William "Bill” Rudman, PhD, RHIA, is the Executive Director of the Institute and serves as Faculty in the Chicago School of Medicine and serves as a member of the President’s Cabinet within Rosalind Franklin University. In his role as Executive Director, Rudman is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Institute, which includes managing committees and staff as well as developing business plans in collaboration with the University President or his/her designee and the Institute Executive Council.

Before moving to the Institute, Rudman was the Executive Director and VP of Academic Visioning for the AHIMA Foundation and has worked for 20 years in Academia as a Professor in health information management. Rudman also served as the director of the HIT core for the Delta Regional Institute and oversaw implementation of an electronic exchange for tracking medical errors in a network of rural Mississippi hospitals. He served on the state of Mississippi Task Force for health information exchange, and chaired the education committee. Rudman was the PI on the HISPC grant for education and training for the implementation of electronic medical records for the state of Tennessee. In addition to hands on experience in the development, implementation, and training of those working in the field of HIM, Rudman has an extensive list of presentations, publications, and health information technology grants.

Rudman has published over 70 scholarly articles, made more than 140 scholarly presentations, and received over $70 million in federal funded grants. Among those grants, Rudman served as either a PI or co-PI on funding for the Southern Mississippi health information exchange (at the time the largest operating HIE in the US), a rural e-network of Mississippi hospitals, and a telemedicine grant to connect hospitals in the Delta Region in Mississippi. Rudman is a founding member of the National Network of Business and Industry Associations.