Brief Bio

Michael Cary, PHD, RN, joined the DUSON faculty in August, 2012. He has over eight years of nursing experience in long-term care, rehabilitation, and community health settings. Dr. Cary earned a BS in health services administration with a double minor in business administration and health information systems from James Madison University, and his BSN and MSN degrees (health systems management concentration) from the University of Virginia. He completed his PhD at University of Virginia School of Nursing in 2012.

Dr. Cary's dissertation research project, “Inpatient Rehabilitation Outcomes among Medicare Hip Fracture Patients”, which was funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, lays the foundation for future work focusing on quality measures for rehabilitation, coordinated care and the comparative effectiveness of different post-acute care settings. While completing his doctoral studies, Michael gained experience in teaching both undergraduate and graduate students in the classroom as well as in online learning environments. He is co-teaching Nursing Care of Older Adults and Their Families in the ABSN program during the fall semester, and will teach this course again in the spring.

Academic Program Affiliations

Education

Awards and Honors

• 2015 Selected as participant, 2015 Duke University course on Leadership Development for Researchers (LEADER)

• 2013 Selected as participant, 20th Annual RAND Summer Institute for Aging

• 2013 Selected as participant, University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON) Online Dissemination and Implementation Program

• 2011 AcademyHealth/Aetna Foundation Minority Scholar, AcademyHealth and Aetna Foundation

• 2011 Barbara Brodie Scholars Endowment Award, University of Virginia School of Nursing

• 2011 Visiting Scholars Program (first scholar selected), University of Texas Medical Branch, Center for Rehabilitation Research Using Large Datasets

• 2010 Innovative Teaching Award, University of Virginia

• 2008 Johnson & Johnson/AACN Minority Nurse Faculty Scholar, Johnson & Johnson/American Association of Colleges of Nursing

• 2007 SCHEV Scholarship, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia

• 2004 Inducted, Sigma Theta Tau, Beta Kappa Chapter

Areas of Expertise

• Gerontology
• Health Disparities
• Quality of Care / Patient Safety
• Research Methods

Areas of Interest

• • Effects of health policies and health care systems on the health and functioning of older adults
• • Health disparities and minority aging
• • Health services research methods
• • Quality and patient safety in inpatient rehabilitation facilities
• • Care coordination and transitions of patients from post-acute care settings to home

Representative Publications

• 2016 -- Pubmed # 25037153 Cary Jr, M. P., Merwin, E. I., Oliver, M. N., Williams, I. C. Inpatient Rehabilitation Outcomes in a National Sample of Medicare Beneficiaries With Hip Fracture. J Appl Gerontol. January, 2016; 35(1); 62-83 PMCID: PMC4537688

• 2015 -- Pubmed # 25596000 Cary, M. P., Baernholdt, M., Anderson, R. A., Merwin, E. I. Performance-based outcomes of inpatient rehabilitation facilities treating hip fracture patients in the United States. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. May, 2015; 96(5); 790-8 PMCID: PMC4410059

• 2015 -- Pubmed # 25820992 Cary Jr, M. P., Baernholdt, M., Merwin, E. I. Changes in Payment Regulation and Acute Care Use for Total Hip Replacement: Trends in Length of Stay, Costs, and Discharge, 1997-2012. Rehabil Nurs. March, 2015, Epub ahead of print;

• 2013 -- Cary, M. P., Potter, D. R. Climbing the mountain: A practical guide to achieving scholarly excellence (AACN Webinar) October 17, 2013;

• 2011 -- Pubmed # 20730590 Jones, R. A., Wenzel, J., Hinton, I., Cary, M., Jones, N. R., Krumm, S., Ford, J. G. Exploring cancer support needs for older African-American men with prostate cancer. Support Care Cancer. September, 2011; 19(9); 1411-9

• 2011 -- Cary, M. P., Lyder, C. H. Geriatric assessment: Essential skills for nurses. American Nurse Today. July, 2011; 6(7);

• 2010 -- Pubmed # 20442150 Lopez, K. D., Gerling, G. J., Cary, M. P., Kanak, M. F. Cognitive work analysis to evaluate the problem of patient falls in an inpatient setting. J Am Med Inform Assoc. August, 2010; 17(3); 313-21 PMCID: PMC2945713

Grant Funding (selected)

• Inpatient Rehabilitation Outcomes in Medicare Hip Fracture Patients  
  NIH/NINR Pre-Doctoral National Research Service Award
  F31 NR012402-01A1
  05/2011-08/2012
  Role: Principal Investigator
  Project Goals: Using the Andersen’s Model for Health Services Use as the conceptual framework, the proposed longitudinal study aimed to: (1) determine the influence of individual characteristics (Predisposing: age, gender, race), (Enabling: social support), (Need: functional status and cognitive status on admission, and comorbidities) on rehabilitation outcomes (motor functioning, functional status and discharged home) for Medicare beneficiaries with hip fracture in IRFs; and (2) determine the influence of contextual characteristics (type, size, location, and ownership) on IRF aggregate rehabilitation outcomes (motor functioning, functional status, and discharge home), controlling for the influence of aggregate individual characteristics (Predisposing, Enabling and Need) of Medicare beneficiaries with hip fracture in IRFs.

• An engineering work analysis applied to patient falls in the nursing domain  
  National Library of Medicine Short Term Trainee Award in Health Informatics
  T159462
  08/2007-02/2009
  Role: Co-Investigator/Trainee
  Project Goals: The main objective of this training program is the recruitment of under-represented minorities into Medical Informatics and provides exposure to systems engineering as it relates to the modeling, design, and analysis of complex problems in healthcare. Trainees are mentored by a systems engineering faculty member to focus in one of five areas as applied to Medical Informatics: 1) computational statistics and simulation; 2) risk and decision analysis; 3) human-machine systems; 4) optimization and control; or 5) systems integration. The objective of specific training project was to conduct a Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) in an inpatient nursing unit to identify and analyze the interplay between workers, patients, the physical environment, social context, and work flow as it relates to the risk of patient falls. CWA is an engineering method that seeks to identify the constraints that the environment and the processes impose on the worker in order to reduce workplace error and improve productivity.