Ann Hendrich, RN, MSN, FAANis the Vice President of Clinical Excellence Operations at Ascension Health’s system office. She chairs the Chief Nursing Officer community while guiding the implementation of Clinical Excellence and informatics initiatives in partnership with executives, board members, and clinical officer leadership.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from DePauw University and a Master’s Degree from Indiana State University in Adult Health and Administration. As a 3 year RWJ Executive Fellow, her focus was on leading organizational change and she was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 2005.

She was the Principal Investigator for the Acuity-Adaptable Comprehensive Cardiac Critical Care model. The patient rooms of the future incorporate comfort, healing, technology, and efficiency into an integrated design. Her current research is an extension of the work in a national multi-site study that was conducted in 36 hospitals funded by the Robert Wood Johnson and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation on the Work Environment of nurses and the relationship to patient outcomes known as the Time and Motion study.

Ann is widely published in professional journals and nursing text, is active on editorial boards, serves as a grant reviewer for major nursing organizations, and is a frequent advisor to the Health Technology Center, The Advisory Board, and is a board member for the Center of Health Design, Zynx and the Nursing Advisory Council with The Joint Commission. With a special interest in geriatrics, she is also the author of the Hendrich II Risk Model, a predictive model for inpatient falls. In 2007, Modern Healthcare identified Ann as one of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare.

She is currently completing her PhD doctoral study at Loyola University.

Liz Johnson, RN, MSN, CPHIMS, FHIMSSis the Vice President of Clinical Informatics for Tenet HealthSystem. In this capacity she has responsibility for the strategic vision and the tactical plan for all clinical systems used throughout the Tenet organization of 72 provider organizations. Today the clinical application suite of products for Tenet includes over 3,000 clinical applications and 5,000 custom interfaces. Under Ms. Johnson’s leadership, Tenet has developed and is implementing a comprehensive clinical informatics vision and strategy. Liz speaks nationally and internationally on clinical applications particularly focused on their strategic use as a tool for enhanced patient safety. Prior to joining Tenet, Liz was and Executive Vice President and National Practice Leader for HIPAA for Healthlink, Inc. As a nationally recognized HIPAA expert, she has shared her in-depth knowledge of HIPAA in over 150 presentations. A partial list of her HIPAA speaking engagements includes ACHE, CHIME and HIMSS. Additionally, Ms. Johnson has directed numerous HIPAA consulting engagements, including readiness assessments, offices of project management, HIPAA planning and training. During her 6 years as an executive with Healthlink, Liz performed a variety of management roles assisting in the migration of a small boutique consulting firm into a major consulting presence in the healthcare market.

With 30 years experience in executive and staff positions throughout provider organizations she understands provider operations from every perspective, and the role IT plays in enabling best practices to be deployed by healthcare providers.

Joyce Sensmeier is Vice President of Informatics for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the country’s largest healthcare association focused on information technology. She oversees clinical informatics, standards, interoperability, privacy and security, and professional certification. Sensmeier joined HIMSS as the Director of Professional Services in December 2000.

Sensmeier became Board Certified in Nursing Informatics in 1996, earned the Certified Professional in Health Information and Management Systems in 2002, and achieved fellowship status in HIMSS in 2005. She is an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University in Chicago and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She previously served at Palos Community Hospital as a nursing coordinator implementing clinical information systems.

A nationally recognized speaker and an author of multiple book chapters, articles and white papers, Sensmeier was a member of the expert panel that revised the Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Informatics published by the American Nurses Association in 2001. She recently assumed the position of standards implementation technical manager for the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) and serves as the co-chair of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI), a collaboration of 25 distinct regional and national nursing informatics organizations. Sensmeier received her BSN from Elmhurst College and her master’s degree in Nursing Administration from St. Xavier University.

Brian Dixon, M.P.A., is a Health Information Technology Project Manager with the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. Mr. Dixon has primary responsibilities in managing health information exchange related projects. He is also a member of the AHRQ National Resource Center for Health Information Technology, advising and monitoring health IT grant activities in the U.S. Prior to his current role, Mr. Dixon developed technology for Regenstrief and the Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), including tools supporting the standard clinical vocabulary LOINC, technology supporting the automated electronic reporting of reportable conditions, and tools for querying large clinical data repositories. Mr. Dixon has published a number of articles on using and funding health IT projects to improve healthcare quality, safety, and efficiency. He has also presented on these topics numerous times to groups such as the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), and the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA).

After spending twenty-five years practicing medicine as an Ob/Gyn in North Texas, Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D., was first elected to Congress in 2002, and subsequently re-elected in 2004, 2006, and most recently in 2008. Dr. Burgess serves on the prestigious House Energy and Commerce Committee and its subcommittee on healthcare, and recently founded and is Chairman of the Congressional Health Care Caucus. During his six years in Congress, Dr. Burgess has been a forceful and vocal advocate for healthcare legislation aimed at reducing healthcare costs, improving choices, reforming liability laws to put the needs of patients first, and ensuring there are enough doctors to care for America’s patients.

Craig Miller is the chief architect for CONNECT, a SOA-based solution that connects federal agencies into nationwide health information exchanges. As a strategic advisor to the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program, he guides the development of CONNECT and other federal solutions based on his expertise in electronic health information exchange, electronic health records and service-oriented architecture. Mr. Miller has more than 12 years of enterprise architecture experience at the director level, working with agencies such as HHS, CMS, FDA, USDA and OMB. He was the lead enterprise architect for HHS’ department-wide enterprise architecture initiative, and He led the development of versions 2.0-2.2 of the OMB EA Assessment Framework and was responsible for developing the structure of the Federal Transition Framework.

Vish Sankaran was appointed Director of the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program in the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in March 2007. As FHA director, he has driven collaboration among federal agencies to advance the adoption of interoperable health IT in order to allow for the secure exchange of health information within the federal government, and with state, tribal, and local governments and the private sector. This goal is being achieved through initiatives that provide federal business needs management, and systematic investment planning, reporting and interoperability architecture. Under Mr. Sankaran's leadership, FHA has worked with federal agencies to rapidly and efficiently implement government-wide solutions for interoperable and secure health information exchange that address agency business priorities while protecting citizen privacy. FHA serves the needs of more than twenty federal agencies in domains as diverse as military and veterans’ healthcare, public health monitoring, long-term care and disability services, research, tribal health services and many other critical federal priorities. Before arriving at HHS in 2005, Mr. Sankaran worked in the private-sector healthcare technology field. He was the Director of IT and product operations at CareScience Inc, a healthcare application service provider that helps hospitals and health systems improve care management, clinical performance and data sharing. While at CareScience, he developed strategies to achieve organizational goals, built cohesive teams, increased operational efficiency and reduced costs. In that position, he administered architecture and operations of healthcare software products, including health information exchange solutions.

Dave Roberts is Vice President of Government Relations for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the country’s largest healthcare association focused on information technology. In his role, Mr. Roberts oversees and acts as the primary contact for the association’s congressional, federal and state outreach to influence and educate key stakeholders. He also serves as Senior Executive for the HIMSS Virginia Office, which includes the Office of Advocacy and Public Policy, and he is the staff liaison to the HIMSS Advocacy and Public Policy Steering Committee, whose members work with key federal decision-makers and other organizations to advance improvements in the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare through the use of IT and management systems. Prior to joining HIMSS in August 2002, Mr. Roberts served as a financial analyst for the U.S. Air Force in the Pentagon and Germany. He was also a staff assistant to U.S. Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.) on the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Handicapped and a senior professional staff member on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee. In addition, Mr. Roberts has worked on three U.S. presidential campaigns and as a staff assistant for Virginia State Sen. Patsy Ticer (D-Alexandria) in the Virginia General Assembly. He also served as a Corporate Vice President for a HIMSS Diamond Corporate member.

Debra Wolf, PhD, MSN, BSN, RN is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Slippery Rock University. Her program of research focuses on nurses impacting patient outcomes using a patient-centered model of care. Dr. Wolf has 30 years experience in nursing in the acute care and academic settings. Prior to assuming her role at Slippery Rock University, Dr. Wolf served as Administrative Director of Education, Research, and Nursing Informatics, where she led several departments including Research, Education and two diploma schools of nursing. She is a member of ANA, STT, TIGER, NLN, HIMSS, and taskforce leader for NNSDO. She has presented nationally and internationally and serves as mentor and coach for nursing professionals. Dr. Wolf oversees the Healthcare Informatics Certification Program at Slippery Rock University. In addition, she is an adjunct faculty member at Robert Morris University, where she developed a course for DnP students which addresses the use of Information Technology and EBP. Dr. Wolf is a healthcare consultant supporting the integration of new technology into healthcare settings.

Dr. John Parker commanded the Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC), which includes the U.S. Army’s Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the Institute of Chemical Defense (USAICD), and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) from 1998 to 2002. He is an expert in managing institutions that are researching and analyzing offensive and defensive biological warfare as well as responding to their biological contingencies. Dr. Parker has served in critical Medical (Life Science) S&T advisory positions in the Department of Defense and teaches impacts of chemical and biological agents at every university in the National Capital Region.

Eric Rivedal is the Nursing Workflow Manager for McKesson inpatient nursing products, focusing on functional design of cross-product issues and workflows. He has been with McKesson for eight years as an analyst on a variety of clinical products including Horizon Emergency Care and Horizon Expert Orders. Prior to his time with McKesson, Mr. Rivedal spent 13 years working at Denver Health in a variety of clinical and management positions including Inpatient Pediatrics, Labor & Delivery, Intensive Care, Emergency Department, and Outpatient Clinics in Family Practice and Occupational Health and Safety. Eric holds BSN and MSN (Informatics) degrees from the University of Colorado.

Joyce Sensmeier joined HIMSS as the Director of Professional Services in December 2000. She currently serves as HIMSS Vice President of Informatics and is responsible for the areas of clinical informatics, standards, interoperability, privacy and security, and professional certification. Ms. Sensmeier received her Masters degree in Nursing Administration from St. Xavier University, and her Bachelors Degree in Nursing from Elmhurst College. She became Board Certified in Nursing Informatics in 1996, earned the Certified Professional in Health Information and Management Systems in 2002, and achieved fellowship status in HIMSS in 2005. She is an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University Chicago and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. She previously served at Palos Community Hospital as a nursing coordinator implementing clinical information systems. An internationally recognized speaker and author of multiple book chapters, articles and white papers, Ms. Sensmeier was a member of the expert panel that revised the Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Informatics published by the American Nurses Association in 2001. She currently serves as technical manager for the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) a national standards harmonization project and is the co-chair of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics, a collaboration of 25 distinct regional and national nursing informatics organizations.

