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Nancy G Kutner, Ph.D.

Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine
 
Office:   Center For Rehabilitation Medicine-Emory University School of Medicine
1441 Clifton Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30322
  
Email:   nkutner@emory.edu (University)
  
Office:   (404) 712-5561 (Office)
  

Overview

Nancy Kutner, PhD is Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Professor of Sociology at Emory University. Under a contract with the National Institute on Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Kutner directs a United States Renal Data System Special Studies Center on Rehabilitation and Quality of Life located at Emory. Her current projects focus on functional outcomes among persons with stroke and osteoarthritis, as well as chronic kidney disease. She has served on advisory committees for the Institute of Medicine, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Health Care Financing Administration.

Education

1965 Ph.D. Sociology Chapel Hill, NC, USA
1962 M.A. Sociology Chapel Hill, NC, USA
1960 A.B. Sociology Oberlin, OH, USA

Awards & Honors

01/2001 Award of Excellence, Presidential Poster Session Southern Sociological Society
01/2000 Research Award, Journal Writing American Nephrology Nurses' Association
01/1999 Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer, USRDS SSC 98-8, NIDDK NIH
01/1997 Excellence in Research Award PT Association
01/1996 Blue Ribbon Abstract American Society of Nephrology Annual Meeting
01/1991 Health Advancement Award NKF-FA, Inc.
01/1990 Travel Award National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging
01/1990 Travel Award American Council of Learned Societies
01/1983 Georgia Research Award National Kidney Foundation of Georgia, Inc.
01/1963 Howard W. Odum Memorial Award Department of Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill
01/1960 Dean's List, cum laude Oberlin College

