Sharon B. Easterling is the CEO of Recovery Analytics, LLC in Charlotte, NC. Her past job roles include corporate assistant vice president as well as senior director of ambulatory clinical documentation improvement. She is a national speaker and has been widely published. Easterling authored the Clinical Documentation Improvement Prep Guide and Exam Book and is a previous winner of the CSA Recognition for Advancing Coding Knowledge through CodeWrite. She currently sits on the executive board of NCHIMA as past president, is a member of the Coding Classification and Terminologies Practice Council, is a member of the Wolters Kluwer Advisory Board, and is the chair of the advisory board of the American College of Physician Advisors.