Judith Warren, PhD

Currently: Christine A. Hartley Centennial Professor of Nursing and Assistant Director of the Frontiers Heartland Institute of Clinical and Translational Researchís Center for Biomedical Informatics Trained in nursing at the University of Hawaii and Texas Women's University, Dr. Judy Warren returned to Hawaii to earn a PhD in educational psychology in 1987. She then headed back to the mainland to join the faculty of nursing at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, where she refined her research interest in the use of standardized coding and classification systems, earning election to fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing in 1996. For the last four years, she has served as associate professor on the nursing faculty at the University of Kansas. Dr. Warren has actively contributed to the development of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) Taxonomy for almost two decades, emphasizing the promulgation of multidisciplinary approaches for representing concepts (including those on problem lists) in computer-based systems. She has served as a leader in the development of a reference terminology for nursing, including the seminal development of a reference terminology model for nursing interventions. Dr. Warren is a natural leader, having assumed leadership positions in a wide variety of organizations, including NANDA (where she has served as President), the ANA, Computer-based Patient Record Institute (CPRI), the ANSI-Health Informatics Standards Board, the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) International Editorial Board, and most recently the Patient Care Committee of HL7 (where she is cochair). She has accordingly had a major influence on clinical practice and national health care policy related to inclusion of nursing data elements in computer-based systems. Her colleagues recognize Dr. Warren as an informatician who is dedicated to integrating terminologies in a manner that facilitates data reuse and, in particular, examines and furthers nursing contributions to patient care outcomes.