Patricia Flatley Brennan

Patricia Flatley Brennan
Education	University of Delaware (BS) University of Pennsylvania (MS) University of Wisconsin, Madison (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Nursing, industrial engineering, health systems engineering
Institutions	University of Wisconsin, Madison

Patricia Flatley Brennan was the director of the National Library of Medicine from 2016 to 2023. Prior to that, she was the Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Brennan received a Master of Science in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[1] She served as chair of University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering's Department of Industrial Engineering from 2007 to 2010.