Suzanne R. Bakken

Suzanne R. Bakken is the Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She holds affiliations with the Center for Precision in Symptom Self-Management and the Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics (RHeaDI) training program. Her research focuses on leveraging informatics to reduce health disparities, particularly through data visualization tools for communities, patients, and clinicians, including initiatives addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. She directs NIH-funded programs and has led projects such as the Washington Heights Inwood Informatics Infrastructure (WICER).

Education: PhD in Nursing (University of California, San Francisco) and a National Library of Medicine postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Informatics (Stanford University).

Research emphasizes community-engaged health informatics, precision symptom management, and disparities reduction. Current projects include developing visualization toolboxes for healthcare data and stakeholder-driven infrastructure for comparative effectiveness research.

Grants & Awards

• National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)-funded Precision in Symptom Self-Management Center
• NINR-funded RHeaDI training program
• AHRQ-funded WICER and WICER 4 U projects

Awards

• 2010 Pathfinder Award (Friends of NINR)
• 2019 Francois Gremy Award (IMIA)

She leads multidisciplinary teams at the intersection of nursing, informatics, and public health, with a focus on translational research and community partnerships.