Board of Directors
Chair of the Board
Paula Pate-Schloder M.S., R.T., (R)(CV)(CT)(VI)FAEIRS
Paula Pate-Schloder, from Pennsylvania, has been elected President-Elect and will begin her presidency following the 56th annual meeting in Madison, Wisconsin in July 2023. She was a previous Director-at-Large, President-Elect, President and Chair of the AEIRS Board and has worked with the AEIRS Board on the last three strategic plans and served on numerous AEIRS committees. Paula has been active professionally for decades and has delivered numerous local, state, regional, and national presentations. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Society of Radiologic Technologists (PSRT) and has served on the PSRT Education Committee since 2007. She has also served on the ARRT Cardiovascular Interventional Examination Committee and Vascular Interventional Examination Committee and as an Item writer. The board is very excited to have Paula join the AEIRS Board for a second time.
President
Kori L. Stewart, PhD, R.T.(R)(CT)(ARRT), CIIP
Kori L. Stewart, PhD, R.T.(R)(CT)(ARRT), CIIP is Director of the Radiologic Sciences Program and Associate Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at Quinnipiac University. Dr. Stewart provides an interactive classroom environment with hands-on activities and innovative instruction that includes emerging and relevant Health and Imaging Informatics applications. Her focus ensures that students provide superior patient-centered care, understand their important role as a technologist, and take pride in serving as “the eyes of medicine”.
Dr. Stewart earned her BS in Diagnostic Imaging and MHS in Medical Lab Sciences/Biomedical Sciences from Quinnipiac University, and earned her PhD in Biomedical (Health) Informatics from Rutgers University with a focus on Clinical Informatics. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence, predictive modeling, clinical decision support, medical image processing and clinical problem solving and decision making. She has lectured nationally and internationally on patient care and informatics to a variety of professional audiences and is a leading resource for integrating informatics into the radiologic and imaging sciences classroom.
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Dr. Stewart has been a member of AEIRS since 2015 and has served on the Board of Directors as President-Elect (2023-2024), Secretary/Treasurer (2021-2023), and on the Editorial Review Board and Scholarship Committees (2020-2021). She is a dedicated professional, having served with various professional organizations including the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT), American Board of Imaging Informatics (ABII), Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM), American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Connecticut Society of Radiologic Technologists (CSRT), Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT), and Alpha Epsilon Lambda (AEL) National Honor Society of Graduate and Professional School Students.
President-Elect
Kevin R. Clark, Ed.D., R.T.(R)(QM)(ARRT), FAEIRS, FASRT
Dr. Kevin Clark is an Associate Professor and Associate Director for the School of Health Professions at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He is also the Founder and CEO of CW Elite, a professional editing and consulting company. Dr. Clark is a top producer of research in the medical imaging and radiation therapy field, authoring more than 100 scholarly and peer-reviewed journal articles since 2014. In 2022, Dr. Clark was elevated to Fellow for the ASRT, making him one of only 18 educators who hold dual fellowships with the ASRT and AEIRS. In his spare time, he enjoys playing the piano, watching the Houston Astros, and baking homemade southern buttermilk biscuits.
Secretary/Treasurer
Tiffany Roman, MAEd., RT(R)(CT)(MR)
Tiffany Roman is an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College in the Allied Health Department. Additionally, she currently serves as the Program Director.
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Tiffany received her Associate Degree in Radiologic Technology from the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College in 1999, Bachelor of Science in Health Professions with an emphasis in Advanced Imaging from the Kettering College of Medical Arts in 2001, followed by receiving her Master’s in Adult Education and Distance Learning from the University of Phoenix in 2006.
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Tiffany has been an AEIRS member for 7 years and her volunteer service on the Education Committee as both a member and chair. She has also volunteered for the ASRT and OSRT in many capacities, including Chapter Delegate, and is currently serving on the OSRT board of directors.
Director-at-Large (3rd Year)
Bobbi J. Kowash, MHSc, RDMS, RVT
Bobbi Kowash, from Oregon, has been active with AEIRS since 2018 and has been an avid AEIRS supporter, previously serving on the Education Committee. She has shared her classroom and clinical techniques at state and national conferences as well as a podcast, a one-day seminar for the Colorado Association of Career Colleges and Schools, and numerous clinical instructor meetings. Bobbi continues to improve her clinical skills working as a Senior Technologist for a clinic she helped develop in the Klamath Basin to focus and improve women’s imaging care. The Board looks forward to working with her.
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Bobbi is an Associate Professor and Clinical Coordinator for the Diagnostic Medical Sonography program at Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls, Oregon. She is an alumni of Oregon Tech with a BS in Ultrasound, Vascular Option (1999). She obtained her Masters Degree in Health Sciences with a focus in Healthcare Leadership from NOVA Southeastern University (2017). She currently is multi-credentialed through ARDMS, board certified RDMS (AB, OB/GYN, BR) and RVT.
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She is a member of SDMS (Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography) as well as ACERT (Association of Collegiate Educators in Radiologic Technology).
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Bobbi is married and has three children. She enjoys spending her time supporting her kids in all their endeavors.
Director-at-Large (2nd Year)
Jay Hicks EdD., R.T.(R)(ARRT)
Jay Hicks, EdD, RT(R), is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hartford where he serves as the Assistant Director and Clinical Coordinator. He began his radiologic sciences education career in 2000 as a Clinical Instructor for his alma mater, Northwestern State University, in Shreveport, LA. Over the years, he has worked in the roles of Instructor, Clinical Coordinator, Program Director, and Department Chair. He spent eleven years in Chicago with the JRCERT. Dr. Hicks has been an AEIRS member since 2004 and has served on multiple committees and the Editorial Review Board. He is an active member of the ASRT and currently serves on the board of directors for the current Connecticut Society of Radiologic Technologists (CSRT).
Director-at-Large (1st Year)
Ashley Balliet, M.Ed. RT(R)(M)(ARRT), is an Assistant Professor and Radiography Program Director for the Radiography Program at the College of Allied Health Professions, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Ashley graduated in 2006 from St. Luke's College and Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa. Ashley received her Masters of Education from Northcentral University, San Diego, California, in 2017, and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. through UNMC.
Ashley has served as Education Co-Chair for the Iowa Society of Radiologic Technologists (2018), AEIRS recruitment committee member (2014-2016), Membership Committee Vice-Chair, and Chair (2017-2021), social media appointee (2021-2023), and AEIRS representative for the ASRT BSRS Curriculum Review Committee in 2022. Ashley is currently President-Elect for the Nebraska Society of Radiologic Technologists (NSRT). Ashley was the recipient of the 2019 Laverne T. Gurley Annual Meeting Scholarship and accepted into the ASRT Leadership Development Program in 2024.