Director’s Note: ACDIS members elect four new Advisory Board members
ACDIS members recently elected four new board members in a popular vote of 10 finalists . (Read more about the elections process on the ACDIS website.) Our sincere congratulations to the following new board members who will serve a three-year term:
Donald A. Butler, RN, BSN, CDI manager, Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, N.C., has led his facility program since its implementation in 2006. He now manages the 10-member team at Vidant (a 860-bed tertiary care center serving the eastern third of North Carolina) and facilitates CDI efforts with four other individual CDI specialists at Vidant Health hospitals. His background includes 11 years as a U.S. Navy nurse with a broad variety of clinical experiences, including labor and delivery, emergency, and primary care. He also served in several leadership roles—as the department head for an obstetrics/pediatric clinic, performance improvement and accreditation coordinator—and worked on projects such as standardizing asthma and ADD care, emergency case management, and CDI. Butler continues to be actively involved with CDI through submissions to the ACDIS Blog and CDI Talk, presentations locally and nationally, and he has served on the ACDIS CDI Week development committee. His contributions earned him the 2011 CDI Professional of the Year award.