Fern FitzHenry, RN, PhD

Fern FitzHenry, RN, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and a part of the Center for Population Health. Her research interests are in improving the management of pain, the identification of adverse events, concept identification in electronic medical records,  big data analysis for outcomes, and natural language processing. She has done research at both the Veterans Administration's Tennessee Valley Health System and at Vanderbilt University. 

Dr. Fitzhenry is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and a retired Colonel from the United States Air Force Reserve.  She holds a graduate degree in business from Northwestern University in addition to her BSN and PhD from the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago.