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Project Management

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Missoula, MT, 59803

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October 20, 2010

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Kathleen (Kaye) Elizabeth Norris, Ph.D.

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Missoula, MT 59802

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Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Experimental Psychology

University of Montana, 1995

Missoula, Montana

Major: Biopsychology

Dissertation: Risk Factors Associated with Adoption: A Path

Analytic Model Suggesting Causal Relationships

between Risk, Family Environment, Child Behavior, &

Service Needs

Master of Arts, Experimental Psychology

University of Montana, 1992

Major: Biopsychology

Thesis: Base Rates for the Occurrence of Articulated

Profiles on the Personality Research Form and the

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Bachelor of Arts, General Psychology/Biology

University of Washburn, 1986

Topeka, Kansas

Research and Consultation Experience

July 2007 - present Program Director (Contract Position)

Montana Pain Initiative

American Cancer Society

Missoula, MT

Duties Responsible for overseeing the implementation of the

Montana Pain Initiative Strategic Plan, including

identifying and soliciting members to serve on the

Statewide Advisory Council, and its three Standing

Committees: Public and Institutional Policy; Provider

Practice Improvement; Public and Patient Education and

Advocacy, planning, organizing, and convening the annual

face-to-face meeting, as well as monthly telephone

Committee meetings and providing follow-up reports, working

with the Executive Committee, writing grants and garnering

sponsorships and donations, overseeing all projects for

which funding is obtained, supervising staff, managing

budgets, organizing and conducting regional conferences and

workshops, recruiting speakers, applying for continuing

medical education credits, developing pre-post-test

questionnaires, and analyzing evaluation results, writing

up and distributing results, marketing projects to recruit

participation and garner stakeholder support, interfacing

with the media through press releases and interviews,

managing website: www.mtpainorg and the over 400 member

listserve, writing project and year-end reports, serving on

the Montana Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition Quality

of Life Committee, representing the Initiative on Montana

Public Health and Human Services Task Forces, Advisory

Councils, or Coalitions, working with staff at hospitals,

long term care facilities, and home health agencies to

develop and implement projects, working with State

Regulatory Boards: Medical, Nursing, and Pharmacy, and the

Attorney General's Office, presenting to Montana coalitions

and advisory groups, and presenting Montana Pain Initiative

accomplishments at national conferences and meetings.

Sept. 2008-present Power Over Pain Action Network Statewide Leader

American Pain Foundation

Montana

Duties: Functioning as point person for pain care advocacy

activities in Montana, referring stakeholders to American

Pain Foundation resources, engaging in legislative and

policy advocacy by writing to and speaking with State and

Federal representatives, engaging in media advocacy by

writing and speaking with newspaper, television, and radio

reporters, engaging in community outreach by presenting to

professionals, support groups, community centers and in

other venues. Attending and presenting at the Annual

National APF Summit.

August 2004-present Research and Evaluation Consultant

Kaye Norris Consulting

Missoula, Montana

Duties Responsible for providing consultation to customers

in writing grants, designing, implementing, and analyzing

research and evaluation projects, locating existing data,

conducting site visits and presenting research results to

various target audiences including both professional and

community participants, as well as serving on national

advisory boards, publishing with national colleagues, and

performing research and analysis activities as required,

and overseeing project development and implementation as

required.

Jan. 2005-May 2005 Instructor, Walla Walla College for Master Social

Workers

Missoula, MT

Duties Taught two quarters of Advanced Clinical Evaluation.

Students designed program evaluations, collected data,

analyzed data, and presented both oral and written reports.

They additionally completed quizzes and a final

examination.

1998 to August 2004 Director of Research

Life's End Institute: Missoula Demonstration Project

Missoula, Montana

Duties: Designed and conducted community research in

conjunction with the Principal Investigator, including,

developing qualitative and quantitative research projects,

writing grants, assuring that project objectives and time

lines were met, overseeing the development, refinement and

maintenance of databases, overseeing the data analysis,

supervising contract employees and research assistants,

writing progress reports, developing manuscripts, research

reports and academic publications, provided consultation to

multiple interdisciplinary community coalitions across the

nation in designing, implementing, and analyzing research

and evaluation projects, conducted site visits and

presented research results to various target audiences, as

well as coordinated state-wide research projects, developed

strategic relationships with local and national

researchers, and presented at national conferences.

