Richard M. Fairbanks
School of Public Health

Email:

eeumberf@iu.edu

Departments:

Health Policy and Management

Degrees:

PhD, Nursing, University of Michigan

BSN, Nursing, Saginaw Valley State University

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Biography

Elizabeth (Liz) Umberfield, PhD, RN is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Public & Population Health Informatics training program at Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health and Regenstrief Institute. She completed her PhD in August 2020 through the University of Michigan School of Nursing, where she was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholars program. She is also an experienced in neuro critical care nurse. 

Dr. Umberfield’s research aims to amplify patients’ agency through informatics. This includes projects examining the regulations by which patients’ blood and tissue samples may be used for secondary uses; applying text processing to identify permissions within clinical consent forms; and extending the Informed Consent Ontology for machine-interpretation of clinical consent documents. Her ongoing work includes development of an EHR-based application to support discovery of patients’ advanced care plans at the point of care.

Research Interests

• Health Information Exchange
• Ontologies and Standards
• Advance Care Planning
• Informed Consent

Selected Publications

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