Data GOVERNANCE and LITERACY

Data governance and literacy are two of the most active discussion topics at HDAA. The SIG hosts an online presentation or panel discussion each quarter and meets in roundtable form at our annual conferences. Valerie Smothers and Valerie Strobel co-lead the group

Data Governance Advisory Team

  • Valerie Smothers Johns Hopkins Medicine Co-Chair
  • Valerie Strobel Mayo Clinic Co-Chair
  • Craig Brunskole Henry Ford Health System
  • Callista Medland Colorado Access
  • Marion Gorder Intermountain Healthcare
  • Gillian Mayman Michigan Medicine
  • Amy Ming Florida Cancer Specialists
  • Deanna Rothwell The Ottawa Hospital
  • Katharine Sutton Sharp Healthcare
  • Jamelah Vincent Bronson Healthcare Group

Upcoming events

December 12: Erin McGeachie and Jason Chiu compare approaches to data governance at The Ottawa Hospital and University Health Network.

Recently completed events

October 2024: Valerie Strobel of Mayo Clinic discussed ways to measure the effectiveness and adoption of data literacy.

September 2024: The Data Governance and Data Literacy group conducted multiple roundtable discussions at the HDAA 2024 annual conference, in Chapel Hill, N.C.

August 2024: Dan Ryan at Beth Israel Lahey Health reviewed BILH's implementation of the open-source data catalog tool Atlas.

April 20: Brent Dukes of Oregon Health & Science University will continue his discussion of OHSU's data governance evolution, a follow-up to his presentation from April 2022.

Dan Ryan of Riverside Healthcare spoke in July on One Catalog to Rule Them All: A Data Governance Journey. 

Click here for the full archive of data governance recordings. The archive is available only to HDAA members.

Want to join the conversation?

Post a question on the data governance forumAccessible only by HDAA members

For more information, or to volunteer for the advisory team, contact the SIG Chair from the contacts list or contact The Program Director HDAA Programs