Deborah Lekan
Professor
University of North Carolina
USA
Biography
Deborah A. Lekan, PhE, RN-BC, is a board certified gerontological nurse with a research focus on frailty in middle aged and older adults and the use of big data and data science to use the abundant already collected, data from the electronic health record to examine problems such as frailty. She is particularly interested in how health disparities and social determinants of health, especially psychosocial factors, impact health status and risk for frailty and associated adverse health outcomes and risk-reduction interventions to promote patient recovery, and how novel data analytics can illuminate some of these complex issues
Research Interest
geriatrics,gerontology, big data, case studies