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About Us
PIONEERING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN NURSING
The AI Nurses Network is a clinical research network designed to support and advance the role of nurses in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). It comprises an interdisciplinary team of nurses and AI experts and has an independent advisory board that offers ongoing advice and support to the clinical research network.
The AI Nurses Network is led by Dr Siobhan O'Connor and is supported by a core team who have expertise in nursing and artificial intelligence in collaboration with a patient representative and international advisory board. A group of country directors are also in place worldwide to promote the network's training and educational resources, seed funding and scholarships, and news and events that supports nurses in developing and applying AI techniques and AI tools in their professional practice to improve patient care and population health.
Global Director
Dr Siobhán O'Connor
Dr Siobhán O'Connor is the Global Director of the AI Nurses Network and a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, with a multidisciplinary background in nursing and informatics. She conducts AI research in nursing and leads the AI Nurses Network in the UK and internationally.
Core team
Professor Rebecca Oakey
Dr Crina Grosan
Dr Joanne Cull
Dr Crina Crosan is a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London who researches artificial intelligence in healthcare. She supports the AI Nurses Network by facilitating seed funding and networking events.
Professor Rebecca Oakey is a Professor of Epigenetics and Dean of Doctoral Studies at King’s College London. She leads King’s Innovation Scholars Programme and supports the provision of AI education and training in the AI Nurses Network.
Dr Joanne Cull the Head of Nursing for Nurse and Midwife Led Research at ACORN (A Centre of Research for Nurses and Midwives) at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and seconded to London South Bank University as Associate Professor. She supports the AI Nurses Network by facilitating seed funding and networking events.
Dr Mengying Zhang
Dr Mengying Zhang is a Research Associate at King's College London with a multidisciplinary background in both nursing and finance. She supports the AI Nurses Network through facilitating dissemination activities and events.
Dr Xiaoyang Li
Dr Xiaoyang Li is a Research Assistant at King's College London with a background in nursing. She supports the AI Nurses Network through facilitating dissemination activities and events.
Dr Nathan Blake
Dr Nathan Blake worked clinically as a nurse in emergency care before completing his PhD in computational biology and he now researches explainable AI in healthcare. He supports the AI Nurses Network by facilitating the dissemination and networking events.
Country directors
The AI Nurses Network is expanding globally with nurses who specialise in artificial intelligence taking the lead for their country. The country director(s) promote the training and educational resources, seed funding and scholarships, and news and events that the network provides to supports nurses around the world in developing and applying AI techniques and AI tools in their professional practice to improve patient care and population health.
Asia
Hong Kong
Dr Vivian Hui is an Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and an adjunct faculty at the School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Her research interests intersect health technology innovation, domestic violence, and nursing informatics including artificial intelligence. She leads the AI Nurses Network in Hong Kong and is also the global education lead for the network.
Taiwan
Dr Lu-Yen Anny Chen is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing, at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Her research interests integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning in nursing practice particularly in post operative care. She leads the AI Nurses Network in Taiwan and across south-east Asia with the other Asian leads.
Japan
Professor Janet Delgado is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Yamaguchi University in Japan and Editor-in-chief of Nursing & Health Sciences. Her research interests centre on philosophy and bioethics with a particular focus on exploring the ethics issues around developing and applying artificial intelligence in nursing. She leads the AI Nurses Network in Japan.
North America
Canada
Dr Charlene Chu is an Assistant Professor at is an Assistant Professor at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto, and an Affiliate Scientist at KITE Toronto Rehab at the University Health Network. She is cross-appointed (status only) with the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work’s Institute for Life Course & Aging, as well as the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto. She leads an interdisciplinary team including engineers, computer scientists, physiotherapists, and nurses and holds two patents about novel computer vision applications for the functional assessments of older adults. She co-leads the AI Nurses Network in Canada with Dr Charlene Ronquillo and across the Americas with the other north, central and south American leads.
Dr Charlene Ronquillo is a Filipina scholar, Registered Nurse, health informatician, and lead of the Health Informatics Equity Lab at the School of Nursing, University of British Columbia. Her work aims to improve equity in healthcare with thoughtful, meaningful, and inclusive technologies and improve equity in health informatics through critical approaches to health technology development, implementation, including the evaluations that ensure the meaningful inclusion of non-dominant groups in the conceptualization, design, development, and implementation of health technologies in health systems. She co-leads the AI Nurses Network in Canada with Dr Charlene Chu and across the Americas with the other north, central and south American leads.
Our International Advisory Board includes:
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Professor Roger Watson, Honorary Professor at the University of Hull and Dean of the School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, China
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Professor Jennie C. De Gagne, Clinical Professor and Director of the Nursing Education Specialty, Duke University, USA
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Julia Gudgeon and Sue Clarke, Clinical Leads, NHS England
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Dr Mavis Machirori, Ada Lovelace Institute, United Kingdom
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Professor Jo Armes, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
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Professor Emma Stanmore, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom