Congratulations to the 2024 HIMSS Changemaker Award Recipients!
HIMSS Chapter Advocate Volunteer Award
Christopher Kunney, CPHIMS, FACHDM, MSMOT
Advocacy Chair, HIMSS Georgia Chapter
Atlanta, GA, USA
HIMSS Chapter Leader Volunteer Award
Kendall Brown
Southeast Sales Director, Centrak
HIMSS South Florida Chapter
Miami Beach, FL, USA
HIMSS Global Patient Innovator Award
Grace Cordovano, PhD, BCPA
Co-Founder, Unblock Health
West Caldwell, NJ, USA
Guido Giunti, MD, PhD, MBA(c)
NeuroInsight MSCA Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
Adjunct Professor, Digital Health, University of Oulu
Dublin, Ireland | Oulu, Finland
HIMSS Health Equity Award
Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, FASA, FAMIA, FCPP
Senior Associate Dean and Director, Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment
Professor, Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI, USA
Marina El Khawand
Founder and President, Medonations
Beirut, Lebanon
Gabriel Garcia-Lopez, MSHI, CPHIMS
Health Information Systems Director, Los Angeles LGBT Center
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Monika Sonu, DR
Co-Founder and Director, New Product Development, Healthinnovation Toolbox
Bengaluru, India
Donald Warne, MD, MPH
Co-Director, Center for Indigenous Health; Professor, Public Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD, USA
HIMSS John A. Page Distinguished Fellow Award
Olga Kagan, PhD, RN, CIMI, FAAAAI, FHIMSS, Fellow NYAM
Associate Adjunct Professor and Consortial Faculty
CUNY School of Professional Studies
New York, NY, USA
HIMSS-ACCE Excellence in Clinical Engineering and Information Technology Synergies Award
Christopher Falkner, MS, CCE
Sr. Director, Digital Strategy and Cybersecurity, SODEXO
Adjunct Professor, UCONN
Livermore, CA, USA
HIMSS-AMDIS Physician Executive Leader Award
Eve Cunningham, MD, MBA
Group Vice President and Chief of Virtual Care and Digital Health, Providence
Renton, WA, USA
HIMSS-ANI Nursing Informatics Leadership Award
Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI
Professor and Dean, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
HIMSS Policy Influencer Award
Patricia MacTaggart, MBA, CAHIMS
Teaching Instructor/Program Director; Masters in Administration/Masters of Public Health
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA
Alexandra Mugge, MPH
Chief Health Informatics Officer and Director
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
St Johns, FL, USA
Abigail Norville
Deputy Secretary-General
Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
The Hague, The Netherlands
Cátia Pinto Sousa, MD
Head of Global Digital Health and International Affairs
Shared Services of the Ministry of Health of Portugal (SPMS, EPE)
Lisbon, Portugal
HIMSS Most Influential Women in Health IT Award
María Carolina Aguirre, MD, MS
Chief Medical Information Officer, FCV-HIC (Hospital Internacional de Colombia)
Piedecuesta, Santander, Colombia
Ellen Arigorat, DNP, NI-BC
Program Director-Nursing Informatics
New York Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY, USA
MaryAnn Connor, MSN, RN, NI-BC, CPHIMS, FAMIA, FHIMSS
Senior Director, Nursing Informatics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Adjunct Professor, Graduate Nursing Informatics, New York University
New York, NY, USA
Rachelle Landry, MBA, BSN, RN, FACHE, LSSYB, CLHP
Clinical Transformation Vice President, BD
Denver, CO, USA
Emily C. Webber, MD, FAAP, FAMIA
Chief Medical Information Officer, IU Health and Riley Children’s Health
Indianapolis, IN, USA
HIMSS Senior Executive Award
Emily Barey, MSN, RN
Vice President of Nursing, Epic
Verona, WI, USA
Adam Chee, PhD, MSc, MBA, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
Professor, National University of Singapore
Singapore
Priscilla A. Frase, MD
CMIO/Hospitalist
Ozarks Healthcare
West Plains, MO, USA
Bryant Thomas Karras, MD, FACMI
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Washington State Department of Health
Seattle, WA, USA
Nada Milosavljevic, MD, JD
CMO, Safe Health Systems
Scottsdale, AZ, USA