Executive Committee

Sharon Solomon, RD

Past Chair

Sharon Solomon, RD, is currently a Senior Director of Food Services for Morrison Community Living in a 500+ bed facility in New York. Her career has been varied and she has lead teams to create strong processes with automation often being the foundation. In addition, she is the past chair of Interoperability and Standards Committee with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Sharon currently serves as the Advisory Chair for the Nutrition Informatics DPG in its first year with AND. Outside of work she is pursuing a Masters in Healthcare Administration with a concentration in Innovation, Strategy and Change Management.

Erica Stevens, RDN

Chair-Elect

Erica began her journey as a dietitian working in various positions in the hospital setting, transitioning to clinical and eventually food service management. Since then, she transitioned to working in nutrition informatics in 2015. She got her start building menu databases within a diet office software system and then worked in various technology related roles relating to diet office software including focusing on HL7 interface testing coordination, developing implementation processes, policies, and procedures, and eventually adding software requirement development and QA to her resume. She currently oversees an interdisciplinary team who implement, support, and develop a diet office software system.

Sarah Kruse, PhD, RD

Secretary

Sarah L Klammer Kruse, PhD, RDN graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato with a BS in Computer Science and in Dietetics. She received her MS in Nutrition from Texas Woman’s University, and PhD in Organization and Management from Capella University. Her career has included experiences in healthcare, information technology, administration, and academia. Skills and knowledge gained as a clinical dietitian, food service manager, health center CEO, and professor have influenced her passion for health IT and nutrition informatics. She is a Professor, Department Chairperson in the Computer Information Science Department, and the Health Informatics & Analytics Program Director, at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Donna L. Quirk, MBA, RDN, LD

Treasurer

Carolyn A. Silzle, MBA, MS, RD, FAND

Academy House of Delegates Representative

Carolyn retired from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta after 28 years (12 years as a pediatric RD and 16 in IT building and supporting inpatient Epic for our system) in 2021. Prior to that, Carolyn worked at various adult hospitals in Ohio. While a pediatric dietitian, Carolyn was very involved the Pediatric Practice group, including being Chair. After switching her career to informatics, Carolyn volunteered with the Academy with developing early use cases for HL7. She joined the NI DPG about 3 years ago and just completed two years as the treasurer. Carolyn is excited to be joining the House of Delegates where she will be representing the Nutrition Informatics DPG. Since Carolyn remembers a time that DPGs were not represented, she is grateful for the work that other DPGs did so that all DPGs could have a seat at the table.

Ashley Ratliff, RD, LD, CNSC

Nominating Committee Chair

Ashley Ratliff is the IT Program Manager for the Center for Human Nutrition within the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. She works closely with the clinical nutrition clinicians to ensure the electronic platforms meet the needs of the caregivers to be able to provide the best patient care. She provides research, data management, and quality improvement support. Prior to her current role, she worked on the Nutrition Support Team prescribing PN to hospitalized patients. She received her master's degree in clinical nutrition from Rush University in Chicago, Illinois.