ACDIS update: Vote for the new members of the ACDIS Advisory Board!
Who would you want to advise you in these fast and changing CDI times?
Certainly, you would want some of the marvelous candidates for ACDIS Advisory Board offering advice as the industry changes!
Members of the ACDIS Advisory Board serve a three-year term of service and those elected in this year’s membership vote will serve from the spring of 2024 through the spring of 2027.
We encourage you to carefully read each candidate’s background/qualifications in CDI and then select the candidates that you believe are the best fit for the association. This year, we are electing the following positions:
- Five clinicians out of a pool of 10 candidates
- One HIM professional out of a pool of two candidates
Here below are all of our illustrious clinician candidates:
- Dee Banet, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, division CDI director at AdventHealth
- Kathy Dorich, MSN, RN, CCDS, CPHQ, director of CDI operations at Advocate Aurora Health Care
- Keisha Downes, MBA-HM, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCS, senior director of middle revenue cycle at Tufts Medicine Health System
- Okemena Ewoterai, BSN, MA, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, director of CDI at Montefiore Medical Center
- Penny Jefferson, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, CCS, CHDA, CRCR, CPHQ, CDI manager at UC Davis
- Tiara Minor, RN, BSN, CCDS, director of CDI at University of Miami Health System
- Laura Ogaard, RN, MSN, CCDS, CDI IPC manager at Intermountain Health
- Katherine Parsley, MSN, RN, CCDS, CPHQ, CDI manager at Providence Health and Services
- Heather Pautz, MHL, BSN, RN, CCRN-K, CCDS, CDIP, CDI RN and VERA coordinator at Clement J. Zablocki VAMC
- Beth Simms, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDI and acute care coding program manager at Banner Health
And our equally marvelous HIM candidates:
- Kimberly Hamdani, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, lead CDI specialist at Cooley Dickinson Hospital
- Amy Kratochvil, RHIT, CDIP, CCDS, system director for HIM coding and CDI at UChicago Medicine
Please note that voting is only open to current ACDIS members. As a result, the candidates and voting options will not appear if you are not logged into the ACDIS website. Voting will close on Wednesday, May 1.