Note from the Associate Editorial Director: Welcome Katy Rushlau to the ACDIS team
by Melissa Varnavas
Maybe you’ve wondered how ACDIS Director Brian Murphy, ACDIS Membership Services Specialist Penny Richards, and I manage to keep everything here at ACDIS National going to so smoothly all the time. (Truth be told, we often wonder about that ourselves.)
Faithful blog readers know, however, that we really don’t do it all alone. We have a tremendous amount of support from our parent companies HCPro and BLR. Our production team puts our CDI Journal together. Our broadcast events team helps us create informative, well-run webinars. Our events team helps us make sure our annual conference consistently earns your accolades.
With all the new initiatives we have underway this year—more webinars, increased CDI Journal content, greater support of ACDIS local chapters, revision of the CCDS exam—we knew we needed some additional help.
Thank heavens for the newest member of the administrative team Katherine “Katy” Rushlau, who arrived just in time to be our new ACDIS editor. Katy comes to us from Emerson College in Boston where she majored in journalism and graduated with honors in the top 5% of her class. She has written for such prestigious publications as USA Today, The Boston Globe, and Boston.com. A native New Englander, Katy remains a “Mainer,” where her family still resides.
Believe it or not, Brian, Penny, and I, all come from journalism backgrounds too. (Brian actually still writes for the Daily Times Chronicle covering the Reading football team every autumn.) So, Katy will fit in terrific with the rest of us ex-Pats. In her new role, Katy will be instrumental in helping expand our social media outreach and content for our various publications including CDI Journal, CDI Strategies, and here on the ACDIS Blog. She’ll also be helping us manage our local chapter offerings, producing webinars, and eLearning, and host of other duties.
We know you’ll come to love her as much as we already have. Please take a minute to give her a warm “ACDIS” hello!
Editor's note: Varnavas is the associate editorial director of ACDIS. Contact her at mvarnavas@acdis.org.