News & Talks

[11/24] Charlene and the NAIL Collaborative host the Embedding nursing expertise in artificial intelligence -based health technology development workshop at Fondation Brocher in Hermance, Switzerland. This is the 5-year follow up to the pivotal, first NAIL Workshop!

[10/24] Charlene gave a keynote at the 2024 Health Research and AI: A CMDO Symposium in Montreal, QC.

[08/24] Charlene gave her first international keynote and presented a paper and 2 posters at NI2024 in Manchester, UK.

[07/24] Charlene and members of the NAIL Collaborative were were invited as experts to the "Artificial Intelligence in Reality (AIR) Roundtable for Nursing and Midwifery," organized by NHS England in 2024.

[06/24] Charlene is back for the summer. Charlene is mentoring a team funded by the VCHRI Research Challenge Award for a project entitled Exploring Client Engagement in the Downtown East Side – Using Interpretive Description to Substantiate Need for Change. Charlene is Co-I on a newly funded UBCO Eminence Research Cluster: Data Safety and AI Literacy (2024-27).

[08/23] Two new publications. In JAMIA: Evaluating the Representation of Disaster Hazards in SNOMED CT: Gaps and Opportunities; and ii) Differing Effects of Implementation Leadership Characteristics on Nurses’ Use of mHealth Technologies in Clinical Practice: Cross-Sectional Survey Study in JMIR Nursing.

[08/23] Charlene and the NAIL Collaborative are awarded the Artificial Intelligence Journal (Elsevier): Funding for Promoting AI Research to host the workshop entitled "Setting the Research Agenda: A Workshop on the Ethical, Social, and Legal Implications of Using Generative AI in Healthcare."

[07/23] Sharon, Nicole, and Charlene give 5 presentations at CNIA 2023 (Calgary, AB) and at the International Council of Nurses Congress 2023 (Montreal, QC).

[07/23] Charlene starts parental leave and things will slow down for the next year :)

[06/23] Charlene and Dr. Xiaoxiao Li are awarded the University of British Columbia (UBC) - Collaborative Research Mobility Award to support collaboration across the UBC Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.

[06/23] Our team is awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant.

[05/23] Charlene receives the 2023 UBC School of Nursing Recent Alumni Award

[05/23] Charlene and the NAIL Collaborative receive support from Fondation Brocher (Hermance, Switzerland) to host the "Embedding nursing expertise in artificial intelligence-based health technology development" workshop in November 2024.

Recent Publications

For a complete list of publications, check my Google Scholar profile.

Moen, H., Alhuwail, D., Björne, J., Block, L., Celin, S., Jeon, E., ... & Peltonen, L. M. (2022). Towards Automated Screening of Literature on Artificial Intelligence in Nursing. Studies in health technology and informatics, 290, 637-640. https://doi.org/10.3233/shti220155.

Ronquillo, C.E., Mitchell, J., Alhuwail, D., Peltonen, L. M., Topaz, M., & Block, L. J. (2022). The Untapped Potential of Nursing and Allied Health Data for Improved Representation of Social Determinants of Health and Intersectionality in Artificial Intelligence Applications: A Rapid Review. Yearbook of Medical Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1742504.

Block, L. J., Ronquillo, C., Hardiker, N. R., Wong, S. T., & Currie, L. M. (2021). Mapping of Wound Infection Concepts. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 284, 431-435. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210764.

Von Gerich, H., Moen, H., Block, L.J., Chu, C.H., DeForest, H., Hobensack, M., Michalowski, M., Mitchell, J., Nibber, R., Olalia, M.A.P., Pruinelli, L., Ronquillo, C.E., Topaz, M., Peltonen, L.M. Artificial Intelligence-based technologies in nursing: A scoping literature review of the evidence. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 104153. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2021.104153.

Chu, C. H., Ronquillo, C., Khan, S., Hung, L., & Boscart, V. (2021). Technology Recommendations to Support Person-Centered Care in Long-Term Care Homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2021.1927620.

Ronquillo, C., Dahinten, V. S., Bungay, V., & Currie, L. M. (2021). Nurses' Use of mHealth Functions. Studies In Health Technology And Informatics, 284, 280-284. https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI210723.

