Dr. Cunningham serves as vice president and CNIO for Inova, leading multidisciplinary teams in EHR transformation to improve clinical care delivery, promote better patient outcomes and decrease healthcare costs. Her expertise lies in using EHR for research and clinical transformation, especially as it pertains to improving clinical outcomes and decreasing the burden of provider documentation. Dr. Cunningham’s most recent endeavors involve leading large-scale improvement events aimed at alleviating nursing and team member burden and restoring joy to the clinical workplace. She played an instrumental role in the creation of the Inova Nursing Innovation Accelerator, which assembled over 400 frontline nurses and team members to tackle some of healthcare’s biggest opportunities. Other accomplishments include establishing a virtual nurse model, creating virtual nurse coaching for new graduate nurses, promoting a model for increasing Epic Rover adoption, spearheading the deployment of new smart devices, creating a nursing informatics liaison program, standardizing clinical communication across hospitals and clinics, and much more. Dr. Cunningham holds professional memberships on numerous committees and has been a faculty associate for the University of Maryland School of Nursing since 2019.
