17 CHIME Members Honored as Leaders in Healthcare IT
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5.24.2018 Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations |
Numerous CHIME members have been honored in the media this month for their leadership. CHIME members dominated Health Data Management’s 2018 Most Powerful Women in Healthcare list, with 15 of the 25 women in CIO and hospital IT executive category being members. In addition, Becker’s named two CHIME members among its 100 Great Leaders in Healthcare. They were the only CIOs to make the list.
Here’s a look at the honorees.
Health Data Management’s 2018 Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT:

Pamela Arora, senior vice president/CIO, Children’s Health

Bobbie Byrne, senior vice president/CIO, Advocate Health Care

Myra Davis, senior vice president/CIO, Texas Children’s Hospital

Dee Emon, vice president/CIO, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

Liz Johnson MS, FAAN, FCHIME, FHIMSS, CHCIO, RN-BC, Chief Information Officer, Acute Hospitals and Applied Clinical Informatics, Tenet Healthcare

Sheree McFarland, CIO, HCA, West Florida Division

Pam McNutt, senior vice president/CIO, Methodist Health System

Theresa Meadows, senior vice president/CIO, Cook Children’s Health Care System

Jamie Nelson, senior vice president/CIO, Hospital for Special Surgery

Stephanie Reel, vice president/CIO, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Pam Saechow, associate CIO, Cleveland Clinic

Pat Skarulis, senior vice president/CIO, Memorial Sloan-Kettering

Laura Smith, vice president/CIO, UnityPoint Health System

Lisa Stump, senior vice president/CIO, Yale-New Haven Health

Deanna Wise, executive vice president/CIO, Dignity Health
Becker’s 100 Great Leaders in Healthcare

Daniel Barchi, senior vice president/CIO, NewYork-Presbyterian

Edward Marx, CIO, Cleveland Clinic
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