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Dr. Susan McBride, PhD, RN, NI-BC, CPHIMS, FAAN

Associate Dean of Research, Professor

University of Texas at Tyler


Susan McBride, Ph.D., RN, NI-BC, CPHIMS, FAAN is a nursing informaticist with over 25 years of experience in clinical informatics whose research focus is on methods development for implementing, evaluating, and utilizing health information technology and data to improve patient safety, quality, and population health. Dr. McBride is a Professor and the Associate Dean of Research for the School of Nursing at the University of Texas at Tyler. She sits on multiple technical advisory committees at state and national levels as well as consults on various aspects of health information technology and use of data for healthcare improvement. Dr. McBride is a Fellow and the past Chair of the American Academy of Nursing Informatics and Technology Expert Panel. She is the principal investigator for the 2015 and 2020 Texas Statewide EHR Satisfaction Study and the National League of Nursing funded research (2021-2023) for the study entitled “Competency Assessment in Simulation of Electronic Health Records (CASE) Tool: A Validated Tool to Evaluate EHR Competency in Simulation”. She supports the UT Tyler CTSA as Co-Investigator managing clinical EHR data submissions to the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) and the NIH All of Us.