Bingham Memorial Hospital; Director of Grants and Research
Bernadette Howlett, MS, PhD, is the Director of Grants and Research at Bingham Memorial Hospital and an Affiliate Faculty member with ISU's Institute of Rural Health. She has a doctorate in Adult and Organizational Learning from the College of Education at University of Idaho. Her Master of Science is in Instructional & Human Performance Technology from the College of Engineering at Boise State University and her Bachelor's degree is in Interdisciplinary Studies (music/business entrepreneurship) from Marylhurst University. She is a researcher, instructional designer, and a learning assessment as well as program evaluation specialist.
Scholarly Activities
Dr. Howlett is an accomplished researcher and author. She has won multiple national and regional research grants as well as collaborated on many others. See Dr. Howlett's CV for a complete listing of publications, grants, research projects, and other information.
As a translational and interprofessional researcher Dr. Howlett's research activities explore an array of topics, such as:
- Intermittent, longstanding bilateral mastalgia in a 35-year-old woman. Case of the Month in JAAPA. January 2012.
- Thyroid hormone level correlations in a sample of patients at an internal medicine practice. NCUR conference presentation in March of 2012.
- Burnout among rural physician assistants (a PAEA/AAPA funded research project currently under way)
- Interprofessional mobile health clinic providing care to rural Andean indigenous populations (presentation given at Research Day 2011)
- Combatting food insecurity through community-based nutrition interventions (ongoing international research project)
- The use background knowledge probes for teaching statistics to physician assistant students (article published in the Journal of Physician Assistant Education)
- Predictors of PA student success on the national certifying examination (abstract of national conference presentation published in the Journal of Physician Assistant Education)
Awards & Honors
- Scholar, Institute of Translational Health Sciences (2011)
- John C. Bobbell Award for Dedication and Devotion to the Field of Adult Education from the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) SE Idaho Chapter
- Idaho Condor Nutrition Team Leader (2010, 2011)
- ISU Distinguished Researcher 2008 Nominee
- Golden Key International Honour Society Inductee, University of Idaho (2008-2009)
Teaching
She was an educational technology trainer for eight years and a university faculty member for eight years; winning tenure and promotion in 2011. She has taught Evidence-based Medicine; Biostatistics, Capstone Assessment for graduate physician assistant students, and directed studies courses for both undergraduate and graduate health professional students. She has also taught First Year Seminar, Literature Review and Analysis for Graduate Dental Hygiene, Teaching and Learning Strategies for Graduate Nursing. Additionally, as an instructional designer she has taught numerous instructional technology workshops, such as online course design, integrity in online assessments, and "how to" classes (PowerPoint, Excel, Photoshop, Acrobat, HTML, Respondus, WebCT, and Moodle).