Branden Arends

About Branden Arends

Branden Arends was awarded the HIMMY Award for Innovation Excellence in 2025. He…

Experience

1. Professional Development Specialist

   HIMSS

   Aug 2022 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Coordinate ongoing community content curation process, including communication activities and the introduction of new processes and technologies to improve the process.• Coordinate and leads weekly team meetings.• Collaborate with team members to coordinate the peer review process of all content received through the community catalogue. • Maintain and track all community content received outside of content submitted for Global Conference and coordinate the ongoing review of content.• Coordinates feedback and input from internal stakeholders regarding content needs for programs across HIMSS.• Maintain tracking information regarding requests for content from various internal stakeholders.• Assemble and distributes data reports to various HIMSS stakeholders across the organization outlining the status of the community content program.• Serves as Professional Development liaison to Marketing for review of global conference printed collateral: o Ensures Professional Development content accuracy before submission to Marketingo Resolves identified discrepancies between program and marketing content• Weekly review of the HIMSS and other platforms/websites to ensure accurate and up-to-date content is displayed.• Maintain the department’s SharePoint site, ensuring all team members have access to this central document repository and ensures documents are posted and accessible on the site in a timely manner.• Update and maintain Annual Conference procedures related to community content programs.

Education

• Iowa State University

  Bachelors of Science Kinesiology and Health | Community and Public Health, Public Health

  2015 — 2019