Richard Booth, PhD, RN

Associate Professor and Research Chair in Digitally-Enabled Healthcare

Western University, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing

Richard Booth is an Associate Professor and Research Chair in Digitally-Enabled Healthcare at the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University and an Adjunct Scientist with the Primary Care & Health Systems Research group at ICES. As a clinician researcher with an active research program exploring psychiatric-mental health nursing and health informatics, he is interested in the convergence of data, technology, and people as related to practice and nursing education. He has a particular interest in the use of emergent technologies in healthcare and their resulting intended and unintended consequences on practice and society at large. To date, he has led numerous data-related projects, including the assessment of digital health innovations for teaching/learning, human-technology interaction research, and the use of data for population health surveillance. He currently supervises numerous graduate students at both the master's and doctoral levels and has delivered over 80 presentations and keynote addresses to national and international audiences over the last decade.

Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FACMI, FNAP, FAAN

Professor & Dean

University of Minnesota, School of Nursing

Connie White Delaney is a Professor & the Dean for the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, serving as Core Faculty in the Institute for Health Informatics and as 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 as the Acting Director of the Institute for Health Informatics (IHI) in the Academic Health Center from 2010-2015.  In addition to her role as professor and Dean, Connie is 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.  Dr. Delaney is an elected Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, American College of Medical Informatics, and National Academies of Practice.  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 and health care, and big data knowledge discovery. Delaney is past president of Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research (FNINR) and past Vice-Chair of CGFNS, Inc. She holds a BSN with majors in nursing and mathematics, MA in Nursing, Ph.D. Educational Administration and Computer Applications, postdoctoral study in nursing & medical informatics, and a Certificate in Integrative Therapies & Healing Practices.

Rochelle Prosser, RN, CLNC

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Orchid Healthcare Solutions

Rochelle Prosser is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Orchid Healthcare Solutions, which offers cancer education, resources, and healthcare system navigation to Patients, Oncology Providers, and Industry Partners. In addition to 30 years of professional nursing, caregiving, and data science experience, Rochelle also spent 15 years assisting multiple family members through harrowing cancer journeys. Ms. Prosser has leveraged her own struggles to navigate the Oncology space and create a vast database of cancer treatments, The Prosser Cancer Treatment Library, so that other families do not face the lack of information and stress that her family endured. In addition to providing everyone with better access to Oncological Care Navigation, Ms. Prosser’s work aims to help remove the Health Disparity barriers in Oncology care to provide options and foster improved overall survivorship rates for communities of color and vulnerable populations. In addition to her efforts at Orchid, Rochelle is an ER and Neurotrauma Critical Care Nurse. She has 16 years of experience as a data scientist for the payor industry and worked to create clinical program content and instructional design for ACO and MCO value-based programs, additionally employing her experience to develop clinical pathways for cardiovascular specialties. As a leader in nurse technology innovation, Ms. Prosser currently serves on the Health IT Advisory Committee under the Assistant Secretary of Technology Policy and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. In this role, she serves as the Co-Chair of the HTI-2 Proposed Rule Task Force and as a member of the Health Equity by Design Task Force, the Interoperability Standards Workgroup, and the Annual Report Workgroup.