Rate My Professor Kim Unertl

Kim Unertl is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University, where she also serves as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. She earned her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Marquette University, followed by an M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from Vanderbilt University, completing her doctorate in December 2009 under advisor Nancy Lorenzi. Unertl joined the Vanderbilt faculty in August 2010 and has advanced to her current associate professor role. Her research centers on the intersection of health information technology and clinical workflow, encompassing the design and implementation of technology to support healthcare delivery. Key areas of focus include chronic disease care and community engagement in research settings, as well as the development of evidence-based strategies for organizational change management during technology implementations. She is an expert in qualitative methods for studying clinical coordination, collaboration, and the 'invisible' work that underpins effective healthcare processes, with the goal of contributing to more useful and usable health information technologies.