Gregory L. Alexander, Ph.D., R.N.is currently an Assistant Professor at the Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri. He joined the faculty of Sinclair in July 2005 after completing his doctoral work in nursing and health systems. Dr. Alexander was appointed the first National Library of Medicine Fellow in Informatics from the school of nursing while completing his doctoral studies. Dr. Alexander completed his undergraduate work in Biology and Nursing at Missouri State University and received his Master's from the department of Health Management and Informatics at the University of Missouri in 1999. His career goals are to establish himself as an independent investigator and expert recognized in human computer interaction evaluation. He is interested in developing and designing innovative, health system level interventions using sophisticated technologies to deliver care to aging populations to enhance patient safety, clinical work flow and evidence based practice.

Nancy Staggers is a nationally known expert in Nursing Informatics. Since her informatics doctoral education at the University of Maryland, she has led large projects to define, develop, install and evaluate enterprise clinical information systems. Her research program centers on human-computer interaction and she publishes widely on informatics topics. She is currently Professor and program director for nursing informatics at the University of Utah.

Michelle Troseth, MSN, RN, is the Executive Vice President and Chief Professional Practice Officer for the Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC), a business unit of Elsevier, and provides strategic clinical leadership for Elsevier. Michelle has over 20 years experience in creating and sustaining healthy, healing workplaces and integrated healthcare services. Her passion is creating environments that “live” the high-tech/high-touch polarity to transform healthcare locally and globally.

Denise Tyler is a masters-prepared Clinical Specialist and project lead at Kaweah Delta Health Care District in central California. She also earned a Masters of Business Administration and is certified in Nursing Informatics. She has presented on real life experiences at SINI and Siemens conferences. Denise wrote a chapter (co-wrote?) in the 2008 McGonigle and Mastrian book, "Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge.” She is on the board of the American Nursing Informatics Association and has been involved with the TIGER Initiative since 2006.

Dr. Parker is the Senior Clinical Informatics Specialist for Motion Computing®, Inc. a global leader in designing ultra mobile wireless device products and services for healthcare professionals and those in other vertical industries. She has over 30 years experience in the healthcare industry including clinical nursing, management, nursing informatics, and education both corporate and academic. Dr. Parker has worked in clinical system selection and implementation from both a facility and vendor perspective. She works at all levels of the nursing within a facility to ensure successful outcomes for the clinician and the organization. She has been responsible for the development of all clinician usability studies for Motion and has completed the “Protection of Human Subjects in Research” course offered through Collaborative IRB Training Initiative (CITI).

She is a member of the American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA), CARING, Sigma Theta Tau, Healthcare Informatics Systems Society (HIMSS) where she serves on the Nursing Informatics Taskforce, and is a governing director of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI).

She has been a contributor to the growing body of healthcare knowledge as a presenter and author. She received Associate, Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Nursing, completed a post-master’s certificate in Nursing Informatics, and completed her PhD in Education with a specialization in Training and Performance Improvement.

Heidi Echols is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Ms. Echols is chair of the Firm’s Health Information Technology Affinity Group and co-chair of the Firm’s Electronic Data Management, Privacy and Discovery Group. Her practice focuses on information technology (IT) transactions and counseling such as EHR transactions, and privacy and security matters, including state notification requirements regarding security breaches and the privacy and security rules promulgated under HIPAA. Ms. Echols is a member of HIMSS and co-chair of the American Health Lawyers Association Tech Licensing and IP Affinity Group and is a frequent speaker and author on technology and privacy matters. She was named to the 2009 Illinois Rising Star list in Super Lawyers magazine and is also the 2009 recipient of the National Public Service Award presented by the American Bar Association Section of Business Law for her leadership of a multi-disciplinary and cross-office team in McDermott’s representation of a nonprofit health reform organization in its implementation of a regional health information organization (RHIO).

Marilyn Lamar is an attorney with more than twenty years of experience in corporate and information technology law, including electronic health records (EHR) and HIPAA privacy and security issues. Her practice includes a broad range of outsourcing, licensing, and other technology transactions on behalf of hospitals, health plans, physicians, group purchasing organizations and technology companies. Ms. Lamar is a member of HIMSS, serving on the Ambulatory IS Steering Committee, the Payer Roundtable and the Legal Aspects of the Enterprise Task Force. She is a frequent author and speaker on EHRs, evolving liability issues involving information technology, HIPAA privacy and security and outsourcing. Before joining Liss & Lamar, P.C., Ms. Lamar was a capital partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP where she chaired the Health Law Department’s Information Technology practice group and co-chaired its HIPAA practice group. She also chaired the Health Information and Technology Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) from 2002 to 2005 and serves on its Quality Council.

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn is a health economist and management consultant who has worked with health care stakeholders in the U.S. and Europe for over two decades. Jane founded THINK-Health, a strategic health consultancy, in 1992 after spending a decade as a health care consultant in firms in the U.S. and Europe.

Jane’s projects focus on the nexus of health care and technology applying the tools of scenario and strategic planning, qualitative market research, forecasting, and health policy analysis. Jane is a columnist for iHealthBeat, an online publication of the California HealthCare Foundation, where she writes about health and technology. Jane also writes the popular Health Populi blog. Jane sits on the Advisory Board of the Health 2.0 conference and is one of the founding principals of Health 2.0 Advisors.

Jane wrote the seminal white paper, The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Social Media, on behalf of California HealthCare Foundation, in April 2008.

Jane holds an MA (Economics) and MHSA (Health Policy) from the University of Michigan. Jane is a frequent public speaker and writer on the subject of health-technology, -politics and -economics. While Jane is passionate about her work, she is even more passionate about her family and home, Slow Food, and living a full and balanced life. More about Jane can be found on the THINK-Health website and on the Health Populi blog.

Janet Bochinski has over 30 years of experience in healthcare, including acute and primary care nursing, education, health systems project management, system deployment and integration, and the development and implementation of complex health systems analysis methodologies. While at Unisys Corporation, she served as the Principal Investigator in a Mobile Electronic Health Record study for the Department of Defense, Telemedicine and Advance Technology Research Center (TATRC). She has spoken at various conferences regarding the study. Ms. Bochinski is currently an active member of the HIMSS Enterprise Information Systems Steering Committee (2007-2009) and has been a member of other groups including the HIMSS EHR Toolkit working group (2005 -2006) and HIMSS Integration and Interoperability Committee (2005-2006).

Jerome A. Osheroff, MD is Chief Clinical Informatics Officer for the healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, where he ensures that their decision support offerings are optimally responsive to clinician, patient, and management information needs, and that they measurably improve healthcare outcomes. He was the lead author, “Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support,” and HIMSS bestseller and 2005 Book of the Year, “Improving Outcomes with CDS: An Implementer’s Guide.” Dr. Osheroff helped guide national CDS efforts, e.g. executing Roadmap through service on AHIC Quality and CDS workgroups. He also led guidebook development by scores of individuals/organizations on best practices for improving medication management with CDS - will be co-published in 2008 by HIMSS, AMIA, AMDIS, ISMP, SI, and ASHP. Dr. Osheroff is an active in provider consulting on improving outcomes with CDS and a faculty and clinical staff member at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Currie is currently the Director of Clinical Outcomes for Advocate Health Care in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Advocate Health Care consists of 7 Acute Care Hospitals, 1 Long Term Acute Care Hospital, 3 large medical groups and Home Health Care. In her current capacity, Ms. Currie works with quality initiatives throughout the system. During her career, Ms. Currie has held multiple leadership roles including Clinical Nurse Specialist, Administrative Director, Chief Nurse Executive, Director of Education and Practice, and has taught as Visiting Professor at University of Illinois and Northern Illinois University in their schools of nursing. Ms. Currie has primarily focused on the Acute Care Environment. She is a member of several professional organizations. Ms. Currie is published and presented extensively on current healthcare issues.

John Chuo, MD, FAAP, MS, did his undergraduate studies at Cornell University and subsequently earned an MD degree as well as completed a 3 year Pediatric residency from New York University School of Medicine. Subsequently, he moved to Boston where he completed a fellowship in Neonatology at Children’s Hospital Boston and earned a masters degree in Biomedical Informatics thru the Harvard-MIT Health Science and Technology program. He moved to New Jersey in 2004 to join the faculty of the UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2004, where he became the Pediatric champion for enterprise information system initiatives and well as the medical director and quality improvement co-chair of the neonatal critical care unit. Currently, John Chuo is the Neonatal Quality Informatics Officer for the Division of Neonatology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a practicing physician, board certified in Pediatrics and Neonatology. His academic research focuses on CQI in medication management, patient safety, workflow process analytics, and the development of quality indicator dashboards.

Anwar Sirajuddin (Siraj), MBBS, MS is a Medical Informaticist and Clinical Decision Support Lead at Memorial Hermann in Houston, Texas. He helped guide CDS efforts at Memorial Hermann to help improve clinical processes and patient outcomes. He is an associate editor for “Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support,” which will be co-published in 2008 by HIMSS, AMIA, AMDIS, ISMP, SI and ASHP. Mr. Sirajuddin is also a Course Instructor, “Applied Clinical Decision Support” at the School Of Health Information Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He holds a medical degree from India and Master’s Degree in Health Informatics from the School Of Health Information Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Joan R. Duke, FHIMSS, has been involved for over thirty years in all aspects of health care information systems. In 1990, she founded Health Care Information Consultants (HCIC) to assist organizations in healthcare information technology management and has assisted a variety of organizations including health systems, hospitals, home care, long-term care, hospice, behavioral health, clinics, physician groups, healthcare technology vendors, and non-profits unify their organizational and information, technology resources. Ms. Duke's experience includes enterprise technology planning, management of information systems organizations and hands-on development and implementation of systems. She is well versed in electronic health records (EHR) in both the inpatient and ambulatory environment. She has also assisted health information exchanges (HIE) providing planning support to the State of Delaware and working with members of the Maryland-DC collaborative to identify system requirements and to develop a business model for health information exchange. In 2003, she was appointed to the HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence Task Force to evaluate organizations for recognition of exemplary implementation of EHR systems. She also supervised and developed clinical systems at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and developed statistical programs for the National Institute of Mental Health. Ms. Duke obtained her MA from Johns Hopkins University in 1973. She is a HIMSS Fellow, past President of Maryland Society of Healthcare Information Systems Management (MSHISM), and participates in American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Healthcare Technology Network of Greater Washington, and Health Level 7 (HL7) Working Group.

