Karen Rose

Ohio State University

Biographical Abstracts

Karen M. Rose is the dean and a professor at Ohio State University College of Nursing, where she leads a team of over 350 faculty and staff, with an enrollment of approximately 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Prior to this appointment, Rose held the McMahan-McKinley endowed professorship at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville College of Nursing. She served as the program director for the undergraduate and Ph.D. programs in nursing at the University of Virginia, where she was appointed as an assistant dean for research and innovation.

Rose is a nurse scientist whose research focuses on meeting the needs of community-dwelling persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their family caregivers. Her work is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the John A. Hartford Foundation, and others. In collaboration with the Ohio Department of Aging, she co-leads a team to create and implement a resource center to meet the needs of dementia family caregivers/care partners across the state.

She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Gerontological Nursing and Research in Gerontological Nursing. She is a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America, the American Academy of Nursing, and the National Academies of Practice. She is an alumna of the Health and Aging Policy Fellowship program.

She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing at Shenandoah University, her master’s in nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University, and her Ph.D. in nursing at the University of Virginia.

Areas of Expertise

• Family caregiving
• Healthy aging in communities
• Use of technology to age in place