[Bill Stead] Patti Brennan has shown the power of working across boundaries in science and engineering and all of the great advances come at those intersections.

[Teresa Zayas Caban] She has really pushed the informatics community to think about individuals and caregivers in a different way.

[Charles Safran] I thinkPatti is a great example of if you just do the right thing by our fellow citizens good things happen.

[David Bates] Dr. Brennan is a pioneer and she's made a lasting impression on health care and biomedicine. Her work involves a skilled integration of disciplines in ways that have been transformative.

[Suzanne Bakken] Patti has combined what she learned as both a critical care and a psych mental health nurse with her engineering background.

But everything that she's done through the years really has been approached from a very holistic nursing perspective.

[Milton Corn] The 21st century National Library of Medicine will see itself as an information source for the world population. I think it probably is an enormous evolutionary step of great value and I think Patti just brings us one step higher.

[Patti Brennan] When my son was 11 years old StoryCorps came to Madison.

One of his questions was "what do you want to be known for?" What I want to be known for is a career that focused on taking what we know in biomedical informatics and expanding the stakeholder group to patients and families and make sure that we remember the most important person in the healthcare process is the patient.

Last Reviewed: November 6, 2018