Gregory L Alexander PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FIAHSI

Dr. Gregory Alexander has a broad background in human factors, informatics, gerontology, patient safety and quality measures. He is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, American College of Medical Informatics, and International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. He is currently completing a second national study assessing the impact of information system maturity on nursing home quality measurements. Dr. Alexander recently served on the national advisory council for AHRQ. He is the author of the first book for information technology implementation in long term care titled: An Introduction to Clinical Health Information Technology for Long Term/Post-Acute Care Healthcare, 2018.

Robin Austin, PhD, DNP, DC, RN-BC, FAMIA, FNAP

Dr. Austin is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, where she directs the Center for Nursing Informatics and the Omaha System Partnership practice-based research network; and coordinates the DNP Informatics specialty. Her expertise is in consumer and clinical informatics, and her research with large datasets and  data science methods examines social determinants of health and resilience. She leads an international collaborative of scientists, clinicians, and consumers to advance the use of simplified Omaha System terms to understand whole-person health from the consumer perspective.

Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FIAHSI

Suzanne is the Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Dr. Bakken has published widely on the topic of concept-oriented reference terminologies for nursing and co-led the team that developed the ISO Standard for Reference Terminologies for Nursing Diagnoses and Nursing Interventions. She is the recipient of the Virginia K. Saba Award from the American Medical Informatics Association and received the Virginia Saba Nursing Informatics Excellence Award from Sigma Theta Tau in 2021.

Emily Barey, RN, MSN

Emily Barey is the Vice President of Nursing at Epic.  In this role she contributes to product management in the areas of nursing, community health and social care.  She leads the Epic Nursing Advisory Council and Coordinated Care Management forum, consults with Epic customers globally on strategies for comprehensive care record adoption and collaborates closely with the Epic research and development teams on enhancements to support interdisciplinary practice across the continuum of care and service.  She was on the original team that architected the first integrated health and social care record as part of the Epic-Apotti program in Helsinki, Finland. Nationally, Emily served two terms on the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) Inpatient Workgroup that sets the standards for all electronic health records (EHRs) in the United States and in 2015 worked on the US Office of the National Coordinator’s Health IT Safety Roadmap Task Force.  Since 2020, Emily has also collaborated with the Scottsdale Institute on leading their annual Social Determinants of Health Summit with national leaders from population health, community health and investment, and health equity.  She has published on EHR implementation in the textbook Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, and on Computerized Physician Order Entry in The Essentials of Nursing Informatics, 5th Edition.  Past speaking engagements include the American Nursing Informatics Association, the Health Information Management Systems Society, and the Nurses in Care of Health System Elders at New York University, among others. She is the recipient of the Edward Coakley Visiting Scholar Award from the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Edward B. Kovar Memorial Lecture Award from the New England Public Health Association. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Nursing.

Carol J. Bickford, PhD, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FAMIA, FHIMSS, FAAN

Dr. Bickford is a senior policy advisor in the Department of Nursing Practice and Work Environment at the American Nurses Association. Her current work portfolio includes content oversight of ANA’s scope and standards of practice and operations for the specialty nursing recognition, scope and standards review, and affirmation of competencies programs. Dr. Bickford most recently coordinated the volunteer workgroup efforts completing the review and revision of the 2022 Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice, Third Edition.

Kathy Bowles

Dr. Bowles is a Professor of Nursing and the van Ameringen Chair in Nursing Excellence at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She is the VP 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.

Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, Director, National Library of Medicine

Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, is the Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NLM, the center for biomedical and health data science research, is the world’s largest biomedical library and the producer of digital information services used by scientists, health professionals and members of the public worldwide.  Since assuming the directorship in August 2016, Dr. Brennan has positioned the Library to be the hub of data science at NIH and a national and international leader in the field. She spearheaded the development of a new strategic plan that envisions NLM a platform for biomedical discovery and data-powered health.  Leveraging NLM’s heavily used data and information resources, intramural research, and extramural research and training programs, Brennan aims for NLM to accelerate data driven discovery and health, engage with new users in new ways, and develop the workforce for a data-driven future.  Her professional accomplishments reflect her background, which unites engineering, information technology, and clinical care to improve the public health and ensure the best possible experience in patient care.  Dr. Brennan came to NIH from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor at the School of Nursing and College of Engineering. She also led the Living Environments Laboratory at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, which develops new ways for effective visualization of high dimensional data.  She received a master of science in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Following seven years of clinical practice in critical care nursing and psychiatric nursing, Dr. Brennan held several academic positions at Marquette University, Milwaukee; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland; and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  A past president of the American Medical Informatics Association, Dr. Brennan was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (now the National Academy of Medicine) in 2001. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the American College of Medical Informatics, and the New York Academy of Medicine.  In 2020, Dr. Brennan was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).  The AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer.

Kenrick Cato, PhD, RN, CPHIMS, FAAN

Kenrick is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University School of Nursing, Nurse Researcher at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and assistant professor of informatics at Columbia University Vagelos School of Physicians and Surgeons Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Cato has a varied background. He has helped to start and run two software development companies. He worked at New York Presbyterian Health system as a surgical and medical oncology staff nurse and as an analyst in the information technology department, working on projects to improve patient safety through the use of clinical decision support. Dr. Cato’s program of research focuses on mining electronic patient data and software implementations to support clinical decision-making. His previous work includes National Institute of Health-funded research in health communication via mobile health platforms, shared decision-making in primary care settings, and data mining of electronic patient records. His current projects include automated data mining of electronic patient records to discover patient characters that are often missed and developing predictive models for patient clinical deterioration.

Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FNAP

Connie White Delaney serves as Professor & Dean, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, and is the Knowledge Generation Lead for the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. She served as Associate Director of the Clinical Translational Science Institute –Biomedical Informatics, and  Acting Director of the Institute for Health Informatics (IHI) in the Academic Health Center from 2010-2015.  She serves as an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Nursing at the University of Iceland, where she received the Doctor Scientiae Curationis Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing) in 2011.  She is an elected Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, American  College of Medical Informatics, and National Academies of Practice.  Delaney is the first Fellow in the College of Medical Informatics to serve as a Dean of Nursing.  Delaney was an inaugural appointee to the USA Health Information Technology Policy Committee, Office of the National Coordinator, and Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She is an active researcher in data and information technology standards for nursing, health care, Delaney is past president of Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research (FNINR) and past Vice-Chair of CGFNS, Inc. She holds a BSN with majors in nursing and mathematics, MA in Nursing, Ph.D. Educational Administration and Computer Applications, postdoctoral study in nursing & medical informatics, and a Certificate in Integrative Therapies & Healing Practices.

Patricia C. Dykes, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI

Patricia Dykes is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Research Program Director in the Center for Patient Safety, Research and Practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her research aims to improve quality and safety through patient engagement and clinical decision support (CDS). To reduce falls and injuries, Dr. Dykes developed the Fall TIPS Toolkit which has been shown to reduce falls and injuries and is adopted widely in United States and globally. Dr. Dykes is leading projects to improve fall prevention in primary care including developing a care plan collaboration tool and personalized exercise prescriptions. Dr. Dykes is also leading development of CDS and an electronic clinical quality measure to prevent and quantify delayed diagnosis of venous thromboembolism in primary care. She is the site PI for the CONCERN study which uses data science and machine learning approaches to identify hospitalized patients at risk for deterioration. Dr. Dykes is author of 2 books, over 150 peer reviewed publications, and has presented her work nationally and internationally. She is immediate past President and Board Chair of the American Medical Informatics Association, an elected fellow of American Academy of Nursing, and fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.

