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Karin Balsley

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AVP, Information Security & Network Communications at HealthStream
📍 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Karin Balsley is the AVP of Information Security & Network Communications at HealthStream, with over 25 years of experience delivering mission-critical IT projects. She leads initiatives in GRC, TVM, and AppSec, recently achieving HITRUST r2 certification. Colleagues describe her as a "consummate professional" and "extremely competent. "

Karin is the co-founder of Women Overlanding the World, an adventure travel company. She is passionate about empowering women to explore, a drive that led her on a two-year overland journey by car from Nashville through ten countries in Central America.

She founded multiple adventure travel companies after driving from the US to the end of Central America over two years.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
AVP, Information Security & Network Communications
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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Healthcare Security
As AVP of Information Security at HealthStream, she leads initiatives like achieving HITRUST r2 certification to protect sensitive healthcare data.
Vendor Risk Management
She is an active member of the Health3PT council, helping to shape the future of third-party risk management (TPRM) within the healthcare industry.
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Career

Work history

5-2024
AVP, Information Security & Network Communications
HealthStream
7-2022 - 5-2024
Sr. Director, Information Security
HealthStream
10-2021 - 7-2022
Director, Information Security
HealthStream
11-2015
Founder / Adventurer / Author / Consulting
Women Overlanding the World
1-2013 - 10-2015
Systems Engineer, SiteOps
HealthStream
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Education
1995 - 1999
Chemical Engineering
Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
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