Kenrick Cato, PhD, RN, CPHIMS, FAAN

Kenrick Cato, PhD, RN, CPHIMS, FAAN, is a Professor of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania and a Nurse Scientist, Nurse Scientist – Pediatric Data and Analytics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Cato has a varied background. He worked as a database engineer and software engineer before serving as an infantryman (enlisted and officer) in the United States Army. He has also worked as a surgical and medical oncology staff nurse and as an analyst in the information technology department, working on projects to improve patient safety using Clinical decision support. Dr. Cato is a clinical informatician whose research program focuses on mining electronic patient data to support decision-making for clinicians, patients, and caregivers. Also, he is involved in several national-level informatics organizations, including as a board member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), the Chair-elect of the Nursing Informatics Working Group(NIWG) of AMIA, as well as a convening member of the AMIA-sponsored 25 x 5 initiative to reduce documentation burden. Dr. Cato received his BSN, MS, and PhD in Clinical informatics, all at Columbia University.