Dawn Dowding

Dawn Dowding is Professor in Clinical Decision Making and Head of the Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, UK. She is a health services researcher and nurse with expertise in healthcare decision making and nursing informatics. Her particular interest is the development and evaluation of decision support tools, and the application of health information technology to assist decision making in practice. She is an elected Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) and the American Academy of Nursing, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a member of the Digital Nursing forum at the Royal College of Nursing, and Vice Chair for Advisory Groups for the International Medical Informatics Association Nursing Group. Dawn completed her registered nurse training at St Bartholomew's College of Nursing and Midwifery, London, holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology with Nursing Studies from City University, Lo