Special Feature: American College of Medical Informatics Fellows and International Associates, 2003

Patricia Abbott, RN, PhD Dr. Patricia Abbott trained in nursing at the University of Maryland and, after practicing for a few years, developed a growing interest in informatics. She obtained her master’s degree in nursing informatics in 1992 and went on to earn a PhD in information systems in 1999. Even before completing her PhD, she had become a well-known and contributing member of the informatics community while serving as a clinical specialist for information systems at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She subsequently joined the faculty of nursing, first at Maryland and, since 2003, at Johns Hopkins University, where she is Director of the World Health Organization (WHO)/Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Center for Information Systems in Nursing Care.