Chair-Elect Candidate
Courtney Terry, PMP, CSM
Courtney Terry, PMP, CSM
Assistant Director, IT & Project Management
Rutgers Health, New Jersey Medical School
Courtney Terry is the Assistant Director of Information Technology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, bringing over 20 years of IT and project management experience working in academic medicine. She leads a team and oversees academic systems, educational technologies, and project management across Rutgers NJ Medical School and the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies under the Rutgers Health umbrella.
Additionally, Courtney serves as Vice Chair of the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Women+ in IT’s Executive Team, where she champions gender equity and leadership development in technology. Courtney has been recognized at Rutgers with several honors including the Rutgers Chancellors of Excellence Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award, features in Pulse magazine, Rutgers IT Staff Spotlight, and Rutgers NJMS Spotlight.
Courtney has been active in the AAMC’s GIR community since 2019 when she joined the Diversity and Inclusion Work Group, affectionately referred to as GIRDI, and became the co-chair in 2020. Currently, Courtney serves on the GIR’s Steering Committee and is the Steering Committee’s Liaison to the GIRDI Work Group. She also co-leads the GIR’s inaugural mentorship circle program. Over the years, Courtney has co-presented at various GIR conferences on DEI-related topics such as: “The Power of Our Stories”, “The Role of Technology in Addressing DEI”, “From Biased to Enlightenment: The Recruitment Process”, “DEI Data: What Now? What Next What else”, and “Using Inclusive Language” among other initiatives.
Steering Committee Member Candidates
Jennifer Dworaczyk, MEd
Jennifer Dworaczyk, MEd
Director of Academic Technology
Texas A&M University - College of Medicine
Jennifer Dworaczyk is an innovative leader in higher education, specializing in instructional design and the development of digital learning environments. As the Director of Academic Technology at Texas A&M University-College of Medicine, she oversees a team of 10 employees and together, they support a 5-campus regional model with approximately 7,000 stakeholders.
At the College of Medicine, Jennifer is responsible for the development and sustainment of the digital learning environment, optimization of workflows, and strategic development of impactful solutions. A recent additional area of focus is the identification of emerging technologies and their potential incorporations into the medical education environment.
In addition to her role as Director, Jennifer represents the College of Medicine on numerous Texas A&M University and Texas A&M Health committees, including: the Digital Learning Environment Advisory Committee, the Health Technologies Committee (Chair-Elect), and the Academic Liaison Committee (Vice Chair). Jennifer is also highly active in her local community supporting fine arts in the role of Director of Technology for the A&M Consolidated Orchestra Booster Club.
Jennifer has been active in the GIR community since 2020; attending and presenting at the Information Technology in Academic Medicine Conference, a member of the 2023 Leading Information Technology in Academic Medicine (LIT) cohort, a member of the 2025 planning committee for the Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning, Digital Demonstrations Conference, a member of the Medbiquitous Technical Advisory Group, and a collaborator/presenter on the AAMC webinar two-part series: Breaking Barriers – Fostering a Culture of Accessibility
Danielle L. Mowery, PhD, MS, MS, FAMIA
Danielle L. Mowery, PhD, MS, MS, FAMIA
Chief Research Information Officer, Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI)
Faculty Director, IBI Clinical Research Informatics Core
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Danielle Mowery is a collaborative investigator that develops natural language processing (NLP) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for processing clinical texts – i.e., clinical notes, chatbots, and transcribed texts – to support clinical and translational research. She leverages NLP, data science, machine learning, and computational methods to integrate and analyze information from unstructured texts and structured clinical data to help clinical investigators better understand disease burden, treatment efficacy, and clinical outcomes. Furthermore, her solutions focus on helping patients and clinicians make better decisions at the point of care whether it’s in a traditional health system setting or through digital health services within a patient’s home. Her work aims to uncover scientific discoveries, identify actionable healthcare knowledge, and optimize translation of research into patient care.
As the inaugural Chief Research Information Officer for Penn Medicine, she directs the Clinical Research Informatics Core at the Institute for Biomedical Informatics – a key position designed to bridge the gaps between clinical data, research expertise, and actionable healthcare knowledge. Dr. Mowery represents Penn Medicine in local, regional, national, and international clinical research informatics communities, i.e., formerly, serving as co-chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Information Resources (GIR) and currently, co-chair of the Penn Medicine Data & AI Governance Committee and member of the Epic Cosmos Governing Council. She is also a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Her work is widely presented at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Information Resources (GIR), and MedInfo meetings as well as leading clinical and informatics journals. To learn more, you can find her works on Google Scholar and Pubmed.
Dr. Mowery has extensive training in the sciences that supports her interests in clinical and translational research including a BS in Biological Sciences, MS in Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, MS and PhD in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Pittsburgh. She also completed her post-doctoral training at the University of Utah.