Note from the Director of Programming: Welcome to our 2024 ACDIS Advisory Board members

by Rebecca Hendren

The ACDIS Advisory Board provides the association with guidance and feedback and offers industry expertise through authorship of white papers for ACDIS membership and position papers for the CDI community as a whole. Along with reading their advice, you will hear from them in ACDIS Quarterly Member Calls, at the national conference, and as occasional guests on the ACDIS Podcast.

I extend my deepest thanks to the members of the Board who have just completed their term of service. Their wisdom and joie de vivre have been indispensable over the past few years.

• Sheri Blanchard, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, CCDS, CCS
• Emily Emmons, RN, MSN, CCDS
• Susan Fantin, MSA, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP
• Vaughn Matacale, MD, CCDS
• Chinedum Mogbo, MBBS, MBA, MsHIM, RHIA, CCDS, CDIP
• Kelly Sutton, MHL, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCS
• Aimee Van Balen, RN, BSN, CCDS

Thank you to all ACDIS members who took the time to vote for the wonderful volunteers who offered to serve in the next term. It was a tight race, but our newest members have been elected.

Please join me in welcoming:

Dee Banet, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, division CDI director, east Florida division, at AdventHealth in Daytona Beach, Florida

Keisha Downes, MBA-HM, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCS, senior director middle revenue cycle at Tufts Medicine Health System in Boston

Okemena Ewoterai, BSN, MA, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, director of CDI at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York

Tiara Minor, RN, BSN, CCDS, director of CDI at University of Miami Health System in Miami

Beth Simms, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDI and acute care coding program manager at Banner Health in Phoenix

Amy Kratochvil, RHIT, CDIP, CCDS, system director for HIM coding and CDI at UChicago Medicine in Chicago

Trey La Charité, MD, FACP, SFHM, CCS, CCDS, medical director for CDI and coding at University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville

You can read their full bios on the boards and committees page here: https://acdis.org/membership/boards.

In the meantime, please join us next Thursday, May 23, at 1:00 p.m. eastern, for the latest ACDIS Quarterly Member Call, which will include a discussion on mentoring featuring some new Board members. ACDIS members can sign up here: https://acdis.org/resources/2024-quarterly-conference-calls

Editor’s note: Hendren is the director of programming for ACDIS. Contact her at Rebecca.hendren@hcpro.com.