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Roles & Affiliations: Dawn Dowding is a Professor in Clinical Decision Making and Head of Division (NMSW) at the University of Manchester's School of Health Sciences. She leads the Digital Health theme in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester. Her academic roles include co-Chair of the Royal College of Nursing's Digital Nursing forum and Vice Chair for the International Medical Informatics Association Nursing Group.
Education:
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Surrey, 1998): Focused on Information Processing and Handover in healthcare.
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Psychology (City University London, 1990).
Research Interests: Her work centers on nursing informatics, decision support tools, and digital health technologies. Key themes include:
- Development and evaluation of clinical decision support systems.
- Integration of Health IT into practice (e.g., mobile apps, symptom tracking).
- Healthcare decision-making processes in clinical settings.
Grants & Projects: Active projects include RENAL_HF (heart failure monitoring), Transforming Outpatient Consultations via symptom tracking, and the Healthy Ageing Research Group. She has led over 7 funded initiatives since 2021.
Awards & Memberships:
- International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics Fellow (2023).
- American Academy of Nursing Fellow (2016).
- Editorial involvement with the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (2019-2021).
Labs & Collaborations: Leads the Digital Health and Social Care Research Group and collaborates globally on topics like falls prevention, telehealth, and genomic education apps. Active in interdisciplinary teams with clinicians, engineers, and policymakers.
