Sue Boren, PhD, MHA, FACMI, FAMIA is Professor Emerita at the University of Missouri, a status she assumed effective August 5, 2026, following more than 33 years of distinguished service. Her educational background spans psychology, health administration, education, and health informatics. Dr. Boren served as Director of the MHA program from 2014 until her retirement, stewarding a program that has maintained CAHME accreditation for more than 55 years, and previously directed the MS in Health Informatics program (2014–2023), leading it to initial CAHIIM accreditation in 2021. Throughout her career, she guided students, faculty, and alumni in developing leadership capacity for a rapidly evolving healthcare environment, with work that bridged academia, practice, and policy to ensure that graduate education remained aligned with competencies, accreditation standards, and the skills needed for digital-first organizations.
Dr. Boren's research centers on consumer health informatics, with a focus on mobile health, telehealth, decision support, and AI in healthcare. Her scholarship and teaching emphasized the intersection of artificial intelligence, leadership, and health administration education, preparing professionals to lead in an AI-ready healthcare ecosystem. She authored 100+ peer-reviewed journal articles and contributed to widely cited frameworks in diabetes care, health literacy, and quality improvement. Two of her studies were recognized by the Yearbook of the International Medical Informatics Association as among the best health informatics research of their year. Her co-authored work has earned more than 12,000 citations and an h-index of 43.
In service to her field, Dr. Boren chaired the Research Committee of the American Association of Diabetes Educators and served on the editorial boards of The Diabetes Educator and the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. She chaired the Health Informatics Accreditation Council for CAHIIM and served on the CAHIIM Board of Directors. Dr. Boren completed two terms of elected leadership on the executive committee of AMIA's Academic Forum and co-chaired the Women in AMIA initiative. At the University of Missouri, she served as Graduate Faculty Senate President and Campus Promotion and Tenure Advisory Committee Chair. Throughout her career, she worked to create inclusive opportunities connecting students, alumni, and healthcare leaders in ways that advanced careers and strengthened the healthcare leadership pipeline.
Among the honors recognizing her career, Dr. Boren was named the 2024 recipient of the Quint Studer Gratitude Prize for Teaching Excellence by AUPHA, an award recognizing outstanding teaching and mentoring, leadership in educational programming and pedagogy, and the dissemination of innovative and promising practices. In 2025, she was honored with the Health Management and Informatics Alumni Distinguished Professorship, a named professorship recognizing her exceptional contributions to the field and to the University of Missouri.
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