Dr. C. Eric Hartz is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) in Bangor, Maine. He also maintains an oncology practice at CancerCare of Maine. As CMIO, Hartz is involved in patient safety initiatives including development of decision support tools and standardized order sets. Since he has been at EMMC, he has spearheaded the successful implementation of many solutions including Virtual ICU, PowerInsight for data mining, Millennium Lighthouse for care pathway process change, and computerized provider order entry (CPOE), where only 1 to 2 percent of orders are now written on paper. Dr. Hartz presented on development of patient safety rules and alerts at the American Medical Informatics Association annual meeting and has traveled around the country assisting healthcare organizations in developing standardized order sets. He was also instrumental in EMMC becoming a Hospitals and Health Networks Most Wired Hospital and a recipient of the HIMSS 2008 Davies Award of Excellence, for using information technology to improve the safety and quality of patient care. Dr. Hartz received his medical degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago. In 1983, he completed training in internal medicine and an oncology fellowship at the Ohio State University Hospitals.

Dr. Brian R. Jacobs is Chief Medical Information Officer and Executive Director of the Center for Pediatric Informatics at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Children’s National, Dr. Jacobs was a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati as well as the Director of Technology and Patient Safety at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. While at Cincinnati Children’s he oversaw the implementation of their electronic medical record and was the principal author and recipient of the HIMSS Davies Award. Dr. Jacobs specializes in pediatric critical care medicine and has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, abstracts and scientific presentations. He frequently shares his knowledge in the pediatric space as a guest lecturer at conferences, leadership forums and hospitals. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Critical Care Medicine. He also is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, the Association of Medical Directors of Information Services, and is the current chairman of the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award Selection Committee. Dr. Jacobs received his master’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Oregon and his medical degree from Oregon Health and Sciences University.

Dr. Gray Woods, Clinical Information Systems Associate, Stormont-Vail HealthCare, Topeka, Kansas. Dr. Woods has been a member of the IS team at Stormont-Vail since August, 2005 supporting the NextGen EMR application and providing training to physicians, nurses and other clinical staff. He is a board-certified ophthalmologist and was formerly the Medical Director of the Ophthalmology Residency Program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine. Dr. Woods obtained his MD degree from UMKC in 1983 and completed his ophthalmology residency there in 1987.
Judy Hanover, MBA; Jim Kearns; Tom Pacek

Judy Hanover serves as research manager for Health Industry Insights' healthcare provider practice. An industry veteran, Ms. Hanover brings expertise in health care and the life sciences to her role, and provides research and market analysis on healthcare informatics. Ms. Hanover has a background in healthcare informatics, and experience working with life science, managed care, provider and clinical applications. Previously, Ms. Hanover served as a senior product marketing manager for drug safety for Phase Forward, Inc. where she was responsible for marketing drug safety and data management products to assist biopharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies with product safety and risk management strategies. Ms. Hanover was also a senior research analyst for IDC's life science practice, where she developed significant subject matter expertise in research areas including regulatory compliance, clinical trial IT infrastructure, drug development performance management, pharmacovigilance, and drug safety technology. She has also held positions in strategic planning, product management and market research at 3M Health Information Systems, Ingenix Inc., and McKesson Corporation. Ms. Hanover holds a BA in Chemistry from Harvard University, as well as an MBA, with concentration in Marketing, and an MS in Information Systems, from Boston University.

Jim Kearns is Vice President and CIO of Delnor Hospital. Mr. Kearns has over 26 years of technical experience, with more than 12 at the CIO level, and is considered a change agent who has defined and executed new strategies for a number of organizations. Prior to Delnor, he was the Vice President of IT at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, and was responsible for leading Rush through its transition to Epic. Mr. Kearns holds a Bachelor of Business degree from Western Illinois University and is currently an MBA candidate at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.

Thomas Pacek is the Vice President of Information Systems and CIO for South Jersey Healthcare. Prior to joining South Jersey Healthcare in January of 2008, he was the Vice President of Information Services Operations at Virtua Health. Previous to that, Mr. Pacek served as the Assistant Vice President of Technology for Virtua Health. He has over 26 years of healthcare information technology experience and is a member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and a member of the South Jersey EMRX Advisory Board. Currently, Mr. Pacek serves as the President-Elect of the Delaware Valley Chapter of HIMSS. He holds BS degrees in Administrative Systems Management and Accounting from Drexel University in Philadelphia and he will be receiving his MBA from Ellis University at the end of March.

Judy Van Norman serves as the Senior Director, Care Transformation at Banner Health within the Care Management department. She joined Banner Health in 1999, originally as a System Director in Information Technology. Prior to joining Banner, Judy was the Assistant Vice President for Clinical Systems at Memorial Hermann Healthcare in Houston. She has over 25 years of healthcare experience, primarily in I/T and clinical transformation leadership. 202B

Michael Van Ornum RPh, RN, BCPS is a Consulting Clinical Pharmacist for the Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association, secretary for the Pharmacy Society of Rochester, and the recipient of Clinical Practitioner of the Year 2006 award from the New York Chapter of ACCP. He provides consultative services to physicians in a clinically integrated healthcare environment and spearheaded the implementation of electronic prescribing, available to willing participants, with GRIPA's panel of over 500 physicians and their staff. Van Ornum is the author of Electronic Prescribing: A Safety and Implementation Guide. Prior to work at GRIPA, Mr. Van Ornum worked for five years as the Director of Infusion with American HomePatient after spending four years with Rochester General Hospital in roles including Acute Care Manager for inpatient pharmacy operations.

Victoria Viglucci was named Chief Information Officer of the Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association (GRIPA) in 2006. She is responsible for providing vision and leadership in the development and implementation of information technology to support GRIPA strategic initiatives on behalf of the GRIPA organization and its membership. Ms. Viglucci has been a familiar face in the Rochester information technology field for more than 20 years. Prior to her appointment as CIO, she served seven years as Director of Information Technology and Project Management for GRIPA. Before joining GRIPA, she was owner and principal at MasterLink Technologies. Ms. Viglucci, a Penfield resident and graduate of Brockport State University, has also worked in the ViaHealth System both at Independent Living for Seniors and Rochester General Hospital.

Paul DeCrosta is the Manager of the Regulatory Department in Inter-Plan Programs Division at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. His responsibilities include managing all regulatory activities and initiatives for Inter-Plan Programs. He is also responsible for regulatory/legislative compliance, including HIPAA, Health Information Technology and other industry-driven initiatives. Mr. DeCrosta has worked for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Associations since 2007. His prior experience includes 13 years at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida.

Elliot Sloane has dedicated over 30 years of his career to the healthcare and information technologies fields, with a focus on medical efficacy, efficiency, and safety. He is a past president of the American College of Clinical Engineering and the current co-chair of both HIMSS’ IHE Strategic Development Committee and the IHE Patient Care Device domain. Dr. Sloane’s research and teaching spans the biomedical engineering, medical informatics, and healthcare business management fields, and also extends into the Department of Defense's current net-centric enterprise excellence programs. He is a reviewer and writer for NIH and multiple journals and conferences and serves on several non-profit agency boards. Dr. Sloane has been a high-scoring presenter at each HIMSS Annual Conference since 2001, as well as several regional and HIMSS meetings.

Steve Zlotkus currently serves in a marketing/business development role for CAQH’s CORE Initiative. The Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) is a voluntary healthcare industry effort building consensus on operating (business) rules for the electronic exchange of healthcare information. As such, he engages with public and private stakeholders on both the national and state level. Mr. Zlotkus has served in various capacities within the healthcare industry over the past 15 years, including health plan account management and pharmaceutical quality control.

 Paul Kleeberg, MD, FAACP, is Medical Director of Clinical Decision Support for HealthEast Care System. He is responsible for designing point of care clinical decision support interventions and resources for HealthEast’s Inpatient Electronic Health Record (EHR) to support patient safety and quality improvement. Dr. Kleeberg has had several years experience implementing EHRs and clinical decision support tools in both the ambulatory and in-patient environments. At HealthEast he is using McKesson’s suite of products. His experience with EHRs began with the implementation of Eclipsys in two hospitals, the implementation of Logician ambulatory product in several clinics and in the creation of patient-oriented web sites for a health plan and a health system. More recently he assisted in a large health system’s transition to the full suite of Epic’s inpatient, ambulatory and personal health record products from other partially implemented inpatient and ambulatory EHRs.

Susan Heichert, is the VP, Health Information and Systems at Allina Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and leads a team that develops and supports the Electronic Health Record. She received her Bachelors Degree in Nursing from the University of Maryland and a Masters from the University of Minnesota. Susan has been working in Healthcare Informatics for 20 years. She is a HIMSS Fellow and past President of the Minnesota HIMSS chapter.

Robert See currently is Manager, Clinical Decision Support, for Allina Hospitals & Clinics in Minneapolis, MN, a role he has filled since the inception of the program. Previously he managed the Performance Improvement and Benefits Realization teams for Allina's Excellian EMR implementation. Bob has a background as a small group therapist in Mental Health, hospital and system quality program management, and a wide range of clinical and revenue improvement projects within Allina.

Rebekah A. Z. Monson is a senior attorney with Pepper Hamilton LLP, concentrating on healthcare matters. She counsels healthcare providers, hospitals and health systems, long-term care providers, service providers, outpatient diagnostic centers, and other healthcare companies and organizations on the legal issues presented by the implementation of information technologies in the health care industry, including telemedicine, computerized patient records, electronic medical communications and electronic health records, and the associated issues concerning privacy and security, identity theft and compliance. Ms. Monson also assists clients with business formation, corporate planning and structure, governance, contractual relationships, nonprofit corporation issues and business transactions. She is experienced in compliance issues (including HIPAA), fraud and abuse (including the federal Anti-Kickback Statute), Stark and physician self-referral, licensure, payment and other issues that affect health care providers and institutions under federal and state laws.

Terri Jacobsen has extensive experience in strategic systems planning, selection, implementation and evaluation of clinical systems in acute care, ambulatory, EMS, home care environments. Ms. Jacobsen has lead redesigning patient care and clinical systems for several acute care hospitals.

She won the HIMSS Clinical Systems Award in 1996 for promoting Clinical Systems within HIMSS; was on HIMSS Board of Directors 1993-1996; and founded the Midwest Alliance for Nursing Informatics in 1991.

Currently Ms. Jacobsen is the Director and Clinical Informaticist at Edward Hospital in Naperville, Illinois, a Magnet Hospital.

