Dawn Dowding, RGN, Ph.D., a 2009–10 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is a senior lecturer in clinical decision-making at the Hull York Medical School and department of health sciences, University of York.

Past positions include program leader for a nationally funded research unit in Scotland, as well as lecturer and research positions at the Universities of Stirling (Scotland) and Surrey (England). Dowding’s research interests focus on clinical decision-making, including studies to develop decision-support tools and to evaluate the effectiveness of computerised decision support in nursing.

She is joint leader of the Health Care Decision Making Research Group, within the department of health sciences at the University of York, and has served as principle investigator on a number of Department of Health and Scottish Executive grants. She is the author/editor of two books on clinical decision-making in nursing and has over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology and nursing studies from the University of Surrey and is a registered nurse.