Vanderbilt University Medical Center
The Informatics Center
428 Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-8340
Voice: 615-936-1423
Fax: 615-936-1427 nancy.lorenzi@vanderbilt.edu
Institution Degree Focus Areas
A.B. Psychology, Sociology, Biology, Geology
Youngstown State University
M.S. Medical Information and Library Science
Case Western Reserve University
M.A. Sociology with focus on self esteem
University of Louisville
Ph.D. Organizational Behavior with major focus on the relationship
between leadership and organizational growth
University of Cincinnati
Assistant Vice-Chancellor for Health Affairs and
Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical
Center
Elected as a Fellow of the American College of
Medical Informatics and as a Fellow of the Medical Library Association
Conceptualized and led the successful implementation of a small
pioneering patient-centered clinical information system
Co-authored the books: Organizational Aspects
of Health Informatics: Managing Technological Change, Springer-Verlag,
1995 and Transforming Health Care Through Information: Case Studies,
Springer-Verlag, 1995, Behavioral Health Care Informatics, Springer-Verlag,
2001
Co-authored chapters on the people and organizational
aspects of information technology systems for health administration,
nursing informatics, and public health informatics books
One of the pioneers in the National Library of
Medicine's IAIMS research program
Past President of the 5,000 member Medical Library
Association [MLA]
Elected Treasurer for American Medical Informatics
Association (2000-2001)
Elected Vice President of the International Medical
Informatics Association (1998-2002)
Elected Executive Committee of the American College
of Medical Informatics (1999-2002)
Chosen as Program Chair for the 1999 Fall Symposium
of the American Medical Informatics (AMIA), with over 2,000 attendees
attended
Conceptualized and chaired a pioneering International
Medical Informatics Association [IMIA] Working Conference, The Organizational
Impact of Informatics
Founded and served as the first chair of working
groups on People and Organization Issues in Informatics for both
AMIA and IMIA
Published more than 75 articles in over 40 journals
and publications
Spoken nationally and internationally—including
a number of keynote speeches—on a variety of topics such as
informatics, planning, change management, and general management
Consulted widely in both the public and private
sectors in a variety of topical areas
Directed several successful major political
campaigns for health care tax levies