Tom Brennan has over a decade of experience attempting to circumvent, defeat or otherwise thwart client organizations’ internal and external security controls and has contributed to success of start-up's and commercial products. Mr. Brennan initially worked as an SYSOP for an 8-bit 516/BBS, writing code. Since then, Mr. Brennan has built multiple networks and molds applications to meet defined project requirements. He is a trusted member of AccessIT, Data Safe Services, Datek Online, ADP and the United States Marine Corps, and has successfully led security red teams for numerous federal, state and enterprise clients. Today, Mr. Brennan is a team member at WhiteHat Security and serves on the global board of the OWASP Foundation.

Blake Cornell is an IT innovator and developer with over 12 years experience in software and security. He has consulted Fortune 500 companies and various law enforcement agencies with hopes of utilizing technology to ease real world issues. Currently, Mr. Cornell has vested interests in multiple companies providing network and application security as well as VoIP telephony. Additionally, Mr. Cornell developed Security Scraper, a program that harvests over 500 computer security related records daily which he uses to track trends within the security industry. Mr. Cornell is a member of InfraGard, a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the private sector, and OWASP, the premier application security consortium.

Alan Gilbert

Alan Gilbert has been in healthcare and healthcare Information Technology (IT) for 21 years. Mr. Gilbert has been a member of HIMSS for over 15 years. Mr. Gilbert has worked for Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), IT Consultants, and Healthcare IT software vendors. One of Mr. Gilbert's most rewarding and most challenging professional experience was being one of the founding members of a Healthcare IT Consulting and Software development company. We grew the company from scratch to 40 team members and worked on transformative healthcare IT projects.

Jacob Margolin

Mr. Margolin is a successful "serial entrepreneur" with over 15 years experience in HIT. In the mid-1990’s, Mr. Margolin co-founded a pioneering Medical Imaging technology company and led its marketing, global business development and North American operations through a $50M acquisition by Kodak (2004). In 2005, he joined Accelarad – a Georgia Tech Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) incubator company. Mr. Margolin refocused the business on SaaS-based recurring revenue model leading to 4X growth. In 2008, he started a consulting firm helping Israeli medical technologies enter the US market. Mr. Margolin holds an MS degree in medical physics (magna cum laude) and BS degrees in Mathematics and Physics (magna cum laude) from Tel-Aviv University in Israel. He is an active board member of the American-Israeli Chamber of Commerce and a member of HIMSS.

Amy Berlin, Physician Consultant, Dr. Berlin’s diverse background as both practicing psychiatrist and informatics consultant gives her an integrative approach to organizational change. She is is passionate about the way the right information systems help large organizations transform.

Amy Cueva is Founder and Chief Experience Officer, Mad*Pow.  She partners with clients to create strong multi-channel experience strategies, intuitive digital experiences, and streamlined processes. Ms. Cueva built Mad*Pow's user-centered design methodology as the vehicle to synergize business goals, customer needs, and technology requirements. She is the secretary and one of the charter members of the NH UPA, presented at UPA 2009, and was selected as one of Mass High Tech's Women to Watch in 2009.

Amy Cueva

Amy Cueva is Founder, Chief Experience Officer and healthcare principal at Mad*Pow. Amy partners with clients like New England Journal of Medicine, Google, Aetna, Fidelity and Monster to create strong multi-channel experience strategies, intuitive digital experiences and streamlined processes.

Amy Thorpe

Amy Thorpe as over 20 years experience in leading-edge clinical systems implementations from closed-loop medication administration and CPOE.

Anita Samart
Director: eHealthDC - DC Regional Extension Center

Ms. Samarth is President and Co-Founder of Clinovations and is currently leading implementation and technical assistance for eHealthDC. She has over 15 years of HIT experience and is the co-author of EHRs for Dummies (Wiley Publishing Dec. 2010).

Greg Fuller
Program Manager: eHealthDC - DC Regional Extension Center

Mr. Fuller is a Manager with Clinovations and Program Manager for eHealthDC (DC REC) where he manages operations and implementation services.

Anna Daly

Anna Daly, MSN, RN is the HIE Coordinator for ICA of Nashville, TN. She is also on the HIMSS Privacy and Security Steering Committee. Ms Daly works with multiple RHIOs and IDNs across the nation utilizing ICA’s CareAlign community platform for Health Informatics.

Annette Asher
Director, Life Sciences Information Systems: HIMSS

Annette Asher is Director, Life Sciences Information Systems, for HIMSS, the largest U.S. cause-based, not-for-profit healthcare association focused on the optimal use of information technology and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. At HIMSS, Asher directs life sciences efforts leading LSIT Committee in the development of Good Informatics Practices (GIP), an aggregation of best practices, standards, regulations and tools to facilitate the deployment of better, faster and more affordable IT systems within life science and healthcare organizations. Asher directs the focus of volunteers to develop the GIP Guidance Document as a clear ""playbook, one that will enable CIOs in the health and life sciences to bring greater focus on return on investment for the company. Asher has been a board member of the Sharp HeatlhCare Foundation for over 14 years where she currently serves as Chairperson of the Board and committee chair for special projects funding. Additionally, she is a director of the board of the Sharp HealthCare System, a $2.3B non-profit hospital system.

Astha Malik
Senior Marketing Manager
Citrix Systems, Inc.

Todd J. Bruni
Director, Identity & Configuration Management
Christus Health

Florian Becker
Director, Worldwide consulting Solutions
Citrix Systems, Inc.

Barbara Demster, Privacy & Security Consultant, has over 25 years experience in health information management and systems in a wide range of settings which include hospitals, health plans, physician practices, ambulatory clinics, long-term care, home health, rehabilitation, clearinghouse, regulatory agency, eHealth, private & public sector. She has been actively involved in privacy and security and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act since 1997 and in health information exchange (HIE) since 2007. Her privacy, security and HIE related activities include holding positions as Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer for provider and IT consulting corporations overseeing HIPAA privacy and security rollout in over 150 covered entities. Barbara currently Chairs the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Workgroup on Patient Identity Integrity and is Privacy Editor for the HIMSS Privacy & Security Toolkit an online resource for Privacy and security information. She is past chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Steering Committee. She is currently Co-Chair of the AHIMA HIE Practice Council and was a member of the Joint AHIMA/HIMSS HIE Workgroup on Privacy & Security. She has published extensively on the topic of Privacy & Security and related issues.

Barbara Morris

Pediatrician Dr. Barbara Morris is Chief Medical Officer at Community Care Physicians in Albany, New York.

Beth Schindele

Beth Schindele is the project director of the Delaware Regional Extension Center at Quality Insights of Delaware, Wilmington, DE, where she previously lead the CMS DOQ-IT Project assisting in EHR system implementation for more than 100 Delaware practices, mostly small-to-mid size primary care providers and FQHCs. Ms. Schindele also serves as a consultant to the Delaware Health Information Network, Medical Society of Delaware and Christiana Care Health System’s Community EHR Program.

Michael Lampros

Michael Lampros currently serves as the Assistant Director of Human Resources at the West Virginia Medical Institute, the health care quality improvement organization located in Charleston, WV. In this role, Mr. Lampros oversees staff recruiting for the Delaware Regional Extension Center.  Mr. Lampros has more than 12 years of experience recruiting and hiring health-care professionals in the acute care setting and in the area of quality review; 10 years of experience in corporate planning for a major, regional medical center; and 8 years of experience in college and university recruitment and admissions.  A member of the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), Mr. Lampros holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Bob Dolin, Principal Semantically Yours, LLC - Chair, HL7, Bob has been active in healthcare interoperability standards development for the past 15 years. He is the Chairman of the Board of HL7, and co-editor of the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture and the Continuity of Care Document.

Liora Alschuler, Principal - Alschuler Associates, is a developer of XML-based standards for the exchange of electronic healthcare information and a consultant in their application to providers and system vendors. In 1997 she led the project that produced the design of the first XML-based exchange specification for healthcare, called the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). She is the principal at Alschuler Associates, LLC, currently designing and implementing standards-based solutions for the nation's largest providers and public health agencies. Liora helped launch The Health Story Project (CDA for Common Document Types) which is developing implementation guidance to support the integration of millions of clinical documents into the electronic health record.

Bruce Henderson
National Leader, EHR/HIE Practice: PwC

Mr. Henderson has more than 33 years experience in leading, growing and advising healthcare systems, academic medical centers, managed care organizations, and large multi-specialty group practices.

Dr. Glenn Mitchell
MD, MPH, CPE, Chief Medical Officer: Sisters of Mercy Health System

Dr. Glenn Mitchell is Chief Medical Officer for the Sisters of Mercy Health System. He is responsible for the Center for Medical Informatics and the Center for Quality and Safety as well as the full spectrum of physician-related programs such as EHR implementation, evidence based medicine use, and physician leader development. For thirty years he has been involved, locally and nationally, in the development of emergency and preventive medicine, clinical and administrative practice, and provider and staff education. Dr. Mitchell is a graduate of Brown University and Brown University Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island. He is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Aerospace Medicine. He is also a Certified Physician Executive. Dr. Mitchell is Past President of the Aerospace Medical Association and former Vice-Chair of the American Board of Preventive Medicine. Dr Mitchell has received many honors and awards including the Defense Superior Service Medal and has published over 40 papers and book chapters.

Carol Steltankamp
MD, MBA, Chief Medical Information Officer, UK HealthCare: Co-Chair, Kentucky eHealth Network

Dr. Steltenkamp is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Kentucky with experience in private practice and traditional academic medicine. Dr. Steltenkamp received a B.S. from Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH and an M.D. from the University of Cincinnati. After completing her MBA at the University of Kentucky, she became particularly interested in Healthcare Information Technology and Financing and their impact on her ability to provide the highest quality of care for her patients in a cost-effective manner. Dr. Steltenkamp is the Chief Medical Information Officer for UK HealthCare and is the Co-Chair of the Kentucky eHealth Network. She is an active clinician, educator, and funded researcher. She is a recognized leader in the implementation and use of the electronic medical record to improve health outcomes.

Caroline Piselli

Ms. Piselli manages global ICD-10 and Pay for Performance programs for 3M, including strategic planning, business development, and operational design. She began her career as an intensive care nurse, earned her MBA, and is an ACHE Fellow.

Christopher Paidhrin,, is the Security Compliance Officer for Southwest Washington Medical Center (SWMC) in Vancouver, WA. He has worked for many years in IT and business operations, in higher education, private sector and entrepreneur environments.

Scott Morrow,Vice President - Healthcare Information Exchange of NY(HIXNY), is responsible for managing operations, member outreach and vendor management. Prior to being named Vice President, Momrow worked with HIXNY as an independent product consultant. Previously he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for nfrastructure Technologies; held several management positions with National Medical Health Card Systems, Inc. including Vice President of Strategic Data Management Services; and served as Director of Solutions Consulting and Regional Sales Director for Integrail. Momrow earned a Master’s of Public Health degree from the State University of New York at Albany and a Bachelor’s degree in biology from Siena College.

