Dr. Lynne Nemeth is an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing, and a Nurse Researcher at the Medical University Hospital Authority. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, her Masters of Science degree from Boston College as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, and her doctoral degree from the Medical University of South Carolina, in Nursing Science. With a diverse career in nursing, Dr. Nemeth has extensive clinical, educational, administrative and research experience. Dr. Nemeth came to MUSC in 1999 as director for Outcomes Management, Research and Development, where she provided leadership for case management, social work, outcomes and quality, home care, clinical education, interpreter services, lactation consultation and diabetes education. Her clinical areas of interest have developed broadly from opportunities to practice in critical care, emergency, trauma, neuroscience, outcomes and case management. Dr. Nemeth has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and has made presentations at national, international societies and professional organizations she has been affiliated with. As a reviewer for several journals, she has also served on the editorial boards for Outcomes Management and Perspectives in Health Information Management, and has been a guest issue editor for Topics in Health Information Management four times. Dr. Nemeth has led numerous quality initiatives over the past decade, including clinical pathway and coordinated care development and implementation, medication safety, discharge planning and hospital patient flow, documentation systems improvement, assessment of cultural competence and assessment of magnet hospital nursing standards. Currently, Dr. Nemeth leads a Clinical Nurse Scholars Fellowship program offered for clinical nurses at the Medical University Hospital Authority in collaboration with Dr. Charlene Pope and clinical nurses at the Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Administration Medical Center. This highly competitive program provides a one year mentored research experience for ten nurses. Dr. Nemeth's program of research is focused on type II translation of research into practice. She has served as co-investigator on four federally funded research projects over the past four years: Accelerating Translation of Research into Practice [A-TRIP], Accelerating Alcohol Screening-Translation of Research into Practice [AA-TRIP]. She currently is co-investigator on Colorectal Cancer Screening in Primary Care [C-TRIP], and Medication Safety in Primary Care-Translating Research into Practice [MS-TRIP]) within PPRNet, a primary care research network of practices that use the Practice Partner™ electronic medical record. Dr. Nemeth's area of focus in this translational research is on developing the interdisciplinary team role and leadership skills in primary care practices. For more information visit: http://myprofile.cos.com/nemethl
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