Maichou Lor

Maichou Lor, PhD, RN earned her BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Nursing from the UW–Madison and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. Her research focuses on improving data collection for research and patient provider communication in health care delivery settings among vulnerable populations, including Hmong elders. Her areas of interest include (1) exploring the influence of cultural, language, and historical factors on communication as well as other conditions that might influence patients’ ability to communicate and (2) designing and testing culturally and linguistically innovative health assessment approaches for patients with limited English proficiency using applied informatics.