Jane Englebright, PhD, RN, FAAN

Jane Englebright is the recently retired Chief Nurse Executive and Senior Vice President for HCA Healthcare. In that role, she lead 98,000 nurses across 184 hospitals and 140 ambulatory surgical centers in the United States and the United Kingdom. For 30 years Dr. Englebright advanced clinical nursing practice at HCA Healthcare and beyond through her unique leadership approach that combines knowledge of technological solutions, nursing theories and research with change management strategies. She has initiated numerous knowledge-driven initiatives which have advanced patient safety and clinical improvements, including barcode enabled safety technologies and electronic documentation using a standard taxonomy to generate a data warehouse and performance management tools to guide evidence-based practice.  Dr. Englebright is nationally and internationally known for her executive leadership knowledge with numerous presentations at national conferences, publications, and invitations to serve on national and international committees that address patient safety and other leadership issues. She currently serves as Chair of the Board of Commissioners for the Joint Commission and is the past chair of the Informatics Expert Panel for the American Academy of Nursing.

Carme Espinosa i Fresnedo, MSc, BSN

Carme Espinosa has been involved in NANDA International for many years, and has collaborated as a presenter, committee member, translator, member of the Board of Directors, and currently serves as President of NANDA-I. She was inducted as a Fellow of NANDA International in 2016. She has also served as a member and held board-level positions in the Asociación Española de Nomenclatura Taxonomía y Diagnóstico Enfermero (AENTDE) and the Association for Common European Nursing Diagnoses Interventions and Outcomes (ACENDIO). Carme’s work has included collaborating on several published articles, chapters, and books – nationally and internationally – on standardized nursling languages and critical thinking. She has collaborated with the team from the University of Iowa both on the Nursing Intervention and Nursing Outcomes Classifications. She has also been the translator of the NANDA-I textbook, NANDA International nursing diagnoses: Definitions and classification for three cycles. Her research includes collaboration with several research groups in relation to standardized nursing languages, especially those related to translation and cultural validation of language. Additionally, she has participated in numerous national and international congresses and meetings, presenting papers and in keynote presenter roles. She currently works for Human Resource Development and Training – at Lidera S.L., in Andorra.

Stefanie Fine, MHA, RN, PCCN-K, LNC

Stefanie Fine serves as the Sr. Director of Standards and Terminology for Clinical Services Group (CSG) with a primary responsibility for the standardized nursing and select therapies, and Evidence Based Clinical Documentation (EBCD) for multiple EHR platforms/applications across the enterprise.  The impact of these efforts include alignment of clinical data, reduction in nursing documentation burden, and adherence to current evidence and regulatory requirements for the health system.

Stefanie joined HCA Healthcare in 1997 as a graduate Registered Nurse in the Progressive Care Setting and has served in progressive clinical, quality and operational leadership roles. While serving at HCA Healthcare, Stefanie additionally managed an Internal Medicine Practice (2004-2017) and served as a Legal Nurse Consultant (2009-2017). She transitioned to the corporate team in 2017 as the Manager of Nursing Practice where she led key nursing clinical data initiatives such as the standardization EBCD documentation resulting in normalized data which has proven foundational for multiple HCA Healthcare initiatives.  Stefanie additionally serves as the nursing and therapies lead for a new EHR development for HCA Healthcare.

Stefanie was graduated from Georgia Baptist College of Nursing (now Mercer University) with a BSN in 1997, and a Masters in Healthcare Administration with a focus in healthcare informatics from Capella in 2022.  She is a proud 2022 graduate of HCA’s Emerging Leaders Program. Stefanie enjoys cooking and spending time with her husband and four children.

Liz Harvey, MS

Liz Harvey is a Chief Nursing Officer for Oracle Cerner Corporation. She began her nursing career over 30 years ago. Liz spent most of her bedside practice years working in critical care units and the Emergency Department. In the late 90s she transitioned to nursing informatics and in 2003 she obtained her master’s in nursing informatics from the University of Maryland. Today she is honored to be partnering with hospitals around the world to champion efforts to improve the nursing experience with electronic health records.

