2026 Symposium Speakers
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Michelle Badore is the manager of international clinical content development for the Health Information Systems business at Solventum
Sue Bowman, MJ, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA, is the Senior Director of Coding Policy and Compliance for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
James T. Case, MS, DVM, PhD, FACMI, FHL7, is Chief Terminologist at SNOMED International and a member of the WHO Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee for ICD-11
Dr. Chute is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics, Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing at Johns Hopkins University, and Chief Research Information Officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine
Dr. Susan H. Fenton is the Dr. Doris L. Ross Professor and Vice Dean for Education at the UTHealth Houston McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
Michael B. First, MD is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, and was a Research Psychiatrist, now retired, at the Biometrics Department at the New York State Psychiatric Institute
Melissa Haendel is the Director of Precision Health & Translational Informatics and the Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and co-founder of the Monarch Initiative
Ada Hamosh MD, MPH, is the Dr. Frank V. Sutland Professor of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Scientific Director of Online Mendelian Genetics in Man (OMIM®)
Denene M. Harper is the director of coding and classification content at the American Hospital Association (AHA) and executive editor of Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS and Coding Clinic for HCPCS
Ahmed Hassoon is Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Neurology, and Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine, and Whiting School of Engineering
Jackie King, MSHI, RHIA, CCS, CPC, COC serves as Vice President of Hospital Education for ARCHPRO Coding and Consulting
Tammy Love serves as Director of Coding Classification and Policy at the American Hospital Association (AHA)
Vickie M. Mays, Ph.D., MSPH, a clinical psychologist, is Professor of Psychology and Health Policy & Management at the University of California, Los Angeles
Paul Nagy, PhD, FSIIM, serves as the head of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (BIDS) and co-directs the Responsible AI, Information Sciences, and Education (RAISE) Center in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Medicine
Bradford Powell is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Genetics and Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Geoffrey M. Reed, PhD is Professor of Medical Psychology and Director, World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Capacity Building and Training in Global Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Patrick S. Romano, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACP, is Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of California Davis School of Medicine and Center for Healthcare Policy and Research
Patricia Welch Saleeby, PhD, MSSA, is Professor and Social Work Program Director at Bradley University
Zheyu Wang is an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University with appointments in the Division of Quantitative Sciences at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Department of Biostatistics, and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Valerie J. M. Watzlaf is an Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Health Information Management (HIM) at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS)
Tanner Zhang, MD, MS, is a Data Engineer in the Department of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University