In a day and age where we’re too often looking in the mirror and focused on our own problems and successes, Tiara Minor is all about empowering others.

As the Director of CDI for University of Miami Health system Tiara makes things happen for her team, because she’s all about sharing her expertise and education, growing her staff, and now the CDI profession itself. She’s giving back on the broader stage as an ACDIS advisory board member, conference speaker, and now biggest achievement—guest on Off the Record.

(I wrote that last one with a straight face, barely).

One of the things that impressed me about Tiara was her observation that most training seems to be geared for CDI leaders. Her focus is on her staff, making sure that they have not just mastered the fundamentals of chart review, but also clinical nuances across service lines.

We get into education, mentorship, and more on today’s episode. Listen in as we cover:

• Tiara’s broad responsibilities and a typical day in the life
• System focus, CDI metrics, and dashboard
• Her nontraditional journey into CDI--ER nurse to pediatrics, a foray into consulting, and return to the hospital setting. And winning over some skeptical coders along the way...
• Mentorship: Growing her staff and how she differentiates mentorship that from management.
• Her role as educator and an example of an interesting clinical query/quality opportunity she presented to the team
• An ACDIS splash—getting elected to the advisory board, winning both an individual award (recognition of professional achievement) and an organizational award (Diversity in CDI), and the speaking circuit.