Meg Johantgen, Ph.D., R.N.
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
University of Maryland Baltimore

Meg Johantgen received a B.S. in Nursing from Niagara University, a M.S. from SUNY at Buffalo in Nursing Administration, and her Ph.D. in Health Services Research and Organizations from Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia.

As an intramural researcher at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), Dr. Johantgen worked on the development of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP-3).  Her research has focused on measurement of health care quality from administrative data and she helped design the first version of the HCUP Quality Indicators for use with hospital discharge data.

Dr. Johantgen’s interest in health care quality was applied to study variation in breast cancer treatment.  Since joining the University of Maryland, she has worked with faculty and doctoral students on studies using health services research methods.  She was funded through an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety grant (PI: Trinkoff) where administrative data from hospitals and nursing homes were used to study patient and worker injuries.  Meg has been chair and committee member for many doctoral students and serves as a consultant on grants and contracts. Dr. Johantgen teaches policy, research methods, and data management.  She is currently a member of the Maryland Health Care Commission’s Nursing Home Performance Evaluation Steering Committee.