Barbara Odom-Wesley, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA is chair of the Health Information Technology Program at DeVry University in Dallas.  Barbara is Past President of both TXIMA and AHIMA.  She is a published author and frequently requested speaker specializing in Personal Health Records.

Debra Schumann, MBA, RN, BSN has over 30 years pediatric clinical experience including roles as staff nurse, clinical educator and nursing director.  She has 8 years of clinical IT experience with implementation and support of electronic health records including clinical documentation and bar coded medication administration with multiple vendors.  She is currently the Clinical Informatics Director at Children’s Medical Center Dallas.

Debra Patterson, MD is a board-certified in internal medicine. Following residency, she engaged in the clinical practice of general internal medicine for 19 years. Dr. Patterson joined Trailblazer in 1997 as a part-time Contractor Medical Director, becoming full-time in 1999.  She has represented the Dallas County Medical Association as a delegate to the Texas Medical Association House of Delegates for more than 10 years.

Terri Nuss, MS serves as Vice President of Patient Centeredness for Baylor Health Care System.  She is currently developing the coaching and training resources to further cultural adoption of behaviors related to patient-centered care.  She is refining goal-setting recommendations for the health care system related to Service, and studying the impact of internal and external forces on patient satisfaction and consumer expectations.

Cedrial Moore, RHIA is the Vice President of Healthcare Operations with CampbellWilson.  Cedrial has over 23 years of health care experience centered around hospital management, healthcare consulting, facility operations, business process reengineering, hospital start-up and overall facility turnaround.

Margaret Schlachter, RN has worked as an RN in various roles for the last 34 years, both in her native Scotland and in Dallas, Texas.  For the last 10 years she has worked in Case Management, with 3rd party payer regulations, utilization reviews. Clinical documentation and discharge planning.  She has managed the Parkland’s group of Clinical Documentation Specialist Nurses from both sides, Care Management and Hospital Information Management.  She and her group are busily employed with HIM.