Laura Heermann Langford, PhD, RN, FAMIA

Dr. Heermann Langford, PhD, RN FAMIA is Chief Clinical Information Officer at Graphite Health.  Dr. Heermann Langford has a clinical background of nursing in adult emergency care and pediatric intensive care units and burn care.  Her informatics work has focused on clinical decision support and workflow, clinical engagement, standards development, and interoperability.  She is a co-chair of the HL7 Emergency Care Workgroup (ECWG), HL7 Healthcare Clinical Interoperability Council Working Group (CIC), and the HL7 Patient Care Workgroup (PCWG) where she co-leads the HL7 PCWG Care Plan Initiative and is a founding member of the leadership of Clinicians on FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources).  These roles at HL7 allow her to have a tight connection between clinical domains and the application of HL7 standards, specifically FHIR in clinical application development and implementation.

Susan C. Hull, MSN, RN-BC, NEA-BC, FAMIA

Susan Hull is a board-certified nurse executive and informaticist passionate about transforming health through co-production and community. Her leadership and policy experience builds on participation in the healthy community and learning health systems movements, spanning diverse roles including nursing and health system executive, healthy community partnership and community health information network executive, chief nursing and chief health informatics officer, and international consulting with Elsevier and Gartner.

Susan currently serves as a Principal in MITRE’s Health Innovation Center, leading efforts to support HHS ASPE’s next decade’s strategic plan for the Office of the Secretary Patient Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund, and social determinants of health interoperability for the CMS Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics, and the implementation of A National Strategy for Digital Health, a MITRE-developed framework outline a set of national priorities to realize a vision of improved health and well-being of the nation, powered by a digital health ecosystem.

Susan is a Fellow with AMIA and serves on the Board of Directors, Public Policy committee, chairing the 2017 AMIA Policy Invitational, and co-chairs the Alliance for Nursing Informatics. Susan was the 2017 recipient of the Don Eugene Detmer AMIA Leadership Award for Health Policy Contribution in Informatics. 

Min Jeoung Kang PhD, RN

Min-Jeoung Kang is an Assistant professor in the Catholic University of Korea, College of Nursing. She received her Master and PhD from the Catholic University of Korea, School of Nursing and did a postdoctoral research fellow training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She has experience in researches related to standard terminologies such as CCC, ICNP, and ICD-11. Also, she participated in the ICD-11 revision process, and developing ICD-11 multi-language supporting platform and executing ICD-11 Korean translation through it. Moreover, she has study interests in using Health Information Technology in the clinical settings to reduce patient harm and increase patient safety.

Karen A. Kehl, PhD, RN, FPCN

Dr. Karen Kehl joined the National Institute of Nursing Research in 2014 as a Health Scientist Administrator. She currently oversees a portfolio focused on pain, palliative and end-of-life care. Other research interests include rural populations and research dissemination and implementation. At NINR, she serves as Program Officer or Project Scientist on several UG3/UH3 pragmatic clinical trials and the U2C Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group. She has been Program Officer for P20 and P30 Centers.

Dr. Kehl’s research background focuses on improving care in the last phase of life. In addition to experience teaching at several Schools and Colleges of Nursing, she has experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Clinical Nurse Educator, and Hospice Clinical Director. Dr. Kehl has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, Oncology Nursing Society and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation. She has received multiple awards, including the Outstanding New Investigator award from the Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association (HPNA) and she served on the Board of Directors for the HPNA. Dr. Kehl is a Fellow in Palliative Care Nursing (FPCN). She holds BS and PhD degrees in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a MS degree in Nursing from Rush University.

Rosemary Kennedy PhD, RN, MBA, FAAN

Rosemary Kennedy is Connect America’s Chief Health Informatics Officer, where she leads the development of analytics to assess the impact of health information technology on outcomes. Her career has focused on developing, implementing, and value creation of digital technology, workflows, algorithms, and population analytics. In addition, her background includes the integration of structured nursing terminologies within electronic health records, the development of electronic quality measures, and methodologies for measuring technology return on investment. Previously Rosemary led the development of body-worn sensors, including leading clinical trials and FDA submissions. Rosemary is widely presented and published in informatics and health information technology. She is also the recipient of multiple industry awards, including the Modern Healthcare “Top 25 Women in Healthcare Award,” the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) “Nursing Informatics Award.” She is a Fellow with the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) and elected Chair of the Informatics Expert Panel.

