Dr. Deborah Chasco is director of nursing informatics at UMC El Paso. She has over 36 years of nursing experience, including maternal/infant child services, leadership experience in hospital and clinic settings, nursing informatics, and data analytics. She is certified by AACN as a CCRN in acute and critical care neonatal nursing and is board certified as an advanced nursing executive. She holds a DNP degree in nursing administration from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Chasco has volunteered on ANIA's education committee and as the ANIA Education Committee Chair and has served as a Magnet Conference abstract reviewer and as a reviewer for the peer-reviewed Nurse Manager Journal. Dr. Chasco has presented at several local, state, and national conferences on nursing informatics, research, and leadership topics. In addition, Dr. Chasco has served as an ANCC certification item writer and is adjunct faculty at the Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing at TTUHSC in El Paso and serves as a preceptor and mentor for several universities in nursing informatics and leadership.