ACDIS Advisory Board
Task: Providing leadership, expertise, and an industry voice for the ACDIS membership.
Click here to download the committee scope of work. For questions about the Advisory Board, contact ACDIS Interim Director Laurie Prescott (lprescott@acdis.org) and Programming Director Rebecca Hendren (rhendren@acdis.org). To view ACDIS Advisory Board frequently asked questions, please click here.
Sheri Blanchard, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, CCDS, CCS
Corporate director of CDI
Orlando Health
Orlando, Florida
Blanchard has more than 24 years of nursing experience, and 12 years of CDI, care management, and coding experience, with a focus on improving patient care, quality outcomes, and the financial stability of hospital systems nationwide.
Blanchard is a subject matter expert on assessing hospitals for areas of opportunities and implementing change through collaboration and DRG bill-hold reviews. She has developed reports to track mortality review opportunities, Emergency Care Research Institute measures, patient safety indicator (PSI) and hospital acquired condition reviews, individual CDI metric reports, implementing CDI in the ED with care management, and denial intervention for DRG validations. She works in collaboration with her CDI team, key departments, and providers to develop diagnosis definitions to align with evidence-based practice. Blanchard is a past co-leader for the Central Ohio ACDIS.
Elected to the board in 2019; serving through April 2022
Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP
Manager, clinical documentation integrity
Essentia Health
Duluth, Minnesota
Boldt was drawn to the CDI profession because it fit perfectly with her passion for ensuring the best patient care, showing great outcomes, accurately portraying the patient’s clinical picture, and educating physicians that all of this is possible through improved documentation. Boldt had the opportunity to start a CDI program while working as a CDI specialist. From there, she became an ICD-10 educator for a large multi-specialty hospital, and then began nationwide CDI consulting and education for several years. Currently, she works as a system manager for a large multi-specialty healthcare system.
During her 11-year career in the CDI field, she has participated on many local and national ACDIS committees and co-chaired the Minnesota ACDIS local chapter from 2012-2015. Boldt has spoken at the ACDIS national conference, the ACDIS Symposium: Outpatient CDI, local AHIMA conferences, on Talk Ten Tuesday, and ACDIS Radio. She implemented a new outpatient CDI program at her current healthcare system, co-authored The Outpatient CDI Specialist’s Completed Training Guide and volunteered on the CCDS-O committee. She has been in the nursing field for 15 years.
Elected to the board in 2019; serving through April 2022
Jennifer Eaton, RN, MSN, CCDS
Executive Director of CDI
Enjoin
Knoxville, Tennessee
Eaton joined the CDI world in 2007 and had the honor of achieving her CCDS certification shortly after.
Over the past 13 years, her love and passion for this profession has grown and evolved as the purpose and focus of CDI has grown and evolved. In fact, that is one of her favorite aspects of CDI: it is ever changing and evolving.
Given the complexity and diversity of today’s CDI landscape, Eaton believes the industry needs thought leadership of equal measure. Since her immersion into CDI, she has served in a multitude of roles including CDI auditor, educator, and leader both in healthcare systems and most recently as a consultant with a physician owned/directed company.
Given her variety of roles and expertise in both the inpatient, outpatient, hospital, and vendor space, she possesses a varied and robust wheelhouse of relevant industry knowledge. It would be an honor to utilize her professional experience and knowledge base to promote understanding of the mission and vision of CDI as well as offer guidance and direction for the profession as it strives to serve patients, employers, and communities.
Elected to the board in 2020; serving through April 2023
Emily Emmons, MSN, RN, CCDS
Regional Director of CDI
Kaiser Permanente Northern California Region
Oakland, California
Emmons serves as president and chairperson of the board of directors for the California ACDIS chapter. She previously served as co-chair of the chapter for six years from 2012-2018 and was a member of the National ACDIS Local Chapter Advisory Board from 2016-2018. She has worked in the CDI industry since 2011. In her current role, Emmons is responsible for inpatient CDI operations in 21 Northern California Kaiser Permanente facilities. She has her MSN in nursing education and enjoys volunteering to facilitate educational events and professional networking opportunities for her colleagues in CDI. She is a member of both ACDIS and AHIMA and is committed to furthering the CDI profession.
Elected to the board in 2020; serving through April 2023
Susan Fantin, MSA, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP
Corporate Director of Clinical Documentation
McLaren Health Care
Grand Blanc, Michigan
Fantin currently serves as the corporate director of CDI for McLaren Health Care, leading system-wide CDI projects in clinical validation, standardization, dashboard metric/outcomes, policy/procedure, orientation, quality monitoring, and physician engagement/ education. A nurse with more than 28 years’ experience, Fantin has experience in a variety of clinical areas, including acute care nursing, case management/utilization review, patient throughput and clinical house supervision. Her CDI experience spans over 13 years and includes leading clinical documentation programs in academic, rural and multi-hospital system environments. Susan is a CDI subject matter expert and has extensive experience in quality initiatives involving patient safety indictors, hospital acquired conditions, and mortality reviews as well as data analysis, auditing and reporting. As senior CDI director at The Advisory Board Company, Susan consulted with medical centers providing physician education, CDI training and developed a library of best practice materials for ICD-10 physician specialty education.
Fantin received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Madonna University (1991) and Master of Science in Healthcare Administration from Central Michigan University (2007). An ACDIS member since 2008, Susan obtained her CCDS certification in 2011 and AHIMA CDIP certification in 2012. Susan currently chairs the Michigan ACDIS Chapter and is actively engaged in presentations at local, state and national levels.
Elected to the board in 2020; serving through April 2023
Vaughn Matacale, MD, CCDS
Director, clinical documentation advisor program
Vidant Health
Greenville, North Carolina
Matacale is a physician specializing in hospital medicine who began training and working in the physician advisor role in 2007. In 2013, he took a full-time role as a physician advisor with a mission to develop the advisor role and grow a physician advisor team for the Vidant Health system, which covers most of eastern North Carolina. Serving as the director of the advisor team, he has helped it grow to four physicians and a physician assistant who conduct post-discharge pre-bill reviews and provide support and education for coding, CDI, and medical staff throughout the health system.
Through proactive involvement and collaboration with CDI and coding, Matacale has established regular representation and collaboration with the quality, informatics and IT, evaluation and management auditing, audit and compliance, utilization review (UR), and appeals departments, and the Vidant accountable care organization. He currently serves as the chair of the PSI committee and is a member of the hospital patient safety and quality improvement committee. Matacale also has more than 13 years of experience in UR reviews and continues to practice hospital medicine. He has had the privilege of speaking at five ACDIS conferences, as well as other national and regional conferences.
Elected to the board in 2019; serving through April 2022
Chinedum Mogbo, MBBS, MBA, RHIA, CDIP, CCDS, CCS
Manager, CDI
Tenet Healthcare
Dallas, Texas
Mogbo has a passion for quality patient care and all things CDI, including its overall impact on patient care/safety, and physician and hospital profiles. She has successfully managed various teams, including clinical documentation specialists and coding auditors. She worked as a CDI training director for a California-based health system and currently works as a CDI manager for Tenet Healthcare. She actively participates in the CDIP and RHIA exam item writing with AHIMA. She has been involved in the successful development of in-house curriculum for training clinical documentation specialists and serves as co-chair of the AHIMA CDI practice council working on many projects that provide guidance to the industry—the most recent being updating the Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice, a joint publication between ACDIS and AHIMA..
She co-authored an AHIMA practice brief on “Physician Engagement in CDI,” featured in the July 2017 Journal of AHIMA and also co-authored the AHIMA practice brief on “Physician Office Query” in July 2018. Mogbo was a speaker at the 89th AHIMA Convention, a moderator at the 2018 AHIMA CDI Summit and presented on AHIMA webinars in 2018 and 2019.
Elected to the board in 2019; serving through April 2022
Christopher Petrilli, MD, SFHM, CCDS
Medical Director, Clinical Documentation Improvement
NYU Langone Health
New York, New York
Petrilli is an assistant professor of medicine at the NYU School of Medicine. He serves as clinical lead of the Manhattan campus for value based management and medical director for CDI for NYU Langone Health. He has authored 30 peer reviewed publications, including a first author manuscript in the British Medical Journal, which was one of the first major papers describing the risk factors for COVID-19 in the United States.
In his role as medical director for CDI, he takes great pride in strengthening the collaboration among health system leaders, CDI team and providers to improve documentation efficiency and effectiveness. He achieves this through education and novel electronic health record solutions. His work has been featured in the CDI Journal, CDI Strategies, and on The ACDIS Podcast: Talking CDI. He has a true passion for teaching, methodologically implementing rigorous process improvement strategies, and tracking process, as well as outcomes metrics to assess for sustained improvement over time.
Prior to medical school, Petrilli was a financial analyst for JPMorgan Chase Bank and Senior Financial Analyst for Nexxar Group. He received his Medical Degree from Georgetown University, and completed his residency training in internal medicine at University of Michigan where he also served as chief medical resident. He received his undergraduate degree in finance and accounting at Georgetown University, where he served as co-chairman and CEO of the Georgetown University Alumni Student Credit Union, the largest entirely student run financial institution in the nation.
Elected to the board in 2021; serving through April 2024
Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC
CDI Education Director
HCPro/ACDIS
Middleton, Massachusetts
Prescott is the Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Education Director with HCPro, a division of BLR. Prescott serves as a full-time instructor for the CDI Boot Camps as well as a subject matter expert for the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement (ACDIS). Prescott is a frequent speaker on HCPro/ACDIS webinars and is the author of the CDI Complete Training Guide.
Prescott started her nursing career in 1985 as a graduate of the University of Vermont School Of Nursing. Since that time she has worked at a variety of organizations including academic, large and small community hospitals. She has worked in a number of nursing roles including as manager in the areas of medical/surgical, ICU, PACU and endoscopy. Her experience also includes specialization as a compliance officer.
She completed her MSN with a focus in nursing education at the University of Phoenix and taught nursing as an adjunct instructor to ADN students. She continued her focus of nursing education in various roles. In 2007, Prescott left this role to develop and implement a CDI program and remained in this role until joining HCPro in August of 2013.
Serving on the board since January 2017
Autumn Reiter, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CCS
Director, CDI
CorroHealth
Plano, Texas
Reiter began her bedside nursing career in the intensive care unit (ICU). She transitioned into CDI nearly 10 years ago. She served as a CDI specialist and eventually as the clinical coordinator for a CDI program in Chesapeake, Virginia, before coming to CorroHealth (formerly TrustHCS) in May 2015. She performed CDI inpatient and outpatient audits as well as concurrent CDI reviews and interim management before advancing to her current role. She is now the director of CDI services, where she works with clients from multiple facilities of various sizes across the country to serve in their CDI needs. She provides assistance with concurrent staffing needs, clinical denial reviews, and auditing for the clients she works with. She has developed a CDI review solution for the emergency department and leads the CDI hierarchical condition category review process with her team. Additionally, she performs GAP analysis for new program start-ups as well as improvement and rebuilds of existing programs. Reiter delivers education sessions to all levels of CDI specialists through bootcamps remotely and onsite. During her time at CorroHealth, she has created a quality assurance program as well as multiple policies to promote continuity and guidance for the team. She served as the Virginia ACDIS local chapter leader from 2015-2016 and presented at the ACDIS and AHIMA annual conferences. She has authored several articles regarding CDI concerns and expansion, participated on the ACDIS Podcast, spoken at multiple state conventions, and contributed in the creation of the CDI Outpatient Pocket Guide for 2020.
Elected to the board in 2021; serving through April 2024
Kelly Sutton, RN, BSN, MHL, CCDS, CCS
System CDI Educator and Implementation Specialist
AdventHealth
Altamonte Springs, Florida
Sutton’s CDI career started in 2015 as a frontline CDI specialist in a suburban 170-plus-bed facility in Sebring, Florida. The transition to CDI was enjoyable as Sutton was able to utilize her clinical knowledge and experience to drive reviews in the CDI role. Navigating through a rapidly changing financially-based program as it transitioned to a quality-based program was a welcomed challenge. She achieved her CCDS certification in 2018. Sutton was promoted to a newly created CDI educator role in January 2019 as the CDI program transitioned away from facility-based to a divisional lead program. The educator role allowed her to participate in the creation of policies and processes for the division. Responsibilities included oversight of the onboarding process for all new employees. Additional responsibilities included developing education for 40+ employees and multiple physician groups across 11 facilities. Her current role, since August 2021, is CDI system educator and implementation specialist, providing CDI education and software program support to over 40 facilities across the system. She obtained her CCS certification in 2022. She is a member of several professional organizations, including ACDIS and the Florida ACDIS local chapter. Sutton participated in the ACDIS Virtual Education Curtain Call in 2020 and presented a webinar in 2022.
