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HDAA's Women in Analytics discussions cover a wide range of topics, limited only by the imagination of its advisory group. Technologies, work-life balance, remote work, career advice, ethics and equity -- all have been subjects of presentations and open-ended conversations.

The group meets quarterly and hosts networking and roundtable discussions at our annual conference.

Women in Analytics Advisory Team

  • Lynsie Daley Intermountain Health, chair
  • Sallie Owens Emory University, co-char
  • Katherine Shortt Ambry Genetics, co-chair
  • Tammy Christensen Intermountain Health, secretary
  • Lyndia Hayden Mount Sinai Health System, work-life balance
  • Robyn Pingel Stanford Healthcare, outreach
  • Erin Swiatocha  VHC Health

Upcoming events

 

Recently completed events

Part 1: September 25th, 2026 Lyndsay Sanborn is founder and principal strategist of Frame + Forge AI Strategy Studio, where she advises healthcare and mission-driven organizations on AI governance, data stewardship, and responsible implementation. Her practice covers AI inventories, vendor and data accountability, and the governance structures leadership needs before deployment, not after. Lyndsay will talked to the SIG about AI governance, ethics, and responsible implementation.

Part 2: A Conversation on All Things AI – Continued

October 28, 2026 | 12:00 p.m. ET
Let’s talk AI, and this time, we want you doing the talking! This interactive forum and Q&A will bring the HDAA community together to discuss AI readiness, human-in-the-loop approaches, AI tools, responsible AI and ethics, and what these developments mean for analytics professionals.
Come ready to share what you’re seeing, what you’ve tried, what excites you, what concerns you, and the questions you’re still wrestling with. You don’t need to be an AI expert to participate. The more perspectives we hear, the richer the conversation will be.

Part 3: Human in the Loop
November 19, 2026 | 12:00 p.m. ET
For Part 3, Kristin Lovett, a member of the Women in Analytics advisory team and Director of Population Health Applications at Capital Blue Cross, will join us to explore the importance of keeping the human in the loop as we work with AI.

Part 4: AI Use Cases in Diagnostics and Genetics
December 16, 2026 | 12:00 p.m. ET
We’ll close out this portion of the series with Arpita Saha from Tempus AI, who will share a presentation highlighting AI use cases in diagnostics and genetics.

 

June 24th, 2026: Open Group Discussion 

Mar 25th, 2026: Burnout – A conversation with a mental health professional around the topic of burnout including tips to recognize and respond when burnout occurs.

Dec 10th, 2025: Recap of 2025 Conference

Sep 24th, 2025: Lyndia Hayden and Jiaying (Jocelyn) Zhu from Mount Sinai presented "Leveraging AI in the Modern Workplace".

June 26, 2025: featured Tris J. Burns, speaking about being an effective data leader.  Tris is a Strategy & Data Leadership Coach, former Global Head of Analytics at Pizza Hut, consultant and data strategist. He works with data leaders to help them develop strategies to become more influential and transform the data culture within their organizations while growing in their careers. 

March 26, 2025: Kerri Webster, Chief Analytics Officer at Children's Hospital Colorado and HDAA board member, spoke about her career journey and shared some of what she has learned along the way. 

December 11: Hetal Rupani moderates a panel discussion on elevating your career, covering skills and leadership development, plus the always important goal of a sensible work-life balance. 

June 26, 2024: Lynsie Daley, Hetal Rupani, and Erin Swiatocha described their very different paths that led to their careers in healthcare analytics.

March 27, 2024: Carole Piovesan of INQ Consulting, who delivered the keynote address at HDAA 2023, continued her review of regulation and governance around AI in healthcare. Lyndia Hayden of Mount Sinai Health System presented a project using AI to identify and reduce unintentional bias in clinical notes.

December 13, 2023: The Mount Sinai Office for Diversity and Inclusion presented their use of geospatial and census data to highlight inequities in healthcare delivery.

September 27, 2023: Lyndia Hayden and Jennie Macy led a discussion on work-life balance.

June 28, 2023: HDAA board member Lynsie Daley moderated an open-ended roundtable.

Click here for the full archive of women in analytics recordings. The archive is available only to HDAA members.

Want to join the conversation?

Post a question on the Women in Analytics forum. Accessible only by HDAA members.

For more information, or to volunteer for the advisory team, contact the SIG Chair from the contacts list or contact The Program Director HDAA Programs