Laura A. Taylor, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Systems and Outcomes

" I am convinced that, increasingly, computer-based technologies will become a routine part of nursing care and nursing research. The growing field of informatics and online capacity represent important ways in which we can reinforce patient education and share research findings more rapidly and effectively "

Dr. Laura Taylor is an expert in the use of computer-based information technologies to advance both research and education, primarily in the area of organ donation and transplantation. She initially came to the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing as a post-doctoral fellow and visiting faculty member and currently is exploring the use of a web-based intervention to educate and support family caregivers of living kidney donors following surgery. Her work is one of the first studies at the School to collect all data using a web-based interface as a means to promote well-being and education for participants. Dr. Taylor's research builds on her dissertation, the first in the literature to describe a caregiver's response to the stress of caring for a partner who had undergone living kidney donation. She is a recipient of both the Sigma Theta Tau Doctoral Student Research Award and the Dorothy Evans Lynne Research Award and is working to lead the integration of informatics into nursing curricula and research in the Maryland/Washington, DC metropolitan area.

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