Elected to the board in 2021; serving through April 2024
Aimee Van Balen, RN, BSN, CCDS
Lead Clinical Documentation Specialist
Lifespan Corporate Services
Providence, Rhode Island
Van Balen is a lead clinical documentation specialist at Lifespan Corporate Services in Providence, Rhode Island. She has clinical experience in medical, surgical, and cardiac care. She has almost eleven years of experience in CDI and received her CCDS certification in 2011. Van Balen serves as a mentor for her peers both within her department at Lifespan and the Massachusetts ACDIS group. She reviews both concurrent and retrospective charts for documentation best practice, query opportunities, Mortality/LOS risk adjustment, HACS/PSIs, as well as quality measures. Of upmost importance, she also provides ongoing physician education in both formal and informal settings. Van Balen orients new staff and is passionate about CDI education at the CDI level as well as for providers.
Van Balen served as co-chair of the Massachusetts Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists from April 2013-April 2017 and is an active member of the Chapter Leader Advisory Board since its formation in 2017. She has been instrumental in the success of the Massachusetts ACDIS chapter and a resource for chapter leaders nationwide. Aimee has joined ACDIS Radio twice to promote local chapter involvement and was a speaker at the ACIDS National Conference in 2017 and 2018. In addition, she was a finalist for the 2019 ACDIS Advisory Board and recently was published with her colleague in the Journal of Interprofessional Workforce Research and Development titled “Mission at Work: Perfecting Provider Education” (Volume 1 Issue 2, 2018.)
Elected to board in 2020; serving through April 2023
Lena N. Wilson, MHI, RHIA, CCS, CCDS
RCS Specialized Manager–Clinical Documentation Integrity (Inpatient & Professional Operations) and ICD-10 Clinical Education
Indiana University Health
Indianapolis, Indiana
Wilson has a Bachelors in HIM (2002) and Masters in Health Informatics (2009) both from Indiana University. She holds credentials of CCS and CCDS. She began her career as an inpatient coder and continued to grow from there, expanding her skills into quality auditing and then into various leadership roles in HIM/coding/CDI.
She now has almost twenty years of HIM, coding, and CDI experience and has been at IU Health for the last 16 years. During her tenure, she has worked in various roles supporting the CDI team from direct leadership/program oversight as well as solely focusing on physician documentation education leading up to and through the ICD-10 code set conversion.
The IU Health inpatient CDI program was implemented in 2005/2006 and she has been involved since the inception of this program in every aspect and its continued growth. Over the last 15 years, the program has expanded to cover 16 inpatient and critical access facilities across the health system with 24 team members and one team lead. She has worked with others to support the implementation of a computer assisted CDI tool as well as a production and quality monitoring programs.
The IU Health CDI program is continuing to expand into the professional space. The professional CDI program will focus on the documentation of HCC diagnoses in the physician office. This is currently still in the pilot stage and will continue to evolve over 2021 and beyond.
Elected to the board in 2021; serving through April 2024
Previous ACDIS Advisory Board Members:
- Sam Antonios, MD, FACP, SFHM, CPE, CCDS (2016-2019)
- Dee Banet, RN, BSN, CCDS (2011-2013)
- Cindy Basham, MHA, MSCCS, BSN, CPC, CCS (2007-2010)
- Susan Belley, M.Ed., RHIA, CPHQ (2011-2013)
- Timothy N. Brundage, MD (2011-2013)
- Gloryanne Bryant, BS, RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CCDS (2007-2010)
- Shelia Bullock, RN, BSN, MBA, CCM, CCDS (2009-2011)
- Donald Butler, RN, BSN (2013-2015)
- Jean S. Clark, RHIA (2007-2010)
- Wendy Clesi, RN, CCDS (2014-2017)
- Angie Curry, RN, BSN, CCDS (2017-2020)
- Wendy De Vreugd, RN, BSN, PHN, FNP, CCDS (2007-2010, 2014-2017)
- Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP (2014-2017)
- Paul Evans, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CCS-P (2016-2019)
- James Fee, MD, CCS, CCDS (2015-2018)
- Garri L. Garrison, RN, CPC, CMC, CPUR (2009-2011)
- Colleen Garry, RN, BS (2007-2010)
- Robert Gold, MD (2007-2010) (2011-2013)
- Katy Good, RN, MSN, MHA, CCS, CCDS (2017-2020)
- William E. Haik, MD (2007-2010)
- Tamara A. Hicks, RN, BSN, MHA, CCS, CCDS, ACM (2007-2010, 2016-2019)
- Sylvia Hoffman, RN, CCDS, CCDI, CDIP (2013-2015)
- Robin R. Holmes, RN, MSN (2009-2011)
- Walter Houlihan, MBA, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA (2013-2015)
- Thomas W. Huth, MD, MBA, FACP (2015)
- Robin Jones, RN, BSN, MHA/Ed, CCDS (2016-2019)
- Fran Jurcak, RN, MSN, CCDS (2011-2014, 2018-2021)
- James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS (2010-2012)
- Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, FCS, PCS, CCDS, C-CDI (2010-2012)
- Mark LeBlanc, RN, MBA, CCDS (2014-2017)
- Trey La Charité, MD (2011-2013)
- Pam Lovell, MBA, RN (2007-2010)
- Gail B. Marini, RN, MM, CCS, LNC (2010-2012)
- Shannon McCall, RHIA, CCS, CPC, CPC-I, CCDS (2007-2010)
- Michelle McCormack, RN, BSN, CCDS, CRCR (2014-2017)
- Jeff Morris, RN, BSN, CCDS (2018-2021)
- Karen Newhouser, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CCM, CDIP (2015-2018)
- Erica E. Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS (2018-2021)
- Judy Schade, RN, MSN, CCM, CCDS (2015-2018)
- Susan Schmitz, JD, RN, CCS, CCDS, CDIP (2017-2020)
- Lynne Spryszak, RN, CCDS, CPC (2007-2012)
- Colleen Stukenberg, MSN, RN, CMSRN, CCDS (2009-2011)
- Heather Taillon, RHIA (2007-2010)
- James E. Vance, MD, MBA (2014)
- Deanne Wilk, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCS (2017-2020)
- Donna D. Wilson, RHIA, CCS, CCDS (2011-2013)
- Lena N Wilson, MHI, RHIA, CCS, CCDS (2010-2012)
- Anny Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS (2015-2018)
- Irina Zusman, RHIA, CCS, CCDS (2018-2021)
Chapter Advisory Board
Task: Serving as liaisons between local chapter leaders and ACDIS national administration by participating on chapter leadership conference calls, promoting best practice, and providing guidance to leaders across the country. Click to read the committee's scope of work and the current group roster.
