Cornelia Ruland, PhD

Dr. Ruland is Director of the Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center in Oslo, Norway. She has an RN degree and a PhD in nursing informatics, and holds the title of Professor of Medicine at the University of Oslo. She also holds an adjunct faculty position in biomedical informatics at Columbia University in New York. She has made sustained and influential contributions to the field in the areas of eliciting and incorporating patient preferences into decision making by care providers, use of hand-held technologies for preference-based care planning, and creation and evaluation of shared decision making based in informatics principles. Her nomination notes that Dr. Ruland is one of the most productive nursing informatics researchers in the world, who has methodically evaluated the innovative systems she has designed using prospective randomized clinical trials. She has been principal investigator on 30 grants, and her ideas have been influential in nursing practice in many countries, including the US. These sustained contributions are the basis of her election as an international associate of the College.