Full Name
Carolyn Harmon PhD DNP RN NI-BC
Job Title
Professor & Director, Nursing Informatics, Healthcare Leadership, & Nursing Education
Employer
University of South Carolina
Speaker Bio
Dr. Carolyn Harmon is a nurse scientist for the Center for Nursing Advancement, which serves the state of Tennessee and Appalachian Highlands and is operated by East Tennessee State University. Dr. Harmon is a past president of ANIA. She received her PhD degree from the University of South Carolina and her DNP degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is an ANCC board-certified informatics nurse, certified six sigma green belt, fellow in the Amy V. Cockcroft Leadership Program, and a recipient of the state of South Carolina’s Palmetto Gold Award. Dr. Harmon was the 2021-2022 recipient of the ENA and Sigma Foundation’s research grant. She has nationally disseminated her scholarly work in informatics since 2010. In October 2023, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Patient Safety Network featured Dr. Harmon’s research on unintended consequences of the EHR.