CHIME announces new appointees to board of trustees

Pamela Arora, Charles E. Christian and George McCulloch have been elected to the the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME) Board of Trustees.

The three individuals possess more than 75 combined years of health IT experience, according to an Oct. 8 statement. Arora is vice president and CIO at Children’s Medical Center Dallas, Christian is CIO at Good Samaritan Hospital in Petersburg, Ind. and McCulloch is deputy CIO at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.

Their three-year terms will begin Jan. 1, 2013, when Gary Barnes, Linda Hodges and Lynn Vogel vacate their seats on the board.
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Editor Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in health communication. She has worked in hospital, academic and publishing settings over the past 20 years. Beth joined TriMed in 2005, as editor of CMIO and Clinical Innovation + Technology. When not covering all things related to health IT, she spends time with her husband and three children.

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