Carol Geary, PhD, MBA, RN
Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Deputy Director, Network Studies, UNMC READi Core
Carol Geary, PhD, MBA, RN, is an assistant professor in the UNMC Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology. She also serves as deputy director for network studies for UNMC's READi Core, which stands for Research, Education, Administration and Development of Biomedical Informatics.
Dr. Geary's work is focused on preparation, support and use of electronic health record data for research, and quality evaluation of and patient and stakeholder engagement in research.
She serves as local principal investigator for several national efforts using these approaches: PCORnet 3.0, RECOVER Informatics, and COVID-19 Electronic Health Data Initiative, funded by the CDC.
In addition, she is co-lead of research for our UNMC structured, de-identified electronic health record data warehouse, the Clinical Research Analytics Environment, also known as CRANE.
- BSN, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- MBA, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Electronic health records research.
- Patient engagement in research.
- Research networks.
- Care transitions.
- Geary, C.R., and Schumacher, K.L. (2012). Care Transitions: Integrating Transition Theory and Complexity Science Concepts. Advances in Nursing Science. 35(3), 236-48.
- Geary, C.R., Hill, J.L., Eilers, J., Leon, M., Ordway, J., McClay, J., Anderson, C., Beacom, M., Jackson, R.A., Oleynikov, D., Estabrooks, P.A. (2021). Use of Comprehensive Participatory Planning and Evaluation in Rural Patient Engagement. Western Journal of Nursing Research 43(10), 939-948.
- Geary, C.R., Hook, M., Popejoy, L., Smith, E., Pasek, L., Heermann Langford, L., Hewner, S. (2024). Ambulatory Care Coordination Data Gathering and Use. Computers, Informatics, Nursing : CIN, 42(1):63-70.
- Kunkle, R., Haolin, X., Thomas, L., Webb, L., O’Brien, E., Geary, C.R. (2024). Nursing Home Workers’ Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Research in Gerontological Nursing, 2024;17(3):131–140.
- Geary, C.R. & Ordway, J. (2023). Engaged Research as Team Science: Reflections from the "Researcher" and the "Researched", O’Sullivan, R. (Ed.) Ethics and Integrity in Research with Older People and Service Users – Moving Beyond the Rhetoric (Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity, Vol 9), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 169-183.
- Sister Patricia Miller Evidence-Based Practice Award, Gamma Pi Chapter, Sigma
- Graduate Student of Distinction, UNMC Graduate Studies
- Nellie House Craven Scholarship for an Academic Nursing Career, UNMC College of Nursing
- Commonwealth Nurse Executive Fellow
- Sigma, Gamma Pi At Large Chapter
- Gerontological Society of America
- American Medical Informatics Association