Mollie Cummins
  • Professor, College Of Nursing
  • Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chair
  • Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Informatics

Research Summary

Clinical research informatics; exposure health informatics; telemedicine

Education

  • BSN, Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner track, Northern Kentucky University
  • PhD, Nursing Science, Information Science, Indiana University
  • Complex Systems Summer School, Complex Systems, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM

Biography

Mollie R. Cummins, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI is a Professor of Nursing and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah, and Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chair. She holds a PhD in nursing science and information science from Indiana University. In 2007, she studied methods of complexity science including agent-based modeling and network analysis at the Santa Fe Institute. Prior to her career in informatics, she practiced as an emergency nurse and family nurse practitioner. She has made numerous scholarly contributions in informatics, particularly in the areas of exposure health informatics and telemedicine. Dr. Cummins previously chaired the Board of Scientific Counselors of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, the intramural research division of the National Library of Medicine, and the American Academy of Nursing Informatics & Technology Expert Panel. She is a former President of the Utah Nursing Informatics Network and former elected member of the national steering committee of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics. Dr. Cummins is currently a site PI for PCORnet RECOVER EHR and leads the Telemedicine Session Data Project.

 

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Mollie R. Cummins, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI is a Professor of Nursing and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah, and Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chair. She holds a PhD in nursing science and information science from Indiana University. In 2007, she studied methods of complexity science including agent-based modeling and network analysis at the Santa Fe Institute. Prior to her career in informatics, she practiced as an emergency nurse and family nurse practitioner. She has made numerous scholarly contributions in informatics, particularly in the areas of poison control and exposure health informatics. Dr. Cummins previously chaired the Board of Scientific Counselors of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, the intramural research division of the National Library of Medicine, and the American Academy of Nursing Informatics & Technology Expert Panel. She is a former President of the Utah Nursing Informatics Network and former elected member of the national steering committee of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics. At University of Utah, she led a series of studies related to informatics applications in poison control, most recently an AHRQ funded study to develop and evaluate a health information exchange process for emergency departments and poison control centers (AHRQR01HS021472). She is also heavily engaged in clinical research informatics; she serves as an Assistant Director of the University of Utah Center for Clinical and Translational Science (NCATS UL1TR001067) and is site PI for PCORnet RECOVER EHR. As a co-investigator for the Utah PRISMS Center (NIBIB U54EB021973), she contributed to the development of a research informatics platform that enables the integration of air quality sensors into studies of pediatric asthma. She has authored numerous articles, book chapters, scientific papers, and abstracts.