Barbara Cochrane

Cochrane is an Associate Professor in Family and Child Nursing and the de Tornyay Term Professor in Healthy Aging at the UW School of Nursing, where she is also Director of the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging. She is a Joint Associate Member in Public Health Sciences at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where she is a co-investigator at the coordinating center for the Women's Health Initiative — the large, landmark study of postmenopausal women's health. For the past 20 years, Cochrane's research has focused on older women's health, health promotion and disease prevention.

Education

• B.A. Psychology, University of Oregon
• B.S.N., University of Alaska, Anchorage
• M.N., Physiological Nursing, University of Washington
• PhD., Nursing Science, University of Washington

Awards and accolades

• Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN)
• Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America

Publications

• Dev R, Zaslavsky O, Cochrane B, Eagen T, Woods NF. (2020). Healthy aging through the lens of community-based practitioners: a focus group study. BMC Geriatrics, 20:211
• Gass M, Larson J, Cochrane B, Manson JE, Lane D, Barnabei V, Ockene J, Stefanick ML, Mouton C. (2018). Sexual activity and vaginal symptoms in the postintervention phase of the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Therapy Trials. Menopause (New York, N.Y.), 25:252-264
• Khalaf N, Yuan C, Hamada T, Cao Y, Babic A, Morales-Oyarvide V, Kraft P, Ng K, Giovannucci E, Ogino S, Stampfer M, Cochrane BB, Manson JE, Clish CB, Chan AT, Fuchs CS, Wolpin BM. (2018). Regular Use of Aspirin or Non-Aspirin Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Is Not Associated With Risk of Incident Pancreatic Cancer in Two Large Cohort Studies. Gastroenterology, 154:1380-1390.e5
• Hamada T, Yuan C, Bao Y, Zhang M, Khalaf N, Babic A, Morales-Oyarvide V, Cochrane BB, Gaziano JM, Giovannucci EL, Kraft P, Manson JE, Ng K, Nowak JA, Rohan TE, Sesso HD, Stampfer MJ, Amundadottir LT, Fuchs CS, De Vivo I, Ogino S, Wolpin BM. (2019). Prediagnostic Leukocyte Telomere Length and Pancreatic Cancer Survival. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention : A Publication Of The American Association For Cancer Research, Cosponsored By The American Society Of Preventive Oncology, 28:1868-1875
• Zaslavsky O, Zelber-Sagi S, LaCroix AZ, Brunner RL, Wallace RB, Cochrane BB, Woods NF. (2017). Comparison of the Simplified sWHI and the Standard CHS Frailty Phenotypes for Prediction of Mortality, Incident Falls, and Hip Fractures in Older Women. The Journals Of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences And Medical Sciences, 72:1394-1400
• Bao Y, Prescott J, Yuan C, Zhang M, Kraft P, Babic A, Morales-Oyarvide V, Qian ZR, Buring JE, Cochrane BB, Gaziano JM, Giovannucci EL, Manson JE, Ng K, Ogino S, Rohan TE, Sesso HD, Stampfer MJ, Fuchs CS, De Vivo I, Amundadottir LT, Wolpin BM. (2017). Leucocyte telomere length, genetic variants at the TERT gene region and risk of pancreatic cancer. Gut, 66:1116-1122