Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, FACMI
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Biography
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, FACMI, is a lecturer in the Yale School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatics, Division of Health Informatics. She also is faculty at the Yale Interdisiciplinary Bioethics Center, Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and the Yale Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, and the Yale Medical School’s Program for Biomedical Ethics and the Center for Biomedical Data Science. She is an interdisciplinary researcher whose focuses on ethical, legal, social issues, and organizational issues related to health information technologies and on ethnographic and qualitative research and evaluation approaches. Dr. Kaplan’s international publications are among the most cited in these areas. Her latest writing is on digital health, telemedicine, virtual health care, personalized medicine, and health data, privacy, and AI. She is a frequent keynoter and panelist at major US and international conferences.
Dr. Kaplan chaired numerous committees, including the American Medical Informatics Association and the International Medical Informatics Association working groups and task forces on consumer health informatics, vendor contracts, and ethical, legal, social, and organizational issues. She was the inaugural chair of two Yale working groups on technology and ethics. She is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and received the American Medical Informatics Association President’s Award. Her B.A. is from Cornell University and her M.A. and Ph.D. are from the University of Chicago.
Education & Training
- PhDUniversity of Chicago (1983)
- MAUniversity of Chicago (1972)
- BACornell University (1971)
Activities
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Artificial IntelligenceNew Haven, CT, United States 2023International Festival of Arts and Ideas
- Ethical, Legal, & Disparity Issues in AI in HealthcareNew Haven, CT, United States 2023Ethical, Legal, & Disparity Issues in AI in Healthcare
- Computed Worlds - panel moderator & commentatorNew Haven, CT, United States 2023Data (Re)Makes the World
- Comparative Health Data Governance: Background and ConsequencesNew Haven, CT, United States 2021U.S.-China Data Governance Workshop
- Legal Matters: The Legal Context of Health Informatics in Global Pandemicsvirtual conference 2021Context Sensitive Health Informatics: The Role of Informatics in Global Pandemics
- meeting on the evolution of data privacy and the implications for secondary use of health data in the support of a learning health systemWashington, DC, United States 2020Clinical Evidence Research Innovation Collaborative (CERIC) - NAM
- Rethinking Health Data PrivacyWashington, DC, United States 2019American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium
- Ethics and Biomedical Informatics: Redefining the FieldWashington, DC, United States 2019American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium
- The Power of Data and the Dilemma of PrivacyGrand Rapids, MI, United States 2019Fall DeVos Medical Ethics Colloquy-The Power of Data and the Dilemma of Privacy
- Seeing Transparency Through: Healthcare Software, Data Privacy, and RegulationNew Haven, CT, United States 2018Symposium on The Law and Policy of AI, Robotics, and Telemedicine in Health Care
- Promoting Ethical and Professional Responsibility in Biomedical Informatics EducationWashington, DC, United States 2017American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium
- A Socio-technical View of Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in CyberspaceHermance, GE, Switzerland 2017Workshop on Cybersecurity Challenges in Healthcare: Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects
- Protecting Patient Privacy in Cyber EnvironmentsChicago, IL, United States 2016Annual Symposium
- Protecting Patient Privacy in Cyber EnvironmentsWashington, DC, United States 2016American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium
- Ethical Issues in Health InformaticsNew York, NY, United States 2016Lecture - Ethical Issues in Health Informatics
- What Medical Informaticians Do With and Think About an International Medical Informatics Listserv: Member Survey Preliminary FindingsSão Paulo, SP, Brazil 2015Medinfo 2015
- 2 Lectures - 1) Organizational Issues in Medical Informatics, (2) Ethical Issues in Medical InformaticsYoung Harris, GA, United States 20152 Lectures - (1) Organizational Issues in Medical Informatics, (2) Ethical Issues in Medical Informatics
- "From Sentences to Sense Making, From Utterances to Clinical Understanding, From Narratives to Structured Data: A Tutorial on Qualitative Data Coding, Concepts, Methods, and ToolsWashington, DC, United States 2014Annual Symposium
- Data Governance Dilemmas for Research and Clinical CareWashington, DC, United States 2014Annual Symposium
- Tutorial - "Ethnographic Sociotechnical Evaluation for Health Information Technology"United States 2013Tutorial - "Ethnographic Sociotechnical Evaluation for Health Information Technology," Annual Symposium
- Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Barriers to Unleashing the Full Power of Consumer Health Informatics for Care DeliveryWashington, DC, United States 2013Annual Symposium
- Healthcare Technology To Improve Safety and Quality in End of Life and Palliative CareNJ, United States 2012Seventh Annual Conference of the New Jersey End-Of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (NJ-ELNEC)
- Information Technology and the Soul of MedicineMD, United States 20122012 Ethics Conference
- Up Close and Personal: Ethnographic Methods for Informatics ResearchMD, United States 2011Grand Rounds, Division of Health Sciences Informatics
- Sociotechnical Design and In-Situ Evaluation for Health Information TechnologyUnited States 2011Tutorial
- faculty mentorUnited States 2011Consortium for the Science of Socio-technical Systems (CSST) Summer Research Institute
- Up Close and Personal: Ethnographic Methods for Public Health Informatics EvaluationGA, United States 2010Expert Speaker Seminar, Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program
- Cyberinfrastructure in Behavioral Medicine - Clarifying the LandscapeCA, United States 2008Cyberinfrastructure in Behavioral Medicine - Clarifying the Landscape
- Addressing Social and Ethical Issues in Developing Longitudinal Health RecordsUnited States 2008National Forum on the Future of the Defense Health Information System
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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DeVos Medical Bi-Annual Ethics Colloquy Invited Speaker | DeVos Medical Bi-Annual Ethics Colloquy | 2019 |
Hastings Center Visiting Scholar | The Hastings Center | 2014 |
Distinguished Lecture in Health Informatics | University of Illinois at Chicago | 2004 |
Fellow | American College of Medical Informatics | 2000 |
President's Award | American Medical Informatics Association | 2000 |
Professional Service
Organization | Role | Date |
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Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University | Science, Technology, and Utopian Visions Working Group | 2004 - 2017 |
Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University | Working Research Group on Technology and Ethics | 2001 - 2005 |
International Medical Informatics Association - Chair, Working Group on Organizational and Social Issues | Chairperson | 1999 - 2008 |
American Medical Informatics Association - Chair, People and Organizational Issues Working Group (1998-2000, 2009-2011); Chair, Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Working Group (2009-2012); Chair, Consumer Health Informatics Task Force (1999-2000). | Chair | 1998 - 2013 |
American Medical Informatics Association - People and Organizational Issues Working Group; Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Working Group | People and Organizational Issues Working Group (1998-2000, 2009-2011); Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Working Group (2009-2012); Consumer Health Informatics Task Force (1999-2000). | 1998 - 2012 |
International Medical Informatics Assocation Working Group on Organizational and Social Issues | Working Group 13: Organizational and Social Issues | 1998 - 2008 |
Sigma Xi | Ad-hoc Member | 1992 - 2040 |
American Medical Informatics Association | Ad-hoc Member | 1989 - 2040 |
ACM | Ad-hoc Member | 1983 - 2040 |
Departments & Organizations
- Center for Biomedical Data Science
- Center for Medical Informatics
- Program for Biomedical Ethics
- Yale School of Public Health