Dr. Joni Padden is a board-certified Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Health and in Informatics Nursing.  Dr. Padden is a board member for the DFW ANIA Chapter, and a past member of the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Committee.   In her current role as a Chief Nursing Information Officer at Texas Health Resources, which she has been in since 2020, Dr. Padden works with front line staff and clinical leadership to develop best practices to support superlative patient care and outcomes.  Dr. Padden began her nursing career as a Trauma Intensive Care nurse in 1992.