Subcommittee Member: Suzanne Bakken
Suzanne Bakken, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., F.A.C.M.I., F.I.A.H.S.I.
The Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Columbia University
Director, Precision in Symptom Self-Management Center
Director, Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics Pre and Post Doctoral Training Program
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Dr. Bakken is the Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. After she earned her doctorate in nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in medical informatics at Stanford University. Her program of research has focused on the intersection of informatics and health equity for more than 30 years and has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), and the National Library of Medicine. At Columbia Nursing, she leads the NINR-funded Precision in Symptom Self-Management (PriSSM) Center and the Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics (RHeaDI) Pre and Post Doctoral Training Program. She also serves as co-lead of Columbia’s FHIR Lab. She is currently funded as part of the National Institutes of Health’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics for Underserved Populations to develop a visualization toolbox to address COVID-19 testing and vaccination as a strategy for combating misinformation and hesitancy through community-engaged production of culturally congruent health-literate messages. Dr. Bakken’s program of research has resulted in more than 300 peer-reviewed papers.
Dr. Bakken is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the American College of Medical Informatics, and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Bakken has received multiple awards for her research, including the Pathfinder Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research, the Nursing Informatics Award from the Friends of the National Library of Medicine, the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researchers Hall of Fame, and the Virginia K. Saba Award from the American Medical Informatics Association. Most recently, she was the first nurse recipient of the Francois Grémy Award of Excellence from the International Medical Informatics Association, and in 2021 she received the Virginia Saba Nursing Informatics Award from Sigma Theta Tau International. Dr. Bakken currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and as a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine.
