Tamara A. Hicks, MHA, RN, ACM-RN, CCS, CCDS, CCDS-O, is director of clinical documentation excellence at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with more than 37 years’ experience, including more than 22 years in CDI. A founding member of the CDI team at Wake Forest in 1999, she also served as a founding member of the ACDIS advisory board and was reelected to the board in 2016. Hicks helped to write the original CCDS exam, serves on the ACDIS CCDS-O Certification Board, is the social media coordinator of the NC-ACDIS board, and was named 2019 ACDIS Professional of the Year. Contact her at thicks@wakehealth.edu.