Cassi Birnbaum was elected to a one-year term as president/chair of the American Health Information Management Association, effective Jan. 1.
Ms. Birnbaum is the senior vice president of HIM and consulting for San Diego-based Peak Health Solutions, and will also serve on the 2015 board of San Diego Health Connect. As president/chair of AHIMA, she will assist CEO Lynne Thomas Gordon in providing the strategic direction for the 71,000-member association.
Ms. Birnbaum previously served as a director on the AHIMA Board from 2009 to 2012 and chaired the Governance Committee and the Advocacy and Alliance Task Group.
AHIMA members also elected members to the following positions for three-year terms.
- Melissa M. Martin was elected president/chair-elect. She will serve in 2016. Ms. Martin is chief privacy officer and HIM director for West Virginia University Hospitals in Morgantown.
- Laura W. Pait was elected speaker of the house. Ms. Pait is senior director of HIM for Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health.
- Barbara J. Manor was elected director. Ms. Manor is vice president of HIM at Denver-based Sisters of Charity Health System.
- Dwan Thomas-Flowers was elected director. She is an independent contractor offering coding, management, HIM operations, quality management and revenue cycle services. She also is the current ICD-10 consultant and co-chair of AHIMA's Clinical Terminology and Classification practice council.
- Susan E. White, PhD, was elected director. Dr. White is an associate professor in the HIM and systems division at The Ohio State University.
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