CHICAGO: Dowling named new CEO at AHIMA

The American Health Information Management Association has named Alan F. Dowling as the next CEO of the 55,000-member association, effective Jan. 13, 2010. He succeeds CEO Linda Kloss, who announced her resignation in July. Dowling is an adjunct professor of information systems at Case Western Reserve University, having also lectured at Georgetown University, the American University of Beirut, Simmons College, and the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his PhD in healthcare management and management information systems.