Ulla-Mari Kinnunen, RN, PhD, FIAHSI

Ulla-Mari Kinnunen is a Professor of Health and Human Services Informatics at the University of Eastern Finland, and Adjunct Professor in Evidence Based Research and Development. Her research interest is in data structures and classifications in EHR, evidence-based health care and informatics competencies both for professionals and citizens including educational and organizational factors in enhancing digitalization in health and social care services. She is a board member of the Finnish Social and Health Informatics Association, of the scientific editorial board of the Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare, a chair of the Finnish nursing terminology, Finnish Care Classification (FinCC) expert group, and a member of the Practice Advisory Group of IMIA SIGNI. She is a core staff member of the Finnish Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care: A Joanna Briggs Institute Centre of Excellence.

Karen Dunn Lopez, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN

Dr. Karen Dunn Lopez is an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa College of Nursing and Director of the Center for Nursing Classification and Clinical Effectiveness. Her research overcomes two major challenges associated with use of health information technologies: leveraging complex health record data generated by nurses to improve health decision making and poor usability that drives excess clinician burden. Her research uses a wide variety of methods and often includes standardized nursing classifications.  

Dr. Dunn Lopez’s research established a link between computerized decision support for hospital bedside nurses and improved patient outcomes, fueling the rationale for increased innovation in technologies that support nurses’ decision making. Her NINR funded work  is advancing the field of decision support by designing and testing technology to  improve accuracy and efficiency of decision making by tailoring technology  formats for individual nurses. She also conducted one of the longest studies of electronic health record implementation that provided the evidence that nurses and physicians experience increased burden due to poor electronic health record usability which persisted even after two years following implementation. 

Dr. Dunn Lopez is also a nationally recognized leader in informatics, currently serving as Chair of the American Medical Informatics Association Nursing Informatics Working Group, an Editorial Board member of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association-Open, a Governing Director for the Alliance for Nursing Informatics and was previously on the Board of Directors of Xcertia,a Health Information and Management Systems Society sponsored non-profit that developed national guidelines for safe and effective use of mHealth apps. 

Julie D. Luengas, DNP, MBA, RN-BC, FHIMSS

Julie Luengas brings over 20 years’ experience to the field of Clinical Informatics. She is the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at Stony Brook Medicine. Julie has contributed to the advancement of Clinical Informatics through her volunteer work with Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA). Dr. Luengas was the keynote speaker at the Southeastern Regional Group and HIMSS Summit of the Southeast conference. 

Prior to joining Stony Brook Medicine, Julie was the VP of Informatics/CNIO at Saint Thomas Health in Nashville (Ascension).  She standardized and implemented evidence-based documentation across 3 organizations for the department of nursing and respiratory therapy. During her tenure, CPOE was implemented and standardized across 3 organizations with an adoption rate of 75% within the five weeks. Julie served as the Vice-Chair for the Ascension Health Informatics council. 

Julie obtained her Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) from the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies, with a focus on Nursing Informatics. Julie is a member of HIMSS, ANIA, Sigma Theta Tau. Julie is committed to helping her team reach their professional goals with healthcare informatics through advanced education, informatics certification and engagement with professional organizations.

Heimar de Fatima Marin, RN, MS, PhD, FACMI

Dr. Marin is a Nurse who has dedicated her professional life in Health and Nursing ​informatics. She got the Master and Doctoral degree in Health Informatics from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil. In addition, she did a post-doctorate training in Clinical Informatics at Harvard Medical School – Center for Clinical Informatics. She also received the title of “Livre-Docente” by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo – FMUSP. She was Professor and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Health Informatics at UNIFESP until 2016. She acted as President of the Brazilian Society of Health Informatics and chaired the IMIA NI SIG (International Medical Informatics Association, Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group) from 2009 to 2012. She is currently an Alumni Professor at UNIFESP. After serving as a reviewer and associate editor, she became Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI), Elsevier. Dr. Marin is also Scientific Coordinator of ICT Health Research conducted by the Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (CETIC) on the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (NIC.BR). Since December 2021 she is a Consultant for WHO/EURO on the e-HIS Digitization Project.