Igor Kraev, Medical Director of Informatics - Ellis Medicine, Igor Kraev, M.D. is a physician with Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, (upstate) NY. Ellis Medicine is the result of a recent merge of three hospitals and is now the sole provider of acute hospital care in Schenectady County. With more than 3,400 employees, more than 700 affiliated physicians, three campuses and five additional service locations, Ellis Medicine offers a lifetime of care for patients – from maternity, acute hospital care and outpatient services to sub-acute / nursing home care. He became the hospital’s Medical Director of Informatics 7 years ago. In this position, he played a leadership role in the organizational transformation from an old technology platform and being in a low tier of technological hospitals in the area, to a top technology developed organization in upstate NY. For many years he has been and continues to be an active member of Health Information Exchange New York (RHIO) and Medical Society of New York HIT committee. He is the author of many presentations in medical informatics done at local, regional and national levels. Dr. Kraev is a board certified Family Medicine Practitioner delivering primary care at Ellis Family Practice Associates group for more than 12 years.

Dan DeMaioNewton
Director of Strategy and Business Development: Monster Worldwide

Dan DeMaioNewton is the Director of Strategy and Business Development at Monster Worldwide. In his role, he has led Monster's largest initiatives that have resulted in millions of people getting better jobs faster. Dan was the chief architect and program manager behind the re-engineering of USAJOBS, the award-winning official career site of the US Federal government. He holds 3 patents relating to job matching, has launched more than a dozen major job seeker enhancements on Monster.com, and most recently worked with the United Nations & World Bank to help them get the right talent to fix the global economic crisis. Founder of BetterJobsFaster (http://www.betterjobsfaster.org), Dan works with thousands of job seekers, employers, and career leaders to help people achieve their full career potential.

Dan Furlong

Dan manages the PMO and the data warehouse at MUSC. He’s a frequent speaker at international conferences, including HIMSS, the PMI SCC International PM Conference, the International Program Office Summit, and the GMIS International Conference.

Lynn Garrett

Lynn is the Product Manager of the Health Data Warehouse at TELUS Health Solutions and has 20 years of project management, software development and implementation experience with the last 9 years focused on Healthcare software.

Daniela Mahoney
RN, BSN, President and CEO: Healthcare Innovative Solutions

Daniela has over 20 years of experience as a pioneer in CPOE implementation. As a bedside nurse she became motivated to improve healthcare by assisting in the advancement of HIT for both clinicians and patients and ultimately to save lives.

David Ehrenberger

David Ehrenberger, MD, is Chief Medical Officer at Avista Adventist Hospital and integrated Physician Network. He serves on the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care Board of Directors and is Vice President of Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative.

David Finn serves as Health IT Officer at Symantec where he is responsible for promoting solutions that secure and manage electronic health-related information.  Mr. Finn works closely with healthcare CIOs to create  initiatives tailored to each organization's specific needs.  He received an undergraduate degree from the University of North Dakota and a graduate degree from Angelo State University.  He is both a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Lisa A. Gallagher, BSEE, CISM, CPHIMS serves as HIMSS’ Senior Director of Privacy and Security.  In this role, she is responsible for all of the privacy and security programs and volunteer Steering Committee, Task Force and five Work Groups.  As well, Ms. Gallagher provides privacy and security content support for HIMSS’ Federal and State Government relations/advocacy work.  Before joining HIMSS, she served as the Certification Development Director for the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) (www.cchit.org) , where she helped develop the product certification program for electronic health record (EHR) products.  In a past position as Senior Vice President of the Health Information Technology Department at URAC, an independent, nonprofit healthcare accreditation organization, Ms. Gallagher created and managed a series of information technology-focused healthcare accreditation programs, including the HIPAA Privacy and Security Accreditations.  Ms. Gallagher has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, is a certified trust technology evaluator (NSA), and is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) (ISACA). She is also a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS).

Ms. Horowitz has more than ten years of experience in researching healthcare IT adoption and trends. In the last five years she has been extensively engaged in primary market research projects for healthcare IT that have investigated the adoption of electronic medical records, medical devices, security and IT governance structures. She has been highly involved with consulting engagements related to the Electronic Medical Record Adoption ModelSM that evaluates the sophistication of an organization’s clinical IT environments and the effectiveness of the organization’s IT environment related to peer groups. Ms. Horowitz has also published a number of articles that address the trends in the industry. Prior to joining HIMSS Analytics, she held a management role at Dorenfest & Associates. Jennifer has a Masters Degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and Bachelors Degree from Syracuse University. 

David Gaydosh
North American Lead for Accenture's Provider ICD-10 Offering, Senior Executive: Accenture Health and Public Service

A senior executive within Accenture’s Healthcare Practice David Gaydosh has spent 15 years in the financial industry and is currently focused on Revenue cycle foundation offerings and expanding ICD-10

Deborah Bass

Deborah Bass is the Executive Director for the Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII). Ms. Bass directed the creation of this 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation and currently oversees and manages the continued efforts in the development of Nebraska’s statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE). Her duties have included creating and developing stakeholder relationships, building consensus and support for the organization, developing and implementing the consumer educational campaigns, leading the committee effort to develop the privacy, security and operational policies, and a multitude of other activities associated with implementing HIE. She is a regular public speaker for national conferences on a number of topics surrounding the development and future of HIE.

Deborah Kohn
MPH, RHIA, FACHE, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, Principal: Dak Systems Consulting

In 1985 Deborah Kohn founded Dak Systems Consulting a national healthcare information technology advisory consultancy. Deborah has over thirty years of healthcare provider organization management and information technology experience.

Ms. Jones is an informatics professional, with experience in CPOE, EMR, practice management, eMAR, and clinical documentation implementations as well as nursing minimum data sets and outcome measures. Prior to her career in consulting, Ms. Jones worked as a clinical applications and project manager for large healthcare organizations. The experience with working on numerous CPOE projects has positioned Ms. Jones to provide clinical expertise and guidance for Greencastle?s recent CPOE project at Atlantic Health. A nurse for over 16 years, Ms. Jones began her career in critical care nursing at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Dr. Petron currently holds a dual appointment as the Director of Medical Informatics and Pediatric Hospitalist within Atlantic Health System, located in Northern New Jersey. Prior to his career in medicine, Dr. Petron worked as an Information System consultant with Andersen Consulting.   This exposure to information systems consulting made him at natural choice as the Physician Champion for the Computerized Provider Order Management Project in the Pediatric Department. Dr. Petron went on to initiate the Clinical Excellence Committee, a key group that provides clinical technology guidance for the project.  Since then, Dr. Petron has performed a number of presentations and webinars on the topic of CPOE implementation. These include; InSight (a national McKesson users group) meetings, CHIME College Live webinars, and Healthcare Academy focus groups. Dr. Petron is also a member of the McKesson Informatics Working Group which serves as a product development advisory team to the McKesson Corporation.

Denise Reeser
MBA, Senior Member HIMSS, Founder and Managing Principal: New Heights Consulting LLC

Thirty plus years as CIO and executive consultant with experience in IT and HIE strategic and operational planning project management and system implementation. Senior Member in HIMSS and President of the Maryland HIMSS chapter.

Sarah Orth
Health Policy Analyst: Maryland Health Care Commission

Sarah Orth is a Health Policy Analyst at the Maryland Health Care Commission’s Center for Health Information Technology; responsibilities include analytical and project management activities to advance health information technology initiatives.

Dr. Richard Hodach
Chief Medical Officer: Phytel Inc.

Dr. Richard Hodach CMO Phytel has long been recognized as an advocate of integrating IT with the practice of medicine. Prior to Phytel he held leadership positions at Matria Healthcare and Accordant. He also cofounded MED.I.A.

Dr. Mary K. Stull
RN, PhD, VP/COO, Physician Practice Division: Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare

Dr. Stull has been with Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare for 15 years and served as director of Administrative Services & director of Surgical Services. Dr. Stull has held staff and management positions with the AHA hospitals & consulting firms.

Dr, Stephen Ondra, Dr. Stephen Ondra, M.D., was appointed as Senior Policy Advisor for Health Affairs in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by President Obama on May 10, 2009. Prior to that, he served on the Veterans Affairs group in the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team, as well as on the Obama-Biden Campaign Health Policy and Veteran’s Policy committees.  Dr. Ondra first entered government service as a Cadet at the U.S. Military Academy. After receiving injuries in a training accident, Dr. Ondra completed pre-medical studies at Illinois Wesleyan University. By his graduation in 1984, Dr. Ondra had recovered sufficiently from his injuries to allow him to re-enter Army service while earning his doctorate at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Ill. He completed his residency training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he received specialized instruction in spine surgery and reconstruction in both the neurosurgery and orthopedic specialties.  Dr. Ondra was deployed to Saudi Arabia from 1990 to 1991 in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. His service was recognized with a Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medal. Following his deployment, he was assigned to Walter Reed and became the Director of Spine and Skull-base Surgery.

Erik Pupo

Mr. Pupo currently serves as the chief architect to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) for the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program, as well as Strategic Advisor to the NHIN.

Floyd Eisenberg
MD, MPH, FACP, Senior Vice President for Health Information Technology
National Quality Forum

Floyd Eisenberg, MD, MPH, FACP is the senior vice president for health information technology (HIT) at the National Quality Forum (NQF). Dr. Eisenberg is responsible for leading the development and direction of NQF’s HIT strategies and projects aimed at facilitating the establishment of electronic data sources capable of supporting performance measurement and public reporting. Dr. Eisenberg is an internal medicine physician with a subspecialty in infectious diseases with eleven years in clinical practice, four years as a managed care medical director, and more than 10 years in the informatics field. His primary focus has been repurposing data for use in population health, outcome reporting, research and surveillance activities, and alignment with electronic health record formats. Before joining NQF, Dr. Eisenberg worked as a senior key expert with Siemens Healthcare, where he led quality-related IT industry efforts.

Helen Burstin
MD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Performance Measures
National Quality Forum

Helen Burstin, MD, MPH is the senior vice president for performance measures at the National Quality Forum (NQF), a nonprofit membership organization created to develop and implement a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting. Dr. Burstin joined NQF in January 2007 and is responsible for the NQF consensus development process and projects related to performance measures and practices. Prior to joining NQF, Dr. Burstin was the Director of the Center for Primary Care, Prevention, and Clinical Partnerships at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In her role, she oversaw the development of the Health Information Technology (IT) portfolio which invested over $166 million on research at the intersection of health IT and quality of care. Her center also supported the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and an extensive body of research on primary care and prevention. Prior to joining AHRQ in 2000, Dr. Burstin was an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Quality Measurement at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In her role, she developed a hospital-wide electronic Quality Measurement Reporting System. She also served as the Chair of the Medical Staff Executive Committee on Quality Assurance and Risk Management.

