Kelli Estes is a registered nurse of 25 years and has spent the last 13 years in consulting services for clinical documentation improvement. She is a member of the ACDIS community and was in the original group to sit for the CCDS certification. Formerly a CDS herself, Kelli has always been able to bring a practical application approach into her training style to help others become their best whether a new or seasoned CDS. Recently, Kelli transitioned into a new role as Clinical Nurse Investigator working remotely from Kentucky. In addition to working full-time, Kelli and her husband, Greg have a non-profit ministry called CAMO known as Christian Archery Ministry Outreach where they strive to change lives one arrow at a time! Kelli and Greg are passionate about helping other people and have led three mission trips to Haiti through Disciples' Village after serving in medical missions through BMDMI.

Terrance Govender is currently the Vice President of Medical Affairs for ClinIntell, Inc. He has many years of clinical and healthcare management experience that goes beyond the borders of the United States, having also practice in the United Kingdom and South Africa. After being introduced to the concept of CDI early on in his non-clinical career, he realized that we still have a lot to accomplish as an industry. Terrance’s passion lies in the ability to empower physicians, who want to do the right thing, by providing them the shortest distance between two points with regards to CDI. This approach can take on many forms and the exact solution may vary depending on different cultures, but Terrance believes that its time to leverage data, advanced analytics and performance monitoring to affect long term change in physician behavior.

Kristi is a senior consultant for Haugen Consulting Group where she is responsible for the development of live and web-based coding training materials, presentation of live trainings and webinars, and conducting coding audits. Kristi has an extensive background in coding education and consulting and is a national speaker on topics related to medical coding and code-based reimbursement.
Kristi is active in her local AHIMA component state association, currently serving as Data Quality Committee chair and formerly as Director and ICD-10 Task Force chair for the Colorado Hospital Association (CHIMA).  She is also a past president of the Northern Colorado Health Information Management Association (NCHIMA). Kristi devotes extra time to mentoring current and future coders through her Coder Coach blog (www.codercoach.blogspot.com) and is the proud recipient of the 2011 AHIMA Triumph Award for Mentoring.

Christina South is a Certified Coding Specialist who has over 15 years of Inpatient, and Rehabilitation, coding experience. She is also a Registered Yoga Teacher who helps HIM and coding professionals integrate yoga and mindfulness into their daily life to stay focused at work and at home.

Paula has greater than 29 years’ experience in healthcare, which includes; medical office and health information management; billing & coding supervision and process design and implementation for multiple types of healthcare providers, such as inpatient and outpatient hospital departments, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, physician’s practices and ambulatory surgery centers.  Her expertise includes performance of compliance and revenue integrity audits; medical records documentation improvement reviews; ICD-10 documentation gap analysis; education and training regarding various compliance, revenue cycle, billing and coding topics to all levels of staff including physicians; assistance and creation of clinical documentation improvement programs; litigation investigative support; and, research for biomedical and medical device companies.  Paula is and invited speaker for multiple providers and national organizations.  She has functioned as: an expert witness; a member of an independent review organization for facilities under corporate integrity agreements; and, assisted the federal government (Department of Justice) and state level Medicaid in coding, documentation and billing issues for Medicare and Medicaid legislative compliance in multiple legal cases.  Paula has worked with legal counsel for multiple provider types and her work has proven to mitigate circumstances and provide case support for providers.