Mary Etta C. Mills, ScD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN

Mary Etta Mills, ScD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN is a Professor in the Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health and, formerly, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, and Vice President for Nursing at University of Maryland Medical Center.  Research, teaching and professional activities have included extensive work in the fields of health services organization, quality of care, and nursing informatics focused on the development of integrated information and organizational system networks that support clinical and managerial decision making.  Dr. Mills co-led development of the first Masters (1988) and first Doctoral Program (1991) in Nursing Informatics in the world.  Her interdisciplinary research and training grants totaling over 10.5 million dollars have advanced nursing informatics and health services administration through strategic academic-service partnerships. Dissemination of her work has included over 100 peer-reviewed publications, numerous book chapters, 4 books and over 150 peer reviewed presentations and posters. Her international work has included educational direction to the Canadian Health Services, Pan American Health Organization, Saudi Arabian Health Services, and Taiwanese universities.    

Karen Monsen, PhD, RN, FAMIA, FNAP, FAAN

Karen Monsen is professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing where she served as faculty in the Institute for Health Informatics, Center for Spirituality and Healing, and Department of Computer Science and Engineering Data Science Program. She received her PhD and MS from the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, and bachelor’s degrees in nursing (Creighton University) and biology (Luther College). She developed and led the Omaha System Partnership practice-based research network within the UMN Center for Nursing Informatics in which researchers, clinicians, educators, and industry partners work together to answer clinical questions, advance health care quality, and improve population health. She is an internationally known informatician and healthcare quality researcher whose expertise in standardization and methodological development for reuse of data advanced knowledge discovery in intervention effectiveness, quality improvement, and program evaluation. She has served as an advisor to providers and systems as well as universities, faculty, and students widely in the U.S. and on every continent except Antarctica. In 2021, she received the Virginia K. Saba Award from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

Lynn M. Nagle, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCAN

Dr. Nagle is currently an Adjunct Professor with the University of New Brunswick, the University of Toronto, and Western University. She has served on numerous boards, expert panels and advisory committees focused on the advancement of digital health and informatics locally, nationally and globally. The founding President of the Canadian Nursing Informatics Association, she has been recognized for her commitment to the advancement of informatics in nursing education and practice. In particular, she has been instrumental in the development, implementation and evaluation of informatics competencies for student nurses, registered nurses and nurse leaders. Additionally, since 2016 she has been the co-lead of the annual National Nursing Data Standards symposia, focused on strategies to advance the adoption and use of nursing data standards across Canada.

Hyeoun-Ae Park, RN, PhD, FAAN, FIASHI, ACMI

Dr. Park, Professor at College of Nursing and Multidisciplinary Medical Informatics Program, Seoul National University. 

Dr. Park received her BS in Nursing from Seoul National University, MS in Nursing and Biostatistics and Health Informatics, and PhD in Biostatistics and Health Informatics from University of Minnesota. Her post-doctorate training includes one-year fellowship at the Department of Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, and one-year research on SNOMED CT at the College of American Pathologists. A consistent theme throughout her research is the use of standard health terminologies including ICNP and SNOMED CT, detailed clinical models and ontologies to ensure semantic interoperability of health data. Dr. Park is one of the leading scholars in Nursing and Health Informatics internationally. She had served International Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group (IMIA-NI) as Chair from 2012-2015 and then International Medical Informatics Association as President from 2015-2017. Dr. Park authored and co-authored more than 250 articles published in national and international journals and more than 40 chapters in books published in Korean and English and made more than 200 presentations at national and international conferences on health informatics.

