Connie White Delaney, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, FACMI

Connie White Delaney is Professor & Dean, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota.  She also 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.  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, Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She is an active researcher and writer in the areas of national data and information technology standards development for essential nursing and health care, outcomes/safety, data science, and translational science. She serves on numerous health, business/industry and policy boards/advisory committees. She holds a BSN with majors in nursing and mathematics, MA in Nursing, Ph.D. Educational Administration and Computer Applications, and completed postdoctoral study in nursing & medical informatics.