Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, FACMI

Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, FACMI, is a lecturer in the Yale School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatics, Division of Health Informatics. She also is faculty at the Yale Interdisiciplinary Bioethics Center, Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and the Yale Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, and the Yale Medical School’s Program for Biomedical Ethics and the Center for Biomedical Data Science. She is an interdisciplinary researcher whose focuses on ethical, legal, social issues, and organizational issues related to health information technologies and on ethnographic and qualitative research and evaluation approaches. Dr. Kaplan’s international publications are among the most cited in these areas. Her latest writing is on digital health, telemedicine, virtual health care, personalized medicine, and health data, privacy, and AI. She is a frequent keynoter and panelist at major US and international conferences.

Dr. Kaplan chaired numerous committees, including the American Medical Informatics Association and the International Medical Informatics Association working groups and task forces on consumer health informatics, vendor contracts, and ethical, legal, social, and organizational issues. She was the inaugural chair of two Yale working groups on technology and ethics. She is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and received the American Medical Informatics Association President’s Award. Her B.A. is from Cornell University and her M.A. and Ph.D. are from the University of Chicago.