Barbara Thomas holds an RN, a M.A. in Nursing, M.S. in Nursing, and a Family Nurse Practitioner Advanced Degree with over 30 years of teaching nursing in Graduate, Baccalaureate and Associate Degree programs. Professor Thomas has over 30 publications in the areas of smart e-classrooms, critical thinking, hand-held computers, and nursing informatics. Currently, she is focusing on gerontechnology research with the elderly population using technology. The Gerotechnology Consortium of Westchester recently won the national Mind Alert Award for their current research.