The Academy of Health Information Professionals
Chapter Credentialing Liaisons
Roles and Opportunities
Chapter credentialing liaisons (CCLs) promote the Academy of Health
Information Professionals in their respective chapters by sharing information
about the academy and encouraging membership.
Qualifications
- Be an academy member.
- Be enthusiastic about the academy.
- Demonstrate good written and verbal communication skills.
- Use email.
- Demonstrate organizational skills, such as paying attention to detail and consistently following up with questions and requests for information.
- Preferred: willingness to attend MLA annual meetings to learn about
updates to the academy.
Responsibilities
- Encourage chapter members to pursue academy membership.
- Answer questions about the academy.
- Read MLA and Credentialing Committee (CC) communications about the academy.
- Subscribe to the Credentialing Committee mailing list (mla-credexec) and participate in discussions.
- Foward issues raised by chapter members to Credentialing Committee.
Recognition
The academy recognizes the work done by
CCL by awarding them 10 points per year of service, which count toward
the five-point MLA activities requirement at the distinguished level.
CCL Activity Suggestions
- Contact new chapter members to discuss the academy.
- Refer difficult academy questions to MLA HQ (Lisa C. Fried) for
triage.
- Assist members to locate forms and instructions for applying to academy.
- Agree to be listed as local contact on CC's "Who's Who in the Academy"
Web page.
- Agree to be listed as local contact on chapter's Website.
- Agree to be listed as local contact in chapter newsletter.
- Assist CC in testing and refining new Web pages.
- Exhibit at chapter meetings.
- Hold an academy clinic at chapter meetings.
- Call current academy members who are about to renew and offer assistance.
- Write articles for chapter newsletter.
- Present academy information at local library schools.
- Speak about the academy in chapter forums.
Roster of Chapter Credentialing Liaisons
Chapter |
Liaison |
Hawaii-Pacific Chapter |
Carolyn
Ching , AHIP |
Medical Library Group
of So. California/Arizona |
Tania Bardyn,
AHIP |
Mid-Atlantic Chapter |
Jeff Coghill,
AHIP |
Midcontinental Chapter |
Gayle Willard,
AHIP |
Midwest Chapter |
Nancy Allee , AHIP
|
New York-New Jersey Chapter |
Laura Barrett ,
AHIP |
North Altantic Health
Sciences Library Chapter |
Joan
Yanicke, AHIP |
Northern California
and Nevada Medical Library Group |
Anne
L. Shew, AHIP |
Pacific Northwest Chapter |
Chris Shaffer, AHIP
|
Philadelphia
Regional Chapter |
Esther
Y. Dell, AHIP |
Pittsburgh
Chapter |
Linda
M. Hartman, AHIP |
South Central
Chapter |
Kelly
Gonzalez, AHIP |
Southern Chapter |
Cynthia Henderson,
AHIP |
Upstate New York and
Ontario Chapter |
Sue Ben-Dor, AHIP
|
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