SoCal Chapter Board of Directors - 2023 - 2024
The Southern California Chapter of HIMSS is comprised of a dedicated group of IT professionals from different segments of healthcare. The Executive Committee consists of the elected Board Officers. The Board of Directors consists of the Executive Committee along with board committee chairs. Please feel free to contact the board members at socal.info@himsschapter.org.
Board Executive Committee (Officers)
| President | Mary Beth Seaman |
| President-Elect | Armando Chacon |
| Immediate Past President | Carrie Murray |
| Vice President, Administration/Secretary | Stephanie Wallace |
| Vice President, Finance/Treasurer | Midori Kondo |
Mary Beth Seaman
President
With over 30 years of leadership experience in staffing and consulting, Mary Beth is an expert in operations, talent acquisition, and strategic account management. Her career has been dedicated to driving operational excellence, building high-performing teams, and delivering quality solutions that support healthcare organizations in meeting their goals. Known for her commitment to exceptional service, she fosters a culture of success that empowers teams to exceed expectations.
Mary Beth’s passion for improving healthcare access and delivery has been a constant throughout her career. Since 2001, she has focused on staffing and consulting for health systems, physician clinics, and payers, gaining a deep understanding of the complexities and challenges facing the healthcare industry. Her operational expertise has allowed her to support healthcare organizations in navigating these challenges and optimizing their workforce strategies.
As a leader, Mary Beth is committed to collaboration, transparency, and a shared vision of success. She has built trusted partnerships with healthcare executives and operational leaders, leveraging her expertise to drive impactful results. Her approach is grounded in a customer-first philosophy, ensuring that clients, consultants, and stakeholders receive authentic, solutions-oriented support.
Mary Beth's involvement in HIMSS allows her to give back to the healthcare community, facilitating knowledge-sharing and collaboration in healthcare technology. She is inspired by the opportunity to connect with other professionals who share her commitment to advancing healthcare access and improving patient outcomes.
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Carrie Murray
Past - President
Carrie Murray brings over 20 years of experience in healthcare, having worked with some of the most respected and top performing companies. An energetic advocate for strategic improvement in the industry, Carrie has launched new technologies, provided advanced training to clinical teams, implemented programs to better serve patient and provider populations and created initiatives to reduce costs. She has successfully managed multi-million-dollar businesses in cardiology, anesthesia, pharmacy, and information technology.
With experience in both clinical and non-clinical arenas, she brings a unique perspective. Her understanding of workflow optimization, communication structures, medical procedures and technologies, enables her to help bridge gaps in an increasingly complex clinical setting and the demand for excellence in patient outcomes and experience.
While working with those who administer, sell-to and receive healthcare, she champions empowering people with the best in knowledge, technology, and processes to obtain optimal results.
Carrie is a trainer, mentor, educator and has been a speaker at national conferences.
Midori Kondo, PharmD, MHA
VP, Finance/Treasurer
Midori has a global outlook characterized by exemplary leadership and healthcare domain expertise which has attributed to her ability to develop and execute strategy. As a pioneering healthcare professional and a recognized expert in healthcare processes, Midori has extensive experience transforming provider organizations into enterprise healthcare systems to deliver high-quality, cost-effective patient care using game changing technology solutions.
At Health DataVerse Inc, she serves as the managing partner focusing on growth and strategy engagements for healthcare organizations which includes business development, strategic planning, technical asset evaluation and care delivery outcome assessments. Midori leverages her expertise in clinical, operational and patient workflow analysis to not only transform organizations but to advise founders and healthcare product companies in the evaluation of their current offerings and market segments to create a strategic roadmap and growth plan for the development of next-generation, data-driven and interactive AI solutions.
Previously, Midori served as the Director of Enterprise information systems (EIS) at Cedars- Sinai where she was responsible for Inpatient services including pharmacy, OR, ED, device integration and special development projects as well as Epic Program Director. In her role, she was tasked with growing the EIS Epic team and readying the organization for moving to an enterprise record. There she interfaced with operational leaders to select, design, and implement not only the EMR but emerging technologies in which Cedars was in a development partnership.
At IBM, she was a senior strategy consultant in the advisory service line assigned to key customers across the United States to evaluate customers technical landscapes to quickly identify cross dependencies and system gaps to reduce variations in care that impact outcomes, value, and healthcare costs.
Driven by a desire to transform healthcare and a knack for entrepreneurship, Midori established InnovaShare, Inc., with the sole mission to connect emerging technologies companies, together with Healthcare focused organizations to enable rapid transformation of patient care using cutting-edge solutions.
Armando Chacon
President - Elect & VP, Admin/Secretary
Over 28 successful and award-winning years in B2B sales & sales management, business development, and account management. I am able to provide a holistic approach for systems integration, managed services, and provide ROI. I have the ability to gain a trusted advisor role in my accounts through transparency, strong work ethic, follow up/through, bringing the right expertise to the table, and successful execution of a project or task.