Doris Howell

Roles & Affiliations: Dr. Doris Howell holds Emerita Scientist status at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and adjunct roles at Cancer Care Ontario (CCO). She serves as Co-Director of the Ontario Patient Reported Outcomes on Symptoms and Toxicity (On-PROST) initiative. Her formal academic appointment is as Professor (status) at the University of Toronto's Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, with cross-appointments to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She is also a member of the national distress management implementation team under the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer.

• Emerita/Emeritus Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
• Adjunct Scientist, Cancer Care Ontario
• Co-Director, On-PROST (CCO)
• Professor (status), Faculty of Nursing & Cross-appointed to School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Education: Trained as a health services researcher, with PhD and Registered Nurse credentials. Details of specific degrees or institutions are not explicitly listed beyond her current appointments.

Research Interests: Focused on improving cancer care through nurse-led behavioral self-management interventions targeting symptom distress (fatigue, breathlessness, pain). Specializes in qualitative methodologies (hermeneutic phenomenology) and mixed-methods study designs to explore psychological factors like illness perception and beliefs influencing patient adaptation. Her work emphasizes knowledge translation of best practices, particularly integrating chronic disease self-management strategies into survivorship care. Active in developing frameworks for measuring the full cancer experience across physical/psychological/social domains.

Publications Trends: Recent articles address sexual health guidelines for prostate cancer patients, validation of telehealth interventions (e.g., iCope), and international guidelines for patient-reported outcomes in oncology. Earlier work explored health literacy's role in cancer self-management and long-term fatigue effects in survivors.

Leadership & Grants: Leads guideline development for cancer care models and distress management. Involved in national implementation teams and cross-institutional collaborative projects focusing on survivorship care and PRO integration into clinical practice. No specific grant details are provided in the text.

Labs/Teams: Central to On-PROST initiative and affiliated with ESMO Guidelines Committee. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams in clinical research and policy development.