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Professor Lynne Nemeth

Professor Lynne Nemeth

College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

Dr. Lynne Nemeth is a Professor in the College of Nursing at the Medical University of South Carolina. She has extensive clinical, educational, administrative and research experience. Her current and recent research is focused on translation of research into practice. Over the past decade, Dr. Nemeth has been a principal investigator and co-investigator on a series of studies within PPRNet focusing on the use of health information technology in primary care practices to improve quality and patient safety. She has led the development of conceptual frameworks underlying the PPRNet-TRIP improvement model, derived through synthesis of previous PPRNet studies, providing the basis for measurement of practice transformation. She is an expert qualitative researcher with an emphasis on process evaluation and implementation research. She is principal investigator on a National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism study to promote alcohol screening, brief intervention and pharmacotherapy.

Dr. Nemeth is currently collaborating on research related to patient lifestyle and obesity, reducing overuse of services in primary care, decreasing patient adverse events related to high risk medications, promoting lactation support to infants discharged from NNICU in primary care, implementing mobile health applications in chronic care populations, and community engaged research. She teaches Advanced Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research to PhD students and mentors numerous PhD dissertations.

Updated 22 September 2023