Charlene Esteban Ronquillo

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Health and Social Development, School of Nursing

Email: charlene.ronquillo@ubc.ca

Research Summary

health informatics; nursing; health equity; artificial intelligence; implementation science

Courses & Teaching

Jan 2025
NRSG 507 - Quantitative Research
NRSG 543 - Nursing Leadership and Management in Practice

Biography

Prospective MSN thesis stream and PhD students interested in research on the intersection of health technologies and health informatics, please visit my website: www.charleneronquillo.com for details and supervision inquiry guidance.

Please note that applications must be made to the relevant UBC Graduate program and we will not make any decisions until your application is seen in the application system

 

I am a Filipina Scholar, Registered Nurse, and health informatician researching the intersections of health informatics, health equity, nursing, and health services research. Our work is underpinned by implementation science and critical theories. One of our key aims is to ensure meaningful inclusion of non-dominant groups in the conceptualization, design, development, and implementation of health technologies in health systems and progress technically-informed discussions of artificial intelligence and healthcare and nursing practice.

I have expertise in mixed methods, participatory, and co-production approaches . I have experience with various aspects of health information technology in health systems and nursing, including nursing informatics competencies, usability research, user-centered design and development, rapid and exploratory prototyping, and technology adoption and usage.

I obtained my BScN from McGill University (2007), and MSN (2010) and PhD (2021) from UBC. Prior to joining UBCO, I was a Health Service Improvement Research Fellow at the University of the West of England (2016), an Associate Research Fellow in Implementation Science at the University of Exeter Medical School (2016-19), and an Assistant Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University (2019-21).

Websites

Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Leadership (NAIL) Collaborative

Degrees

PhD - University of British Columbia
MSN - University of British Columbia
BScN - McGill University

Research Interests & Projects

For the most recent updates, please see my personal website.

Selected Publications & Presentations

For my updated publication list, please see my Google Scholar Profile.

Select Publication Highlights

• Chu, C.H., Siganevich, Y., Donato-Woodger, S., Nguyen, M., Zavalunov, R., Wang, J., Beekhoo, Z., Ronquillo, C.E., Ibrahim, S., Flaming, D. and Green, N., 2025. Teaching Informatics Competencies within Nursing Education: A Scoping Review of Teaching Strategies. Applied Clinical Informatics, 16(04), pp.911-929.
• Topaz, M., Peltonen, L.M., Michalowski, M., Stiglic, G., Ronquillo, C., Pruinelli, L., Song, J., O’connor, S., Miyagawa, S. and Fukahori, H., 2025. The ChatGPT effect: nursing education and generative artificial intelligence. Journal of Nursing Education, 64(6), pp.e40-e43.
• Topaz, M., Peltonen, L. M., Michalowski, M., Pruinelli, L., Ronquillo, C. E., Zhang, Z., & Babic, A. (2025). The Overlooked Dark Side of Generative AI in Nursing: An International Think Tank’s Perspective. Journal of Nursing Scholarship.
• Ronquillo, C.E., Mitchell, J., Block, L., Alhuwail, D., Peltonen, L. M., Topaz, M., & Block, L. J. (2022). The Untapped Potential of Nursing and Allied Health Data for Improved Representation of Social Determinants of Health and Intersectionality in Artificial Intelligence Applications: A Rapid Review. Yearbook of Medical Informatics.
• von Gerich, H., Moen, H., Block, L. J., Chu, C. H., DeForest, H., Hobensack, M., … & Peltonen, L. M. (2022). Artificial Intelligence-based technologies in nursing: A scoping literature review of the evidence. International journal of nursing studies, 127, 104153.
• Ronquillo, C. E., Peltonen, L. M., Pruinelli, L., Chu, C. H., Bakken, S., Beduschi, A., … & Topaz, M. (2021). Artificial intelligence in nursing: Priorities and opportunities from an international invitational think‐tank of the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Leadership Collaborative. Journal of advanced nursing.
• Ronquillo, C., Dahinten, V. S., Bungay, V., & Currie, L. M. (2019). The Nurse LEADership for Implementing Technologies-Mobile Health Model (Nurse LEAD-IT-mHealth). Nursing Leadership (Toronto, Ont.), 32(2), 71-84.
• Al-Masslawi, D., Block, L., Ronquillo, C., Handfield, S., Fels, S., Lea, R., & Currie, L. M. (2017, May). SuperNurse: nurses’ workarounds informing the design of interactive technologies for home wound care. In Proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (pp. 193-202).
• Ronquillo, C., Currie, L. M., & Rodney, P. (2016). The evolution of data-information-knowledge-wisdom in nursing informatics. Advances in nursing science, 39(1), E1-E18.

Selected Grants & Awards

2023       UBC School of Nursing Recent Alumni Award (Vancouver)

2022       Women Leaders in Digital Health Award (Emerging Leader) – Digital Health Canada

2022       Kelowna Chamber’s Top 40 Under 40 Program

Professional Services/Affiliations/Committees

• Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Leadership (NAIL) Collaborative
• Affiliated Investigator at the Interior Health Authority
• Affiliated Investigator at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
• EDI Co-Lead for the UBC Data Science and Health (DASH) Cluster
• EDI Co-Lead for the Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN)

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