Suzanne B. Bakken Henry is an American nurse who is a professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University. Her research considers health equity and informatics. She is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, American College of Medical Informatics and American Academy of Nursing.

Suzanne Bakken Henry
Alma materArizona State University
University of California, San Francisco
Scientific career
InstitutionsStanford University
Columbia University
ThesisThe effect of level of patient acuity on clinical decision making by critical care nurses with varying levels of knowledge and experience (1989)

Early life and education

edit

Bakken was an undergraduate student in nursing at Arizona State University.[citation needed] She earned her doctoral degree in nursing at the University of California, San Francisco.[1] She moved to Stanford University as a National Library of Medicine and American Nurses Foundation postdoctoral fellow.[2]

Research and career

edit

In 2006, Bakken joined the Columbia University Institute of Medicine. Her research combines informatics, evidence-based nursing and health equity.[3] At Columbia, she led the Center for Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved and the pre-/post-doctoral program on Reducing Health Disparities through Informatics (RHeaDI).[4][5]

Bakken worked on the representation of nursing concepts and terminology in Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine and LOINC.[6] She showed that using formal vocabularies to express patient problems enhanced the generalizability of research, improved the quality of health outcomes and improved the traineeship of informatics and nursing researchers.[6] She has argued that digital infrastructure is a critical component of a health ecosystem, and that new clinical tools could be used for self-management and care.[7] However, to make the digital infrastructure fair and equitable, it is key to improve public trust such that individuals contribute personal data and clinical experiences. Bakken developed community engagement projects to improve public trust amongst urban Latino populations.[7]

Bakken is known for her contributions to biomedical informatics, with a focus on visual analytic innovations, training of informatics students and knowledge formalization.[citation needed] She spent 2015 as a Scholar in Residence at the National Academy of Medicine.[4] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bakken was supported by the National Institutes of Health to create a visualization toolbox to address COVID-19 misinformation and hesitation around testing and vaccination.[8]

Awards and honors

edit

Selected publications

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ Henry SB (1989). The effect of level of patient acuity on clinical decision making by critical care nurses with varying levels of knowledge and experience (Thesis). UCSF.
  2. ^ "American Nurses Foundation Scholars, 1955 – 2015" (PDF).
  3. ^ MacMillan L (4 December 2014). "Columbia's Bakken to deliver Flexner Discovery Lecture". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  4. ^ a b c "Professor Bakken named IOM Nurse Scholar in Residence". Columbia School of Nursing. 2015-08-31. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  5. ^ "RHeaDI Fellowship Program". Columbia School of Nursing. 2019-10-15. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  6. ^ a b Stead WW, Flatley Brennan P (October 2023). "Celebrating Suzanne Bakken, 2023 Morris F. Collen Award winner and pioneer in health equity". J Am Med Inform Assoc. 30 (11): 1760–1761. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocad189. PMC 10586030. PMID 37855452.
  7. ^ a b "SUZANNE BAKKEN, R.N., PH.D., FAAN, FACMI" (PDF).
  8. ^ "Suzanne Bakken, RN, PhD | AMIA – American Medical Informatics Association". amia.org. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  9. ^ "Subcommittee Member Biography: Suzanne Bakken". www.ahrq.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  10. ^ "Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award | AMIA – American Medical Informatics Association". amia.org. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  11. ^ "Suzanne B. Bakken, PhD, MS, BSN, FAAN, FACMI, FIAHSI". Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) – New York. 2020-09-18. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  12. ^ "Helen Nahm Research Lecture Award". UCSF School of Nursing. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  13. ^ "Sigma announces 2018 International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame inductees". nursingcentered.sigmanursing.org. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  14. ^ admin. "IMIA François Grémy Award of Excellence". IMIA. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  15. ^ "Suzanne R. Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FIAHSI, to be Awarded Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence at the AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium | AMIA – American Medical Informatics Association". amia.org. Retrieved 2023-10-25.