Dr. Hyacinth Carreon has over 30 years of progressive clinical, teaching, and administrative nursing experience. She has been a practicing informatics nurse specialist since 2007. She currently serves as a full-time nurse consultant with the nursing informatics team in one of the California state agencies. She has been conducting nursing staff training for 20 years and has been teaching nursing informatics as an adjunct nursing faculty since 2010. Dr. Carreon has a doctorate in nursing practice degree with an informatics-focused project from the California State University Northern California Consortium between Fresno State and San Jose State Universities. She holds a Post-Master's Certificate in Nursing Informatics and a Master of Science in Nursing degree, major in Nursing Education, from Walden University. She has earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from San Pedro College. She is board certified in nursing informatics through the ANCC and is a certified professional in health information management systems through HIMSS. She also holds a certificate in instructional systems design from the University of North Florida. She has served as the web administrator for the Jacksonville Association of Nurses in Education (or JANIE) for five years by creating and maintaining the nursing organization’s website. She has also served in the TIGER-VLE international workgroup for three years. She is currently serving as a member of the ANIA Education Committee.