President
Matthew Binder BSN RN CCRN CHTS-CPCritical Care Nurse
Scripps Health - Mercy San Diego - ICU
San Diego, CA
Matthew has informatics, training, coaching, and bedside nursing experience over the past 15 years. Previous roles have been as a Clinical Informatics Nurse with Epic Cupid Certification along with previously being an Epic Credentialed Trainer for ClinDoc and ASAP. He continues to work at the bedside in the ICU actively participating in Epic Clinical Informatics Practice Council and unit's Superuser.
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Clinical Associate Professor
University of San Diego - Hahn School of Nursing and Health Sciences
San Diego, CA
Kathy has been an advanced practice nurse in various positions for more than 30 years and brought her CNS skill set to the field of informatics over 10 years ago. Kathy was a primary clinical leader for first the inpatient implementation of Meditech documentation system and then the enterprise roll out of Epic at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego. Today, as a Senior Clinical Informaticist at Rady Children’s, Kathy collaborates with the health care team to facilitate the achievement of optimal outcomes for pediatric patients by merging clinical expertise with technological tools to support the best practices of clinicians.
Kathy is also a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of San Diego Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science. She is teaching in the Healthcare Informatics program and passionate about advising and mentoring a new generation of clinical informaticists.
Treasurer
Secretary
Past-PresidentKathy Topp BSN MSM RN-BCAMN Healthcare
Clinical Director for Clinical Operations
Oceanside, CA
Kathy
has over 30 years of healthcare experience including numerous management positions including being the Director of Education, Clinical Informatics and Staffing at Tri-City Medical Center. As a project manager she has successfully implemented many new clinical applications, both small and large with new EHR conversions. Kathy has been with the San Diego Chapter since it's development. She has also been successfully published in JIN.
ANIA West Regional Director (One of San Diego's Past Presidents)