1999 to 2002 Evaluation Consultant

Kaye Norris Consulting

Missoula, Montana

Duties: Provided technical assistance for the Promoting

Excellence in End-of-life Care project grantees across the

nation, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation.

Technical assistance regarding program evaluation, survey

development, data analysis, interpreting results, and

overall research design were provided. Site visit and

conference call mentoring was provided.

2000 - 2002 Evaluation Consultant

Kaye Norris Consulting

Missoula, Montana

Duties: Provided technical assistance for the Community

State Partnership grantees funded by the Robert Wood

Johnson foundation. Technical assistance regarding program

evaluation, survey development, data analysis, and overall

research design were provided. Site visit and conference

call mentoring was provided.

1999 Methodology Consultant

Kaye Norris Consulting

Missoula, Montana

Duties: Responsible for developing First Peer Review of

Colorado's Primary Care Physician Survey and the research

design to examine primary care physician's cultural

competency and disability awareness, conducting data

analysis, and writing final report.

1996 to 1999 Principle Investigator

Kaye Norris Consulting

Missoula, Montana

Duties: Responsible for evaluating the Montana Families for

Kids project funded by the Kellogg Foundation. Specific

activities included: tracking children who were in foster

care with the State and also through seven American Indian

Reservations, conducting statistical and descriptive

analyses on data from the CAPS automated database,

evaluating the changes in the Child and Family Service

policies and procedures that facilitate moving children to

permanent placements within one year, and writing reports.

Feb. to May 1998 Research Associate (Consulting Position)

Rural Institute on Disabilities

Self-Employment Project

University of Montana

Missoula, Montana

Duties: Responsible for conducting face-to-face interviews

with self-employed people in western Montana with and

without disabilities, conducting telephone interviews with

self-employed people with disabilities, training graduate

students to interview, reviewing literature on self-

employment, developing mail-based survey for self-employed

people with disabilities, conducting analyses of survey

data.

1995 to 1997 Co-Director

Community and Government Studies Program (CGS)

University of Montana

Missoula, Montana

Duties: Responsible for the administration of CGS, including

supervising administrative support and graduate students,

developing and monitoring budgets, and oversight of the day-

to-day functions. Project responsibilities included Co-

Directing Montana Welfare Reform Evaluation. Primarily

responsible for the social research component. Specific

activities included reviewing literature on policy

evaluation of social systems, developing and evaluating

research plans, developing and testing evaluation

instruments and training materials, training and technical

assistance, analyzing data, writing interpretive reports,

progress reports, and manuscripts for publication.

Additionally, responsible for assisting with the

facilitation of Advisory Councils and Task Forces serving

the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services,

assisting with grant writing, and assisting with other

projects of CGS as needed.

1994 to 1995 Project Director

Rural Institute on Disabilities

University of Montana

Missoula, Montana

Duties: Primarily responsible for directing research

utilizing cognitive-behavioral and behavioral treatment

strategies for helping people with disabilities prevent and

manage secondary conditions of spinal cord injury and other

physical disabilities. Specific activities included

administrative (e.g. budgeting, overseeing personnel,

collaborating with service agencies, meeting reporting

requirements, etc.) as well as research duties (e.g.,

interviewing subjects, preparing regional surveys, writing

intervention materials, designing outcome measures),

developing and evaluating the "Living Well with a

Disability" 8-week workshop and self-help manual.

1992 to 1994 Project Coordinator

Rural Institute on Disabilities

Missoula, Montana

Duties: Conducted library research, wrote reports,

manuscripts and grants, supervised graduate and

undergraduate students, conducted interviews with

consumers, contacted professionals and experts in the field

of disability, and trained service providers to conduct

workshops.

Publications

Merriman, M & Norris, K. (2008) The Dying Process: A Guide for Caregivers.

Hospice Foundation of

American.