Publications

  1. Johansen KL, Kutner NG, Young B, Chertow GM.
    Association of body size with health status in patients beginning dialysis.
    2006 Mar;83(3):543-9.
    PMID: 16522899
  2. Kutner NG, Zhang R, Huang Y, Herzog CA.
    Cardiac rehabilitation and survival of dialysis patients after coronary bypass.
    2006 Apr;17(4):1175-80. Epub 2006 Feb 15.
    PMID: 16481413
  3. Clark PC, Kutner NG, Goldstein FC, Peterson-Hazen S, Garner V, Zhang R, Bowles T.
    Impediments to timely diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in African Americans.
    2005 Nov;53(11):2012-7.
    PMID: 16274388
  4. Goldfarb-Rumyantzev AS, Leypoldt JK, Nelson N, Kutner NG, Cheung AK.
    A crossover study of short daily haemodialysis.
    2006 Jan;21(1):166-75. Epub 2005 Sep 16.
    PMID: 16169869
  5. Kutner NG, Zhang R, Barnhart H, Collins AJ.
    Health status and quality of life reported by incident patients after 1 year on haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.
    2005 Oct;20(10):2159-67. Epub 2005 Jul 26.
    PMID: 16046520
  6. Kutner NG, Zhang R, Brogan D.
    Race, gender, and incident dialysis patients' reported health status and quality of life.
    2005 May;16(5):1440-8. Epub 2005 Mar 30.
    PMID: 15800127
  7. Kutner NG, Bliwise DL, Zhang R.
    Linking race and well-being within a biopsychosocial framework: variation in subjective sleep quality in two racially diverse older adult samples.
    2004 Mar;45(1):99-113.
    PMID: 15179910
  8. Kutner NG.
    Quality of life and daily hemodialysis.
    2004 Mar-Apr;17(2):92-8. Review.
    PMID: 15043608
  9. Wolf SL, Barnhart HX, Kutner NG, McNeely E, Coogler C, Xu T; Atlanta FICSIT Group.
    Selected as the best paper in the 1990s: Reducing frailty and falls in older persons: an investigation of tai chi and computerized balance training.
    2003 Dec;51(12):1794-803.
    PMID: 14687360
  10. Parker KP, Kutner NG, Bliwise DL, Bailey JL, Rye DB.
    Nocturnal sleep, daytime sleepiness, and quality of life in stable patients on hemodialysis.
    2003 Nov 21;1(1):68.
    PMID: 14633280
  11. Kutner NG, Bliwise DL.
    Restless legs complaint in African-American and Caucasian hemodialysis patients.
    2002 Nov;3(6):497-500.
    PMID: 14592144
  12. Bliwise DL, Kutner NG.
    Morning versus evening hemodialysis.
    2003 Jul;42(1):213; author reply 213. No abstract available.
    PMID: 12830477
  13. Kutner NG, Clow PW, Zhang R, Aviles X.
    Association of fish intake and survival in a cohort of incident dialysis patients.
    2002 May;39(5):1018-24.
    PMID: 11979345
  14. Kutner NG, Jassal SV.
    Quality of life and rehabilitation of elderly dialysis patients.
    2002 Mar-Apr;15(2):107-12. Review.
    PMID: 11952937
  15. Kutner NG, Zhang R, McClellan WM, Cole SA.
    Psychosocial predictors of non-compliance in haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients.
    2002 Jan;17(1):93-9.
    PMID: 11773470
  16. Bliwise DL, Kutner NG, Zhang R, Parker KP.
    Survival by time of day of hemodialysis in an elderly cohort.
    2001 Dec 5;286(21):2690-4. Erratum in: JAMA 2002 Jan 9;287(2):192.
    PMID: 11730444
  17. Kutner NG.
    Improving compliance in dialysis patients: does anything work?
    2001 Sep-Oct;14(5):324-7.
    PMID: 11679097
  18. Kutner NG, Zhang R.
    Body mass index as a predictor of continued survival in older chronic dialysis patients.
    2001;32(3):441-8.
    PMID: 11583369
  19. Devins GM, Dion R, Pelletier LG, Shapiro CM, Abbey S, Raiz LR, Binik YM, McGowan P, Kutner NG, Beanlands H, Edworthy SM.
    Structure of lifestyle disruptions in chronic disease: a confirmatory factor analysis of the Illness Intrusiveness Ratings Scale.
    2001 Oct;39(10):1097-104.
    PMID: 11567172
  20. Kutner NG, Bliwise DL, Brogan D, Zhang R.
    Race and restless sleep complaint in older chronic dialysis patients and nondialysis community controls.
    2001 May;56(3):P170-5.
    PMID: 11316835
  21. Kutner NG, Zhang R, McClellan WM.
    Patient-reported quality of life early in dialysis treatment: effects associated with usual exercise activity.
    2000 Aug;27(4):357-67; discussion 368, 424.
    PMID: 11276627
  22. Kutner NG, Brogan D, Fielding B, Hall WD.
