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Der-Fa Lu, PhD RN

Der-Fa Lu, PhD RN is Assistant Professor at The University of Iowa College of Nursing. She teaches courses in Health and Nursing Informatics. She is developing a program of research in nursing informatics with focus on 2 areas: knowledge representation and knowledge discover. She and others developed a methodology for cross-mapping validation between standardized nursing languages and SNOMED CT. She is conducting research to discover clinical nursing knowledge from patient care datasets for elderly population. She wants to use her training in both informatics and genontolgoical nursing to advance nursing science.