Norris K, Merriman M, Curtis R, Asp C, Tuholske L, & Byock I. Next of Kin

Perspectives on the Experience of End-of-Life Care in a Community

Setting. (2007) Journal of Palliative Medicine. October; 10(5): 1101-

1115.

Byock I. & Norris K. (2005) A Community-Based Approach to Improving the

Quality of Life's End. In Farrell B. & Coyle N. (eds.) Palliative Care

Nursing 2nd edition. Oxford University Press: Oxford, England.

Fins J, Maltby B, Friedmann E, Greene M, Norris K, Adelman R, & Byock, I.

(2005) Contracts, Covenants and Advance Care Planning: An Empirical

Study of the Moral Obligations of Patient and Proxy. J Pain Symptom

Manage. Jan;29(1):55-68.

Norris K, Strohmaier G, Asp C, Byock, I. (2004) Spiritual Care at the End

of Life: The Influence of Clerical Training on Practice. Health

Progress, July-August issue.

Seecharan G, Anderson E, Norris K, and Toce S. (2004) Parents' Assessment

of Quality of Care and Grief Following a Child's Death. Archives of

Pediatric Adolescent Medicine, Volume 158, 515-520.

Curtis R, Patrick D, Engleberg R, Norris K, Asp C, and Byock I. (2002) A

Measure of the Quality of Dying and Death: Initial Validation Using

After Death Interviews with Family Members. Journal of Pain and Symptom

Management. Volume 24(1): 17-31.

Byock I, Norris K, Curtis R, Patrick D. (2002) Improving End-of-Life Care

in the Community: A Conceptual Framework. Journal of Pain and Symptom

Management, Volume 22(3): 759-772.

Mayer D, Torma L, Norris K, Byock I, Speaking the Language of Pain: A

Community Initiative - the Fifth Vital Sign Task Force of the Missoula

Demonstration Project - has Redefined Pain Management, American Journal

of Nursing, February 2001, Volume 101) Number 2, Page 44.

Seekins T, White G, Ravesloot C, Norris K, Szalda-Petree A, Lopez J, Golden

K, & Young, Q. (1999). Developing and evaluating community-based

health promotion programs for people with disabilities. In Simeonsson,

R.J., & McDevitt, L.N. (eds.) Issues in disability & health: The role

of secondary conditions and quality of life. Chapel Hill: University

of North Carolina, FPG Child Development Center.

Norris K, Seekins T, Ravesloot C, Szalda-Petree A, Young Q. (1995).

Preventing and managing secondary conditions experienced by people with

physical disabilities. Rehabilitation Psychology, 40(2):150.

Contracts Awarded

Between July, 2007 to the present have been in a contract

relationship with the American Cancer Society to coordinate the Pain

Improvement Partnership project, and to be the Program Director for the

Montana Pain Initiative. Contracts totaled $112,868.

Between September 2004 and November 2007 was awarded three contracts

through Touchstone Consulting to conduct Internet research on end-of-life

data resources and populate the EDELE (Epidemiology of Dying and End of

Life Experience) national database; analyze qualitative and quantitative

evaluation data of an Indian Health Services regional training on end-of-

life palliative care; and co-write "The Dying Process: A Guide for

Caregivers" to be published by the Hospice Foundation of American.

Contracts totaled: $25,000

Between October, 2002 and May, 2004 was awarded 16 contracts through

the Robert Wood Johnson Rallying Points Program to assist 16 community end-

of-life coalitions to design and implement community-level research

projects and then presented these results to local targeted audiences.

Contracts totaled: $162,600.

Grants Awarded

From June, 2010 to the present raised fund through grant writing,

donor request, and exhibitor fees to implement the 4th Annual Montana Pain

Initiative Conference "Navigating the Complexities of Pain:

Interdisciplinary Strategies." Fundraising will continue through October.