William D Roberts, PhD, RN, ANP, FAAN

Gliding into an early retirement, I have had a very satisfying career, primarily as an applied  informatician. Under the guidance of Dr. Sue Bakken, at Columbia University, my education and  work experiences afforded me a broad professional range of executive leadership positions: at  HCA Healthcare, VP Care Transformation and Innovation and AVP of Care Delivery and  Performance, at Stony Brook University Hospital, Assistant Chief Quality Officer, Data and  Analytics Scientist, and at New York Presbyterian, Advanced Practice Nurse Acute Care. The  summation of these roles is best noted as the practices and process of care delivery. In that  regard, I have designed nursing-centric data ecosystems; near real-time process feedback loops with embedded improvement cycles supported by proper data visualizations; and contextually  fluent, human-factors design engineering to support clinical work and administrative-level  healthcare operations. A product, aligned to my experience and expertise is US Patent:  11,201,835. As the lead inventor, this patent was granted in December 2021 and is described as a System and Method for Multi-tier Resource and Subsystem Orchestration and Adaptation. I  am a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. 

Nicole Sowers

I received my B.S. in Technical Communication from Minnesota State University – Mankato and then later went on to complete a MBA – Marketing Certification. I’m a certified Disciplined Agile Scrum Master, and am working on my MBA. I’ve worked with Champ Software for 17 years and teach Health Humanities & Health Informatics as Adjunct Faculty at Minnesota State University Mankato. I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Karen Monsen and many others on health informatics projects and as a part of Champ Software, advocate on behalf of public health agencies to ensure their voices are heard.

Maria Müller-Staub, PhD, MNS, EdN, RN, FNI, FEANS

Prof. Dr. Müller-Staub (PhD, MNS, EdN, RN, FNI, FEANS) is President of ACENDIO, the Association for Common European Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes. Maria Müller-Staub’s main focus is on Standardized Nursing Languages (SNLs), nursing classifications, nursing diagnostics, clinical decision-making, critical thinking, e-Health, nursing documentation, nursing care quality and Clinical Information Systems. She consults healthcare institutions and nursing education program developers for implementing SNLs. Her research yielded 346 publications (147 peer-reviewed/indexed, 142 professional articles, 57 books/book chapters; h-index 20, 1820 citations), and she held and over 213 oral presentations. Dr. Müller-Staub was Assoc. Professor at the Lectoraat for Nursing Diagnostics at the Hanze University Groningen, (NL) and Full Professor at ZHAW University Winterthur (CH). She worked on 68 research projects, mainly as principal investigator, and founded Pflege PBS (Nurse Consulting, Teaching, & Research), Wil (CH).  She is an expert in curriculum development and formerly was Dean of a nursing school offering advanced degree programs. Prof. Müller-Staub teaches in post-graduate nursing programs and supervises doctoral students.

Ásta Thoroddsen, PhD, RN, FAAN

Ásta Thoroddsen is a Professor and Director of the ICNP R&D Centre at the University of Iceland, Editor-in-Chief of the ICNP Editorial Board at ICN and past academic chair in nursing informatics at Landspitali, the National University Hospital in Iceland.  Her main emphasis has been on the design of an electronic health, use of standardized nursing terminologies, permanent data storage in a data warehouse for re-use to benefit nursing research, quality, safety and policy making.

She is the past academic chair in nursing informatics at Landspitali, the National University Hospital in Iceland.  Her main emphasis has been on the design of an electronic health, use of standardized nursing terminologies, permanent data storage in a data warehouse for re-use to benefit nursing research, quality, safety and policy making.

Cathy Turner, RN-BC, MBA

As an advocate of maximizing technology in healthcare, Catherine Turner has lent her passion and expertise to the implementation, development, and marketing of MEDITECH’s EHR. Currently, as associate vice president in marketing, Catherine recognizes the value that technology can bring to patients, care teams, and healthcare organizations and works with her dedicated team to extol the benefits of the MEDITECH EHR , recognizing the ongoing needs of a changing and dynamic environment, embracing the future vision of health information technology.

