2025 Rita Kobb Nursing & Health Informatics National Symposium Agenda

7:30 – 8:45 a.m

Registration | Reitz Union – Grand Ballroom

8:45 – 9 a.m.

Welcome Remarks | Grand Ballroom

9-10 a.m.

Opening Keynote | Grand Ballroom

Dr. Mollie Cummins (University of Utah)

10-10:15 a.m.

Transition

10:15–11:15 a.m.

Podium presentations

Breakout Theme 1: Harnessing Data Science for Personalized and Predictive Care Across Diverse Populations

Presentations:

  • Development of an Electronic Health Record-Based HIV Risk Prediction Model for Women, Incorporating Social Determinants of Health – presenter: Yiyang Liu
  • Exploring the Relationship Between Nutrition and Survival in Pancreatic Cancer: The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index at Diagnosis and Influence of Additional Patient Factors – presenter: Christina Grinstead
  • A Theoretical Data Science Framework for Neonatal Care: Enhancing Data-Driven Decision Making in the NICU – Janet Northcote


Breakout Theme 2: Advancing Nursing-Centric EHR Innovations: Overcoming Challenges and Unlocking Opportunities for Better Patient Care and Data Use

Presentations:

  • Improving EHRs for Nurses: Insights to Inform AI-Driven Solutions – presenter: Lisa G. Johnson
  • Characterizing the Types of Electronic Health Workarounds Used by Acute and Critical Care Nurses and Their Contributors: A Mixed-Methods Analysis – presenter: Oliver T. Nguyen
  • Expanding Pediatric Data Availability in a Multi-State Clinical Data Research Network: A Call for Action – presenter: Jeanette Green

Breakout Theme 3: Integrating Data, Technology and Care Practices to Elevate Patient Safety and Quality of Care

Presentations:

  • Enteral Nutrition: An Under-Appreciated Source of Hospital Safety Events – presenter: Sandra Citty
  • Vacuum Power: Boosting Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Cannula Healing with Negative Pressure Therapy – presenter: Sandra Citty
  • Newborn Rewarming Practices on a Mother-Baby Unit: Quality Improvement – presenter: Elizabeth de Paula Fonseca


11:15–11:30 a.m.

Transition

11:30 a.m. to noon

Poster viewing/Networking | Grand Ballroom

Noon to 1 p.m.

LUNCH | Grand Ballroom

1-2 p.m.

Panel

Theme: Innovating Together: Bridging Disciplines to Drive Data-Driven Nursing and Transform Healthcare Practices

A panel exploring how nurse scientists, engineers, and physicians can synergize their expertise to develop technologies, such as AI and machine learning, to translate research into impactful nursing practices, along with implement data-driven evidence-based practices in nursing and healthcare.

Panelists:

  • Dr. Andrew Boyd (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  • Dr. Karen Dunn Lopez (University of Iowa)
  • Dr. Ashfaq Khokar (Iowa State University)
  • Dr. Toni Phillips (Deputy Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, Department of Veteran Affairs/Office of Nursing Informatics)

Reitz Union – Grand Ballroom


2:15-2:30 p.m.

Transition

2:30–3:30 p.m.

Closing Keynote | Dr. Olga Yakusheva (John Hopkins School of Nursing)

Reitz Union – Grand Ballroom