Meghan Reading Turchioe, PhD, MPH, RN, FAHA

  • Assistant Professor of Nursing
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Overview

Meghan Reading Turchioe’s program of research focuses on developing and implementing digital health technologies including mobile applications, wearable devices, telehealth, and artificial intelligence (AI). A major focus of her work involves leveraging methods from data visualization, human-computer interaction, and implementation science to return health data and support decision-making among patients, nurses, and other clinicians. With a focus on developing equitable solutions, her research is motivated by her experience as a cardiac nurse caring for a diverse patient population with multiple chronic conditions in New York City. Turchioe’s research is supported by multiple grants from NIH and industry.

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Nursing

Gender

  • Female

Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • BSN, 2012 Boston College Connell School of Nursing, Chestnut Hill, MA
  • MPH, 2015 George Washington University Milken Institute of Public Health, Washington, DC
  • PhD, 2018 Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY
  • Fellowship: 2020 Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY

Committees, Societies, Councils

2024 – 2026: Chair, American Medical Informatics Association Nursing Informatics Working Group Policy Committee

2024 – 2026: Chair, American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing Council Communications Committee

2023 – 2025: Member, National Quality Forum Artificial Intelligence in Quality Measures Technical Expert Panel

2023 – 2025: Editorial board, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

2022 – 2024: Co-Chair, American Medical Informatics Association Nursing Informatics Working Group Digital Communities Committee

2021 – 2024: Editor, American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing Council Connections

2020 – 2025: American Heart Association National Atrial Fibrillation Systems of Care Advisory Group

Honors & Awards

2024: Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine

2024: Fellow, American Heart Association

2024: Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research (FNINR) Ambassador

2023: Excellence in peer review, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

2022: Finalist, Martha N. Hill Early Career Investigator Award, American Heart Association

2022: Early Career Alumni Award, Columbia University School of Nursing

2022 – 2024: Emerging Leader, Alliance for Nursing Informatics

2021 – 2022: Women in the American Medical Informatics Association leadership program

2021 – 2022: Leadership in Academic Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine

2020: Top abstract, Weill Cornell Medicine Primary Care Innovations Symposium

2019: Research Travel Grant, American Heart Association (top abstract)

2019: Dissertation Research Award, Columbia University School of Nursing

2019 – 2020: Columbia Mentor Peer Aging Research Program (CoMPADRE)

2016 – 2018: Jonas Nurse Leader Scholar

2011: Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honors Society

Research

Selected Publications

For a complete list of publications, please visit MyNCBI.

Book Chapters

  1. Reading Turchioe M, Lai AM, Siek KA. (in press). “Designing and Deploying Mobile Health Interventions.” In V.L. Patel, T.G. Kannampallil (Eds.), Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine: Human-Computer Interaction in Healthcare – The Role of Cognition. Springer.
  2. Ancker JS, Reading Turchioe M. (2023). “The Promise of Patient Decision Support.” In R. Greenes (Ed.), Clinical Decision Support and Beyond. Progress and Opportunities in Knowledge-Enhanced Health and Health Care. Elsevier.
  3. Reading Turchioe M, Masterson Creber R. (2022). “User-centered development and evaluation of patient-facing visualizations of health information.” In P.S. Hsueh, T. Wetter, X. Zhu (Eds.), Personal Health Informatics: Patient Participation in Precision Health. Springer.