Informatics Expert to Speak at Yale School of Nursing

Suzanne Bakken, professor of nursing and medical informatics at Columbia University, will speak at the Yale University School of Nursing on December 6, at noon, about “An Informatics Infrastructure for Evidence-based Practice.”

Her work has focused on informatics, or the application of computer and information science to nursing care, particularly in the area of AIDS. Bakken is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing as well as the American College of Medical Informatics. She holds a doctorate of nursing science from the University of California, San Francisco and did post doctorate work at Stanford University under a National Library of Medicine Fellowship.

Bakken is visiting Yale to consult on Skolar-RN, a partnership between Yale and Stanford to bring state of the science information to practicing nurses through a rapidly searchable and vast database. Skolar-RN will allow nurses around the globe to get information on such varied topics as prescription interaction and patient counseling 24-hours-a-day. All content for the service will be evaluated, and in some cases created, by Yale faculty.

The School of Nursing is at 100 Church Street South. Bakken’s talk, which will run as a brown bag lunch, is free and open to the public.