Fernandez-Luque, L., Kushniruk, AW., Georgiou, A., Basu, A., Petersen, C., Ronquillo, C. E., Paton, C., Nøhr, C., Kuziemsky, C.E., Alhuwail, D., Skiba, D., Huesing, E., Gabarron, E., Borycki, E.M., Magrabi, F., Denecke, K., Peute, L.W.P., Topaz, M., Al-Shorbaji, N., Lacroix, P., Marcilly, R., Cornet, R., Iyengar, S., Gogia, S.B., Kobayashi, S., Deserno, T.M., Mettler, T., Vimarlund, V., Zhu, X. (2021). Evidence-based health informatics as the foundation for the COVID-19 response: a joint call for action. Methods of Information in Medicine, 59(06), 183-192. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1726414.

Ronquillo, C.E., Peltonen, L.M., Pruinelli, L., Chu, C.H., Bakken, S., Beduschi, A., Cato, K., Hardiker, N., Junger, A., Michalowski, M., Nyrup, R., Rahimi, S., Reed, N., Salakoski, T., Salanterä, S., Walton, N., Weber, P., Wiegand, T., Topaz, M. (2021). Using artificial intelligence in nursing: Priorities, opportunities, and recommendations from an international invitational think-tank of the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Leadership (NAIL) Collaborative. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 77(9), 3707-3717. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14855.

Jeon, E., Peltonen, L.-M., Block, L., Ronquillo, C., Tayaben, J. L., Nibber, R., Pruinelli, L., Perezmitre, E. L., Sommer, J., Topaz, M., Eler, G. J., Shishido, H. Y., Wardaningsih, S., Sutantri, S., Ali, S., Alhuwail, D., Abd-Alrazaq, A., Akhu-Zaheya, L., Lee, Y.-L., . . . Lee, J. (2021). Emergency Remote Learning in Nursing Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 281, 942-946. https://doi.org/10.3233/shti210317

Topaz, M., Peltonen, L.M., Alhuwail, D., Barakati, S.S., Lewis, A., Moen, H., Veeranki, S.P.K., Block, L., Risling, T., & Ronquillo, C.E. (2021). How to improve health information technology to address COVID-19 pandemic: an international survey with health informatics experts. Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2021, 30(01), 61-68. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1726491

Guruge, S., Lamaj, P., Lee, C., Ronquillo, C.E., Sidani, S., Leung, E., Ssawe, A., Altenburg, J., Amanzai, H., Morrison. (2021). COVID-19 restrictions: Experiences of immigrant parents in Toronto. AIMS Public Health, 8(1), 172-185. https://doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2021013.

Atique, S., Bautista, J.R., Block, L.J., Lee, J.J.J., Lozada‐Perezmitre, E., Nibber, R., O’Connor, S., Peltonen, L.M., Ronquillo, C., Tayaben, J. and Thilo, F.J. (2020). A nursing informatics response to COVID‐19: perspectives from five regions of the world. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 76(10), 2462-2468. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14417.

O'Connor, S., Waite, M., Duce, D., O'Donnell, A., & Ronquillo, C. (2020). Data visualization in health care: The Florence effect. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 76(7), 1488-1490. https://doi.org/doi:10.1111/jan.14334.

Ronquillo, C., Dahinten, V. S., Bungay, V., & Currie, L. M. (2019). The Nurse LEADership for Implementing Technologies-Mobile Health Model (Nurse LEAD-IT-mHealth). Nursing leadership (Toronto, Ont.), 32(2), 71-84. https://doi.org/10.12927/cjnl.2019.25960

Peltonen, L.M., Nibber, R., Lewis, A., Block, L., Pruinelli, L., Topaz, M., Perezmitre, E.L. and Ronquillo, C. (2019). Emerging Professionals’ Observations of Opportunities and Challenges in Nursing Informatics. Nursing leadership (Toronto, Ont.), 32(2), pp.8-18. https://doi.org/10.12927/cjnl.2019.25965.

Peltonen, L.M., Pruinelli, L., Ronquillo, C., Nibber, R., Peresmitre, E.L., Block, L., Deforest, H., Lewis, A., Alhuwail, D., Ali, S. and Badger, M.K. (2019). The current state of Nursing Informatics–An international cross-sectional survey. Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare, 11(3), pp.220-231. https://doi.org/10.23996/fjhw.77584.