Anna Rose Templeton, DNP

Anna Templeton is a qualitative research scientist at OCHIN. She works with patients, caregivers, clinicians, staff and leaders in community-based settings to strengthen partnerships and participation through collaborative engagement and sustainable infrastructure. Her goal is to support effective, person-centered research that improves patient health outcomes. Anna has been with OCHIN since 2017 and leads the engagement cores for both the ADVANCE Clinical Research Network (ADVANCE CRN) and the Network for Community-Engaged Primary Care Research (NCPCR). 

Anna began her career in family practice nursing at a federally qualified health center in rural Vermont. Her experiences with research and quality improvement projects through a local practice-based research network and Area Health Education Center led her to earn a Doctor of Nursing Practice in community health systems nursing from the University of Washington. She has worked in primary care and practice-based research networks in the United States and United Kingdom, facilitating network development and contributing to a wide range of research methods, projects and infrastructure to strengthen community-based primary care delivery and access.

In addition to her network roles, she contributes to multiple project teams, including a community health worker-led social care intervention, improving digital tool use in complex care management, and engaged approaches to using large health record datasets for patient-centered research. She is an active member of the NAPCRG Patient and Clinician Engagement Committee, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet) engagement workstreams, and serves as an advisor on multiple PCORI-funded engagement studies.