Public Voting Opens for 2023 HIMSS Changemaker in Health Awards

HIMSS is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2023 HIMSS Changemaker in Health Awards, a reimagined awards program that recognizes the power of every nominee to create change.

The public is invited to help select the 2023 award recipients in several categories. Voting is open until 5 p.m. CT on Nov. 22, 2022.

Award recipients will be selected by the open ballot and with input from the HIMSS Board of Directors. Recipients will be announced in January 2023.

2023 award categories:

• Chapter Advocate Award
• Chapter Leader Award
• Global Patient Innovator Award
• Health Equity Award
• HIMSS-AMDIS Physician Executive Award
• HIMSS-ANI Nursing Informatics Award
• Policy Influencer Award
• Senior Executive Award
• Women in Health IT Award

Congratulations to the 2023 HIMSS Changemaker in Health Award finalists, nominated and selected by HIMSS volunteer groups and subject matter experts.

Please direct questions about the voting process to awards@himss.org. Learn more about opportunities with HIMSS.

Chapter Advocate Award Finalists

A. Lee Lavergne, CPHIMS, FHIMSS

Vice President, Advocacy

DFW HIMSS Chapter

Dallas, TX | United States

 

Brian Levy, MD

Lead Physician Executive

Cerner

Denver, CO | United States

 

Elizabeth A. Regan, PhD

Chair, Integrated Information Technology / Professor, Health Informatics

University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC | United States

 

Chapter Leader Award Finalists

Deepak Chaudhry, MSIS, CPHIMS, FHIMSS

Digital Health Practice Leader

FTI Consulting

Houston, TX | United States

 

Brittany Royal-Killam

Senior Healthcare Account Executive

Zivaro

McKinney, TX | United States

 

Jerry Morin, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, CFCHE

Account Executive

Connection

Dowagiac, MI | United States

 

Kim Willis, CPHIMS, BRMP, FHIMSS

IS Business Analyst

ECU Health

Greenville, NC | United States

Global Patient Innovator Award Finalists

Lea Raak

Patient Advocate

Blickwinkel Diabetes; Insulea.de

Kiel | Germany

 

Roi Shternin, B.Ed, AEMT, MA (can)

Founder & Patient-in-Residence

The Patient School/ Chronically/ Health tech without borders/ Dysautonomia Israel/ Labriut Israel/ Project hearts

Vienna | Austria

 

Health Equity Award Finalists

Fran Ayalasomayajula, MPH, MSMIS, PMP, HMCT, CD (DONA)

President

REACH Healthcare

San Diego, CA | United States

 

Silas Buchanan

CEO

Institute for eHealth Equity

Cleveland, OH | United States

 

Grady Burrows, MBA

Executive Director

HIT in the CLE

Cleveland, OH | United States

 

John Casillas, CT (ASCP)

Volunteer

GlobalRise | A World of Healthy Kids!

Grecia | Costa Rica

 

Michael 'Chris' Gibbons, MD, MPH

Founder & CEO

The Greystone Group

Baltimore, MD | United States

 

Michael Petersen, MD

Managing Director | Clinical Transformation

PwC (Price Waterhouse Coopers)

Austin, TX | United States

 

Lygeia Ricciardi, EdM

Founder & CEO

AdaRose, Inc.

Washington, DC | United States

 

Mark Wien, BBA

Founder & CEO

PocketPatientMD

Prague | Czech Republic

 

HIMSS-AMDIS Physician Executive Award Finalists

Adam Dicker, MD, PhD, FASTRO, FASCO

Senior VP, Chair & Professor of Radiology  Oncology

Thomas Jefferson University-Jefferson Health

Philadelphia, PA | United States

 

Susan Kressly, MD, FAAP

Pediatric Health IT Subject Matter Expert, Founding Partner

Kressley Pediatrics

Sanibel Island, FL | United States

 

CT Lin, MD, FACP, FAMIA

CMIO, UCHealth; Professor University of Colorado School of Medicine

UCHealth

Aurora, CO | United States

 

Margaret Lozovatsky, MD, FAMIA

SVP | Chief Health Informatics Officer

Novant Health

Charlotte, NC | United States

 

Harm Scherpbier, MD, MS, FAMIA, FHIMSS

CMIO

HealthShare Exchange

Fort Washington, PA | United States

 

HIMSS-ANI Nursing Informatics Award Finalists

Olga Kagan, PhD, RN, FHIMSS, NYAM Fellow

Founder & Principal OKHCC; Adjunct Professor and Consortial Faculty

OKHCC; Molloy University; City University of NY School of Professional Studies

New York, NY | United States

 

Sean Michaels, MBA-HCA, MSN, RN, CPHIMS, CHCIO

CNIO / VP of IT Operations

Health First, Inc.