Click here to download the committee scope of work. For questions about the committee, contact ACDIS Editorial Director Melissa Varnavas (mvarnavas@acdis.org).
Board Members: Kristie Alexander from Texas, Leola Burke from North Carolina, James Doster from Georgia, Amanda Just from Oklahoma, Branda McCowan from Pennsylvania, Angelica Naylor from Missouri, Kristie Perry from Tennessee, Rani Stoddard from California, Aimee Van Balen from Massachusetts, and Melissa Varnavas (committee coordinator).
Kristie Alexander, BSN, RN, CCDS
CDI manager
Texas Health Resources
Arlington, Texas
Alexander, along with another colleague, manages a staff of 39 CDI specialists across 13 entities in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. She has eight years’ experience in CDI, six as CDI manager/educator and two as a CDI specialist. Prior joining the CDI field, she served as manager of the neurosurgical ICU at Texas Health Fort Worth, and also held prior roles as quality improvement coordinator at both Texas Health Arlington Memorial and Texas Health Alliance. Her 26 years of nursing experiencing includes adult critical care/neurosurgical critical care, medical-surgical and home health in both small community and large health organization settings. She has served on the leadership team for the Texas Chapter of ACDIS for the past three years.
Leola Burke, MHSA, CCS
Independent HIM/revenue cycle consultant
Charles George VA Medical Center
Ashville, North Carolina
Burke has more than 20 years of experience in HIM, MS-DRGs, APR-DRGs, Ambulatory Payment Classifications, DRG case mix index (CMI) analysis, physician current procedure terminology coding, evaluation and management coding, and revenue cycle compliance. She has worked with academic medical centers, community hospitals, long term acute care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, veterans’ association medical centers, physician practices, and ambulatory surgery centers. Burke has also authored and contributed to a number of articles, practice briefs, and projects across the healthcare industry. She currently serves as the North Carolina ACDIS and AHIMA chapter liaison and social media chair for the North Carolina AHIMA component.
James (Jamie) Doster, MS, BSN, CCDS
CDI manager
Emory University Hospital Midtown
Atlanta, Georgia
Doster has more than 11 years of experience in CDI and more than 10 years in the ED and cardiac catheter lab prior to his career in CDI. He is currently working on a doctorate in nursing practice. Doster is a founding leader of the Georgia ACDIS local chapter where he and the volunteer leadership team were able to enact evolving bylaws, increase membership yearly, set a focus on quarterly education meetings, and an annual community service work with financial donations to local non-profits. He joined the CAB in 2019 in order to share experiences with founding organizations, share community involvement opportunities, encourage membership engagement, and his own personal professional development.
Amanda Just, RN, BSN, CCDS
System director CDI
ITNEGRIS Health
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Just has been a nurse for 15 years with experience in critical care and home health quality. She began her journey in CDI more than eight years ago, spending the last five years leading her CDI team. She has made it her mission to assist CDI programs growth across Oklahoma. She helped in establishing the first Oklahoma ACDIS local chapter in 2018 and served as a member of the chapter leadership team. Just believes by supporting a local chapter all members can build their CDI program to become more recognized, resilient, and robust. Currently, she is working towards obtaining her MSN in nursing informatics. She plans on using her informatics education to help increase utilization of data to drive CDI outcomes within her program.
Angelica Naylor, MBA, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCS
Senior Healthcare Performance Advisor
3M Health Information Systems
Salt Lake City, Utah
Naylor is currently a Senior Healthcare Performance Advisor with 3M HIS, based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has over six years of CDI experience including direct CDI management of a Midwest hospital and CDI Manager in consulting services. Her background includes critical care nursing in the trauma/surgical/neurological ICU, as well as in utilization review, case management, and quality/risk management. She has been a speaker and presenter at the 2021 ACDIS Conference, recurrent guest speaker on the ACDIS Podcast, and guest columnist in multiple editions of the CDI Journal. She is a former Kansas City ACDIS chapter leader and currently serves on the ACDIS Chapter Advisory Board, ACDIS Regulatory Committee, and as chair of the ACDIS Diversity & Inclusion Task Force. Naylor is also a member of the Texas ACDIS chapter.
Kristie Perry, RN, MHSA, CCDS, CCS
CDI manager
Erlanger Health System
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Perry has nearly 30 years of experience in nursing, particularly in the ICU. She moved into a CDI role more than 13 years ago and concentrated on record reviews related to trauma and critical care, before moving into a managerial role. She has been a member of the patient safety indicator committee at Erlanger and provided extensive education to the surgical residents as well as the surgery/trauma surgery attending physicians.
Perry joined the Tennessee ACDIS local chapter in 2013 and stepped forward to serve as a member of its leadership team in 2014. She joined the CAB in 2019 in order to learn more about other chapters and develop ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Tennessee chapter. Perry also served as a member of the 2017 CDI Week Committee and has been a co-presenter for an HCPro webinar related to trauma CDI.
Rani Vivian Stoddard, MBA, RN, CPHQ, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CDIP
CDI supervisor
Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital
Valencia, California
Stoddard has been a CDI supervisor for more than six years. She assists a five-person team consisting of nurses, coding professionals, and foreign medical graduate physicians. She came to CDI from quality, teaching, healthcare marketing, blood donor nursing, intensive care, medical-surgical nursing, and rehabilitation nursing. Stoddard has been active in the California ACDIS local chapter since 2016, serving as its secretary and CA ACDIS Connection newsletter editor. Through her efforts and the work of her colleagues on the leadership team, the California ACDIS chapter has been able to hold in-person annual conferences gathering more than 100 attendees and grow its membership to more than 600 participants. She joined the CAB in 2019 where she hopes to bring back leadership tools to the volunteers in California and share successful tips the California ACDIS chapter has developed since its inception nearly a decade ago. Stoddard is a previous speaker at the ACDIS national conference in Las Vegas in 2017 and poster presenter in 2018.
