Donnelly

Dr. Catherine Donnelly

Position(s)

HSPRI Director

Contact Info

Dr. Catherine Donnelly joined the School of Rehabilitation Therapy in 2004 and is an Associate Professor with a cross appointment to the Department of Family Medicine. She served as Interim Associate Director, Occupational Therapy Program in 2017. Dr. Donnelly is an instructor in both the Occupational Therapy and Aging and Health programs. Dr. Donnelly earned her BSc in Occupational Therapy from Queen’s University, and later earned an MSc from the University of British Columbia, School of Rehabilitation Science. She earned her PhD in Education, Assessment and Evaluation, from Queen’s University in 2013 and completed a fellowship at Western University’s Centre for Studies in Family Medicine that same year.

Dr. Donnelly's clinical research focus is on team-based primary care with an emphasis on understanding how interprofessional teams support older adults and individuals with chronic conditions. Dr. Donnelly’s expertise in assessment and evaluation has resulted in teaching innovations that have benefitted interprofessional teams including clinicians, Queen’s faculty and students, and other stakeholders in the rehabilitation field.

Dr. Donnelly has been recognized widely as an excellent educator. She is the 2018-19 recipient of Faculty of Health Sciences Education Award and has been further honored at Queen’s with the Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching (2014), Blue Star Teaching Excellence Award (2014, 2015, 2016), and Charles Baillie Teaching Award (2017). She has been the Queen’s Faculty Nominee for the 3M National Teaching Fellowship (2018).

Research Interests

Team-based primary care with an emphasis on understanding how interprofessional primary care teams can support older adults and individuals with chronic conditions.