Donald Nease

University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Campus

Biographical Abstracts

Donald Nease is a professor of family medicine at the University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus, where he serves as the director of community engagement for the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. He completed his undergraduate degree and medical school at the University of Kansas, residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, and a Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Dr. Nease’s passion is to improve health in partnership with communities, patients, clinicians, and health care. He works this territory from the level of individual interactions to community and population-based interventions. He has served as principal investigator for community- and practice-engaged projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Areas of Expertise

• Health equity
• Population health
• Community based participatory research
• Practice-based research
• Primary care