Catherine K Craven, PhD, MA, MLS, FAMIA

Assistant Professor of Informatics

Dr. Catherine K. Craven, PhD, MA, MLS, FAMIA, is an assistant professor of Informatics, in the Division of Clinical Research Informatics in the Department of Population Health, Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, at University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio (UTHSCSA). Before joining UTHSCSA in February 2021, she was a Senior Clinical Research Informaticist at Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), New York City, for four years, where she was a member of the Institute for Health Care Delivery Science; the Clinical Informatics Group, IT Department; and co-led the Gastroenterology Division's Quality Improvement Team as lead Informaticist. Her work has focused on infrastructure optimization, and she conducts research in the area of Clinical Research Informatics surrounding research data warehousing practices, and clinical data quality and reproducibility for secondary research use. She led an NIH CTSA Informatics Domain Task Force (iDTF) and NIH CD2H leadership-approved survey on data warehousing practices and data quality completed by almost all CTSAs, with manuscripts in process. She is co-author on sister qualitative project Phase I manuscript with the leads for the CTSA Informatics Enterprise Community's Enterprise Data Warehouse for Research WG, for which a Phase II manuscript is now underway. Dr. Craven is a member of the CD2H Common Data Model-FHIR Gap Analysis Task Team and co-leads the CD2H Data Harmonization Change Management and Sustainability Task Team. She also conducts Clinical Informatics research using sociotechnical, human factors, and implementation science approaches, including usability testing methods, with emphases in clinical decision support and patient engagement. Dr. Craven successfully directed a Spanish langauge-preferred patient navigator program at MSHS. The navigator program aided these patients, who comprise ~25% of MSHS patients, in enagaging with health information via their patient portal accounts and the OpenNotes (ON) function in them, via a grant she and the MSHS Chief Medical Information Officer were awarded by the New York State Health Foundation. The ON founders group at BIDMC-Harvard called this work “ground-breaking," and invited her to participate in a diagnostic error and OpenNotes study involving Spanish-language preferred patients, which is in progress now. Prior to completing her doctoral degree, she was a Clinical Informationist at Johns Hopkins Medicine, a medical librarian-in-context collaborating with researcher-clinicians. She was a core Welch member to develop and operationlaize the Welch Embedded Informationist Service model based on the concept by Davidoff and Florance (2000). The idea of constructing measures for informationist “embeddness” is a concept and term that she coined. While at Hopkins, she led a Clinical Informatics Research Administration project for the JHM Research Deans, worked with the JHM Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Committee to develop an Infobuttons-type CDS intervention in the EHR, and re-designed a service-operations tracking and reporting database. To further focus on Informatics, she undertook a Health Informatics PhD, newly available at University of Missouri (MU). During her doctoral program, she worked as MU’s REDCap Adminstrator and the Project Director to create a REDCap web-based data collection and reporting application for use by all social workers and administrators in the State of Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Child and Maternal Health Home Visting Program. While MSHS was creating a position for her, she served as short-term NIH Scientific Review Officer hired for her Informatics background to work on review processes for the Precision Medicine Initiative (now called "All of Us"), and the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Initiative. She was twice an NIH National Library of Medicine Biomedical and Health Informatics Research Fellow at the University of Missouri. Dr. Craven is a long-time member of the American Medical Informatics Association, in which currently holds several leadership positions, including membership on the AMIA Public Policy Committee, the Board-appointed Task Force on AMIA Governance, and a subcommittee for the Board-appointed 2020 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force.

Professional Background
Education
- 2014 - Doctor of Philosophy - Health Informatics, MU Informatics Institute - College of Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia Mo
- 2010 - Graduate Certificate - Business of Medicine, Carey School of Business, - John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
- 2006 - Master - Arts, School of Journalism - Univeristy of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
- 1997 - Master - Arts, School of Library and Informational Science - University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo
- 1991 - Bachelor - Arts, College of Arts and Sciences - Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
Training
- 2012 - Research Training Fellowship MU Informatics Institute, College of Engineering, - U.S. National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine - University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo
- 2006 - Research Training Fellowship-Department of Health Management and Informatics, School of Medicine - U.S. National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine - University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo
Highlights

Fellow American Medical Informatics Association for Applied Informatics Recognition to recognize members who apply informatics skills,knowledge within their professional setting, demonstrated professional achievement and leadership commitment to the betterment of AMIA 2019; Merit Bonus Mount Sinai Health System project management for the New York State Health Foundation-funded OpenNotes Spanish-Language Navigator program 2018;Distinguished Reviewer (AMIA) Annual Symposium 2014
Research & Grants

Current Research Support

NIH/National Cancer Institute Wilson (PI)
8/1/2018-7/31/2020
Expanding Electronic Tools for Tobacco Use at the Tisch Cancer Institute, a
“C3I Moonshot” cancer center tobacco cessation grant to incorporate screening tools and the
NYS Opt2Quit call line into the electronic health record (EHR).
Role: Key personnel. As part of Epic/Clinical Informatics research team, participate in tool
content and build effort; plan and conduct usability testing of tools EHR with providers;
participate in education of clinical personnel

