Patricia Flatley Brennan Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
2 min readApril 7, 2020
The American Institute for Medical and Organic Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Patricia Flatley. Brennan, RN, Ph.D., Director, National Library of Medication, National Institutes of Health to its Faculty of Fellows.
Election to the AIMBE Faculty of Fellows is amongst the optimum specialist distinctions accorded to a health-related and organic engineer. The Faculty of Fellows is comprised of the top two p.c of health-related and organic engineers. Faculty membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering and drugs exploration, follow, or education” and to “the pioneering of new and creating fields of technological know-how, producing major progress in regular fields of health-related and organic engineering, or creating/implementing impressive approaches to bioengineering schooling.”
Dr. Brennan was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and associates of the Faculty of Fellows for “outstanding contributions to biomedical informatics foremost to the acceleration of health treatment systems to increase client self-administration.”
Dr. Brennan is greatly recognized for her thirty-year academic career reworking health treatment via improvements in property treatment systems. Coinciding with the emergence of client-centered treatment and shortened hospital stays, her work has extended health information systems from the hospital and clinic to the property and local community.
Her work has leveraged improvements in personal computer science, telecommunications, and visualization to structure and examine internet-centered and cell platform techniques that aid client self-administration to minimize social isolation and raise engagement with scientific treatment companies. She has presented structure guidance for client-going through personal computer devices and made impressive modular architectures for client self-monitoring. Dr. Brennan serves as a pioneer of immersive virtual fact eventualities that employ context-distinct visual cues to accelerate structure of systems that ‘fit’ into the day-to-day life of individuals with complicated, chronic disorders.
AIMBE Fellows are amongst the most distinguished health-related and organic engineers which include 3 Nobel Prize laureates, 18 Fellows having gained the Presidential Medal of Science and/or Technological innovation and Innovation, and 173 also inducted to the National Academy of Engineering, 84 inducted to the National Academy of Medication and 37 inducted to the National Academy of Sciences.
The National Library of Medication (NLM) is a chief in exploration in biomedical informatics and facts science and the world’s greatest biomedical library. NLM conducts and supports exploration in approaches for recording, storing, retrieving, preserving, and communicating health information. NLM results in resources and instruments that are utilised billions of periods each year by tens of millions of men and women to accessibility and evaluate molecular biology, biotechnology, toxicology, environmental health, and health services information. Extra information is offered at https://www.nlm.nih.gov.
