Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI

Connie White Delaney serves as Professor & Dean, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, and is the Knowledge Generation Lead for the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. She served as Associate Director of the Clinical Translational Science Institute –Biomedical Informatics, and Acting Director of the Institute for Health Informatics (IHI) in the Academic Health Center from 2010-2015. She serves as an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Nursing at the University of Iceland, where she received the Doctor Scientiae Curationis Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing) in 2011. Delaney is the first Fellow in the College of Medical Informatics to serve as a Dean of Nursing. Delaney was an inaugural appointee to the USA Health Information Technology Policy Committee, Office of the National Coordinator, and Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She is an active researcher in data and information technology standards for nursing, health care, & interprofessional practice and education; big data science; and integrative informatics. She serves on numerous health, business/industry and policy boards/advisory committees. Delaney currently serves as president of FNINR and Vice-Chair of CGFNS, Inc. She holds a BSN with majors in nursing and mathematics, MA in Nursing, PhD in Educational Administration and Computer Applications, postdoctoral study in nursing & medical informatics, and graduate study in integrative health & healing. She is recognized as a leader and visionary with unique organizational ability to re-create/co-create integrative communities, partnerships, programs, systems and collectives that produce sustainable relationship empowered impact, wholeness, conscious wellbeing, planetary health, and responsible stewardship. She is committed to transforming challenges into opportunities that advance discovery that transforms health, health systems, education, and integrative Informatics. She cultivates leadership transcendence in academia, health care, and informatics.

• 2025 Most Notable Health Care Leader Minneapolis Business Journal
• 2024 HIMSS - ANI Nursing Informatics Leadership Award
• Chief Mentors Designation, Pal College of Nursing & Medical Sciences Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India
• Twin Cities Business 2020 Notable Heroes in Health Care
• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame
• Jean Harris Award - Women's Health Leadership TRUST, Minnesota
• Elected Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP)
• Women in Business Award
• 25 Women Industry Leaders - Minneapolis, MN
• Interprofessional Education Think Tank - The Carnegie Foundation
• for the Advancement of Teaching and the Josiah Macy Foundation, Education Nurses & Physicians: Toward New Horizons 
• AMIA Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award

• IMIA NI Honorary Member
• American College of Medical Informatics
• International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
• American Association of College of Nursing
• American Medical Informatics Association
• MnORN
• American Nurses Association
• Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI)
• National Academies of Practice
• American Academy of Nursing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Taskforce

Journal Articles:

Park, S., Marquard, J., Austin, R., Pieczkiewicz, D., Jantraporn, R., & Delaney, C.W. 2024. A Systematic Review of Nurses' Perceptions of Electronic Health Record Usability Based on the Human Factor Goals of Satisfaction, Performance, and Safety. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing. DOI: 10.1097/CIN.0000000000001084 

Lee, K., McMorris, B., Chi, C.L., Looman, W., Burns, M., & Delaney, C. W. (2023). Using data-driven analytics and ecological systems theory to identify risk and protective factors for school absenteeism among secondary students. Journal of School Psychology, 98, 149-180.

Park, S., Marquard, J., Austin, R., Pieczkiewicz, D., & Delaney, C. (2022). Usability of electronic health records from nurses' perspectives: A systematic review. In 2022 IEEE 10th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI) (pp. 511-512). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI54592.2022.00091

Lu, S. C., Delaney, C. W., Tracy, M. F., Austin, R. R., Chi, C. L., & Monsen, K. A. (2022). Content Validity of the Omaha System Target Terms for Integrative Healthcare Interventions. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, 36(3), 239-264.

Pruinelli, L., Freeman, R., & Delaney, C. W. (2022). 2022 Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science Conference: Setting the Stage for the Next 5 Years' Achievements. Computers, Informatics, Nursing: CIN, 40(10), 666–669. https://doi.org/10.1097/CIN.0000000000000984

Book Chapters:

Delaney, C.W. & Brandt, Barbara.  (2022). Interprofessional digitally-enabled cooperation and communication (information exchange & sharing): Digitals tools for interprofessional and patient-centered care. Chapter XX in Nursing Informatics: Where Technology & Caring Meet, Editors Ursula Hubner, Gabriela Mustata Wilson, Toria Shaw, & Marion Ball).

Westra, B.L., Christie, B., GAO, G., Johnson, S.G., Pruinelli, L., LaFlamme, A., Park, J.I., Sherman, S., Ranallo, P.A., Speedie, S., & Delaney, C. (2017). Delaney C, Weaver C, Warren J, Clancy T, & Simpson R (Eds). Inclusion of Flowsheets from Electronic Health Records to Extend Data for Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Research. Big-data enabled nursing: education, research and practice. London: Springer.

Westra, B.L., Monsen, K.A., & Delaney, C.W. (2016). Big Data in Nursing Research. Chapter 19. In S. Henley, (Ed.). Routledge International Handbook of Advanced Quantitative Methods in Nursing Research. New York: NY: Routledge: Taylor and Francis Publishers. ISBN: 9780415521802

Books:

Delaney, C.W. & Klein, Shelagh. 2023. Leading with Love. Educated Change: London.

Delaney, C.W., Weaver, C., Sensmeier, J., Pruinelli, L., & Weber, P. (eds.) 2022. Nursing & Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World 3^rd Edition. Routlege. 4 Book series:

• Book 1 Realizing Digital Health-Bold Challenges & Opportunities for Nursing;
• Book 2 Nursing Education & Digital Health Strategies; 
• Book 3 Innovations, Technology & Applies Informatics for Nurses;
• Book 4 Nursing in an Integrated Digital World that Supports People, Systems, & the Planet.

Delaney, C.W., Englebright, J. and Clancy, T. (2021). Nursing Big Data Science. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 53, 259-261. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12664

Award: School Nurse Led Active Surveillance System for Students
Principal Investigator: Delaney, Connie J
Sponsoring Organization: National Association of School Nurses
Award Dates: 2018 - 2019

Award: Coordinating Center for Interprofessional Education and
Principal Investigator: Brandt, Barbara F
Sponsoring Organization: US Dept. of Health & Human Services HRSA
Award Dates: 2015 - 2017

Award: University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Scie
Principal Investigator: Delaney, Connie J
Sponsoring Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Award Dates: 2014 - 2015

Award: Greater Plains Collaborative Clinical Data Research Netw
Principal Investigator: Aliferis, Constantin
Sponsoring Organization: University of Kansas Medical Center
Award Dates: 2014 - 2018

Award: SCH: EXP: Discovering Patterns to Improve Health to Over
Principal Investigator: Steinbach, Michael Scot
Sponsoring Organization: The National Science Foundation
Award Dates: 2013 - 2016

Award: University of Minnesota Clinical and Translational Scien
Principal Investigator: Blazar, Bruce R
Sponsoring Organization: NIH Nat'l Center for Research Resources
Award Dates: 2011 - 2017

Award: University of Minnesota Clinical and Translational Scien
Principal Investigator: Blazar, Bruce R
Sponsoring Organization: NIH Nat'l Center for Research Resources
Award Dates: 2011 - 2017

Award: Development of a Consumer Research Network for Studying
Sponsoring Organization: NIH NINR National Institute of Nursing
Award Dates: 2009 - 2012

Award: Advancing the Nursing PhD in Oklahoma
Principal Investigator: Delaney, Connie J
Sponsoring Organization: The University of Oklahoma
Award Dates: 2008 - 2012

Award: Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship
Principal Investigator: Delaney, Connie J
Sponsoring Organization: HRSA Bureau of Health Professions
Award Dates: 2003 - 2008