Kori LaDonna
Current Appointments
Postdoctoral Fellow, CERI
E-mail: kori.ladonna@schulich.uwo.ca
Educational Background
PhD(c), Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University
Research Program Highlights
Publications from Google Scholar
Personal Biography
Dr. LaDonna earned bachelor degrees in English and Communication from the State University of New York at Geneseo, and she completed her PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Western University in 2014. Dr. LaDonna is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Education Research and Innovation (CERI) working with Dr. Chris Watling and Dr. Sayra Cristancho. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. LaDonna collaborates on qualitative research projects that explore (1) learning experiences in residency training programs, and (2) how expert clinicians understand and use their experiences—including career ‘turning points’, and clinical judgment in complex situations— to inform learners. Dr. LaDonna is simultaneously designing a research program that will explore the role of patients and family caregivers as health professions educators. This research program builds on her doctoral research which examined patient and family centered care issues in chronic neurological illness. Dr. LaDonna has expertise in qualitative research methodologies including grounded theory and phenomenology, and visual research methods including rich pictures, photovoice, and photo elicitation. Dr. LaDonna’s teaching role is a combination of graduate teaching and supervision of CERI’s research fellows and graduate students in the WU-UBC-Maastritch’s Masters in Health Professions Education, invited presentations and workshops teaching visual methodologies to health professions educators, and one-on-one consultations with researchers seeking to develop their qualitative research skills. Dr. LaDonna is a mom of two little girls (ages 6 and 3) and two geriatric beagles; Dr. LaDonna is also a voracious reader, a fitness enthusiast, and a rabid Buffalo Bills fan.