Aimee Van Balen, RN, BSN, CCDS
Senior CDI specialist
Lifespan Corporation
Providence, Rhode Island
Van Balen has been working in the CDI field for more than nine years. In her current role, she reviews charts and educates providers, serving as a resource to peers and helping to train new staff. She also reviews charts concurrently for hospital-acquired conditions/patient safety indicators, mortality and length of stay risk adjustment, and pre-bill retrospective mortality charts for risk adjustment optimization.
She joined the Massachusetts ACDIS local chapter in 2015 and served as a co-leader of the group for three years. During that time, she helped the group create bylaws, build membership, and incorporate a strong emphasis on CDI education for its events. Van Balen also helped the chapter collaborate with the Massachusetts and New York chapters of AHIMA on a full-day Northeast CDI & Coding Symposium which had its third successful event in 2018.
She joined the CAB in 2017 and is a past-presenter at the ACDIS national conference in 2017. She’s been a featured ACDIS Radio guest in both 2017 and 2018 and was elected to the ACDIS Advisory Board in 2020.
Certification Committee
Task: Maintaining and updating the CCDS and CCDS-O Certification Programs, including the exam and its prerequisites. Click to read the committee's scope of work and the current group roster.
Click here to download the committee scope of work. For questions about this committee, contact ACDIS Director of Programming Rebecca Hendren (rhendren@acdis.org).
CCDS Subcommittee:
Marie Bourque-Namer
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Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS
CDI education specialist
HCPro/ACDIS
Middleton, Massachusetts
Brodie is a CDI education specialist for HCPro, a Simplify Compliance brand, in Middleton, Massachusetts. Brodie serves as a full-time instructor for CDI Boot Camps and a subject matter expert for ACDIS. She has more than 35 years’ experience in the healthcare industry, including multiple areas of nursing, serving in a variety of roles at both large academic and small community hospitals. Prior to joining HCPro, Brodie worked as a consultant providing program audits, implementation advice, and continuing education for CDI departments, including physician education She has been responsible for the successful implementation and oversight of a CDI department and the revitalization of a CDI department at a small community hospital. Sharme is a frequent contributor of articles for ACDIS’ CDI Journal and CDI Strategies. She has been a speaker at the national ACDIS conference and is a frequent guest host on the ACDIS Podcast.
Mary Carol Brouwer
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Cheryl Ericson
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Patricia Henry
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Dorene Hughes, MSN, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP
Clinical documentation director
Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center
Hartsville, South Carolina
Hughes has been involved in CDI for over 14 years, with seven years of that experience as a CDI director. Prior to CDI, she has 12 years of experience as a well-baby and NICU nurse and six years experience as a nurse in a nursing home. She is currently a member of ACDIS, the Tennessee ACDIS local chapter, AHIMA, and is the past tresurer for the South Carolina ACDIS local chapter. Hughes is the lead chair for the Darlington County Disabilities and Special Needs Board, and is alos involved in the Hartsville Evening Lions Club and the ToastMasters Club in Hartsville. Prior to nursing, Hughes taught kindergarten and first grade. She married her high school sweetheart in 2020 and together they have six children, three dogs, and three cats.
Fran Jurcak, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O
Chief clinical strategist
Iodine Software
Austin, Texas
Jurcak is an accomplished senior executive with over 30 years of success in healthcare. She is currently the chief clinical strategist at Iodine Software where she has focused her attention on employing innovative artificial intelligence machine learning model technology to support documentation accuracy in all records. Jurcak is focused on creating efficient workflows, preventing duplication of effort, and supporting professional communication between the clinical and coding teams. She has worked side-by-side with CDI specialists and coding staff, CDI leaders, and corporate executives to develop workflows and processes that support positive outcomes for healthcare organizations. She received the 2017 ACDIS award for Professional Achievement, served two elected terms on the ACDIS Advisory Board and currently sits on the certification boards for both inpatient and outpatient CDI as well as the NAHRI Advisory Board.
Roshan Shetty
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Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS
CDI education specialist
HCPro/ACDIS
Middleton, Massachusetts
Valdez serves as a full-time instructor for the CDI Boot Camps and a subject matter expert for ACDIS. She has more than 25 years’ experience in the healthcare industry including ICU nursing, legal nurse consulting, and was a nurse manager for a large third-party administrator for which she initiated a nurse audit program. Valdez has also given numerous lectures on healthcare related topics over the last two decades. Prior to joining ACDIS and HCPro, she was a clinical educator and manager of CDI for a large hospital system, where she conducted training, managed CDI staff, performed staff audits, and provided educational classes to both coding and CDI professionals. Valdez has presented at the national ACDIS conference as well as a number of ACDIS state chapters. She is a frequent guest on the ACDIS CDI Podcast.
Susanne Warford, RN, MBA, CCDS
HIM data analytics manager
Baptist Health
Kentucky
Warford's experience includes emergency department, neurosurgical ICU, transplant, case management, and compliance with the last nine years in CDI/HIM. During those nine years, she served as a facility CDI specialist, CDI auditor/educator and regional CDI manager, where she helped to systemize and standardize processes for seven facilities spread throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Prior to her current role, she started the CDI appeals program, which has since developed into its own department. Susanne currently serves as the Vice-President for the ACDIS Kentucky/Southern Indiana Chapter. She is a member of the 2021 – 2022 ACDIS CDI Leadership Council and has served on the CCDS Exam Committee since 2019.
Gail Weldon, RN, CCDS
CDI team lead
Baptist Medical Center East and Prattville Baptist Hospital
Montgomery and Prattville, Alabama
Weldon has worked full time as an RN since 1978 and has been with the same great healthcare system for the last 22 years. In 2007, she became a quality coordinator overseeing professional practice evaluations and all things physician related. When the CDI department was formed, she transitioned to CDI, which Weldon believes is the best career move she has ever made. Weldon loves CDI and she goes to work with excitement every day. Weldon is a CDI team lead for two of the system's three facilities. In her off time, Weldone loves to experience life with her husband, children and grandchildren. She feels extremely blessed to have both of her parents living and enjoys their company as often as she can. Weldon also loves dogs and birds, and has a few of each.
Irina Zusman
Bio coming soon...
CCDS-O Subcommittee:
Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, CCDS-O
System manager of CDI
Essentia Health System
Duluth, Minnesota
Boldt has more than 15 years of healthcare experience, including nursing, administration, and consulting, specializing in hospital revenue cycle management. Specific to CDI, Boldt has led CDI engagements for clients representing small hospitals to larger integrated delivery networks with multi-site programs. She has successfully led CDI integration projects with interest in clinical documentation (inpatient and outpatient), and identifying process changes and workflow enhancement regarding how provider documentation is reflective of accurate patient care.
