Kathryn Flynn, PhD

Associate Professor

Locations

Department of Medicine
Division of Hematology and Oncology

Biography

Dr. Kathryn Flynn is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Division of Hematology and Oncology. She is also the Senior Scientific Director for Patient-Reported Outcomes in the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR). She was trained in sociology (BA, MS) and population health sciences (PhD).

Research Interests

Dr. Flynn’s research focuses on the measure development and analysis of patient-reported outcomes as well as mixed methods approaches to understanding and improving patient-provider communication and patient decision making. She was a co-investigator in the PROMIS Network – NIH Roadmap initiative to standardize patient-reported outcomes measurement across diseases. She co-led development of the PROMIS Sexual Function and Satisfaction measure. She currently co-leads an NICHD R21 as well as a 14-site NCI-funded R01 examining clinical and patient-reported outcomes among patients with chronic myeloid leukemia who discontinue targeted therapies.

The Comprehensive Assessment of Self-Reported Urinary Symptoms: A New Tool for Research on Subtypes of Patients with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms.

(Weinfurt KP, Griffith JW, Flynn KE, Cella D, Bavendam T, Wiseman JB, Andreev VP, Lai HH, Liu AB, Kirkali Z, Cameron AP, Bradley CS, LURN Study Group.) J Urol. 2019 Jun;201(6):1177-1183.
Exploring Patient Decision Making Regarding Discontinuation of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.

(Flynn KE, Myers JM, D'Souza A, Schiffer CA, Thompson JE, Atallah E.) Oncologist. 2019 Apr 03.
Psychometric Evaluation of PROMIS Sexual Function and Satisfaction Measures in a Longitudinal Population-Based Cohort of Men With Localized Prostate Cancer.

(Reeve BB, Wang M, Weinfurt K, Flynn KE, Usinger DS, Chen RC.) J Sex Med. 2018 Dec;15(12):1792-1810.
Sexual dysfunction and reproductive concerns in young women with breast cancer: Type, prevalence, and predictors of problems.

(Ljungman L, Ahlgren J, Petersson LM, Flynn KE, Weinfurt K, Gorman JR, Wettergren L, Lampic C.) Psychooncology. 2018 12;27(12):2770-2777.
Content validity of the PROMIS® pediatric family relationships measure for children with chronic illness.

(Flynn KE, Kliems H, Saoji N, Svenson J, Cox ED.) Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2018 Oct 19;16(1):203.
Correction to: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Can Adversely Impact Domains of Sexual Function Such as Satisfaction with Sex Life.

(Eluri S, Cross RK, Martin C, Weinfurt KP, Flynn KE, Long MD, Chen W, Anton K, Sandler RS, Kappelman MD.) Dig Dis Sci. 2018 10;63(10):2816.
Prevalence of self-reported sleep dysfunction before allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation.

(D'Souza A, Millard H, Knight J, Brazauskas R, Lee SJ, Flynn KE, Rizzo JD, Shaw BE.) Bone Marrow Transplant. 2018 08;53(8):1079-1082.
Patient-reported distress is prevalent in systemic light chain (AL) amyloidosis but not determined by severity of disease.

(Wright NL, Flynn KE, Brazauskas R, Hari P, D'Souza A.) Amyloid. 2018 Jun;25(2):129-134.
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Can Adversely Impact Domains of Sexual Function Such as Satisfaction with Sex Life.

(Eluri S, Cross RK, Martin C, Weinfurt KP, Flynn KE, Long MD, Chen W, Anton K, Sandler RS, Kappelman MD.) Dig Dis Sci. 2018 06;63(6):1572-1582.
Impact of pediatric cancer on family relationships.

(Erker C, Yan K, Zhang L, Bingen K, Flynn KE, Panepinto J.) Cancer Med. 2018 May;7(5):1680-1688.
Design and rationale for the life after stopping tyrosine kinase inhibitors (LAST) study, a prospective, single-group longitudinal study in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.

(Atallah E, Schiffer CA, Weinfurt KP, Zhang MJ, Radich JP, Oehler VG, Pinilla-Ibarz J, Deininger MWN, Lin L, Larson RA, Mauro MJ, Moore JO, Ritchie EK, Shah NP, Silver RT, Wadleigh M, Cortes J, Thompson J, Guhl J, Horowitz MM, Flynn KE.) BMC Cancer. 2018 04 02;18(1):359.
Female Sexual Dysfunction-Medical and Psychological Treatments, Committee 14.

(Kingsberg SA, Althof S, Simon JA, Bradford A, Bitzer J, Carvalho J, Flynn KE, Nappi RE, Reese JB, Rezaee RL, Schover L, Shifrin JL.) J Sex Med. 2017 12;14(12):1463-1491.

Kathryn Flynn, PhD