Gaurov Dayal

Dr. Gaurov Dayal, VP / CMO of Adventist HealthCare, directs the group’s clinical integration and strategic initiatives. Dayal is board certified in Pediatrics, has an undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins Univ. and an M.D. from Northwestern Univ.

Arumani Manisundaram

Arumani Manisundaram, Dir. of Ambulatory Care EHR Support Initiative at Adventist HealthCare, leads the ACES initiative. He was Program Manager for the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid Project and a CCHIT workgroup member.

Gerry Yantis is a Vice President in Capgemini’s US Health Practice and Global Health Lead. He has over 24 years of experience in delivery of business transformation programs.

Drs. Toon van der Werf MSc
Capgemini Netherlands

Toon van der Werf is a consultant for IT in Healthcare with Capgemini in the Netherlands. He started working in IT Services in 1996, specializing in innovation and business development in both strategy development as well as the healthcare providers and healthcare insurance market since 2000. He is associated as innovation manager to a regional service provider in healthcare in the Hague region where he is actively involved in developing new healthcare services to raise the quality of care. Toon has written several articles regarding (health) information exchanges and privacy in healthcare.

Greg Caressi
Vice President, Healthcare and Life Sciences Frost & Sullivan, LIST Committee Chair

Andrew
PhD, Vice President, Information Systems, LIST Committee Vice Chair

Harvey Wright is a Senior Systems Analyst with Excela Health, an award-winning healthcare provider with more than 725 medical professionals across 35 specialties serving the residents of Pennsylvania?s Westmoreland County. In his role, Harvey has played a key role in helping the healthcare network leverage technology to enhance processes as a means for creating greater patient service and business efficiency.

James Deren, Healthcare IT Planning Specialist - CareTech Solutions, PMP and CPHIMS certified senior project manager specializing in strategic planning solutions for healthcare organizations. Over 30 years of IT experience with over 20 focused on healthcare IT. Speaker on planning services at CHIME and Midwest HIMSS.

Heidi Blizard, EMR/CPOE Project Manager, Crittenton Hospital, Heidi Blizzard is responsible for working with both clinical departments and IT to design applications to be efficient, practical, complete, and user friendly.  She is a liaison between the Clinical Departments (including physicians) and Information Technology (IT) Department in developing the Electronic Medical Record (EMR). 

As a Registered Nurse, Heidi’s experience includes 4 years of clinical floor nursing and 7 years of leadership responsibilities as Nurse Manager for Crittenton’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit.  Heidi assumed her current position in October 2006.  Nurse advocacy is necessary to transform practice, documentation, and display of results in hospital EMR.

Jared Quoyeser

MHA, MBA, Director, Americas Healthcare Industry Management, Intel Corporation

Lisa Gallagher

Lisa has over 25 years of experience in security engineering, hardware design and software development. She is a thought leader with respect to the practical application of security techniques/standards as well as privacy and security policy.

Robert Tennant

At MGMA, Robert focuses on federal legislative and regulatory health information technology issues, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), EHRs, e-prescribing and ICD-10.

Jasmin Phua, User Experience Researcher and Designer - Design for Context, is a user experience researcher/designer with 10 years of experience translating operational processes into tangible, easy-to-use products. She helps organizations reconcile the disparate needs of end-users with business models and technology.

Lisa Battle, User-Centered Design Lead - Design for Context has 15 years of experience in eliciting user needs, designing to support user performance, and leading successful user-centered design projects. She has designed usable software an web-based applications in a variety of industries.

Duane Degler, User-Centered Design Strategist and Semantic Web Expert - Design for Context is a strategist who has led user research, interaction design and content management projects for commercial and government clients, backed by 25 years consulting experience in knowledge management and business performance.

Jeff Finkelstein, Chief of Emergency Medicine - The Hospital of Central Connecticut, manages 30 physicians/PAs who treat over 100,000 patients per year at The Hospital of Central Connecticut. He is a graduate of Albert Einstein School of Medicine, is residency trained in emergency medicine and a former Air Force officer.

Jonathan Rothman, Principal - Emergency Medicine Business Intelligence is 20 year healthcare veteran focused on improving delivery by engineering greater technology integration of technology and clinical operations. He ran a BI practice for a multi-site Group Practice of more than 360 Emergency Department physicians.

Jeffery Belden, Department of Family and Community Medicine) - University of Missouri, Practicing family physician. 30 years experience clinical practice. Faculty at University of Missouri, affiliated faculty at Information Experience Lab at the School of Information Sciences and Learning Technologies. Chair HIMSS EHR Usability Task Force.

Janey Barnes, Human Factors Specialist - User-View Inc, PhD in Cognitive Psychology from UMass, Amherst. Principle of User-View, Inc. +15 years as Human Factors consultant. User centered design experience with hospital and ambulatory electronic medical records and patient health portals.

Dr. Aalberg received his BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his MS from the University of Oregon, and his MD from the University of Massachusetts. He completed his Family Medicine residency t the Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program.  After years in  private practice, Dr. Aalberg joined the Faculty of the Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program.  He served as Medical Director and Associate Chief of Family Medicine until he entered his current role as MMC Physician-Hospital Organization Senior Medical Director.  He  served the MaineHealth system as  Medical Director with concentrations in infection control, orthopedic registries and pharmacy.  Dr. Aalberg continues to be involved with the Department of Family Medicine as a practicing physician, preceptor, medical student mentor and Adjunct Faculty. The current PHO leadership role allows participation in health care improvement at the practice, system and state levels.

Natalie Berger is a licensed psychologist and certified Project Management Professional with 20 years of experience in healthcare delivery and 14 years of experience in Healthcare IT. Natalie serves on the HIMSS Ambulatory Steering committee, is CPHIMS certified and an IIE Six Sigma Greenbelt in Healthcare.  Dr. Berger is the recipient of the American College of Mental Health Administration Timothy J. Coakley Leadership Award for 2004 for transformational change in behavioral healthcare. She works primarily now to help position clients with EHR planning and advisory services ensuring the structure, approach and organizational support to achieve meaningful use. Dr. Berger is the author of several articles in peer reviewed publications focusing on change management and achieving clinical outcome improvement using evidenced based best practices; she also serves adjunct faculty for Regis University specializing in organizational performance.

Tracy Callahan is a Registered Nurse & Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE).  Prior to joining the MMC Physician-Hospital Organization she worked for 6 years as a CDE at the Maine Center for Diabetes as well as for the MaineHealth TARGET Diabetes program as a Clinical Nurse Specialist & Improvement Advisor.  Currently she is working as Director, Quality Programs at the MMC Physician-Hospital Organization.  In her current role she oversees the outreach efforts to primary and specialty care practices.  Efforts focus on assisting practices to achieve national clinical recognitions in identified areas, excel in pay-for-performance programs and optimize office workflows, efficiency and patient access.

Jeff Belden MD is a family physician on the faculty at the University of Missouri – Columbia in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and on the affiliated faculty at the Information Experience Lab. He has a special interest in improving EMR usability, and in the visual display of information. Responsibilities currently include user training, implementations, collaboration in product development with Cerner on their ambulatory EMR, and collaboration with human-computer interaction colleagues in the IE Lab. He serves as Chair of the HIMSS EMR Usability Task Force. His past experiences in photography, film-making, layout and design, typography, and consulting in healthcare software design inform his approach to user-centered design.

Jeremy Delinsky
Chief Technology Officer, athenahealth

athenahealth Inc. is a leading provider of web-native practice management and EHR software a continuously updated payer knowledge-base integrated back-office service operations and automated and live patient communication services.

Joycelyn E. Piccone
Chief Operating Officer, Wright State Physicians

Joycelyn Piccone has over 20 years in healthcare operations ranging from hospital to private practice and academic organizations. Physician recruitment and adaptation to new techonology (EMR) is the most rewarding part of hercurrent position. Reimbursement rates and creative revenue streams are the most challenging areas in today's healthcare arena.

Jessica Kahn

At the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Jessica Kahn currently serves as a Technical Director for Health IT in the Center for Medicaid, CHIP, Survey and Certification. In her role she contributes to HIT/E policy development, Federal HIT coordination and oversight of States’ implementation of the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program. She also serves as the Project Officer for the HIT-focused Medicaid Transformation Grants and is the CMS lead for the CHIPRA-funded project to develop a model pediatric EHR format, in partnership with AHRQ. Jessica has been working in healthcare in Federal or State government for over 17 years.

Joe Miller
FHIMSS, Director, E-Business: AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies

Joe Miller has over 20 years healthcare IT experience in provider, health plan and government settings. As Director of E-Business for AmeriHealth Mercy he develops industry leading approaches to the delivery of administrative and clinical transactions for five Medicaid managed care health plans serving over 1 million members. Previously he was systems manager for Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington Delaware. He chairs the HIMSS Financial Systems Steering Committee which directs HIMSS efforts around administrative systems including 5010/ICD-10, and revenue cycle management. He speaks frequently on administrative and clinical transaction topics. Among his many publications is the book, "Implementing the Electronic Health Record: Case Studies and Strategies for Success," (HIMSS, 2005)

Joey Lawhorn
PMP, CPC, Senior Consultant: Hubbert Systems Consulting Inc.

Joey Lawhorn PMP has direct experience HIPAA 5010 with over 8 years experience as an active participant in X12N; the last 2 years devoted to activities surrounding the adoption and implementation of 5010. She is a co-chair to the X12N TG4.

John D. Halamka
Chief Information Officer
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Co-Chair
HIT Standards Committee

John D. Halamka, MD, MS, is Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chief Information Officer at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)/Co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee, and a practicing Emergency Physician

John Glatthorn

John P. Glatthorn is project manager and chair of the ICD-10 transition team for the ICD-10 Enterprise Initiative and HIPAA 5010 projects at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He has over 8 years experience as both a project manager and program manager managing change and compliance initiatives for complex business environments. John is also the former COO of a physician group practice where he was responsible for all revenue cycle operations and compliance. His specialties include the planning and implementation for multiple EHR vendors including McKesson and Epic along with a subspecialty in HIPAA EDI transactions. John has also lectured widely on topics such as information security, practice management, ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 for multiple trade associations such as HIMSS, Project Management Institute and The National Association of Women Business Owners.