Judy Dokken, MBA, CHDA, RHIT, CCS
Revenue cycle manager
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
In her current role, Dokken works with providers and coding staff to support quality documentation and code capture processes. After many years of facility and professional coding, Dokken transitioned to working with providers on billing requirements including ICD-10 implementation. After ICD-10 implementation, she began work on evaluation and management CPT documentation and coding. Later, her role expanded to include risk scores, patient complexity, hierarchical condition categories, and alternative payment models. Currently she supports the work of Mayo’s outpatient CDI program.
Tamara A. Hicks, BSN, MHA, RN, CCS, CCDS, ACM-RN, CCDS-O
Director of clinical documentation excellence (CDE)
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist (AHWFB)
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Hicks has more than 22 years of experience in CDI and over 37 years of nursing experience. As an original staff member when the CDI program at AHWFB began in 1999, she participated in building and expanding the program by educating staff and faculty, providing leadership, promoting departmental goals, and coordinating department operations. Hicks holds a diploma in nursing from Watts School of Nursing in Durham, North Carolina, and graduated summa cum laude from Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. She obtained a master’s in health administration from Pfeiffer University in Charlotte. She has worked for AHWFB for her entire career, with 15 years of service as a staff nurse in the hospital's intermediate care unit and nine years as manager of care coordination. She is a member AHIMA and ACDIS where she is a frequent contributor, serving on the ACDIS Advisory Board twice, currently sitting on the CCDS-O Certification Board, currently serving as the social media coordinator for NC-ACDIS, and she was awarded the CDI Professional of the Year Award at the 2019 ACDIS Conference.
Fran Jurcak, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O
Chief clinical strategist
Iodine Software
Austin, Texas
Jurcak is an accomplished senior executive with over 30 years of success in healthcare. She is currently the chief clinical strategist at Iodine Software where she has focused her attention on employing innovative artificial intelligence machine learning model technology to support documentation accuracy in all records. Jurcak is focused on creating efficient workflows, preventing duplication of effort, and supporting professional communication between the clinical and coding teams. She has worked side-by-side with CDI specialists and coding staff, CDI leaders, and corporate executives to develop workflows and processes that support positive outcomes for healthcare organizations. She received the 2017 ACDIS award for Professional Achievement, served two elected terms on the ACDIS Advisory Board and currently sits on the certification boards for both inpatient and outpatient CDI as well as the NAHRI Advisory Board.
James Manz, MD
Spine and neurological surgery consultant
Mayo Enterprise Health System
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Manz services as physician chair of the Mayo Enterprise Outpatient CDI Subcommittee, physician vice chair for the Mayo Enterprise Inpatient CDI Subcommittee, and physician advisor of the Mayo Clinic Problem List Stewardship Committee. He is the co-author of the ACDIS Pocket Guide and has been a frequent speaker at ACDIS national conferences.
Shannon E. McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-I, CEMC, CRC, CCDS
Director of HIM/coding
HCPro
Middleton, Massachusetts
McCall directs all of HCPro’s Certified Coder Boot Camp® programs. She is the developer of the Certified Coder Boot Camp®—Inpatient Version and the Evaluation and Management Boot Camp®. Most recently she collaborated with the CDI team to develop the Risk Adjustment Documentation and Coding Boot Camp®. As a consultant for HCPro, she works with hospitals, medical practices, and other healthcare providers on a wide range of coding-related issues with a particular focus on education, coding reviews, and audits. McCall has extensive experience with coding for both physician and hospital services. Prior to joining HCPro, she worked for a national medical practice management company, where her duties included serving as a client manager and an in-house coding trainer. She also previously worked for a national consulting firm focusing on hospital inpatient, outpatient, and ER services. McCall previously served on the ACDIS advisory board. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Information Administration from the Medical University of South Carolina.
Karen Newhouser, RN, BSN, CCM, CCDS, CCS, CDIP
Director of CDI education
MedPartners
Tampa, Florida
Newhouser’s current role at MedPartners helped her find her niche in education through writing, speaking, and personal engagement. Within multiple roles spanning a 40-year-career in critical care nursing, case management, and CDI, Newhouser has been resolute in her mission to set people up for success. Newhouser was honored as the 2015 CDI Professional of the Year by ACDIS and was a member of the ACDIS Advisory Board.
Diana Ortiz, JD, RN, CDIP, CCDS
Revenue cycle marketing manager, CDI product owner
3M Health Information Systems, Inc.
Wausau, Wisconsin
Previously, Ortiz was the director for ambulatory CDI at Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, Louisiana. Since joining Ochsner in 2013, her roles included serving as a project manager as well as inpatient CDI operations manager. During this time, she coordinated the implementation of computer-assisted coding and metrics reporting for the CDI department. Ortiz has a nursing background in both the emergency and the psychiatric setting, and HIM experience in hospital emergency facility coding and database management.
Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC
Interim ACDIS director
HCPro
Middleton, Massachusetts
Prescott is the interim director and subject matter expert for ACDIS. She is a frequent speaker on HCPro/ACDIS webinars and is the author of the CDI Specialist’s Complete Training Guide. Prescott started her nursing career in 1985 as a graduate of the University of Vermont School of Nursing. Since that time, she has worked at a variety of organizations including academic, large and small community hospitals. She has worked in a number of nursing roles including as manager in the areas of medical/surgical, ICU, PACU, and endoscopy. Her experience also includes specialization as a compliance officer. She completed her MSN with a focus in nursing education at the University of Phoenix and taught nursing as an adjunct instructor to ADN students. She continued her focus of nursing education in various roles. In 2007, Prescott left this role to develop and implement a CDI program and remained in this role until joining ACDIS in August of 2013.
Jessica M. Vaughn, DNP, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CRC
Vice president, value-based CDI
Norwood
Austin, Texas
Vaughn has over 11 years of CDI experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings and 25 years of nursing experience in hematology/oncology acute care, nephrology, obstetrics/gynecology, and primary care. In 2015 she led one of the nation’s first and outpatient CDI programs focused on value-based care for population health. Vaughn has spoken at multiple conferences, authored articles, received ACDIS’s National Professional Achievement Award, and helped write both the original study guide and the initial CCDS-O certification exam. Vaughn has held certifications in oncology, chemo and biotherapy, AHIMA approved ICD-10 CM/PCS trainer, and most recently completed her Doctor of Nursing at Duke University with research focusing on CDI nurse-led preventative care initiatives.