Turner is a well-known leader in the nursing informatics community and a popular presenter at nationwide conferences. She is the director of MEDITECH’s Nursing Informatics Program, Co-chair for the HIMSS CNO-CNIO Vendor Roundtable, a member of the American Organization of Nurse Leaders, American Nursing Informatics Association, the New England Nursing Informatics Consortium and the Alliance for Nursing Informatics.

In addition to her nursing informatics affiliations, Turner is adjunct professor at the Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences Master’s Health Informatics Program, has authored AHIMA chapters and Calibri continuing education chapters for nurses including “The Business of Healthcare” and “Documentation in the Electronic Age.” Turner has recently been recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review as “Women power players in health IT” and Women in health IT to watch in 2022.

Marleen Versteeg, MSc, RN is senior consultant at Vilans, the national center for expertise on long term care in the Netherlands. She has over 30 years of experience as a nurse, manager, and researcher in various areas of healthcare; especially in hospital and eldercare settings. As the program leader of the Omaha System foundation in the Netherlands, Marleen has had a key role in the implementation and improvement of the use of Omaha System in the Netherlands. Currently her time and efforts are focused on using Omaha System data for quality improvement and mapping the Omaha System to other standards that are used to describe the care process. The latter with the goal of promoting the exchange of information between different areas of health care.

Marisa L. Wilson DNSc, MHSc, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FIAHSI, FAMIA, FAAN

Dr. Wilson an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing. She is the former Department Chair of Family, Community, and Health Systems at UABSON and current Director of the Graduate Leadership Pathways and the coordinator for the MSN Nursing Informatics Program. She is a faculty member in the Executive Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), Post BSN DNP, Post MSN DNP and MSN programs at UAB. Dr. Wilson represents the United States and ANI NIWG for the International Medical Informatics Association through which she represents all Nursing Informatics activities. In addition to the IMIA work, she is engaged in nursing informatics leadership for the American Academy of Nursing, AMIA, and HIMSS/TIGER. She is a Board Member and Secretary of the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM). She was on the revision team for the ANA Scope and Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice and the AACN Essentials Re-Envisioning team.

Mariann Yeager

Mariann has more than 20 years of experience in the health information technology field. She currently serves as CEO for The Sequoia Project, a non-profit solely focused on advancing secure, interoperable nationwide health data sharing in the US. She leads the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) effort, in close collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to develop, implement, and maintain the Common Agreement component of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) and to operationalize the Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) designation and monitoring process. The Sequoia Project serves as a steward of independently governed health IT interoperability initiatives, including the RSNA Image Share Validation Program and the Interoperability Matters program, which engages experts from across the healthcare and health IT communities to collaborate to solve discrete challenges to nationwide health information sharing through various workgroups. Ongoing Interoperability Matters workgroups include Information Blocking workgroup, Data Usability workgroup, and the Emergency Preparedness workgroup. Under her leadership, The Sequoia Project supported, the startup, growth and maturation of two highly successfully interoperability initiatives, the eHealth Exchange and Carequality, which now operate as independent non-profit organizations.  Prior to her tenure at The Sequoia Project, she worked with the HHS Office of National Coordinator (ONC) for five years on nationwide health information network initiatives. She also led the launch and operation of the first ambulatory and inpatient EHR certification program in the US.

Chantal Zuizewind, MSc. is senior researcher and consultant at Vilans, the national center for expertise on long term care in the Netherlands. She is specialized in action-based research on the topics ‘meaningful use of data in health practice’ and ‘the reduction of administrative burden’. Chantal has a background in social psychology, behavior change and work-related coaching. She previously worked at research institute NIVEL in the Netherlands, where she developed patient-related experience- and outcome measures and gained knowledge in quantitative data-analysis and psychometrics. Currently, she works for the Omaha System foundation as project leader of various practice improvement projects focused on the usability of care plan data (Omaha System) for long-term care practice.