Valerie Smothers
Director, Office Of The Data Trust
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolValerie Smothers is a seasoned data governance leader with 12 years of experience shaping policy, processes, and infrastructure for Johns Hopkins Medicine, now serving as Director of the Office of the Data Trust. She has scaled governance operations from coordinating a handful of analytic teams to overseeing eight Data Trust Analytic Teams and roughly 250 data analysts, balancing faculty research needs with operational priorities. Valerie’s background spans standards development and healthcare education technology—experience that informs her pragmatic approach to interoperability and stakeholder engagement. She is skilled at redesigning data request workflows and managing enterprise-wide communication strategies to make data more accessible and auditable. Based in Baltimore, she combines a humanities-trained perspective (MA in English) with deep institutional knowledge to translate complex governance issues into actionable policies. Colleagues rely on her quiet expertise in aligning people, process, and policy to enable trustworthy data use across a large academic medical system.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MA, English, MA, English at University of MarylandBA, English, BA, English at James Madison University
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Github contributions (1)
medbiq/medbiq
Mar 2014 - Nov 2018
MedBiquitous schemas and specifications
Contributions:59 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
specificationsschemas
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