Kathy Dempsey Related Seminars and Products

Keep Shedding!

Kathy B. Dempsey, award winning author, keynote speaker and change expert is President of Keep Shedding! Inc. Kathy ignites people and organizations with the skills and motivation to lead and manage change. Adapt Quicker...Get Results!

Her most popular book, Shed or You're Dead®: 31 Unconventional Strategies for Growth and Change has been awarded with a Writer's Digest International Book Award.

Kathy Dempsey knows change...

Her “signature story” is her transformation from working as an ER/trauma nurse to becoming the first healthcare worker in America to be diagnosed positive for AIDS as a result of workplace exposure. Kathy received national attention as a result of this hospital-based event that made her a “poster child” for the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

The diagnosis, which was a death sentence in the mid-80s, was confirmed with multiple positive tests. Months later, all tests returned negative. Was it a miracle or medical error? Nobody can explain it. What’s certain is that the three-month period Kathy lived with that traumatic diagnosis was a life-altering experience.

This event forced Kathy to learn about hard changes in life and how to adapt to them. What emerged was a new life philosophy: SHED. Today Kathy’s presentations reach far beyond that experience. They are a wake-up call to provide focus, inspiration and practical tools for people to lead and manage change at work and in life. Kathy’s message has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to SHED in places around the world including Europe, Canada, Africa, Mexico and across the United States.

A native of Washington, DC, Kathy now resides in Scottsdale, AZ.  

Laura Bryan, MT (ASCP), CHDS, AHDI-F Related Seminars and Products

MT Werks

Laura Bryan, MT (ASCP), CHDS, AHDI-F, has taught productivity tips and techniques for MS Word and Windows for 19 years.  In addition to presenting at numerous association meetings at the local and national level, she has published four editions of "MS Word for Healthcare Documentation" as well as "Technology for the Medical Transcriptionist." Laura's work as a speaker and writer has focused on techniques for increasing productivity and accuracy. Laura and her husband Bob own MedEDocs, a healthcare documentation technology provider.

Justin Chapman, BMgmt Related Seminars and Products

Chief Operating Officer

CanScribe Career College ~ SILVER SPONSOR

Justin Chapman has been working in human resources and marketing for over 10 years. His understanding of branding has helped numerous people find employment.

Gary David, PhD Related Seminars and Products

Associate Professor, Sociology

Bentley University

Gary David conducts ethnographic research in a variety of settings, with research on: 1) integrated experience design; 2) examinations of implementation and use of technology, 3) collaborative communication, 4) organizational culture and change, and 5) assets-based innovation. He also has his own consultancy called Ethno-analytics, which integrates big data in local contexts. Present projects include examining the nature of collaborative activity in multicultural worksites, the impact of speech recognition technology and electronic medical records on healthcare, the implementation of enterprise systems on workplaces, and how co-workers build a collaborative relationship through engaging in workplace practices. Additionally, he is involved in work applying conversation analysis and forensic linguistics to the examination of customer experience, police interrogations, and workplace interactions.  

Jill Devrick, MPA, AHDI-F Related Seminars and Products

Product Solutions Advisor

3M Health Information Systems

Jill Devrick has served as a document creation subject matter expert at SoftMed and 3M for 24 years. She is currently a product owner with 3M’s Clinical Documentation Improvement product line, specializing in 360 Encompass MD software. Jill is a past President of AHDI’s National Leadership Board and was recognized as an AHDI Fellow in 2017. She is an experienced industry speaker, collaborator, and writer. Jill earned a master’s degree in Public Administration with healthcare certification from West Virginia University and was recognized as the 2018 MPA Outstanding Alumna.

Susan Dooley, MHA, CMT, AHDI-F Related Seminars and Products

Florida Hospital

Susan Dooley, MHA, CMT, AHDI-F, works as an HIM quality assurance specialist at Florida Hospital, reviewing reports transcribed at our outsourced MTSO. Susan has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida and a graduate certificate in health informatics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her master’s degree in health administration, specializing in health informatics, was earned from the University of Phoenix. Susan was elected to the AHDI National Leadership Board in 2012, was AHDI’s president in 2014-2015, and is an At-Large Director through August 2019. She currently serves on AHDI task forces and committees including education strategies, membership development, and the Book of Style 4th Edition.

Patricia Ireland, CMT, AHDI-F Related Seminars and Products

Patricia Ireland, CMT, AHDI-F, has been active in the field of medical transcription since 1968, both as a multispecialty practitioner and as an instructor. She lives in San Antonio, Texas, working as a freelance medical/technical author and editor. She has been a medical transcriptionist instructor since the 1970s, teaching online medical transcription programs since 2000. She has co-authored four medical transcription textbooks. Pat has served on several AHDI committees to include the Educator's Alliance and Book of Style 4e Development Team.

Stacy Lehto, CHDS Related Seminars and Products

Spectrum Health

Stacy Lehto, CHDS, AHDI-F has been in the medical transcription field for 24 years. She has done transcription, QA, and has also been a QA auditor. She is currently a Senior Healthcare Documentation Quality Analyst at Spectrum Health. She has served on AHDI’s Board of Directors and was the 2021-2022 President of AHDI. She has also served on several committees, including the Conference Program Committee and Virtual Conference Strategy Task Force among others. Stacy has contributed to AHDI’s e-book on Strategic and Business Planning Skills and has been instrumental in the development of the toolkit Clinician Created Documentation: Reinstating Quality Assurance Programs to Safeguard Patients and Providers. Stacy has worked as copy editor for several of Stedman’s word books, including their Medical Transcription Skill Builder series.

April Martin, DBA, RHIA, CHPS, CHDA, CCS, CDIP, CRC, CPHIMS, CMT Related Seminars and Products

Director of HIM

Southeast Health

April Martin is the HIM Director for Southeast Health in Cape Girardeau, MO. She holds a doctorate in business administration from Baker College, a master’s in strategic leadership from Stephen’s College, and earned her bachelor’s in health information from the University of Cincinnati. Prior to coming to Missouri four years ago, she was born and raised in Michigan, where she was a program director for Baker College for both the HIT and Medical Insurance Specialist programs. She owned a national transcription company for eight years and was a supervisor in the HIM Department at the University of Michigan for almost 10 years. She currently also is an adjunct professor for both Stephen’s College and the University of Maryland University College in their online programs.

John McKenna Related Seminars and Products

Vice President, Transcription Platforms

M*Modal/3M

John McKenna lives outside of Atlanta Georgia and works for M*Modal/3M. He heads up the group developing the M*Modal workflow solutions. John has over 35 years of experience developing technology solutions. He manages software development teams in the U.S., U.K. and India. He began developing using Neural Network (artificial intelligence) approaches for robotics solutions in the 1980s. He led the efforts to bring some of the first speech recognition solutions to the healthcare field in the early ‘90s and now is involved in using Deep Neural Network technology to improve all facets of clinical documentation. John earned his BS from S.U.N.Y Polytechnic, New York, in Computer Science.