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Daniel J. McLinden, EdD

Assistant Vice President, Education and Learning Department

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-636-8933

Fax: 513-636-1695

Email: daniel.mclinden@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Program planning and evaluation, Concept Mapping, Social Network Analysis, Dynamic System Modeling, Measurement Theory

Biography

Daniel McLinden, Ed.D. is an Assistant Vice President in the Education and Learning Department and an Assistant Professor in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics. In his management role he is responsible for supporting the educational needs of the medical center through the development and delivery of programs. In particular, he has lead the development of the program evaluation capability to ensure quality and impact, the development of a substantial number of eLearning programs to increase efficiency use of learning time, the implementation of performance support to reduce training costs and is currently involved in developing mobile learning solutions to respond to future directions in the deployment of learning assets.

In his faculty role Dr. McLinden is responsible for publishing, presenting, consulting with other faculty, teaching in faculty development workshops and advising students enrolled in the Master’s degree program in Medical Education. His research interests include crowdsourcing the design of programs through Concept Mapping, illuminating the structure and interpersonal dynamics of networks of people using Social Network Analysis and applying economic analysis and predictive modeling effectively deploy resources investments in human capital.

Education and Training

EdD: Educational Psychology, Northern Illinois University.

Publications

Vaughn LM, McLinden D, Jacquez F, Crosby L, Slater S, Mitchell M. Understanding the Social Networks of Parents of Children with Sickle Cell Disease. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 22(3), 1014-1029, 2011.

Vaughn LM, McLinden DJ, Shellmer D, Baker RC. Parental Health Attributions of Childhood Health and Illness: Development of the Pediatric Cultural Health Attributions Questionnaire (Pedi-CHAQ). Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 39, 223–242, 2011.

McLinden DJ. Estimating the future value of training investments. P. Phillips (Ed.). ASTD Handbook for Measuring and Evaluating Training. Alexandria, VA: American Society for Training and Development. 2010.

McLinden D, Phillips R, Hamlin S, Helbig A. Evaluating the Future Value of Educational Interventions in a Healthcare Setting. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 22(4), 1-11, 2010.

McLinden D, Boone W. More than smile sheets: Rasch Analysis of training reactions in a Medical Center. Performance Improvement Quarterly. 22(3), 7-21, 2009.

Cragier K, McLinden D, Casper W. Collaborative planning for training impact. Invited article for a special issue on the Contributions of Psychological Research to Human Resource Management. Human Resource Management, 43(4), 337 – 351, 2004.

Grants

To Achieve the Best: Evaluating Quality Improvement Training as a Means to an End. Co- Principal Investigator. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 2009 – 2011.