Planning Committee List

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Chair

Charlotte Seckman, PhD, RN-BC, CNE
Assistant Professor, Course Director
University of Maryland School of Nursing 

Committee Members

Patricia Abbott, PhD, RN, FAAN
Director, Hillman Scholars in Innovation Program
University of Michigan School of Nursing

Marion Ball, EdD 
Senior Advisor
Healthcare and Life Sciences Institute
IBM Research
Professor Emerita
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing 

Kathleen Charters, PhD, RN, CPHIMS 
Clinical Information System Specialist
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)
TRICARE Management Activity
Office of the Chief Medical Officer

Melinda Y. Costin, CHCIO, FHIMSS, CPHIMS 
Vice President and CIO
JPS Health Network 

Patricia D.  Franklin, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
Director, Professional Education
University of Maryland School of Nursing

Arpad Kelemen, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Maryland School of Nursing 

Michelle Lardner, MS, RN-BC
Deputy CIO and Chief of Clinical Informatics
Department of Clinical Research Informatics
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center

Mary Etta Mills, ScD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Professor
University of Maryland School of Nursing 

Eun-Shim Nahm, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor
Specialty Director, Nursing Informatics
University of Maryland School of Nursing

Ernest Opoku-Agyemang, MSN, MA, RN
Clinical Instructor
University of Maryland School of Nursing

Judy Ozbolt, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FAIMBE
Professor Emerita
University of Maryland School of Nursing

Ronald Piscotty Jr., PhD, RN-BC
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland School of Nursing 

Paula M. Procter RN, PGCE, MSc, SFHEA, FBCS, CITP, FIMIANI
Reader in Informatics and Telematics in Healthcare
Professional Lead for Long Term Conditions
Department of Nursing and Midwifery
Faculty of Health and Wellbeing
Sheffield Hallam University

Virginia Saba, EdD, RN, FACMI, FAAN
Distinguished Scholar, Adjunct
Georgetown University

Sonia Smith, BS
Coordinator, Professional Education
University of Maryland School of Nursing

Cathi Whelchel, MHSA, BSN, RN, NEA-BC 
Product Management/Clinical Director
McKesson

Marisa L. Wilson, DNSc, MHSc, RN-BC 
Associate Professor and Specialty Track Coordinator, Nursing Informatics
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing