She will support and oversee the curriculum and share responsibilities for leading the specialty with fellow associate professor Cheryl Fisher.
Charlotte A. Seckman, PhD ’08, RN, NI-BC, CNE, FAAN, associate professor, has been named co-director of the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s (UMSON) Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Nursing Informatics specialty and graduate Nursing Informatics Certificate.
As co-director, Seckman will share responsibilities for leading the specialty with Cheryl Fisher, EdD, MSN, RN, associate professor.
Seckman will support and oversee the nursing informatics curriculum. This includes guiding the programs for compliance with standards, recruiting new students, managing operations, and planning strategically for future growth. She also coordinates, develops, and teaches master’s and DNP nursing informatics courses, mentors and advises graduate-level students, and prepares future generations of nurses with informatics competencies for leadership roles in health care.
Seckman joined UMSON as an adjunct faculty member in the Nursing Informatics specialty in 2000 and became a full-time faculty member in 2010. She retired in 2021, served as an adjunct in 2022 and then returned to UMSON in 2023 as an associate professor, teaching in the MSN Nursing Informatics specialty, bringing a wealth of experience from the practice setting, where she directed, designed, implemented, and evaluated numerous electronic health record-related projects. Her prior work at UMSON included coordinating and teaching informatics courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels along with mentoring Doctor of Nursing Practice and PhD students.