The Rita Kobb Nursing & Health Informatics National Symposium is a free bi-yearly lectureship series that explores topics in nursing informatics. This series was created by a gift made in honor of Rita Kobb, a UF College of Nursing alumna and nursing informatics expert, by Bill and Patti Alcorn.

Registration is now closed for this event.

WHEN Friday, Feb. 24, 2023 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (EST)

WHERE: Reitz Union 686 Museum Road Gainesville, FL 32611 *PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE HELD VIRTUALLY.*

meet the keynotes!

Kenrick Cato Headshot

opening keynote

KENRICK CATO, PHD, RN, CPHIMS

Janet Stifter Headshot

CLosing keynote

JANET STIFTER, PHD, RN, CPHQ, NE-BC

PROGRAM OUTCOMES

After attending the 2023 Rita Kobb Nursing & Health Informatics National Symposium, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the use, scope, and applicability of nursing and health informatics
  • Summarize the current trends involving nursing informatics and health informatics, including:
    • Digital technology interventions to improve patient outcomes
    • Healthcare workforce well-being in the use of digital technologies
    • Advances in robotics and voice assistant technology in health care
    • Artificial Intelligence applications to support initiatives to reduce health care burden
  • Differentiate the state-of-the-art informatics approaches, theories, and methods relevant to clinical and translational science
  • Interact with professionals engaged in clinical and translational science including clinical and translational investigators, data scientists, clinical- and bio-informaticians, public health informaticians, and those involved with clinical and research IT policy and regulatory issues

TARGET AUDIENCE

  • Faculty, staff scientists, educators, students, post-docs and investigators with an interest in applied biomedical informatics that advances clinical and translational science
  • Biomedical and health informatics researchers in academia and industry
  • Data scientists working with biomedical datasets
  • Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) researchers
  • Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) researchers
  • Computer scientists and system developers
  • Computational biologists with interests in human disease, drug discovery, drug repurposing, and drug response
  • Health science ethicists, lawyers, and policy experts
  • Government officials and policymakers
  • Health information and knowledge management professionals
  • HIT industry professionals and consultants
  • Industry representatives related to bioinformatics and genomics
  • Physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and other clinicians
  • Public health informaticians/practitioners, patient advocates, consumer advocates, and disease management specialists
  • Standards developers, with particular emphasis on EHR data repurposing

SPONSORS