ANIA Looks Forward to Another Successful Year
Happy New Year, ANIA members!
I am honored to serve as your ANIA President for 2026. As we begin this new year, I want to start by celebrating the incredible success of our ANIA 2025 conference in New Orleans. Thank you to every attendee, presenter, sponsor, volunteer, and chapter leader who helped make ANIA25 such a meaningful experience, filled with learning, connection, and the kind of energy that reminds us why this community matters.
One of the highlights of New Orleans was the energy around professional growth and practical skill-building, especially our first-ever Artificial Intelligence (AI), Lean Six Sigma, and Project Management (AI–LSS–PM) Pre-Conference Workshop, with over 40 participants. We heard loud and clear that members want hands-on, career-relevant learning, and we’re committed to delivering more of it.
Looking ahead, I’m excited to share that our AI Applications programming will continue, and we will also host ANIA’s first-ever Hackathon, in partnership with the Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders (SONSIEL) in Boston. This hands-on experience will bring members together for collaboration, rapid problem-solving, and innovation-in-action.
Beyond the conference, our Virtual Journal Club has been a standout success, building community, strengthening critical appraisal skills, and helping members translate evidence into practice. Thank you to everyone who has participated and helped it thrive.
I’m proud to share another important milestone: ANIA is now an American Nurses Association (ANA) Organizational Affiliate. This strengthens our connection to the broader nursing profession, expands pathways for collaboration, and amplifies the voice of nursing informatics as healthcare continues to evolve.
In 2026, we’re deepening our impact through strategic partnerships. We are formalizing collaborations with the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN) and the American Association for Men in Nursing (AAMN), while continuing our work with the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). These relationships broaden our reach across nursing and health IT, create opportunities for shared education and programming, and help ensure nurse informaticists remain at the table where decisions are made.
As healthcare technology accelerates, AI, analytics, interoperability, and new digital care models, our opportunity and responsibility is to lead with clarity and purpose. Informatics should strengthen nursing practice, reduce burden, and improve outcomes. We will continue to elevate emerging priorities such as Virtual Care and Smart Care Models, including technology-enabled workflows that support safe, efficient, patient-centered care across settings.
A special request as we enter 2026: please help us grow ANIA’s membership. If ANIA has helped you learn, connect, earn NCPD, prepare for certification, or advance your career, I invite you to share ANIA with a colleague, a nurse who is curious about informatics, a new graduate exploring health tech, a clinical leader working to reduce workflow burden, or a seasoned informaticist looking for community. Your personal invitation is powerful. Together, we can expand our reach, strengthen our voice, and ensure more nurses have access to the resources and support they need to lead technology-enabled care.
No matter how you choose to engage with ANIA this coming year, I want to hear from you. I welcome your emails and phone calls, and I value your ideas and suggestions as we continue to strengthen ANIA for our members.
Be well, and I look forward to connecting with you as we advance nursing informatics together!
Warm regards,
Katherine Taylor Pearson, DNP, RN, NI-BC, CDH-E, CLSSBB, CPBI, CPHIMS, CKM
2026 ANIA President | U.S. Army Veteran | president@ania.org | 210-787-6943
Katherine Taylor Pearson
DNP, RN, NI-BC, CDH-E, CLSSBB, CPBI, CPHIMS, CKM
2026 ANIA President