I am a Professor in HHSI Master’s programme and an Adjunct Professor in Evidence Based Research and Development. My research interests are data structures and classifications in EHR, evidence-based health care and informatics competencies both for professionals and citizens including educational and organizational factors in enhancing digitalization in health and social care services. I am a chair of the Finnish nursing terminology, FinCC, expert group and a co-chair of the IMIA NI Practice Advisory Panel, and a core staff member of the Finnish Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care: A Joanna Briggs Institute Centre of Excellence.

I am a supervisor for more the 10 doctoral students and the same amount of master’s thesis, and responsible for Master’s thesis seminar and Informatics Methodology course.

I am a member of the Publication Forum (https://www.tsv.fi/julkaisufoorumi/haku.php?lang=en ), panel 14, 2022–2025 and a member of the Editorial Board of JMIR Nursing

I got the IMIA fellowship Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics 2021