Informatics Education in Healthcare

Eta S. Berner, Ed.D., received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is currently University Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She is also the founding Director of UAB's Center for Health Informatics for Patient Safety and Quality. Dr. Berner has been teaching in UAB's Master of Science in Health Informatics Program for over 20 years and was Principal Investigator of two informatics workforce development projects funded by the US Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to develop a national curriculum for Health Information Technology. Dr. Berner is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. She has published articles in leading journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Academic Medicine and the Journal of theAmerican Medical Informatics Association. She is the editor of a Springer book entitled Clinical Decision Support Systems: Theory and Practice (third edition, 2016). Dr. Berner has served on a variety of external review committees for federal grantees developing clinical decision support interventions. She has been a World Health Organization consultant, and has served in leadership positions nationally in the US in professional informatics and health professions educational organizations. Dr. Berner has been actively involved with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) since its inception and has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association since 1998. She is currently a member of AMIA's newly formed Health Informatics Certification Commission.