Yvonne Whitley RN, BSN, CPC, CRC, CDEO
Ambulatory CDI manager
Novant Health
Charlotte, North Carolina
Whitley was one of the first CDI specialists tasked with creating this new department for Novant Health’s Medical Group in September 2013, as well as building one of the first ambulatory CDI programs in the country. She now leads a robust team that supports much of Novant Health’s Medical Group of over 530 physician locations and over 2,500 providers. Whitley obtained her BSN from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. She has been with Novant Health for the last 20 years and comes from a nursing background with 30 years in critical care, trauma, and open-heart ICUs. She also has experience as a clinical research coordinator for drug and device trials.
Michelle M. Wieczorek, RHIT, RN, CPHQ
Senior manager
DHG Healthcare
Erie, Pennsylvania
Wieczorek combines 30 years of healthcare knowledge as a clinician, with subject matter expertise in CDI, HIM, and clinical quality in her role as leader of CDI services at DHG Healthcare. Wieczorek has served in leadership roles in critical care nursing, health information management, utilization review, clinical quality, and information technology and has practiced in acute, outpatient and managed care settings. She has extensive experience in software development and IT product management, including holding a US patent in natural language processing clinical rules logic as a result of her work in developing a CDI software program with a national IT vendor. Wieczorek is active in professional organizations and is presently an appointee to the CDI Practice Council of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), and was recognized by her peers with the Distinguished Member Award by the Pennsylvania HIMA in 2016. Michelle is a sought-after author and speaker on topics such as electronic health records, CDI, risk adjustment, and clinical quality. She has presented webinars for ACDIS, AHIMA, and the American Hospital Association. She has contributed to publications such as the CDI Journal (ACDIS), the Journal of AHIMA, and is presently on the Editorial Board of ICD-10 Monitor. Wieczorek is based in Western Pennsylvania and travels nationally leading consulting engagements to deploy best practice tools and methodologies for clinical documentation, risk adjustment, and revenue integrity.
Forms & Tools Committee
Task: Reviewing materials donated to the ACDIS community for publication in the Forms & Tools Library for accuracy, compliance, relevance, and effectiveness. Click to read the committee's scope of work and the current group roster.
Click here to download the committee scope of work. For questions about the committee, contact ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Linnea Archibald (larchibald@acdis.org).
Chinwe Anyika, PhD, RN-BC, CDIP, CCS, CCDS, CCDS-O, CPHIMS
Manager of CDI and data operations
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York
In her current position, Anyika oversees other CDI specialists, supervising daily CDI operations and workflow, providing training to the CDI specialists and providers, and utilizing data analytics and CDI informatics to dive into provider performance. Anyika is extensively experienced in CDI and all its processes, including inpatient and outpatient coding, as well as healthcare data analytics. She earned her master’s and doctorate degrees in biomedical informatics, as well as hold a professional certificate in VBA programming, a data analytics certification, and data visualization with tableau certificate.
Alicia Gordon, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, CCS
Manager of CDI
MazarsUSA
Nashville area, Tennessee
Gordon has more than 20 years of extensive nursing experience including ICU and quality and nine years in CDI program development and implementation. She earned her CCDS certification in 2009, her CDIP in 2014 and her CCS in 2015. She is also an AHIMA ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer.
Gordon is known for her integrity, ability to build collaborative relationships, fostering physician engagement, and ability to develop/mentor new CDI specialists to success. She is a manager of CDI at MazarsUSA. Prior to this, Alicia worked as a CDI manager of operations for HCA Intensive Care Consortium and a corporate CDI director for two healthcare systems. She successfully managed and reinvigorated established best-practice CDI programs in academic medical centers and community hospitals. Gordon also implemented new CDI programs and developed CDI/coding professional and physician educational programs.
Elizabeth Harvey, RN, BC, MS, CMCN, CPHQ, CCDS
Level 3 CDI specialist
West Virginia University Medicine
Morgantown, West Virginia
Harvey is a registered nurse with more than 30 years of nursing experience, specializing in CDI since 2007. Harvey has her master’s in community health education and holds education, clinical assessment, and process improvement dear to her heart. Currently she is participating in a process improvement project with sepsis as a level 3 project. At present, Harvey has a goal to form a state ACDIS chapter. She has held the CCDS certification since 2013. She has previously served as president for WV State Health Care Quality Association and now serves as the treasurer. Harvey is a progressive thinker and is always giving it her all to make the world a better place.
Crystal Incorvaia, RN, CCDS, CRC
Regional manager of CDI
Ensamble
Toledo, Ohio
Incorvaia is a regional CDI Manager that oversees several facilities and CDI teams. She began CDI career in 2012 and has previous clinical experience at a Level 1 Trauma Center Med/Surg, telemetry, and ICU step-down. Incorvaia has developed working relationships with physicians and provided education to new clinical documentation team members as well as ancillary staff regarding the value of CDI across the continuum of care. She holds the following certifications of CCDS and CRCR.
Amy Kirk, RHIT, CCS, CCDS, CRCR
CDI regional manager
Ensamble Health Partners, supporting Bon Secours Mercy Health
Cincinnati, Ohio
Kirk has been in the health information field for 31 years with 17 years as an acute care inpatient professional coder at a Level 1 trauma center and academic facility, and 14 years in inpatient CDI. Her coding experience and the increasing need for provider documentation education led her to help grow the clinical documentation improvement department in 2007 as a CDS and becoming a regional CDI manager of five facilities in 2013. Kirk believes a strong CDI team has a foundation of processes and resources to support best practices. Using her experiences in coding and CDI, Kirk has helped their teams navigate through the challenges of the ever-changing healthcare environment.
Lee Anne Landon, BSN, CCMC, CCDS
Network manager of the clinical documentation program
HonorHealth healthcare system
Arizona
Landon has over 14 years of experience in CDI. Her current CDI program includes all payer reviews, MS & APR DRGs, quality, and denial management. The program has established close collaborative relationships with the coding and quality department along with a working relationship with case management. Landon is an active member of her local ACDIS chapter and was a co-chairperson for two years. She has presented at the ACDIS national conference and at the local chapter events. She is a member of the ACDIS Leadership Council, Leadership Council Mastermind group, the ACDIS Forms and Tools Committee, and has been invited to attend several Leadership Exchanges.
