Annual Business Meeting 2025

Karen Edwards, CHDP-A, RHDS Related Seminars and Products

Certified Healthcare Documentation Professional

Karen Edwards works at MyMichigan Health in Michigan as a Senior Medical Transcriptionist. She is a Certified Healthcare Documentation Professional – Auditor and a Registered Healthcare Documentation Specialist. She has over twenty-five years’ experience in healthcare documentation. She is the current President Elect on AHDI’s current Board of Directors for the 2023-2027 term.

Stacy Lehto, CHDS, CRCR, AHDI-F Related Seminars and Products

Corewell Health

Stacy Lehto, CHDS, CRCR, AHDI-F, brings 28 years of experience in the medical transcription and healthcare documentation field. Throughout her career, she has held various roles, including Transcriptionist, QA Specialist, QA Auditor, and Senior Healthcare Documentation Quality Analyst. She is currently a Project Manager at Corewell Health.

Stacy has been an active leader within the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI), serving on its Board of Directors from 2019 to 2023, including a term as President from 2021 to 2022. She was re-elected to the Board in 2023 and is serving as AHDI President for the 2024–2025 term.

Her involvement with AHDI extends beyond board service. She has contributed to numerous committees and task forces, including the Program Committee, Virtual Conference Strategy Task Force, and the Nominating Committee. She also served as Chair of the Product Development Committee. Stacy played a key role in the development of several AHDI resources, including contributing to the Strategic and Business Planning Skills e-book and helping to create the Clinician-Created Documentation: Reinstating Quality Assurance Programs to Safeguard Patients and Providers toolkit.

Earlier in her career, Stacy worked as a copy editor for several of Stedman’s word books, including the Medical Transcription Skill Builder series.

Rebecca Stahr, CHDS, Director Related Seminars and Products

Provider Documentation Specialist

Mayo Clinic

Becky Stahr, CHDS, is a Provider Documentation Specialist at Mayo Clinic with over 22 years of experience in various aspects of healthcare documentation, most recently AI-generated documentation.  Becky has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Iowa State University and a Medical Transcription Certificate from Rochester Community and Technical College.  Becky is currently serving her third year as Director and Treasurer of the AHDI Board and serves on the Executive Committee and as Board Liaison for the Webinar Task Force.