She is a member of the National Quality Forum’s Health Information Technology Advisory Council (HITAC), a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She has a master’s degree in Nursing Informatics. Her second master’s and PhD are in Operations Analysis/Information Science, and and she recently completed a two year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Human Computer Interaction. She is the Director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing Knowledge at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and serves on the Executive Board of the Division of Health Sciences Informatics in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.