Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI

Professor and Dean
Connie White Delaney

Contact

Office Address

Rm 5-140D
308 Harvard St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States

Titles

Professor and Dean
Core Faculty

Education

PhD, University of Iowa
Major: Education Administration/Computer Applications

MA, University of Iowa
Major: Nursing

BSN, Viterbo University
Major: Nursing & Mathematics

Fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fellowship University of Utah

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Biography

Bio

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.

Honors and Recognition

  • The Jean Harris Award, Women's Health Leadership TRUST, Minnesota, 2014
  • Elected Fellow, National Academies of Practice (NAP), 2013
  • Women in Business Award, 2011
  • Appointment to Health Information Technology Policy Committee, American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, by Acting Comptroller General of the United States & Head, Government Accounting Office, 2009
  • AMIA Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award, 2009
  • HIMSS 2006 "Book of the Year" Award, 2007
  • Leadership Award, American Medical Informatics Association, 2005
  • Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics, 2004
  • Educational Technology Award "The International Nursing Informatics Education Collaboratory", Sigma Theta Tau International, Region 2, 2001
  • Fellow, American Academy of Nursing,1998
  • Fellow, American Academy of Nursing,1998
  • Member, Sigma Theta Tau International Epsilon Chapter, Zeta Chapter, Pi Phi Chapter, Nu Chapter, 1977

Professional Memberships

  • 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

Grants and Patents

Selected Grants

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