Meet Hall of Fame Inductee Dr. Betsy Weiner

The College of Nursing is now accepting nominations for the third class of Hall of Fame inductees. Click here to nominate a distinguished nursing leader by March 31! 

Betsy Weiner, PhD, RN-BC, FACMI, FAAN, serves as the senior associate dean for educational informatics as well as the Centennial Independence Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, a joint appointment between nursing and medicine. Prior to joining Vanderbilt in 2000, she served 21 years at the University of Cincinnati, ten years as director for a university wide faculty technology center, and four years as director of university academic computing. 

Considered a pioneer in multimedia development (with over 30 years of experience in the health sciences), she is responsible for the distance learning programs in nursing, and the informatics tools that help to tie together the research, practice, and academic arenas. Dr. Weiner publishes and speaks nationally and internationally on both informatics and emergency planning and response. She was the 2008 recipient of the AMIA Virginia K. Saba Award.

Dr. Weiner was previously the PI on $3 million worth of HRSA grants for faculty development working in conjunction with the UK College of Nursing.

She publishes and speaks nationally and internationally on both informatics and emergency planning and response, and has served as an international consultant for the World Health Organization. She was the 2008 recipient of the American Medical Informatics Association’s Virginia K. Saba Award. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the American College of Medical Informatics. In 2006, she received the Outstanding Alumna Award from the UK College of Nursing and in 2007 was inducted into the Inaugural Class of the College’s Hall of Fame. In April 2010, Dr. Weiner was inducted into the UK Hall of Distinguished Alumni. She received her BSN from UK in 1975 and her PhD in 1982.