Marion Jokl Ball is a South African-born American scientist, educator, and leader in global Biomedical and Health Informatics.

She holds the Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, is Presidential Distinguished Professor, College of Nursing and Health Innovation and serves as the Founding Executive Director, Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics (MICHI), University of Texas at Arlington.

Ball received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, U.S., where she started her career as a programmer and instructor at the Medical Center after graduation.

Serving as the director of the Computer Systems and Management Group at The Temple University Philadelphia, PA, U.S. she worked in parallel on her doctoral thesis in Medical Education.

[4] In 2020, she moved fully back into academia as the co-founder of the Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics (MICHI) at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Bringing together more than one hundred nursing leaders from seventy organizations, the TIGER Summit of 1 November 2006, resulted in a white paper and report that defined action steps in the areas of 1.

The framework included a methodology of surveying international experts in the field, summarized their relevance ratings for competencies according to roles nurses can have, and illustrated findings them via case studies.

It is her understanding of Nursing, Health, and Medical Informatics “that technology is only an enabler; success depends on attention to human factors and collaboration across boundaries.”.

The site search tool certified medical and health information on websites, apps for mobile devices, and for social networks.

The model instructed how to securely manage health data from citizens to make information available in cases of emergency and in other circumstances such as medical research.