Grants

Completed Research Support
New York State Health Foundation Darrow (PI)
MSHS, New York, New York 9/15/17-12/31/19
Role: I made a purposeful choice to list our CMIO, Dr. Darrow, MD, PhD, as the PI of record
because I was new to MSHS and the city; it was a well-founded choice, and Dr. Darrow was an
invaluable senior leadership sponsor and problem-solver. I was responsible for conception of
program, granting writing, and as director, oversaw implementation of all program aspects and
budget. I designed evaluation research component and carried out the clinician interview
component.
NIH NCATS Wright (PI)
Mount Sinai Health System, NY, NY 1/1/18-12/31/18
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Conduits CTSA (UL1TR001433).
Role: Lead for Clinical Informatics Group/Epic Team for Epic research-related content and
workflow development for the Conduits/Office of Research Services Research Roadmap
enterprise website for MSHS researchers; Note: CTSA grant is under renewal
resubmission.
NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse Rosenthal (PI)
6/1/17- 5/31/19
Mount Sinai Health System, NY, NY
A Phased-Implementation Feasibility and Proof-of-Concept Study to Assess Incorporating the
NIDA CTN Common Data Elements (CDEs) into the Electronic Health Record (EHR) in Large
Primary Care Settings (CDE-EHR-PC Study).
Role: Investigator in Phase 3 of this 4-Phase study to conduct usability testing for provider and
patient system views of drug abuse

NIH/National Library of Medicine Caldwell/Simoes (Co-PIs)
01/01/11-11/30/12
Mitchell/Patrick (Co-PIs)
10/03/03-10/31/06
Biomedical and Health Informatics Research Training Grant
Department of Health Management and Informatics, School of Medicine, Univ. of Missouri,
Columbia, Mo.
Role: Research fellow. Treated as postdoctoral in first round due to terminal degree in library
and information science; predoctoral the second time once the PhD program in health
informatics was in place. Conducted research the following: the role of interruptions, including
technology, in clinical team communication between attending physicians and other team
members; electronic health record system (EHR) implementation processes at Critical Access
hospitals, a context in which prior to the Meaningful Use rollout of EHRs, these systems had not
been implemented and used; life-science research workflows, consumer-health terminology,
electronic data collection, and conversion of behavioral instruments for telehealth

NIH/National Library of Medicine McCarthy/Roderer (Co-PIs)
06/01/10-10/01/11
Emergency Department and Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns
Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
Effect of Information Prescriptions on Improving Care by Increasing Compliance with
Medication Protocol Given to Discharged Emergency Department patients. Highest Priority
Challenge Grant (RFA-OD-09-003) Topic, 05-LM-101 To study effect of varying levels of
“information prescriptions” on improving patient compliance..
Role: Research team member. Participated in design, writing of grant proposal, and development
of data collection protocols; to provide informationist services in Arm 4 of the study and
collaborate on analysis and publication of results.
Service

School

Jean Stout Memorial Award in an essay contest for CMU and University of Michigan students Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society, Sigma
Delta Chapter, Central Michigan University, inducted 1990; Boston University Trustee Scholarship; Cedarcrest College, four-year,
full-ride scholarship; Michigan competitive Scholarship; National Merit Commended Student National Honor Society

Institutional

Selected for featured member profile “Faces of AMIA,”on the AMIA website homepage 2012;Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Welch Medical Library 2008 & 2009 Annual Award for Exemplary Performance on Collexis project manager on behalf of SOM/JHU Administration & School of Medicine, as member of the Welch Communications Committee,for initiating the “I Love the Library” public relations campaign.

National

The comprehensive young adult (teen) services program serving the Missouri capital city and a two-county area, I developed and implemented attracted local television coverage and an invitation to be featured in a national journal
published by the American Library Association 2003; South By Southwest Music and Media Festival & Conference Winner, Best Current Events Website: Ironminds.com, competing against national media outlets, as an editor/senior contributing writer 2000

Community

Laura Harris Journalism Scholarship, University of Missouri School of Journalism, 1999-2000; Beta Phi Mu, International Library and Information Science Studies Honor Society, Psi Chapter, University of Missouri inducted 1998; Rollins Society (MU) Honor Society for Graduate and
Professional Students, inducted MU Tap Day 1997;Sigma Iota Epsilon, National Honorary and Professional Management Fraternity, Sigma Epsilon Chapter, Central Michigan University, inducted 1991; D.A.R. Award

Global

Outstanding Employee Award, Anheuser-Busch, Inc. PPG, 1995; Midland High School Student Council/Study Body President, Outstanding Senior French Award, Junior Year Leadership Award, Outstanding Sophomore English Award
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Catherine K Craven, PhD, MA, MLS, FAMIA

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