Faculty Profile

Address:
630 West 168th Street
Mail Code 6
New York, NY 10032

Phone: 212-342-3919
Fax: 212-305-6937

lmc2007@columbia.edu

Education and Training
DNSc Columbia University School of Nursing
MS University of California, San Francisco
BSN Samuel Merritt College

Affiliations
Columbia University School of Nursing

Leanne Currie, DNSc
Assistant Professor of Nursing

Research Activities: Nursing and Biomedical Informatics

Clinical Interests: Automated methods to improve patient safety, Interprofessional communication.

Publications:
Mellino, LV, Currie LM, Bakken, S, Bufe, GM, Manzano. W. (2005) Nursing Leadership in the Development of an Evidence-based Fall and Injury Prevention Program. Winner, 2005 Innovations in Clinical Excellence Evidence-Based Practice Contest, Sigma Theta Tau International.

Allen, M, Currie, LM., Bakken, S, Patel, VL, Cimino, JJ. Paper-Based Heuristic Evaluation: A Modified Usability Inspection Methodology, J Biomed Inform 2005 Nov 15

Currie, LM (2005) Evaluation Frameworks: Applications for Nursing Informatics, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Special Issue in Nursing Informatics

Patel, VL, Currie, LM (2005) Clinical Cognition and Biomedical Informatics: Issues of Patient Safety, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Special Issue in Nursing Informatics

Dykes PC, Currie L, Bakken S. Patient Education and Recovery Learning System (PEARLS) pathway: a tool to drive patient centered evidence-based practice. Journal of Healthcare Information Management. 2004 Fall;18(4):67-73.

Currie LM, Mellino LV, Cimino JJ, Bakken S. (2004) Development and Representation of a Fall-injury Risk Assessment Instrument in a Clinical Information System. Proceedings of the International Medical Informatics Association Triennial Symposium, Medinfo. 2004;721-5.

Dykes PC, Currie LM, Cimino JJ. (2003) Adequacy of Evolving National Standardized Terminologies for Interdisciplinary Coded Concepts in an Automated Clinical Pathway. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 36(4-5): 313-25.

Currie LM, Graham MJ, Allen M, Bakken S., Patel V., and Cimino JJ. Clinical Information Needs in Context: An Observational Study of Clinicians While Using a Clinical Information System. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, AMIA, Bethesda MD 2003. Winner of Harriet H. Werley Award for paper making the greatest contribution to advance the field of nursing informatics.

Research Projects:
Principal Investigator: Evaluation of Fall and Injury Prevention Project for Adult Patients in the Acute Care Setting, Funded via: Columbia Alliance for Healthcare Management

Prinicipal Investigator: 'Evaluation of Personal Digital Assistant Representation of a Fall-Injury Risk Assessment Instrument.' Funded via: Center for Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved.

Co-Investigator: Mobile Decision Support for Advanced Practice Nurses (MODS-APN).

Honors and Awards:

2006 Award for Teaching Excellence, Columbia University School of Nursing
2005 Co-author Recipient of Sigma Theta Tau International Innovations in Clinical Excellence
2004 Winner, Best student paper regarding patient safety, Health Information Management ystems Society, New York State Chapter
2003 Harriet H. Werley Award for paper making the greatest contribution to advance the field of nursing informatics
2003 Second place, Student Paper Awards 8th International Congress in Nursing Informatics, International Medical Informatics Association

Committee Memberships:

2006 - Present New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY Vocabulary Committee
2005 - Present Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY – Doctoral Coordinating Committee
2005 - Present Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY – Curriculum Committee
2005 - Present Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY – Sigma Theta Tau, Alpha Zeta Chapter, Secretary
2004 - Present Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY – Doctoral Council
2004 - Present New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY – Nursing Research Steering Committee
2004 - Present Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY - Eastern Nursing Research Society Planning Committee

Professional Society Memberships:

2003 - Present Health Information Management Systems Society
2001 - Present New York State Nurses Association
1999 - Present American Medical Informatics Association
1996 - Present American Nurses Association
1986 - Present California Nurses Association

Instructor of the following classes:
Assessing Clinical Evidence

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