Maria Caban Alizondo is a healthcare executive, educator, and nationally recognized leader in health information management and informatics. She serves as Director of Health Informatics & Information Management Services at UCLA Health and is also an Assistant Professor of Health Informatics at Rutgers University. With more than three decades of leadership experience across academic health systems, consulting, and healthcare operations, she has advanced major initiatives in EHR integrity, health data strategy, workforce development, and organizational transformation.

Dr. Caban Alizondo is a past President and Board Chair of AHIMA and a former President of the California Health Information Association. She is widely recognized for her thought leadership in health equity, AI in healthcare, leadership development, and the future of the health information workforce, with numerous national and international presentations, publications, and professional service contributions.

Mike Cordeiro is a healthcare interoperability strategist and thought leader with more than 20 years of experience in healthcare IT, including over 15 years dedicated to advancing real-world interoperability solutions. As Senior Director of Interoperability Market & Product Strategy at MEDITECH, he leads initiatives that help healthcare organizations securely exchange and leverage data to improve care coordination, operational efficiency, and patient outcomes. His work has influenced interoperability programs across the United States, Canada, and the UK, including large-scale health information exchange networks and data-sharing initiatives that enable more connected care.

A recognized voice in healthcare innovation, Mike actively collaborates with leading industry organizations and interoperability initiatives focused on advancing healthcare data exchange and digital transformation. A frequent speaker and moderator at major healthcare conferences, he is known for translating complex interoperability challenges into practical strategies that support whole-person care, reduce gaps in care, and help healthcare organizations realize the full value of connected health data.

Mrs. Davis has >30 years’ experience in the healthcare industry with emphasis on conformance testing, implementation, development, and management of information technology solutions and healthcare workflow requirements. She serves as the VP, Informatics, Conformance and Interoperability for the Sequoia Project that is a 501©3 not for profit organization based in Washington, DC. Her expertise includes connecting people, processes and technology to improve health care. She is responsible for driving the interoperability among health IT systems participating within projects, policy frameworks and networks. She is the Standards and Testing Lead for the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) responsible for operationalizing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). In addition, she leads a group of experts from a wide range of stakeholders across the US to develop specific and pragmatic implementation guidance on improving data quality of the clinical content exchanged among networks and communities in the Data Usability workgroup under the Sequoia Interoperability Matters Forum. She also acts as the subject matter expert guiding the deployment efforts for the Data Usability Taking Root Movement and for the Image Exchange Use Case Implementation for Carequality.

Mrs. Davis is nationally known as a subject matter expert for healthcare standards, interoperability design and strategy for all healthcare stakeholders including consumers, hospitals, physician practices, public health, health information exchanges and vendors deploying health information technology to improve patient safety and quality of care. She is the recipient of the HIMSS 2022 Most Influential Women in Health IT award and the DirectTrust Interop Hero in 2021. She volunteers in several roles nationally and internationally. She was elected as IHE International Board Co-chair in December 2025 and has served on the IHE International Board of Directors since 2007 and within various committees and joint collaborations.

She also holds a co-chair position on the HL7 CDA Management Group.  She works closely with HL7 to provide a feedback loop from lessons learned to advance interoperability and to accelerate the implementation of HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) to address high value use cases and exchange knowledge and information during the development of documentation and testing tools.

She has served in many executive level positions previously, including as the CEO for Carespark, Inc., a regional HIE covering 17 counties with 8 in Northeast TN and 9 in Southwest VA and as the CTO for the Health Information Partnership for Tennessee (HIPTN).

William (Bill) Gregg, MD, MS, MPH, joined HCA Healthcare in 2014 and serves as Vice President of Clinical Data and Interoperability. In addition to his medical degree, Dr. Gregg holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned master’s degrees in Clinical Informatics and Public Health at Vanderbilt University and was a VA Quality Scholars Fellow. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics. At a national level, he is Co-Chair of the Sequoia Project’s Data Usability Workgroup whose charge is to identify practical solutions to make interoperability work better for clinicians and patients.

Prior to joining HCA, Dr. Gregg served as an Assistant Professor of Informatics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University and was the Director of Population Health Informatics. He helped develop successful clinical programs and led software development in population health and clinical decision support. His primary focus is on system level integration of technology, interoperability, and processes to support transformation of clinical care in our rapidly changing healthcare landscape.

Faisal Hussain, MD, MS(HIIM), RHIA, CCDS, CDIP, CCS is a nationally recognized physician leader in Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI), health informatics, and the clinical revenue cycle. With more than 13 years of experience across major health systems and healthcare technology organizations, he specializes in EMR‑embedded workflows, analytics‑driven operational redesign, and scalable CDI program development that strengthens documentation quality, transparency, and reimbursement integrity.

Dr. Hussain has received multiple national honors, including the 2023 ACDIS Diversity in CDI Award, the 2024 Solventum Summit Award for Analytics, the 2025 Solventum Summit Award for CDI Partnership & Innovation, and the 2026 UTHSC Outstanding Alumnus Award.

He has held senior leadership roles at City of Hope, MedStar Health, Wellstar Health System, Community Health Systems, and RWJBarnabas, and previously served in executive roles at CorroHealth and Reventics, Inc., where he led enterprise CDI modernization, advanced analytics initiatives, and interdisciplinary collaboration across HIM, finance, quality, and physician leadership.

A respected national voice, Dr. Hussain frequently speaks at leading conferences and contributes to industry dialogue on data transparency, clinical documentation integrity, and physician engagement. He is a frequent guest on major industry podcasts, including The ACDIS Podcast, AHIMA HI Pitch, Off the Record, HIPcast, and CIO Podcast. He currently serves on the ACDIS Leadership Council & ACDIS Physician Advisor Committee, and has previously served on the ACDIS Advisory Board and ACDIS Regulatory Committee.

Katherine is the Vice President, Strategic Partnerships for the Texas Health Services Authority with a focus on cross-industry facilitation of secure electronic exchange of health information. 

Katherine’s efforts are focused on leading the THSA Texas Interoperability Collaborative, tackling barriers to interoperability as a vendor agnostic convener for all healthcare participants. She is a passionate advocate for leveraging technology as a stabilizing force within the healthcare ecosystem.