Susan K. Newbold, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN, FHIMSS, [email protected], is the Course Director and Consultant in Clinical Informatics, Franklin, TN. Most recently she was the Education Lead for the implementation of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) at the Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, TN. She is uniquely qualified to teach this course as she has experience in the vendor, consulting, academic and hospital world. Dr. Newbold is Board Certified in Nursing Informatics and initiated the first review course in nursing informatics in 1995. In 2001 she won the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing International Technology Award for Knowledge Advancement for this course.
Dr. Newbold earned her PhD and MS in Nursing from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She is co-founder of CARING. Identified as a pioneer in nursing informatics, Susan co-edited five books and has written numerous articles on informatics topics. Susan was a keynote speaker in the first nursing informatics conferences held in Taiwan and Singapore and has consulted in informatics in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovenia, and Taiwan. She is Vice Chair Communications for the International Medical Informatics Association Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group. Susan was selected in the 2013 Class for “Women to Watch” by the Nashville Medical News. In 2015 she was selected by the HIMSS Board as the Chapter Leader of the Year which was awarded in 2016.