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About Rhonda Cady, PhD, RN
Over a 15 year span, Rhonda Cady's clinical and translational research focused on enhancing care delivery and care coordination for children and youth with medical complexity. Prior to a research career, she held business and computer science faculty positions, worked as an information system consultant and practiced as an inpatient oncology registered nurse. Dr. Cady's broad background of nursing, business information systems and health informatics culminated a rich clinical, analytical, project management, data science and research skillset that informs her approach to research. Critical to this work is advancing the power of collaboration with live, experience partners, in all aspects of research design, implementation and dissemination.
Notable Honors and Awards
- 2022: Betty Hubbard Maternal Child Health Leadership Award, Minnesota Department of Health, Maternal and Child Health Section, St. Paul, MN
- 2014: Nurse of the Year Award: Education and Research, March of Dimes Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- 2012: Excellence in Nursing Informatics and Potential to Contribute Significantly to Nursing and Health Informatics Award, AMIA Nursing Informatics Working Group, Chicago, IL
- Undergraduate Education:
- Diploma in Nursing, Deaconess Hospital School of NursingUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison BSN
- Graduate Degree:
- University of Wisconsin - Madison, MS BusinessUniversity of Minnesota - PhD, Health Informatics
- American Telemedicine Association (ATA)
- American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
- Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society (STTI)
- Registered Nurse, State of Minnesota, 2013-present
- Registered Nurse, State of Wisconsin, 1980-2020
My approach to health services research (HSR) is guided by three fundamental principles: collaboration, communication and inclusion. HSR teams are collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and across organization stakeholder groups that include persons with lived experience. Effective communication in these teams is grounded in honest, respectful and safe dialogue. Personal experience with profound hearing loss resulted in the ability to ‘hear’ non-verbal communication and detect and correct misunderstandings others may not perceive or jeopardize effective communication. Ideally, HSR team stakeholders represent the diversity of populations under investigation and the inclusion of representative lived experience partners builds health equity into the core of my research.