Merritt Island, FL | United States

 

Anna Schoenbaum, DNP, MS, RN-BC, FHIMSS

Vice President of Information Services Applications

Penn Medicine

Philadelphia, PA | United States

 

Victoria L. Tiase, PhD, RN-BC, FAMIA, FAAN, FNAP

Director of Digital Health, Strategic Development

University of Utah Health

Salt Lake City, UT | United States

 

Kathryn Owen, MS, RN-BC

Lead Product Manager

UKG

Chicago, IL | United States

 

Policy Influencer Award Finalists

Zahid Butt, MD, FACG

CEO

Medisolv

Columbia, MD | United States

 

Daniel Jernigan, MD, MPH; Board Certified Internal Medicine

Deputy Director for Public Health Science and Surveillance

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA | United States

 

Hans Henri P. Kluge, MD

Regional Director

World Health Organization

Copenhagen | Denmark

 

Micky Tripathi, PhD

National Coordinator for Health IT

Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT

Washington, DC | United States

 

Senior Executive Award Finalists

Yanwar Hadiyanto, MD, Masters of Hospital Administration

CEO

Pondok Indah Hospital Group

Jakarta | Indonesia

 

Joseph 'Joe' Longo, MBA, CDH-E, CHCIO

Senior Vice President / Chief Information Officer

Parkland Health

Dallas, TX | United States

 

Ray Lowe, MS

Senior Vice President / Chief Information Officer

AltaMed Health Services

Commerce, CA | United States

 

Ed Marx, MS

CEO

Divurgent

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX | United States

 

Kathleen McGrow,  DNP, MS, RN, PMP

Chief Nursing Information Officer

Microsoft

Baltimore, MD | United States

 

Brett Moran, MD

SVP, Associate Chief Medical Officer, CMIO

Parkland Health

Dallas, TX | United States

 

Milisa Rizer, MD, MPH, FHIMSS, CPHIMS

Chief Clinical Information Officer; Professor, Family Medicine,

Biomedical Informatics, Nursing & Public Health

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Columbus, OH | United States

 

Srinivasan Suresh, MD, MBA, FAAP

Vice-President, CIO & CMIO

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA | United States

 

Catherine Turner, BSN, MBA, RN-BC

Associate Vice President

MEDITECH

Boston, MA | United States

 

Sara Vaezy, MPH, MHA

Chief Strategy and Digital Officer

Providence

Seattle, WA | United States

 

Women in Health IT Award Finalists

Liz Ashall-Payne
Founding CEO

ORCHA

Daresbury, Cheshire | Great Britain

 

Janis Curtis, MSPH, MA

Associate Director, Duke CDRN Program

Duke Health – School of Medicine, CTSI

Durham, NC | United States

 

Anca Del Rio, BBSc., MSPH, DrPH Candidate

Health Tech Community Lead

Basel Area Business & Innovation (DayOne - Healthcare Innovation)

Basel | Switzerland

 

Patricia Dykes, PhD, MA, RN, FAAN, FACMI

Research Program Director, Center for Patient Safety,

Research and Practice/Associate Professor of Medicine

Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA | United States

 

Gracecielia Piscesianita, MD

Director of Indonesia Digital Medic Association (Kitras)

Indonesia Digital Medic Association (Kitras)

Jakarta | Indonesia

 

Joy Rios, MBA

CEO, Co-founder, Host

HIT Like a Girl Podcast

Baja CA | Mexico

 

Sylvia Thun

Director, Core Facilty Digitale Medicine and Interoperability

BIH at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Berlin | Germany

 

Gabriela Mustata Wilson, PhD, MSc, FHIMSS, FHIASI, SNAI

Professor, co-Director, Multi-Interprofessional Center for Health Informatics,

Director of Health and Public Health Informatics

University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)

Arlington, TX | United States