Mollie R. Poynton, PhD, APRN, BC

Assistant Professor, College of Nursing

Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics

Contact Information:

• Mailing Address:
• University of Utah
• College of Nursing
• 10 South 2000 East
• Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5880
• Phone: (801) 585-9740
• FAX: (801) 581-4297
• E-mail: mollie.poynton@nurs.utah.edu

Background:

PhD, 2005, Indiana University (Major: Nursing Science, Minor: Information Science) MSN, 2000, Northern Kentucky University 
BSN, 1994, University of Illinois at Chicago 

Activities: faculty/nursing informatics program, consultant/ nurse residency program, independent research

Areas of interest: Knowledge Discovery in Databases/ Data Mining, Health Behavior Clinical background in emergency nursing, primary care nursing. Nationally certified family nurse practitioner. Utah APRN and controlled substance licenses.

Courses:

NURS 6817: Knowledge Discovery in Databases (spring)
MDINF 6300/ NURS 6802: Medical Decision Making/ Decision Support Systems (fall)
NURS 6805: Nursing Informatics Practicum (spring)
NURS 6815: Nursing Informatics Seminar (spring)

Selected Service:

• Governing Director, Alliance for Nursing Informatics

• President, Utah Nursing Informatics Network

• Membership Committee, American Medical Informatics Association, NI-WG

Selected Publications:

• Kang, S., Poynton, M., Kim, K., Lee, H., Kim, D.,Bae, K., Linares, O. Kern, S., & Noh, G. Population pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models of remifentanil in Korean healthy volunteers using NONMEM and neural network analysis, British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. Epub 2007 Feb 23.
• Poynton M., Jasti S., Ellington L., Dudley W., Crouch B., Caravati M., & Williamson J. (2006). Matching waveform audio files with toxicall data: Record linkage in a poison control center. Studies in health technology and informatics, 122, 849. (abstract)
• Poynton, M.R. & McDaniel, A.M. (2006). Classification of smoking cessation status with a backpropagation neural network, Journal of Biomedical Informatics 39(6), 680-686. Epub 2006 Mar 24.
• McDaniel, A.M., & Poynton M. (2004). "Mining" data in public databases. Clinical Nurse Specialist, 18(3), 113-5.
• Poynton, M. (2003). Recall to precision: retrieving clinical information with MEDLINE. Clinical Nurse Specialist, 17(4), 182-4.
• Poynton, M. & Robinson, D. (2001). Risk reduction: preventive services. In Robinson, D. & Kish, C. (Eds.), Core Concepts in Advanced Practice Nursing (pp. 639-663). St. Louis: Mosby, Inc.
• Poynton, M. (2001). Disease management: maximizing the quality of life. In Robinson, D. & Kish, C. (Eds.), Core Concepts in Advanced Practice Nursing (pp. 664-676). St. Louis: Mosby, Inc.
• Poynton, M. (1999). Abcess: incision and drainage. In Robinson, D. & McKenzie, C. (Eds.), Procedures for Primary Care Providers (pp. 25-31). Philadelpia, PA: Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins.
• Poynton, M. (1999). Ring Removal. In Robinson, D. & McKenzie, C. (Eds.), Procedures for Primary Care Providers (pp. 269-273). Philadelpia, PA: Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins.

Selected Presentations:

• Poynton, M.R., Frey, L. & H. Tang. (2007). Representation of smoking-related concepts in an electronic health record. 3rd Annual Utah Health Services Research Conference: “Utah Health Services Research Meets Public Health Informatics”, Salt Lake City, UT. (poster presentation).
• Poynton, M.R. & McDaniel, A.M. (2006). Neural network classification of smoking cessation status (poster presentation). Albuquerque, NM: Western Institute of Nursing 39^th Annual Communicating Nursing Research Conference.
• Poynton, M.R. & McDaniel, A.M. (2005). Applying data mining methods to classify smoking cessation status (podium presentation). Proceedings 2005 Sigma Theta Tau International Research Conference, Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International.
• Poynton, M.R., Orlygsdottir, B., Jones, J., & Delaney, C. (2004). Data Preparation for Knowledge Discovery: A Comparison of Research and Clinical Databases. (podium presentation). Midwest Nursing Research Society 2004 Annual Research Conference, St. Louis, MO.
• Poynton, M.R., McDaniel, A.M., & Wewers, M.E. (2003). Negative affect and smoking status after a trial of smoking cessation (poster presentation), Midwest Nursing Research Society 2003 Annual Research Conference, Grand Rapids, MI.
• Poynton, M.R. (2000). Diagnosis and Acute Phase Management of Major Depressive Disorder by Primary Care Nurse Practitioners (poster presentation), American Academy of Nurse Practitioners 15th National Conference, Washington, D.C.

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships:

• 2006 Summer Scholarship Institute
• 2006 College of Nursing Research Committee Grant
• 2005 University Teaching Committee Grant
• 2004 Research Grant, Alpha Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International
• 2004 Emily Holmquist Award, Indiana University Alumni Association and Indiana University School of Nursing
• 2004 GSO Educational Enhancement Grant, Indiana University Graduate Student Organization
• 2001-03 National Research Service Award (Institutional Research Grant Fellowship), National Institutes of Health and Indiana University School of Nursing
• 2001-03 Research Incentive Fellowship, Indiana University School of Nursing
• 2000-01 University Graduate Fellowship, Indiana University School of Nursing
• 2000 Graduate Student Research Grant, Northern Kentucky University
• 2000 MSN Research Excellence Award, Northern Kentucky University
• 2000 Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities
• 1994 Sigma Theta Tau Award, Alpha Lambda Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, International Honor Society of Nursing
• 1994 Alumni Award, University of Illinois College of Nursing Alumni Association
• 1994 Dean's Research Award, Third Prize, University of Illinois College of Nursing
• 1994 Chancellor's Student Service Award, University of Illinois at Chicago
• 1994 Induction, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
• 1993 Induction, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing