Nancy M. Lorenzi, MLS, MA, PhD, is Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, and Clinical Professor of Nursing at Vanderbilt since May, 2000. In her role as Assistant Vice Chancellor, she is leading informatics-centric organizational change and knowledge management initiatives. In October 2002 she was elected a President-elect of the International Medical Informatics Association. She will be President from the end of the Medinfo meeting in 2004 until 2007.

Prior Work: Relatively early in her career, Dr. Lorenzi was elected to the Presidency of the Medical Library Association, a 5000-member organization. She had served as a highly innovative Director of the Medical Library in Cincinnati, and was one of the first Principal Investigators of a National Library of Medicine sponsored IAIMS grant. She progressed in administrative responsibility to become Associate Senior Vice President at the University of Cincinnati. She has been successful on a large number of interdisciplinary projects involving: informatics, business administration/strategic planning, medical librarianship, and sociology. She served as Chair of the International Medical Informatics Association Working Conference on the Organizational Impact of Informatics in 1993, and was the first Chairperson of the IAIMS Consortium Board. Recently, she served as the Scientific Program Chair of the AMIA Fall Symposium, in 1999. She has served as principal investigator on more than $2 million of NIH (and other agencies) funded grant projects. She has published significantly in the peer-reviewed literature and authored a number of books considered to be definitive in her field. She has won a number of awards and served on a important national and international-level committees and task forces (including membership on the NLM Study Section, the Biomedical Library Review Committee; election to the White House Conference on Library and Information Services Steering Committee; appointment to the Board of Directors of the Friends of the National Library of Medicine; and, serving as Chair of one of five initial Long Range Planning Committees on the future of the National Library of Medicine, commissioned by the Director of the NLM).

Interests: Change management related to information technology - more specifically, with respect to organizational and personnel issues related to automation in the health care industry. Dr. Lorenzi is internationally recognized as a top expert on those areas.