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» Erin Kennedy, BSN

Erin Kennedy, BSN

Erin Kennedy

Email

erinken@nursing.upenn.edu

Cohort Year

2018

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Kathryn Bowles and Dr. Danielle Mowery

External Links

Twitter: @KennedyErinE
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Bio

Erin is a predoctoral student in the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health and a Hillman Scholar in Nursing Innovation. She is a registered nurse and received her BSN from Penn Nursing in 2019. Erin’s research focuses on health informatics and information technology that supports healthcare providers’ discharge planning efforts and reduces readmissions for at-risk older adults. She leverages clinical decision support and natural language processing tools to identify patients’ barriers to discharge and improve decision making.

Research Experience

  • Methodological Interests
    • Prognostic modeling
    • Natural language processing
  • Research Experiences
    • NewCourtland T32 Predoctoral Fellow
    • Hillman Scholar in Nursing Innovation
    • Former REU Fellow at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

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  • Mary Naylor Undergraduate Research Award (2019)
  • Member, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
  • Member, Academy Health
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Related News

  • Investing in Women’s Mental Health, a new paper by Foxwell, Kennedy & Naylor

    In a new commentary, predoctoral students Anessa Foxwell and Erin Kennedy, and NewCourtland Center director Mary Naylor, discuss the urgent need to address mental health challenges experienced by women during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Burke to be 2022 Penn Nursing Commencement Speaker

    Sheila P. Burke, MPA, BSN, FAAN, an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will serve as the 2022 Penn Nursing commencement speaker. The May 16, 2022 event at 3:00 PM EST will be the first in-person commencement the School has held in two years.

  • Ashley Paine Fuchs, BSN, Nu’00

    Ashley Paine Fuchs, BSN, Nu’00

    “I wasn’t the student who made it through four years of Penn with the typical ups and downs. My downs were rough and frequent, and it wasn’t just four years. I almost didn’t make it, until I did.

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