Suzanne Bakken
{{Short description|American nurse and academic}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Suzanne Bakken Henry
| workplaces = Stanford University
Columbia University
| alma_mater = Arizona State University
University of California, San Francisco
| thesis_title = The effect of level of patient acuity on clinical decision making by critical care nurses with varying levels of knowledge and experience
| thesis_url = https://worldcat.org/en/title/24343297
| thesis_year = 1989
}}
Suzanne B. Bakken Henry is an American nurse who is a professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University. Her research considers health equity and informatics. She is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, American College of Medical Informatics and American Academy of Nursing.
Early life and education
Bakken was an undergraduate student in nursing at Arizona State University.{{cn|date=October 2023}} She earned her doctoral degree in nursing at the University of California, San Francisco.{{Cite thesis |title=The effect of level of patient acuity on clinical decision making by critical care nurses with varying levels of knowledge and experience |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82w30605 |publisher=UCSF |date=1989 |language=en |first=Suzanne Bakken |last=Henry}} She moved to Stanford University as a National Library of Medicine and American Nurses Foundation postdoctoral fellow.{{Cite web |title=American Nurses Foundation Scholars, 1955 – 2015 |url=https://www.nursingworld.org/globalassets/foundation/anf-1955-2015--scholars.pdf}}
Research and career
In 2006, Bakken joined the Columbia University Institute of Medicine. Her research combines informatics, evidence-based nursing and health equity.{{Cite web |last=MacMillan |first=Leigh |title=Columbia's Bakken to deliver Flexner Discovery Lecture |url=https://news.vumc.org/2014/12/04/bakken-discovery-lecture/ |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=Vanderbilt University |date=4 December 2014 |language=en}} At Columbia, she led the Center for Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved and the pre-/post-doctoral program on Reducing Health Disparities through Informatics (RHeaDI).{{Cite web |date=2015-08-31 |title=Professor Bakken named IOM Nurse Scholar in Residence |url=https://www.nursing.columbia.edu/news/professor-bakken-named-iom-nurse-scholar-residence |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=Columbia School of Nursing |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2019-10-15 |title=RHeaDI Fellowship Program |url=https://www.nursing.columbia.edu/research/training-programs/rheadi-fellowship-program |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=Columbia School of Nursing |language=en}}
Bakken worked on the representation of nursing concepts and terminology in Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine and LOINC.{{cite journal |vauthors=Stead WW, Flatley Brennan P |title=Celebrating Suzanne Bakken, 2023 Morris F. Collen Award winner and pioneer in health equity |journal=J Am Med Inform Assoc |volume=30 |issue=11 |pages=1760–1761 |date=October 2023 |pmid=37855452 |doi=10.1093/jamia/ocad189 |url=|doi-access=free |pmc=10586030 }} She showed that using formal vocabularies to express patient problems enhanced the generalizability of research, improved the quality of health outcomes and improved the traineeship of informatics and nursing researchers. She has argued that digital infrastructure is a critical component of a health ecosystem, and that new clinical tools could be used for self-management and care.{{Cite web |title=SUZANNE BAKKEN, R.N., PH.D., FAAN, FACMI |url=https://www.vumc.org/discovery-lecture-series/sites/default/files/public_files/PDF/2014-01-Bakken.pdf}} However, to make the digital infrastructure fair and equitable, it is key to improve public trust such that individuals contribute personal data and clinical experiences. Bakken developed community engagement projects to improve public trust amongst urban Latino populations.
Bakken is known for her contributions to biomedical informatics, with a focus on visual analytic innovations, training of informatics students and knowledge formalization.{{cn|date=October 2023}} She spent 2015 as a Scholar in Residence at the National Academy of Medicine. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bakken was supported by the National Institutes of Health to create a visualization toolbox to address COVID-19 misinformation and hesitation around testing and vaccination.{{Cite web |title=Suzanne Bakken, RN, PhD {{!}} AMIA – American Medical Informatics Association |url=https://amia.org/membership/suzanne-bakken-rn-phd |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=amia.org |language=en}}
Awards and honors
- 1995 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing{{Cite web |title=Subcommittee Member Biography: Suzanne Bakken |url=https://www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/nac/pcortf-snac/bakken.html |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=www.ahrq.gov |language=en-us}}
- 2006 American College of Medical Informatics Virginia K. Saba Award for Nursing Informatics Leadership{{Cite web |title=Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award {{!}} AMIA – American Medical Informatics Association |url=https://amia.org/about-amia/amia-awards/signature-awards/virginia-k-saba-informatics-award |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=amia.org |language=en}}
- 2007 UCSF School of Nursing Centennial Wall of Fame{{Cite web |date=2020-09-18 |title=Suzanne B. Bakken, PhD, MS, BSN, FAAN, FACMI, FIAHSI |url=https://www.cancer.columbia.edu/profile/suzanne-b-bakken-phd |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) – New York |language=en}}
- 2008 University of California, San Francisco Helen Nahm Lecture Award{{Cite web |title=Helen Nahm Research Lecture Award |url=https://nursing.ucsf.edu/helen-nahm-research-lecture-award |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=UCSF School of Nursing |language=en}}
- 2010 Pathfinder Award
- 2018 Sigma International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame{{Cite web |title=Sigma announces 2018 International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame inductees |url=https://nursingcentered.sigmanursing.org/features/more-features/sigma-announces-2018-international-nurse-researcher-hall-of-fame-inductees |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=nursingcentered.sigmanursing.org}}
- 2018 Friend of the National Library of Medicine{{cn|date=October 2023}}
- 2019 IMIA François Grémy Award of Excellence{{Cite web |last=admin |title=IMIA François Grémy Award of Excellence |url=https://imia-medinfo.org/wp/imia-award-of-excellence/ |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=IMIA |language=en-US}}
- 2023 American College of Medical Informatics Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence{{Cite web |title=Suzanne R. Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FIAHSI, to be Awarded Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence at the AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium {{!}} AMIA – American Medical Informatics Association |url=https://amia.org/news-publications/suzanne-r-bakken-phd-rn-faan-facmi-fiahsi-be-awarded-morris-f-collen-award |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=amia.org |language=en}}
Selected publications
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