Meet the Instructor

Barbara Cochrane

Professor Emeritus, UW School of Nursing

Barbara Cochrane is a nursing scientist and professor emeritus in the Department of Child, Family and Population Health Nursing at the University of Washington School of Nursing, where she was a director of the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging. She has been honored to teach in UWPCE’s Certificate in Gerontology program since 2006. 

For more than 30 years, Cochrane has dedicated her research and academic work to older women's health, health promotion and disease prevention, geriatrics education and training, and nursing research and theory. At Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Cochrane was a clinical coordinating center co-investigator for the Women's Health Initiative — the large, landmark study of postmenopausal women’s health. 

Her clinical work has included cardiovascular, critical-care and oncology nursing, as well as gerontological nursing. Cochrane has a bachelor’s in psychology from the University of Oregon and a BSN from the University of Alaska, Anchorage. She also has a master's of nursing and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the Gerontological Society of America.