Incoming President's Message
I was privileged to be elected to serve as
your president for 2008-2009. My professional
and educational success will be an asset to
our chapter. My platform for this next year is
to bring visibility on case management across
the healthcare continuum and DFW CMSA. I have
been given the honor of sitting on the
editorial board of Texas Nursing Voice and
Nurses' Lounge. If you have ideas on possible
case management articles in your particular
areas, then please let me know. We, case
management, have a responsibility to educate
others on what our role is and what we provide
to all stakeholders.
About me, I am currently the Director of Care
Management at Parkland Health & Hospital
System and a full-time Ph.D. student at Texas
Woman's University. My research interest
include case management processes and models;
and case managing the indigent population. I
am a strong proponent of education so I am
adjunct faculty at several universities.
It's hard to believe that our conference has
come and gone. The new officers were
introduced during the final day of the annual
conference. A focus of the new board is to
continue the momentum that previous boards' of
directors' have started. We will be sending a
survey to the membership to find out what we
can do to improve services provided.
The following have been elected to serve as
the 2008-2009 DFW CMSA Leadership:
President-Elect - Susan Threlkeld, RN, CCM;
Recording Secretary - Yolanda Santillan, RN;
Membership Secretary - Sam Keohavong, RN,
CCM; Executive Director - BK Kizzair,
RN, CCM; Board of Directors - Linda
Hackathorn, RN, BSN, CCM; Connie Carter, RN,
CCM; Cheryl Acres, RN, CCM; Nancy
Beckham-McDonald, RN, BSN, CCM; Cathy
Campbell, MBA, RN, ACHE; and Steve
Laughlin, MBA
I will introduce the new board at our May
Dinner meeting so please plan on attending.
It's never too early to start thinking about
serving on the board next year.
