Kathryn Bowles PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, is a Professor of Nursing and the van Ameringen Chair in Nursing Excellence at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She is the Vice President and Director of the Center for Home Care Policy & Research at VNS Health. Her program of research in clinical decision support and implementation science for discharge planning, transitions in care, and home care with vulnerable older adults has been continuously funded for 25 years. She has served on many national committees and workgroups to advance the care of older Americans such as the National Quality Forum, the Care Coordination Steering Committee ,and the Heath Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) Care Coordination Committee. She was an invited expert consultant on the Centers for Medicare Services (CMS) Technical Expert Panel on the Post-Acute Care Assessment instrument (CARE tool) and two other Expert Panels to develop measures for transitions in care and continuity of care.

Dr. Bowles co-founded RightCare Solutions, a software company based on her team's research on decision support for post-acute care referrals. She was appointed to the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) Advisory Council and delivered the 2016 NINR Director's Lecture. She was invited by the National Academy of Medicine and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to discuss optimizing strategies for clinical decision support.  She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the American College of Medical Informatics, a member of the American Nurses Association (ANA), and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society where she was inducted into the International Nursing Research Hall of Fame.