Dee Lang, RHIT, CCDS
Product manager/offering manager
Exela Technologies
Pennsylvania
Accomplished HIM professional with 40 years of experience, specializing in product leadership and management, product marketing, technology, and workflow operations. Product management experience with natural language processing (NLP), CDI, and revenue cycle management software applications for coding and auditing. Strategic business planner and developer experience. Goal-oriented healthcare professional who leverages holistic experience.
Jeanette Lyons, RN, BGS, CCDS
Director of CDI and coding audit & education
Beaumont Health
Southfield, Michigan
Lyons has over 31 years of progressive nursing experience. Her clinical expertise includes critical care and cardiac nursing. Lyons began her CDI career in 2001 as a specialty care manager for cardiology and received comprehensive training in coding and clinical documentation concepts. She co-created and implemented CDI standardized workflow processes, policies, and training. She received her CCDS certification in 2015 and has influenced many CDI specialists to obtain certification as well. Additionally, she has acquired leadership responsibilities for coding audit & education. Lyons is a strong supporter of the partnership between the coding and CDI teams and fosters team learning, growth and collaboration.
Dawn Miller, BSN, RN, CCDS, CPC-A
Clinical Documentation Coordinator
Henry Ford Health System
Detroit, Michigan
Miller is a clinical documentation coordinator for Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan. Finally finding her professional calling, she started as a frontline CDI specialist in 2017, before transitioning to the role of educator in 2019. Fulfilling her passion for education, Miller trains newly hired CDI specialists and maintains an ongoing supportive presence as they adapt to CDI life at their primary site. She also provides targeted educational support for more experienced CDI specialists. In addition to education, Miller has a zeal for all things query related. Viewing query writing as an art form with rules (which appeals to both her creative side and type A personality), she embraces the entire query process, from inception to conclusion, with gusto. Miller is co-chair of the query template revision committee, and as a query auditor, she identified the need for and authored query standards for the health system. When not focused on education or queries, Miller assists with denials and appeals, contributes educational material for presentations, is co-editor of the monthly CDI newsletter and collaborates with coding on diagnosis specific projects.
Natalie Negro, MPH, BSN, RN, CCDS
Corporate manager of CDI
Penn Medicine
Pennsylvania
As manager, Negro provides education and support to encourage growth and development of an effective CDI department, follows metrics and key performance indicators, and collaborates with providers and other stakeholders to ensure the success of Penn Medicine. Some of her favorite initiatives Negro has worked on are those which leverage technology and the electronic medical record to improve documentation and patient care. Negro is passionate about CDI and all the ways in which it promotes accurate and complete code sets for public health data, hospital rankings, and hospital finance. An amateur detective at heart, Natalie loves board games, escape rooms, and anything that involves putting together clues and solving puzzles.
Keri Smith, MSN, CNS, ACNS-BC
Vice president, provider solutions
CDI Specialist
Winter Garden, Florida
Smith is a registered nurse, born and raised in Florida, with 15 years of experience—six years of which were in the role of a clinical nurse specialist. Smith’s background is neurological and neurosurgical nursing with experience as a neurological/neurosurgical educator, stroke program coordinator, and adult health clinical nurse specialist. In the role of clinical nurse specialist, she specialized in nursing process development, research and evidence-based practice performance, nursing policy creation, and served as a resource for nursing at all levels. Smith entered the role of a CDI specialist in October 2017, which allowed her to build new knowledge and brought her prior experience into the role to help streamline the CDI department within her hospital.
Ashley Walker, BSN, RN, CCDS
Documentation educator
Birmingham VA Medical Center
Trussville, Alabama
With 10 years in the nursing field, Walker began her pursuit in the area of clinical documentation in 2015. She took a break to serve as a clinical coordinator for a cardiologist, but documentation continued to hold her key interest. She is now a documentation educator at the VA Medical Center and has earned her CCDS. Her clinical background includes med-surg, cardiac ICU, and PACU nursing. She holds a BSN from Tuskegee University. While documentation is her passion, her greatest joy comes from her daughter.
Chinwe Anyika, PhD, RN-BC, CDIP, CCS, CCDS, CCDS-O
Leyna Belcher, DNP-C, MSN, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O
Lora Diner, RN, CCDS
Keisha Downes, BSN, RN, CCDS
Maryn Griffin, BSN, RN, CCS, CCDS
Brandi Hutcheson, RN, MSN, CCM, CCDS
Jeanne Johnson, MHA/INF, BNS, RN
Patricia King-Musser, DNP, BSN, RN, CCDS
Hiral Patel, RN, BSN, MHI
Brian Simpson, MS, RRT, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CCS, CCS-P, CRC
Lashondra Tate, MSN, RN, MEDSURG-BC CCDS
Rebecca Truett, RN, MSN, MBA
Anita Gail Weldon, RN, CCDS
Haaris Ali, MD, CDIP 
Donald A. Butler, RN, BSN
Lynette Byerly, RN, CCDS, CCS
Lisa Daughtry, RHIA, CCS, CDIP
Lori Drodge, RHIT, CCS
Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP
Julian Everett, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP
Margaret Foley, PhD, CCS, RHIA
Leslie Forrester, RHIA, CDIP, CCS
Wendy Haney, RN, MSN, BSN, CCDS
A.J. Hegg, MD
Faisal Hussain, MD, CCDS, CDIP, CCS 
Rabia Jalal, MBBS, MSHIM, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, RHIA
Teresa Krepps, RHIT, CCS, CCDS
Kay Piper, RHIA, CDIP, CCS
Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS
Joanne Schade-Boyce, MS, BSDH, CPC, ACS
Susan Wallace, MEd, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, FAHIMA
Daizy Chan-Kumpa, MSN, RN
Ella Elizee, MSN, RN, CCDS
Okemena Ewoterai, BSN, MA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS
Rabia Jalal, MBBS, MSHIM, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, RHIA
Maria Mann, RN, BSN, MSHL, CCDS, CCS, CDIP, CRC, CSM
Buddy Morgan, BSN, RN
Phyllis Lotus Stevenson, MSN, RN, CCDS
Monica Tyiska, MBA-PM, RHIA, CCS, CPC, CPMA, CHA, OHCC, CCP-P
Ami Vyas, MBBS, MPH, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC, CSBI, CSAF