    Black/white differences in symptoms and health satisfaction reported by older hemodialysis patients.
    2000 Autumn;10(3):328-33.
    PMID: 11110348
  23. Brogan DJ, Haber M, Kutner NG.
    Functional decline among older adults: comparing a chronic disease cohort and controls when mortality rates are markedly different.
    2000 Aug;53(8):847-51.
    PMID: 10942868
  24. Kutner NG, Brogan D, Hall WD, Haber M, Daniels DS.
    Functional impairment, depression, and life satisfaction among older hemodialysis patients and age-matched controls: a prospective study.
    2000 Apr;81(4):453-9.
    PMID: 10768535
  25. Pianta TF, Kutner NG.
    Improving physical functioning in the elderly dialysis patient: relevance of physical therapy.
    1999 Feb;26(1):11-4; quiz 15-6.
    PMID: 10222852
  26. Kutner NG, Devins GM.
    A comparison of the quality of life reported by elderly whites and elderly blacks on dialysis.
    1998;8(2):77-83.
    PMID: 9893215
  27. Ward P, Kutner NG.
    Reported pica behavior in a sample of incident dialysis patients.
    1999 Jan;9(1):14-20.
    PMID: 9861097
  28. Schechtman KB, Kutner NG, Wallace RB, Buchner DM, Ory MG.
    Gender, self-reported depressive symptoms, and sleep disturbance among older community-dwelling persons. FICSIT group. Frailty and Injuries: Cooperative Studies of Intervention Techniques.
    1997 Nov;43(5):513-27.
    PMID: 9394268
  29. Kutner NG, Barnhart H, Wolf SL, McNeely E, Xu T.
    Self-report benefits of Tai Chi practice by older adults.
    1997 Sep;52(5):P242-6.
    PMID: 9310093
  30. Kutner NG, Brogan D, Fielding B.
    Physical and psychosocial resource variables related to long-term survival in older dialysis patients.
    1997;7(1):23-8.
    PMID: 9422436
  31. Wolf SL, Barnhart HX, Kutner NG, McNeely E, Coogler C, Xu T.
    Reducing frailty and falls in older persons: an investigation of Tai Chi and computerized balance training. Atlanta FICSIT Group. Frailty and Injuries: Cooperative Studies of Intervention Techniques.
    1996 May;44(5):489-97.
    PMID: 8617895
  32. Kutner NG.
    Psychosocial issues in end-stage renal disease: aging.
    1994 Oct;1(3):210-8. Review.
    PMID: 7614324
  33. Kutner NG.
    Assessing end-stage renal disease patients' functioning and well-being: measurement approaches and implications for clinical practice.
    1994 Aug;24(2):321-33. Review.
    PMID: 8048440
  34. Kutner NG.
    Outcomes of older patients receiving chronic dialysis.
    1994 Jul 27;272(4):274-5; author reply 276. No abstract available.
    PMID: 8028136
  35. Kutner NG, Lin LS, Fielding B, Brogan D, Hall WD.
    Continued survival of older hemodialysis patients: investigation of psychosocial predictors.
    1994 Jul;24(1):42-9.
    PMID: 8023823
  36. Kutner NG, Schechtman KB, Ory MG, Baker DI.
    Older adults' perceptions of their health and functioning in relation to sleep disturbance, falling, and urinary incontinence.FICSIT Group.
    1994 Jul;42(7):757-62.
    PMID: 8014352
  37. Wimberley ET, Kutner NG.
    Atlanta case study: determining what is "special" in an Alzheimer disease special care unit.
    1994;8 Suppl 1:S115-25. No abstract available.
    PMID: 8068251
  38. Kutner NG, Wimberley ET.
    Overview of different models of care.
    1994;8 Suppl 1:S112-4. No abstract available.
    PMID: 8068250
  39. Kutner NG.
    Rehabilitation revisited.
    1993 Aug;25(4):2506-7. Review. No abstract available.
    PMID: 8356650
  40. Wolf SL, Kutner NG, Green RC, McNeely E.
    The Atlanta FICSIT study: two exercise interventions to reduce frailty in elders.
    1993 Mar;41(3):329-32.
    PMID: 8440859
  41. Buchner DM, Hornbrook MC, Kutner NG, Tinetti ME, Ory MG, Mulrow CD, Schechtman KB, Gerety MB, Fiatarone MA, Wolf SL, et al.
    Development of the common data base for the FICSIT trials.
    1993 Mar;41(3):297-308.
    PMID: 8440854
  42. Brogan D, Kutner NG, Flagg E.
    Survival differences among older dialysis patients in the southeast.
    1992 Oct;20(4):376-86.
    PMID: 1415207
  43. Kutner NG, Ory MG, Baker DI, Schechtman KB, Hornbrook MC, Mulrow CD.
    Measuring the quality of life of the elderly in health promotion intervention clinical trials.
