Diana Taylor, RNP, PhD, FAAN

Professor Emerita, UCSF School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing
Director, Research & Evaluation, Access through Primary Care Initiative, ANSIRH

Email: diana.taylor@nursing.ucsf.edu

Biosketch:

Diana Taylor, nurse practitioner, educator and researcher, is professor emerita in the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Family Health Care Nursing and formerly the Director of UCSFs Women's Primary Care Program, the first women's health training program in California. Currently, she is the director of research and evaluation for a statewide project to train advanced practice clinicians in first trimester abortion care using a standardized curriculum with the goal to increase the number of abortion providers and make professional and practice improvements to normalize abortion into women's primary care. Dr. Taylor received her BSN from the University of Oregon, her MS from UCSF and PhD from the University of Washington.

As a researcher, Dr. Taylor has an established track record of multisite clinical intervention studies, federally funded demonstration-evaluation studies, and peer-reviewed publications. Her extensive research program has been directed at the effect of the menstrual cycle on women's health, testing non-drug treatments for stress-related illness in women, and more recently evaluating innovative strategies to expand abortion provision in the U.S.

Dr. Taylor has been at the forefront of developing the knowledge base in women’s health, especially the effect of the menstrual cycle on women’s health. Her books include Menstruation, Health and Illness (1992), and An Annual Review of Women’s Health Research (2001). In addition, Dr. Taylor has more than 100 scientific articles and publications in the area of women’s health and has co-authored a science-based consumer health book for women to assist them in managing symptoms and promoting their health (Taking Back the Month: How to Manage PMS and Enhance your Health (2002).

Other professional activities reflect her interdisciplinary endeavors on regional, national level and international levels. Specifically, in the development of innovative women's health care delivery models, interdisciplinary education programs, practice standards, and evidence-based practice guidelines, she has served on national boards and committees of the Health Professions Division of the US Public Health Service, the American Nurses Association, the National Organization of NP Faculties, the Association of Women's Health Nurses as well as state and local nursing practice and education committees. Dr. Taylor has also served in leadership roles on scientific panels for the IOM/NAS Board on Children & Families and the IOM Safety of Silicone Breast Implants Committee. Currently, Dr. Taylor is also an active board member of the Reproductive Options Education Consortium in Nursing (Abortion Access Project); a board member of Clinicians for Choice (NAF); and a board member and active committee member of the Association of Reproductive Health Professional (ARHP) organization.

Areas of Interest:

• The individual woman's experience of symptoms and illness within the context of women's lives
• The effect of the menstrual cycle on women's health and illness
• Conduct of clinical trials of non-drug symptom management for women’s health & illness
  • Alternative and complementary therapies for women's health conditions
  • Women's health promotion programs
  • Symptom management for complex women's health conditions
• Normalizing abortion into women’s primary care
• Applying participatory action research methods to improve women’s primary care delivery
• Evaluating the relationships between health professional practice and women’s health delivery outcomes

Publications on PubMed


Updated January 2009