Division of Health Sciences Informatics Grand Rounds: "Practical Guides for Making Electronic Health Record Data Actionable for Health Care Research"

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Dr. Dan Lemkin, an emergency medicine physician at the University of Maryland School of Medicine; Dr. Eun-Shim Nahm, a professor and the program director for the Nursing Informatics program at the University of Maryland School of Nursing; and Dr. Stephanie S. Poe, the director of nursing and clinical quality and the chief nursing information officer at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, will give a talk entitled "Practical Guides for Making Electronic Health Record Data Actionable for Health Care Research" as part of Division of Health Sciences Informatics Grand Rounds.

There will also be a live webcast for attendees who cannot come in person.

Dr. Dan Lemkin has been a practicing emergency medicine physician at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMMS) since 2003. He has served as the Department of Emergency Medicine's director of informatics and IT since 2005. His team of software developers and IT professionals support 14 emergency departments across the University of Maryland Medical System.

Over the last 14 years, he has developed hundreds of technology innovations to improve the workflows of his physicians and staff. He joined the UMMS IT department in 2012 and has helped in the design and product development of the Epic EHR platform in the role of system physician architect. With his IT peers, he started the UMMS physician builder program in 2014 and has a team of 10 funded physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants from various specialties who work to improve provider-facing EHR tools. Their focus is on improving patient safety, quality, finance, and operational efficiency.

Since 2016, Lemkin has served as a co-director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore Center for Healthcare Innovation. This Center's mission is to facilitate the development of research and clinical projects which leverage technology to improve patient care and experiences. In 2019, Lemkin won Epic's National Physician Academy Award for the physician who has had the greatest positive impact on the Epic EHR community in the past year. He continues to work on projects which leverage technology to improve health care at UMMS.

Dr. Eun-Shim Nahm is a professor and the program director for the Nursing Informatics program at the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON). She also serves as a co-director of the Biology and Behavior Across the Lifespan Center of Excellence at the UMSON.

Her research focuses on the use of technology-based interventions to engage patients and their caregivers in their care and to promote self-management. She has conducted various studies in this field, including qualitative, measurement, theory testing, and usability studies as well as longitudinal intervention trials. Nahm is the recipient of multiple grant awards from the National Institutes of Health and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In her recent R21 study, her team is investigating the effects of a theory-based patient portal eLearning program on selected health-related outcomes in older adults with chronic illnesses. Additionally, with the grant from the Maryland Higher Education Commission Nursing Support Program II grant, she developed and implemented an RN-BSN focus area, Care Coordination with Health IT, which is the first focus area among RN-BSN programs.

She has published more than 65 peer-reviewed journal articles and five book chapters in her area of expertise. She has also given numerous presentations at regional, national, and international scientific conferences. At the UMSON, Nahm teaches graduate-level nursing informatics courses and doctoral-level research courses and has mentored numerous graduate and doctoral students as well as junior faculty members. She also coordinates all nursing informatics practicum placements and serves as an executive planning group member for the Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics.

Dr. Stephanie S. Poe is the director of nursing and the clinical quality and chief nursing informatics officer at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She holds a joint appointment with the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She is a respected author and speaker on a wide variety of interdisciplinary quality, safety, informatics, and evidence-based practice topics. Poe was one of the original developers of the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice (JHNEBP) Model. She has extensive experience developing evidence-based practice competencies in nurse leaders and bedside nurses and guiding clinical information system design to embed evidence-based nursing practices into the clinical workflow.