Patricia Abbott

Associate Professor
Co-Director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing Knowledge, Information Management, & Sharing

Academic Degrees

BSN 1989, University of Maryland School of Nursing; MS 1992, Nursing Informatics, Univerisity of Maryland School of Nursing; MS 1996, Information Systems, University of Maryland; PhD 1999, Information Systems, University of Maryland; Post-Doc Fellow SOM-

School/Organization
School of Nursing

Department / Division
Graduate Instruction

Joint Departmental Affiliations
Division of Health Sciences Informatics; SOM

Departmental Address
525 N Wolfe St Rm 415
Baltimore, MD

Email: pabbott2@son.jhmi.edu
Phone: 410-502-5402

Research and Professional Experience

• ICT Usability/User-Centered Design/Human Factors; ICT in Low Resource Areas; Informatics; Distributed E-Learning/Knowledge Management; Capacity Building

Honors and Awards

• Rockefeller Foundation - Bellagio Center "Global e-health Policy", July 2008.
• The Rector’s High Honors Award – University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia. January, 2007.
• Appointment to the National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine - Advisory Board for Healthcare Informatics. 2006.
• Inducted into the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI); November 2003
• Nominated as the UM School of Nursing Candidate for University Wide “Outstanding Teacher Award”, 2002
• Inducted into the American Academy of Nursing; November, 2000
• Inducted Phi Kappa Phi, 2000
• Recipient of the American Medical Informatics Association Presidents Award, 1999, 1998, and 1997
• Co-recipient of the American Medical Informatics Association Presidents Club Award, 1996
• Maryland Nurses Association “Outstanding Pathfinder Award,” 1994-1995

Research Projects
Biomedical Informatics

Healthcare Informatics
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The Global WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center for Knowledge, Information Management, and Sharing
The goals of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge, Information Management and Sharing are to: 1 - Promote the development and use of compatible and unified nursing and midwifery knowledge and information management systems 2 - To contribute to the knowledge base for nursing practice...



Selected Publications

• Effken, J. & Abbott, P. (2009). The Nursing Role in Health IT-enabled Care Management in Rural, Frontier, and other Underserved Populations. Commissioned White Paper - Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. May, 2009.
• Abbott, P. (in press). Weaving the Empirical with the Experiential: Recommendations for Enhancing e-Health via Online Collaborative Spaces, Social Networking and Virtual Communities. Rockefeller Commissioned Paper; The Pan American Journal of Public Health/ Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Pelligrini,A., Abbott, P., Mons, B., Al-Shorbaji, N., Gondwe, M., Packer, A. (in press). Access to
• Information and Knowledge: a Social Determinant of Health. Rockefeller Press: Monograph. New York.
• Taylor, L., Abbott, P. & Hudson, K. (2008). Using E-Learning for Workforce Development. International Journal of Medical Informatics.
• Abbott, P. & Coenen, A. (2008). Globalization and advances in information and communication technologies: The impact on nursing and health. Nursing Outlook, 56(5), 238-246.
• Abbott, P., Blatt, M., French, J. (2007). Evaluating the usability of a mobile clinical computing device. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 11, 856.
• Abbott, P. & Klapper, S. (in press). Human-Computer Interaction Concepts – Implications for Use in Pediatric Clinical Care. Lehman, C., & Kim, G. (Eds) Pediatric Informatics, New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Abbott, P. & Taylor, L. (February, 2007). The Role of Health Information Technology in Improving Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety. Hospital Engineering and Facilities Management 2007; the Fifth Official Report of the International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE). Touch Briefings, London.
• Lehman, H., Abbott, P., Roderer, N., Rothschild, A., Mandell, S., Ferrer, J., & Miller, R. (Eds.) (2006). Aspects of the Electronic Health Record Systems (2nd ed). Springer Verlag, NY.
• Abbott, P. (2006). Foreward. E-Health and Medical IT Solutions. Touch Briefings. London.
• Cato, J., & Abbott, P. (2006). Collaborating for a cause. Studies in Technologies in Informatics, 122:1014-5.
• Lee, Sun Mi, Abbott, P, & Johantgen, M. (2005). A Comparison of Logistic Regression and Bayesian Networks for Outcomes Research in Large Datasets. Nursing Research. Mar-Apr; 54(2):133-8.
• Lee, Sun Mi & Abbott, P (2003). Bayesian networks for knowledge discovery in large datasets: basics for nurse researchers. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 36, pp 389-399.

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