Sharon Giarrizzo-Wilson PhD, RN, CNOR, NI-BC, FAAN
Assistant Professor
Specialty Director of Health Care Informatics Program
- Academic Programs
- College of Nursing
Email Address:sharon.giarrizzo-wilson@cuanschutz.edu
Primary Phone:303-724-8304
Mailing Address:
- CU Anschutz
Education II North
13120 East 19th Avenue
Aurora, CO 80045
Meet CU Nursing Faculty: Sharon Giarrizzo-Wilson, PhD, RN-BC, CNOR
As Assistant Professor and Specialty Director at the University of Colorado, she leads advances in healthcare informatics, patient safety, and health policy. Her groundbreaking work includes validating artificial intelligence algorithms to improve care quality while reducing clinical waste, leading federal electronic quality measure development, and developing national nursing informatics and nursing practice data standards.
A Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and board-certified in both nursing informatics and perioperative nursing, Dr. Giarrizzo-Wilson's research focuses on improving patient care through enhanced electronic health record communications, making her a leader in healthcare's digital transformation.
Education, Licensure & Certifications
- PhD in Nursing, Loyola University, Chicago2020
- BSN/MS Degree, Northeastern University, Boston, 1998
- RN Diploma, Millard Fillmore Hospital School of Nursing, Buffalo, NY 1979
- Interprofessional Healthcare Informatics Certificate, University of Minnesota, MN 2010
- Nursing Informatics Board Certification (RN-BC), 2011 – Current
- Certified Nurse, Operating Room (CNOR), 1993 – Current
Awards
- CCI Research Foundation Dissertation Research Grant, August 2019, Identifying Transfer of Care Gaps: Electronic Health Record capture of Handoff Communications (funded, $3,331)
- Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Foundation Scholarship – PhD 2017
Affiliations
- Alliance for Nursing Informatics Policy Committee - 2022-2024
- Multicenter Handoff Collaborative EMR Workgroup - 2021 - Current
- ANA Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards Revision Workgroup - 2019- 2021; 2013 - 2014
- HIMSS Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI) Review Board - 2014 - Current