Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, FACMI

Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, FACMI, of the Yale Center for Medical Informatics, is a Yale Interdisiciplinary Bioethics Center Scholar, a Faculty Affiliate Fellow of the Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, and Faculty in the Yale Medical School’s Program on Biomedical Ethics, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Solomon Center for Health Policy and Research at the Yale Law School. An editor of two books, the author of more than 90 refereed and invited papers and book chapters, and popular tutorials and sessions at international medical informatics and information systems conferences, her research and consulting concern informatics ethical and legal issues, user perspectives and experiences with health information technology, and ethnographic sociotechnical evaluation. Among her publications in key journals, such as JAMIA, International Journal of Medical Informatics, MISQ, and Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics are some of the most read papers and foundational writings on organizational issues, qualitative/ethnographic sociotechnical approaches, and ethical issues. She was faculty for the American Medical Informatics Association’s People and Organizational Issues Doctoral Consortium, the National Science Foundation Consortium for the Science of Socio-technical Systems (CSST) Summer Research Institute (2011), and the National Library of Medicine Informatics Course (2015), and the Global Bioethics Initiative 2016 International Bioethics Summer School. Dr. Kaplan was elected twice as chair of AMIA’s People and Organizational Issues Working Group and of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Working Group; and was chair of the IMIA Organizational and Social Issues Working Group. She served on AMIA's Vendor Contract Issues Task Force, having previously chaired the Consumer Health Informatics Task Force. She has five times been appointed to the Scientific Program Committee for the Annual Symposium and twice to the program committee for the ACM Workshop on Interactive Systems in Health Care (WISH). Dr. Kaplan was a Program Chair of the 2004 conference on Relevant Theory and Informed Practice: A 20 Year Retrospective on IS Research, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.2, The Interaction of Information Systems and the Organization, and an editor of the resulting book. She has taught undergraduate through post-doctoral and professional courses in business, medical, nursing, and arts and sciences programs, as well as on-line graduate and certificate courses in biomedical informatics. Dr. Kaplan is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and a recipient of the AMIA President’s Award, and a Hastings Center Scholar.

January, 2016