Der-Fa Lu, Ph.D., R.N. - Health Informatics Subtrack Committee
Assistant Professor, College of Nursing
Der-Fa Lu, Ph.D., R.N., is Assistant Professor at The University of Iowa College of Nursing.
Dr. Lu earned the B.S.N. (1984) from Taipei Medical College; the M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (2001) from the University of Iowa. Besides her nursing career in Taipei and at the UIHC, Dr. Lu has also served as an assistant professor of nursing at Tzu-Chi University in Taiwan and a research assistant in the UI College of Nursing. She is a member of the Midwest Nursing Research Society and the American Medical Informatics Association.
Lu teaches courses in Health and Nursing Informatics and is developing a program of research in nursing informatics with focus on 2 areas: knowledge representation and knowledge discovery. She and others developed a methodology for cross-mapping validation between standardized nursing languages and SNOMED CT. She is conducting research to discover clinical nursing knowledge from patient care datasets for elderly populations. She wants to use her training in both informatics and gerontological nursing to advance nursing science.