Mr. Kansky is Vice President for Business Development for the Indiana Health Information Exchange.  He has worked in the healthcare technology field for 22 years with experience in healthcare information technology, health information exchange, and biomedical technology.  He has served organizations in the role of Chief Information Officer, Director of Information Systems, and Director of Clinical Engineering and has spoken nationally on healthcare IT, health information exchange, and HIPAA compliance.  Mr. Kansky has a BS in Electrical Engineering, an MS in Biomedical Engineering and an MBA.  He currently serves on the Health Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) Healthcare Information Exchange Steering Committee and the board of the Indiana Chapter of HIMSS.

Joyce Sensmeier
RN-BC, MS, CPHIMS, Vice President, Clinical Informatics: HIMSS

Joyce Sensmeier is Vice President of Informatics for HIMSS, the largest U.S. cause-based, not-for-profit healthcare association focused on the optimal use of information technology and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. HIMSS represents approximately 35,000 individual members, more than 520 corporate members and 120 not-for-profit organizations that share its mission. Sensmeier joined HIMSS as the Director of Professional Services in 2000. In her current role, she oversees clinical informatics, standards, interoperability, and privacy and security. Sensmeier became Board Certified in Nursing Informatics in 1996, earned the Certified Professional in Health Information and Management Systems in 2002, and achieved fellowship status in HIMSS in 2005. She is an adjunct faculty member in the School of Nursing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She previously served at Palos Community Hospital in Palos Heights, Ill., as a nursing coordinator leading clinical information system implementations.

Deborah Bulger
CPHQ, Executive Director, Product Management: McKesson Enterprise Intelligence

My early career was in medical technology; I was director of a hospital lab. I became interested in using statistical analysis in hospital quality in the early 80s as we began to collect measurement data and took a role in leading the quality management department in our hospital in central Texas. I was recruited to MediQual, a small company based in New England, as a consultant and data analyst and served several roles there of the next 11 years. In 2002 I joined McKesson's analytics division as product manager. My most challenging experience has been to make clinical data a mainstream resource in the hospital for measuring quality and identifying ways to improve care - rather than the "easy and cheap" financial data. As it turns out, that has been the most rewarding as I believe the industry has begun to recognize this need. I now sit at the table with CFOs, CMOs and CNOs to set organizational strategy that considers financial and clinical data as a requirement for business performance.

Judith A. Murphy
VP, Information Technology
Aurora Health Care, Inc.

For 25 years Judy Murphy has held national prominence as a Health IT executive, leader in the nursing informatics community, and much-sought after speaker for health informatics conferences.  She is Vice President – IT Applications at Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, an integrated delivery network with 15 hospitals, 120 ambulatory centers, hone health agencies and over 29,000 employees.  Ms. Murphy oversees all application software supporting clinical and business operations at Aurora’s acute care facilities.  She has published and lectured nationally and internationally on system implementation methodologies, automated clinical documentation, and the use of technology to support evidence-based practice.  Ms. Murphy served on the AMIA Board of Directors and is currently on the HIMSS Board of Directors.  She is a Fellow in both the American College of Medical Informatics and HIMSS.  She received the 2006 HIMSS Nursing Informatics Leadership Award, and was named one of the “20 People Who Make Healthcare Better” in 2007 by HealthLeaders magazine.  She was appointed to the Health IT Standards Committee, a federal advisory body to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.  On that committee, she co-chairs the Implementation Workgroup.

Juhan Sonin, Creative Director - Involution Studios, is the Creative Director of Involution Studios and has spent time at Apple, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and MITRE. He's also a lecturer on design and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Karen Handmaker
Director of Population Health Services at Phytel, Inc.

Karen Handmaker is Director of Population Health Services at Phytel, Inc. Karen has had a progressive career in population management, particularly health & productivity, in client-facing and internal leadership positions including benefits consultant, sales and client management, and marketing.

Leah Tew
RN, MBA, Manager Healthcare Informatics: Thomas Eye Group

Leah Tew is a registered nurse and manager of health and information management systems for a 20+ physician ophthalmology practice in metro-Atlanta. Her areas of specialty include training work flow re-engineering and process management.

Lindsay Farrell

Lindsay Farrell, MBA, FACMPE is President and Chief Executive Officer of Open Door Family Medical Clinics. Having prevously served as Open Door’s Director of Operations and Director of Development, Ms. Farrell has worked on behalf of both the internal and external constituents of the health center. In her role as Director of Development, she was responsible for a one million dollar capital fund drive to purchase and renovate an adjacent building for a major facility expansion in the center’s Ossining location. As the Director of Operations, Ms. Farrell led the center in its first ever JCAHO accreditation that resulted in a score of 99. At the request of the Bureau of Primary Health Care, Ms. Farrell was a member of the expert panel initiating the patient visit redesign collaborative directed by the Bureau’s Quality Center. Ms. Farrell is a member of the Board of Directors of the Community Health Care Association of New York State, of Health Source/Hudson Health Plan, and of the Port Chester Council of Community Services. She is also Chair of the Westchester Women’s Agenda. Ms. Farrell is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and received her Masters in Business Administration from the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. She is a Fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives.

Meghann Hardesty

Meghann Hardesty has served as THINC’s program director since October 2009. She functions as second-in-command to the executive director and is responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations of key programs. Hardesty maintains a strong working knowledge of THINC’s programs, handles key interactions with THINC’s constituents and committees, and briefs the THINC Board of Directors as needed. In her current and past roles she has demonstrated the ability to successfully administer projects, collaborate across organizations and systems, and communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders. After graduating from Vassar College cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in political science, Hardesty worked as associate grants administrator for the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. She also spent more than seven years in administration and development roles at Open Door Family Medical Centers, a federally-qualified community health center based in Westchester County, as well as Families First New York, a human services agency in Dutchess County. She holds a masters degree in public administration with a concentration in health policy from Baruch College, where she was inducted into the Pi Alpha Alpha honor society for public affairs. She earned her certification as a medical practice executive from ACMPE in 2007.

Manuel C. Co Jr, Adjunct Informatics Lecturer, Hunter-Bellevue - School of Nursing, Professor Manuel C. Co Jr. has held progressive informatics leadership positions since the mid-1990s and currently teaches the undergraduate and graduate informatics courses at Hunter College CUNY.

Ms. Daley is a 1996 graduate of Benedictine University (M.B.A.) and a 1979 cum laude graduate of Rush University with a Bachelor?s of Science in Nursing.  She has been a Registered Nurse in Illinois since 1979.  Ms. Daley is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Society of Radiation Oncology Administrators, American Association of Cancer Executives, American Healthcare Radiology Administrators, American College of Healthcare Executives, American Organization of Nurse Executives, American Association of Healthcare Consultants, IL Organization of Nurse Executives, and the PMI Healthcare Special Interest Group.Ms. Daley has authored several papers and been an invited speaker to multiple healthcare events including the HFMA annual meeting, the international symposium of the Society for Radiation Oncology Administrators, and the international symposium of the American Diabetes Association.Ms. Daley holds a BS Nursing and an MBA, served as Clinical Nurse and Healthcare Administrator, and is a HIMSS member. Her current role is Healthcare Project Manager at Integrated Project Management.

With over 31 years of professional project management experience, Larry D. Meyer began his professional career in 1978 with the U.S. Army as a U.S Army Officer serving as a telecommunications officer in Germany and Georgia.  Following seven years of service with the U.S. Army, Meyer began his civilian career working for General Electric, first in the role of Project Manager, and then later as a Program Manager. Following his career at GE, he spent four years with Allied Products in Chicago as a Project Manager leading cross functional teams in the manufacturing of large, multi-million dollar metal stamping machines for the appliance and automotive industries.  Meyer led his department?s ISO/QS 9000 certification efforts. Eleven years ago, Meyer joined Integrated Project Management Company, Inc. (IPM) Currently, Meyer is a Manager of Project Planning and Execution. Meyer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in General Engineering from the United States Military Academy, and a Masters of Business Administration degree from The College of William and Mary.  He is a certified Engineer-in-Training, Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), and holds his Project Management Professional Certification through the Project Management Institute.

MaryAnne Sterling, Owner/Principal Consultant - Sterling Health IT Consulting., Ms. Sterling has extensive experience in Federal Health IT, leading projects at NIH, NCI, FDA, and CMS. She is active in the Health IT community, lending expertise to initiatives such as the HIMSS EHR Usability Taskforce and ACT/IAC's Vista Project.

Victoria Bradley, Assistant Professor, Adjunct Faculty College of Nursing - University of Kentucky President, ANIA-CARING, Dr. Bradley, DNP, RN, FHIMSS, CPHIMS, is President of the ANIA-CARING and the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at the Eclipsys Corporation. She also serves as Assistant Professor, adjunct faculty for the University of Kentucky, College of Nursing.

Michael Matthews

Mr. Matthews has served as CEO of CVHN since 1993. In this capacity he is responsible for organization and implementation of all aspects of the enterprise. He concurrently serves as CEO of both MedVirginia and CenVaNet. Prior to joining CVHN, Mr. Matthews served as senior vice president of Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio. In this position, Mr. Matthews was responsible for care management, quality assurance, total quality management, government relations, business development, managed care and medical staff development.

Miriam Paramore is responsible for overseeing Emdeon's clinical sector, strategic planning, thought leadership, public policy and government affairs. She is a national speaker with over 25 years of industry experience and serves on the Board for HIMSS.

David Kibbe

David Kibbe is an experienced clinician who practiced medicine in private and academic settings for more than 15 years. Dr. Kibbe has taught informatics at the School of Public Health, UNC and founded two healthcare IT companies.
Mytri Singh, Amanda Parsons, Katherine Shanks

Mytri Singh, Executive Director of Implementation, Primary Care Information Project (PCIP) - New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH), Ms. Singh oversees the Systems Integration and Implementation Teams that helps small private practices, community health centers and hospital out-patient departments implement the EHR. She holds a MPH from Yale University.

Amanda Parsons, Assistant Commissioner, Primary Care Information Project (PCIP) - New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH), Dr. Parsons oversees all of the Extension Center's activities, ensuring that physicians have everything they need to be successful with the EHR, including adequate preparation, project management, and technical assistance.

Katherine Shanks, Manager, Public Sector - Acumen Solutions, Inc., Ms. Shanks oversees the Systems Integration unit, which assists practices with IT infrastructure and system interfaces. She has an MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago.

