improve women veterans' health care delivery, she assessed VA availability of women's healthcare services.
Dr. Washington's HSR&D CDA will enable her to expand her research on women veterans' healthcare services use. The studies that she is conducting during her CDA will allow her to build a solid empirical basis for understanding women veterans' VA ambulatory care use and develop future studies that test interventions to improve VA care for women. In pursuit of these research interests, she is PI of a VA HSR&D funded project (GEN-00-082) to describe patterns, barriers, and influences on women veterans' ambulatory care use, and identify gender-gaps in VA use.
Dr. Washington's mentors are Paul G. Shekelle, M.D., Ph.D., a nationally recognized leader in quality assessment and improvement, and Lillian Gelberg, M.D., M.S.P.H., an expert in access to care, vulnerable populations, and women's health.
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