Pamela G. McNutt Named CHIME Fellow

ANN ARBOR, MI, March 2, 2010 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is pleased to announce that Pamela G. McNutt has just earned the organization’s esteemed Fellowship status.


McNutt is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Methodist Health System in Dallas, Texas. McNutt's experience in the field of healthcare information technology spans nearly 30 years, the last 18 of which have been in the role of CIO at Methodist. Prior to joining Methodist in 1993, she worked for Medicus/HBOC and Hermann Memorial Hospital in Houston.

McNutt is an active member of CHIME and just recently completed her term on the CHIME Board of Trustees. She is a member of the CHIME Advocacy Leadership Team and Policy Steering Committee. She also participated as a faculty member for the CHIME Healthcare CIO Boot Camp 2003-2006.

“Pam has given so much to CHIME, particularly her recent involvement in advocacy,” said CHIME President and CEO Rich Correll. “She has been an integral part of leading CHIME through new HIT legislation, regulations and polices, and I’m pleased that we are able to honor her immense contribution to the organization in this way.”

CHIME’s Board of Trustees established the Fellow program to honor and recognize members who have actively participated in the organization and who have made significant contributions to the healthcare IT field as a CIO. The Fellowship also exemplifies the member’s long standing contributions to the success of the CHIME organization.

McNutt is also a Fellow of the Healthcare Information Systems Executives Association (HIMSS) and is a former director for the HIMSS national board. McNutt currently serves as a member of the State of Texas' Medicaid Health Information Exchange Advisory Committee.

She is the 2002 recipient of the prestigious CHIME/HIMSS John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year award in recognition of her lifetime of success and achievement as a CIO in the healthcare IT industry. In 2001, McNutt received the HIMSS Leadership Award and the HIMSS Information Systems Award in 1998. Just this year, she was named a "Rising Star to Watch" by Healthcare IT News.

McNutt holds a BBA degree in statistics and marketing from the University of Texas at Austin, and has pursued postgraduate studies in management information systems at George Washington University.

For more information on the CHIME Fellow program, including a full list of all CHIME Fellowship recipients, visit http://www.cio-chime.org/scholarshipandrecognition/fellow.asp.

About CHIME
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 1,400 CIO members and over 70 healthcare IT vendors and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit www.cio-chime.org.

Contact:
Stephanie Fraser
Communications Coordinator
734-665-0000
sfraser@cio-chime.org

Updated: 3/2/2010 10:29:35 AM