$23,500

Between June and September, 2009 raised funds through grant writing,

donor requests, and exhibitor fees to implement the 3rd Annual Montana Pain

Initiative Conference: Practical Approaches to Managing Pain. $33,200

Between June and August, 2008 raised funds through grant writing,

donor requests, and exhibitor fees to implement the Montana Pain Initiative

Second Annual Conference "Pain Management Policy and Practice: A Balanced

Approach. $25,450

In December, 2008 played a lead role in the development of a grant

that was awarded to the Montana Pain Initiative of the American Cancer

Society. This grant was awarded by the Montana Attorney General Consumer

Settlement Advisory Council to organize and conduct the 3rd Annual Montana

Pain Initiative Conference and to carry out the work of the three Standing

Committees. $67,000

In April, 2007, played a lead role in the development of a grant that

was awarded to the Montana Pain Initiative of the American Cancer Society.

This was a State Pain Activity grant from the ACS Cancer Action Network to

revise state regulations regarding pain management policy, and organize and

conduct the Initiative's second annual conference titled: "Pain Management

Policy and Practice: A Balanced Approach." $12,000

In September, 2001 played a lead role in the development of a grant

that was awarded to the Missoula Demonstration Project: The Quality of

Life's End (MDP). This grant was awarded by the Department of Commerce,

National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Technology

Opportunities Program to develop and evaluate a community-owned, community-

based web site repository for advance health care directives that makes

these documents available twenty-fours per day. $923,500

In May, 1999 played the lead role in the development of a grant that

was awarded to the Missoula Demonstration Project: The Quality of Life's

End (MDP). This grant was awarded from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

(1999-2000). The purpose of the grant was to continue MDP's community-wide

research and demonstration project by further analyzing data from 12

different studies, publishing the results, providing technical assistance

to other communities who wish to replicate MDP's research, and conducting a

strategic community engagement process to improve the quality of the dying

experience in Missoula County, Montana. $699,000.

In February, 1998 submitted a capacity building grant for the Montana

Psychological Association (MPA) to the American Psychological Association.

This grant allowed MPA to continue employing an Executive Director, hire a

lobbyist, fund three student chapters of MPA, and conduct a membership

campaign. $15,000.

In 1996 played a significant role in the development of a grant

proposal that was awarded to the State of Montana. This grant was awarded

from the Centers for Disease Control (1996-2001). Its purpose was to

develop and maintain the Montana Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection

Program. $6,000,000.00

In June, 1994, The Kellogg Foundation awarded the Montana Adoption

Resource Center (MARC) a grant to assist me in the data collection

procedures of my doctoral dissertation, titled Risk Factors Association

with Adoption: A path analytic model suggesting causal relationships

between risk, family environment, child symptoms and service needs.

$25,000.

In 1992 played a significant role in the development of a grant

proposal that was awarded to the Rural Institute on Disabilities at the

University of Montana. This grant was awarded from Environmental Health

and Injury Control of the Centers for Disease Control (1992-1994). Its

purpose was to develop and evaluate a risk assessment tool for secondary

conditions, as well as a community-based intervention for helping people

with spinal cord injuries living in the community to reduce the incidence

and severity of secondary conditions. $430,000.

Presentations

Norris K. (November, 2009). Managing Cancer Pain: Successes and

Challenges. Montana Comprehensive Cancer Control Statewide Fall

Meeting. Helena, MT

Norris K, & Hahn, K. (June, 2009). Pain Policy 201: A Step by Step Guide

to Improving your State's Pain Policy Report Card. American Pain

Foundation Power over Pain Action Network Summit. Minneapolis, MN

Norris K. (March, 2009). Montana Pain Initiative: History and Future.

Presented to the Cascade County American Cancer Society Advisory

Council to inform them of past accomplishments and the strategic plan

for the Montana Pain Initiative.

Norris K, Page-Nei, K & Spears, B. (October, 2008) Advancing Pain

Management Policy and Practice in Montana an Georgia: A Balanced

Approach. Presented at the 22nd Annual Alliance of State Pain

Initiatives Conference: Frontiers in Pain Management. Austin, TX

Norris K. (September, 2008) Update on the Montana Pain Initiative.

Presented at the Second Annual

Conference of the Montana Pain Initiative "Pain Management Policy and

Practice: A Balanced

Approach" to inform participants of the activities of the Pain

Initiative and obtain feedback for

next steps. Missoula, MT

Norris K. (July, 2008) Montana Pain Initiative: History and Future.

Presented to the Flathead