SC HIMSS 2020 Scholarship Recipient

The SC Chapter of HIMSS is pleased to announce the 2020 scholarship recipient, Maria Petrie, RN, CISSP!  The committee received many impressive submissions for this year’s award and we are honored to have Maria as this year’s winner. She has already been actively engaged with the SC HIMSS chapter and looks forward to serving on the scholarship committee for the upcoming year.

Maria Petrie, RN, CISSP, is a current graduate student in the MHIT program at the University of South Carolina. She is a cybersecurity strategy leader at the defense consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, where she has spent more than eleven years supporting government and private organizations in cybersecurity strategy, risk management, and policy development. Maria has experience in business development and people management, leading technical teams of compliance professionals, systems administrators, and network engineers. Also a Registered Nurse, Maria understands the challenges healthcare organizations experience with technology adoption and is interested in expanding her expertise in EHR implementation and interoperability, cloud transformation, IoT security, and digital transformation strategy development for healthcare organizations.

Please join the SC HIMSS chapter in congratulating Maria on this accomplishment.