    1992 Sep-Oct;107(5):530-9.
    PMID: 1410233
  44. Kutner NG, Cardenas DD, Bower JD.
    Rehabilitation, aging and chronic renal disease.
    1992 Apr;71(2):97-101.
    PMID: 1558740
  45. Kutner NG, Brogan DJ.
    Assisted survival, aging, and rehabilitation needs: comparison of older dialysis patients and age-matched peers.
    1992 Apr;73(4):309-15.
    PMID: 1554301
  46. Kutner NG, Brogan D, Fielding B.
    Employment status and ability to work among working-age chronic dialysis patients.
    1991;11(4):334-40.
    PMID: 1799194
  47. Kutner NG, Brogan D.
    Gender roles, medical practice roles, and ob-gyn career choice: a longitudinal study.
    1990;16(3-4):99-117.
    PMID: 2267811
  48. Kutner NG, Brogan D.
    Expectations and psychological needs of elderly dialysis patients.
    1990;31(4):239-49.
    PMID: 2090613
  49. Kutner NG.
    Kidney transplant access.
    1989 Oct 6;262(13):1771. No abstract available.
    PMID: 2674485
  50. Kutner NG.
    Issues in the application of high cost medical technology: the case of organ transplantation.
    1987 Mar;28(1):23-36. No abstract available.
    PMID: 3106464
  51. Kutner NG.
    Social ties, social support, and perceived health status among chronically disabled people.
    1987;25(1):29-34.
    PMID: 2956688
  52. Kutner NG, Brogan D, Kutner MH.
    End-stage renal disease treatment modality and patients' quality of life. Longitudinal assessment.
    1986;6(5):396-402.
    PMID: 3548354
  53. Kutner NG.
    Quality of life of patients with end-stage renal disease.
    1985 Jun 13;312(24):1579-80. No abstract available.
    PMID: 4000194
  54. Gray H, Brogan D, Kutner NG.
    Status of life-areas: congruence/noncongruence in ESRD patient and spouse perceptions.
    1985;20(4):341-6.
    PMID: 3992277
  55. Kutner NG, Fair PL, Kutner MH.
    Assessing depression and anxiety in chronic dialysis patients.
    1985;29(1):23-31.
    PMID: 3981476
  56. Kutner NG, Brogan DR.
    Disability labeling vs. rehabilitation rhetoric for the chronically ill: a case study in policy contradictions.
    1985;21(2):169-93.
    PMID: 10272744
  57. Kutner NG.
    Professional autonomy in nephrology nursing: AANNT members' views.
    1984 Apr;11(2):35-7. No abstract available.
    PMID: 6561963
  58. Kutner NG.
    Women with disabling health conditions: the significance of employment.
    1984 Winter;9(4):21-31.
    PMID: 6240832
  59. Kutner NG.
    Renal rehabilitation: a state of the art review.
    1983 Oct;10(6):13-8, 57. No abstract available.
    PMID: 6360185
  60. Gray H, Kutner NG.
    Spatial rearrangement. Its effect on social environment in a renal dialysis clinic.
    1983 Mar;6(1):77-89.
    PMID: 10259953
  61. Kutner NG, Brogan DR.
    Evaluation of an experimental education program for new dialysis patients.
    1982 Dec;9(6):22-5. No abstract available.
    PMID: 6924585
  62. Kutner NG.
    Cost-benefit issues in U.S. national health legislation: the case of the End-Stage Renal Disease Program.
    1982 Oct;30(1):51-64. No abstract available.
    PMID: 11653717
  63. Kutner NG, Cardenas DD.
    Assessment of rehabilitation outcomes among chronic dialysis patients.
    1982;2(3):128-32.
    PMID: 7180909
  64. Cardenas DD, Kutner NG.
    The problem of fatigue in dialysis patients.
    1982;30(4):336-40.
    PMID: 7110464
  65. Kutner NG, Cardenas DD.
    Rehabilitation status of chronic renal disease patients undergoing dialysis: variations by age category.
    1981 Dec;62(12):626-30.
    PMID: 7316724
  66. Kutner NG.
    On O'Brien's "Effective social environment and hemodialysis adaptation: a panel analysis".
    1981 Sep;22(3):317-21. No abstract available.
    PMID: 7026659
  67. Kutner NG, Brogan DR.
    A comparison of the practice orientations of women and men students at two medical schools.
    1980 Mar;35(3):80-6. No abstract available.
    PMID: 6245123
  68. Kutner NG, Kutner MH.
    Race and sex as variables affecting reactions to disability.
    1979 Feb;60(2):62-6.
    PMID: 157112
  69. Kutner NG.
    Medical students' orientation toward the chronically ill.
    1978 Feb;53(2):111-8.
    PMID: 416213

 

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