Dawn Dowding

Dawn is Professor in Clinical Decision Making in the School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester. She is a nurse and has been involved in research into clinical decision making and the development and use of digital technologies for over 30 years. She has published over 150 peer reviewed article and is currently the lead for the Digital Health theme in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester. She is an elected Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, and the American Academy of Nursing and a Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics (UK). Dawn is also co-Chair of the Digital Nursing forum at the Royal College of Nursing, and Vice Chair for Advisory Panels for the International Medical Informatics Association Nursing Informatics group. Dawn completed her registered nurse training at St Bartholomew’s College of Nursing and Midwifery, London, has a BSc(Hons) in Psychology with Nursing Studies from City University, London and a PhD in Psychology and Nursing from the University of Surrey, UK