Dr. Kenrick Cato

Biography

Kenrick Cato is a Clinical Informatician and Professor in the Department of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on mining electronic patient data to support decision-making for clinicians, patients, and caregivers. Cato is involved in national-level informatics organizations and serves as a board member for the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and Chair of the Nursing Informatics Working Group. He received his BSN, MS, and PhD in Clinical Informatics from Columbia University. His innovation research team works on machine learning applications for clinical decision support, demonstrated by the development of the CONCERN Clinical Decision Support system which predicts patient deterioration. He teaches courses in healthcare information systems and has guided National Academy Medicine reports on important issues like patient safety and clinician burnout. Cato has collaborated with numerous institutions including Children’s Hospital Philadelphia, Harvard University, and others in the field of applied clinical informatics research.

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