About
Dr. Declan is a translational physician scientist and Board-Certified Emergency Medicine Physician in the Prisma Health–Upstate Department of Emergency Medicine, Adjunct Clinical Faculty in the Clemson University Department of Industrial Engineering, and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. She joined Prisma Health–Upstate in 2018. Her prior academic roles include appointments at Boston University School of Medicine and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She completed her residency training at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where she served as the inaugural Assistant Medical Director for Mobile Care, the University of Cincinnati CAMTS-accredited critical care transport agency. Dr. Declan earned her M.D. and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience (Neuroeconomics) from the Duke University School of Medicine Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) with a research focus on the neurobiology of decision-making. Her early research training included the study of the neurochemical and physical stresses involved in brain injury at the University of Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar (M.Phil.) and biochemical enzymatic processes at Brandeis University (M.S.).
Dr. Declan’s recent collaborations build from a human-centered applied clinical informatics research perspective to enhance processes and decisions across healthcare systems by developing insights that support patient care and the healthcare workforce. She enjoys collaborations across Industrial Engineering (Operations Research and Human Factors Engineering), Computer Science (Human-Computer Interface, Human-Centered Computing), and analytic disciplines including statistics, health economics, and epidemiology. Her experience ranges across quantitative and qualitative methods, including decision sciences, health economics, business information systems engineering, secondary evidence generation (secondary data analyses, registry development, scoping reviews), eye tracking (gaze tracking, saccade analysis, attention tracking, user-centered design), science of team science, public health, and health systems research.
How their research is transforming health care
Dr. Declan is a translational applied informatics researcher who develops evidence and strategic approaches to enhance processes, tools, and decisions with Health Information Technology and AI to improve patient care, support the healthcare workforce, and optimize mission-driven value for decisions across healthcare. Starting from a sociotechnological systems lens, she creatively develops pragmatic insights grounded in real-world healthcare experience to develop impactful insights and actionable tech-forward processes in healthcare.
Health research keywords
Emergency medicine, Cognitive Sciences, Complex Systems, Decision-making, Clinical Informatics, Applied Clinical Informatics Research
