Lori Woods has been the successful leader of the coding group “Create A Coder” since 2012. She used the group to not only help other new coders on their journey, but to network in the coding community. Lori became friends with Laureen Jandroep and believed in CCO so much, that she started promoting them on her own. 

Lori is an active member of AAPC, and even helped to write a letter to start a Chapter close to her home in Denver Colorado.

Jeff White is a Certified Professional Coder(CPC) and recent Certified Professional Coding Instructor (CPC-I) hailing from the great state of Arkansas.  Jeff began his coding career over a decade ago and in that time has worked as a profee and outpatient coder, compliance auditor, coding manager, and for the past three years has been enjoying working remotely as a contract coder for hospitals all over the country. 

Jeff spent his 20s trying to be a rock star/coding professional combo, but now focuses mainly on the work and plays guitar when he can.  Jeff is happily married to his beautiful wife Faith, has two crazy, but great kids Alaska and Wilder, and has one giant dog/office mate named Moose. 

​You can hear Jeff and Faith's podcast "Jeff is Awake" bi-weekly by subscribing on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts from.  The show is a fun hour of a husband and wife discussing all kinds of topics from kids, travel, music, and everything in between.  

Glenn Krauss is a long time Revenue Cycle Professional with progressive hands one experience in all facets of the revenue cycle. He possesses a high energy level and passion for clinical documentation improvement initiatives that drive physician engagement in truly wanting to learn and acquire best practice standards of clinical documentation supporting communication of patient care. Glenn brings more than 20 years as a professional in the Health Information Management arena; previously, he held executive and consulting positions including Director of Enterprise Solutions, Revenue Systems Manager, CDI Director, Director of Case Management and Revenue Enhancement, Director of Health Information Management, and Data Quality Manager with major US hospital and health systems nationwide. Glenn’s decades of experience working with physicians to improve their understanding of critical points of clinical documentation led him to a deep appreciation of what is necessary and appropriate to accurately and effectively capture the physician’s clinical judgment, medical decision making and thought processes required to best support medical necessity, charge capture and integrity, and communication of patient care reflective of quality cost effective value based outcomes.

Danita M. Ruszkowski, CPC, CPC-I a well-rounded and experienced medical coder and medical biller, with over 12 years of direct experience in the areas of surgical coding, orthopaedics, ob/gyn, dermatology and pediatrics. 

Danita is the founder of Integrity Coding and Educational Development and have trained students to become medical coders and Certified Professional Coders through AAPC.