Myra Davis

Myra Davis is the executive vice president and chief information and innovation officer at Texas Children’s Hospital, an internationally recognized healthcare organization for pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology, research center, and teaching hospital affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine.

For more than 30 years, she has been in the profession of bridging the gap leading and communicating the opportunities and benefits of technology. Davis has served at Texas Children’s Hospital as the director of customer support in Information Services; assistant vice president of Information Services; vice president of Information Services and senior vice president of Information Services. Prior to joining Texas Children’s, her career included serving in software development, project management, leadership positions and various consulting roles. In these roles, she has led technology implementations while championing management adoption — a vital and often overlooked component of digital transformation.

Davis has won the 2023 Houston CIO Leadership ORBIE®, the 2019 Houston CIO of the Year Orbie Award, and was nominated as a CIO finalist in 2018. She was also nominated by peers and awarded the 2017 CIO of the Year by the Houston Business Journal. In 2014, Texas Children’s received 2014 ComputerWorld Data + Award and Most Wired. In 2013, for the very first time Texas Children’s received Most Wired and Most Wired Innovation Award. Texas Children’s has been a recipient of Most Wired awards for six consecutive years. In 2011, CIO magazine recognized Texas Children’s Hospital as one of most innovative organizations through its CIO 100 Award, which exemplifies the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology.

From 2015-2018, Davis served on the board of directors for College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME), a professional organization for chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. She is also a faculty member of the CHIME Educational Boot Camp. She was a member of the board of directors for Genesys Works, a nonprofit organization focused on giving underprivileged high school students the opportunity to work in corporate environments. Davis has also served on the CIO Advisory Forum of the Child Healthcare Corporation of America (CHCA), the Strategic Advisory Board of the Help Desk Institute (HDI) and the CIO Executive Council of the Executive Women in IT Steering Committee. She also is a member of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

Davis has a B.S. in Computer Information Management from Loyola University New Orleans and an M.S. in Software Development from University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, MN. She is also professionally certified in medical and healthcare management, ITIL Foundation (Gartner Institute of Project Management), facilitative leadership, consulting as an IT professional, negotiating as an IT professional, conflict management, advance project management and E-business rapid technology development.