Dr. Martina Roes

Biography

After nursing education and several years of nursing practice (1979-1991), Roes studied sociology, philosophy and psychology at the Free University Berlin (1991-1997). After graduating in sociology, she received a research grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation in the pilot project Knowledge Circulation in Nursing Education, which was also the topic of her PhD thesis (2002). Following the grant, Roes worked as a research associate at the Institute for Applied Nursing Research (IAP) at the University of Bremen. In 2003 she became professor of Nursing Management at the Clementine von Wallmenich University of Applied Science. At the end of 2003, a professorship for Nursing Science at the University of Applied Science in Bremen followed; there she was dean of study affairs in the Department of Social Science (2004-2006) and vice-rector for education (2006-2008). She also founded the Institute for Quality and Case Management (IQC) in 2004. In 2010 and 2011, she worked at the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania on a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Commonwealth Foundation and the B. Braun Foundation and was actively involved in a national project of the Long-Term Quality Alliance (LTQ). Prof. Martina Roes chairs Nursing Science and Health Care Research in the Department for Nursing Science of the Faculty for Health at Witten/Herdecke University. At the same time, she is speaker of the DZNE site Witten and leader of the research group Implementation and Dissemination Research (since Oct. 2012).  

Research Interest

Implementation and dissemination research Quality Care and case management Social Networks Healthcare Policy