Nick Volosin
ISS Director of Technical Services: Kaweah Delta

Stephen Carnes
IT Administrator, Server/Virtualization: Kaweah Delta

Robert La Rocco
Inside Sales Manager: AppSense

Noam Arzt, President - HLN Consulting, LLC, Noam H. Arzt is president of HLN Consulting, LLC, which has provided HIT services to public health agencies since 1997. Dr. Arzt currently serves on the HIMSS HIE Steering Committee and authors a monthly column on standards in the HIELights newsletter.

Paul Capello, Manager of the Project Management Office - Bayfront Health Systems, Inc., Paul Capello has extensive experience in a wide range of project management duties involving high technology systems development and integration projects, with particular expertise in project leadership and cost and schedule management. Paul is conversant with state-of-the-art technologies and complex technical subjects. Paul’s recent activities include project management training and mentoring, project management presentations to large groups, leading a 35 person software development team to achieve client acceptance of a client/server budgeting system, writing a complete project management methodology for a health system, developing and delivering a 5 day project management training course, writing a software development methodology, managing a software engineering department and project teams delivering real-time embedded machine control systems, developing recommendations to strengthen a company's software development methodology, using MS-Project to provide planning and performance tracking for a large healthcare clinical implementation project, developing a scalable methodology to tailor project management disciplines to projects of different size and complexity, and conducting training courses in project management. Prior to that, Paul was an IT manager and financial manager providing project management support to a multi-million dollar integrated software and hardware development project for Avco Financial. Paul is certified as a Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute. Paul also sat on the Board of Directors for PMI South Florida from 1999-2003. Paul has recently been lauded in the Metropolitan Who's Who for Project Management and is a National Speaker at Project Management Conferences.

Paul Day
Healthcare Sales Manager, Hewlett-Packard Company

Jeannie Masters
Senior Manager of Corporate Marketing, PC Connection family of companies

Phil Deering

Phil Deering is the REACH regional coordinator/HIT consultant for Minnesota and North Dakota providing ongoing project management and health information technology (HIT) services to assist clients to achieve meaningful use of EHRs.

Paul Kleeberg, MD, FAAFP, FHIMSS

Clinical Director
REACH – Regional Extension Assistance Center for HIT

Randy Thomas

Ms. Thomas has over 30 years experience in information technology, the last 25 in healthcare. Ms. Thomas is currently the vice president of portfolio strategy and design at Premier, an alliance of more than 2300 healthcare organizations committed to improving the health of communities. In this role Ms. Thomas is responsible for the planning and marketing of the broad range of analytic applications and services focused on supporting the quality, safety and efficiency improvement efforts of healthcare organizations.Prior to joining Premier in 2007, Ms. Thomas was an associate partner in the healthcare provider practice of Global Business Services for IBM, led the Health Analytics practice, was a fellow in the IBM Center for Healthcare Management and co-authored the IBM study “Healthcare 2015: Win-win or Lose-lose? A Portrait and a Path to Transformation�. Ms. Thomas joined IBM in 2005 on the acquisition of Healthlink. Since joining Healthlink in 2003 Ms. Thomas led the Thought Leadership, Strategic Services and Eclipsys service areas.Prior to joining Healthlink, Ms. Thomas held a series of product planning, product development and marketing strategy roles at Transition Systems, Inc. and Eclipsys Corporation.Ms. Thomas is an active participant in the HIT industry. A HIMSS Fellow since 2002, Ms. Thomas was the first recipient of the Spirit of HIMSS award in 2003 and received the HIMSS 2004 John A. Page Outstanding Service Award. Ms. Thomas has served on the HIMSS Board of Directors, as chair of the Bar Code Task Force, chair of the Advocacy Committee, chair of the HIMSS Advocacy Collaborators Roundtable and chair of the Linking Health Information Task Force. Ms. Thomas has also participated on the Enterprise Information Systems Steering Committee, EHR Steering Committee and Standards Task Force. Ms. Thomas was Vice-Chair of Finance for CHIM, co-chair of the NAHIT Standards Inventory Work Group and a member of the first NAHIT Board of Directors and served on the Health Information Technology Terms Standardization Project Network Work Group.

Rhonda R. Butler
CCS, Senior Clinical Research Analyst: 3M Health Information Systems

Ms. Butler is lead research analyst on 3M's contract with CMS for the update and maintenance of the ICD-10 Procedure Coding System and the GEMs mappings. She is the author of a comprehensive CMS guide to ICD-10-PCS and speaks nationally on ICD-10 planning

Richard Temple
MBA, President, NJ Chapter of HIMSS, Executive Consultant: Beacon Partners

Rich Temple brings nearly 25 years of experience in the world of healthcare technology. He has overseen al types of system selections and implementations. Mr. Temple serves as the President of the HIMSS New Jersey chapter.

Chris Kalish
MBA, CMPE, Executive Consultant: Beacon Partners

Chris is an accomplished healthcare executive with over 20 years' experience in ambulatory care and academic medecine. She most recently served as Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer for the clinical enterprise of an academic medical center.

Robert Barbour
MHA, JD, Senior Policy Analyst, Private Sector Advocacy & ARC: American Medical Association

Robert Barbour has been a senior administrative executive in both private and academic environments focused on physician practice management. He have also helped create very successful large multispecialty group practices through the merge of smaller existing practices. His national roles as a provider advocate have included being a WEDI Board Member, voting member of the National Code Committee representing the MGMA, member of the CORE Steering Committee, Co-Chair in X12, and working with Linxus. His most significant personal key indicator is leading the re-organization of the Montefiore Faculty Practice that lead to a three-fold increase in annual revenues.

Robert Tennant
Senior Policy Advisor: Medical Group Management Association

Robert Tennant is Senior Policy Advisor with MGMA the nation’s principal voice for medical group practice. He serves on the WEDI Board of Directors and the CAQH CORE and he co-chairs the WEDI EHR workgroup and an industry ICD-10 coalition.

Ronnie D. Bower
MA, Manager, Change Management: BayCare Health System

Julie Vilardi
RN, MS, Executive Director, KPIT CD BIO, Clinical Application Group, Kaiser Permanente

As Executive Director for Strategic Projects and Clinical Informatics in the Care Delivery, Julie Vilardi is responsible for partnering strategy and oversight of key clinical IT initiatives and for oversight of the Clinical Informatics efforts within the CD Bio. In this role she has executive oversight of the IT side of Meaningful Use and Health Information Exchange. Prior to her current role, Julie was responsible for oversight of the clinical portions of the collaborative build of KP HealthConnect. Before joining KPIT, Julie's varied career includes employment in positions that range from health care IT consulting with IBM Business Consulting Services to clinical operations and project management for multiple health care projects, both within and outside Kaiser Permanente. Julie has also worked as an inpatient nurse practitioner, project director and inpatient department leader at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center. Julie holds a Master’s degree in Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco and a BSN from the University of San Francisco.

Sanjiv Datt
Principal: Kaiser Permanente

Over nineteen years of healthcare experience in operations and management consultingHospital/Provider operations: practice management, physician relations and network management, central billing office, patient accounting/revenue cycle management, community-based health information networks (CHINs now referred to as RHIOs), clinical/health information system (IDX, Misys, SMS, Epic, Cerner, Meditech) implementation and support Health plan/Payer experience: sales force automation strategy, enrollment operations, and claims excellence. Information technology (IT) experience: IT strategy and management, custom application development, systems integration and remediation, and vendor management

Scott Whyte is the Senior Director of Physician and Ambulatory IT Strategy at Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), a 41-hospital system in California, Arizona and Nevada. In his role, Scott oversees IT strategy and advanced IT projects to serve physicians and patients in CHW?s communities. His role includes leading CHW?s IT planning for the ARRA, healthcare reform and health information exchanges. Prior to joining CHW in 2005, Mr. Whyte was Vice President and CIO at Phoenix Children?s Hospital and has spent over 17 years consulting with Capgemini, Siemens Medical Solutions and Ernst & Young to hospitals, health insurers and life sciences companies. He has spoken and worked nationally and internationally on topics, including portals, health information exchanges and genomics, at such venues as Scottsdale Institute, HIMSS regional meeting, other conferences and vendor events. Scott founded and served as Co-Chairman of the HL7 Clinical Genomics Special Interest Group which is working with a team of physicians, biopharmaceutical specialists, bioinformatics specialists and regulators to develop an international data exchange standard for genetic information. He graduated from the University of Arizona magna cum laude with a BSBA in Management Information Systems and magna cum laude with a BA in Economics.

Secretary Aneesh Chopra, United States Chief Technology Officer Associate Director for Technology - Office of Science & Technology Policy , Aneesh Chopra is the United States Chief Technology Officer and in this role serves as an Assistant to the President and Associate Director for Technology within the Office of Science & Technology Policy. He works to advance the President’s technology agenda by fostering new ideas and encouraging government-wide coordination to help the country meet its goals from job creation, to reducing health care costs, to protecting the homeland. He was sworn in on May 22nd, 2009. Prior to his appointment, he served as Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia from January 2006 until April 2009. He previously served as Managing Director with the Advisory Board Company, a publicly-traded healthcare think tank. Chopra was named to Government Technology magazine’s Top 25 in their Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers issue in 2008. Aneesh Chopra received his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University and his M.P.P. from Harvard’s Kennedy School.

Swapna Chackravarthy is the data warehouse architect for the HART Data Warehouse project at the University of South Florida Health.  A former consultant with extensive database and data warehouse experience, Swapna leads the data warehouse team for USF Health and is responsible for design and development decisions.


Chris Christy has been engaged in healthcare for 26 years, both in industry roles with hospitals as well as healthcare software positions. Prior to SAP, he served as Associate Administrator and Chief Operating Officer at several Hospitals that were part of American Medical International, now known as Tenet Healthcare Corporation. He also served as Vice President for Professional Services at St. Paul Medical Center, a 600 bed tertiary care hospital in Dallas, Texas.

Sidney Fernandes is the Asst CIO for the University of South Florida Health Information Systems.  In his current role he is directly responsible for the implementation of the electronic medical record including RIS/PACS, PERIOP, and practice management systems for USF Health, a multi-specialty practice with over 300 providers.  Experienced in data warehouse design and implementation, Mr. Fernandes also provides direction to the data warehouse team at USF Health and is responsible for operational as well as design decisions for the USF Health data warehouse that now includes over thirty source systems.

Susan Abookire

Susan Abookire, BSEE, MD, MPH CPHIMS, is the Chair of the Department of Quality and Patient Safety at Mount Auburn Hospital, a Harvard Teaching Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Abookire began her career as an electrical engineer in aviation systems.

Jeannette Currie

Terri Ripley
MIT, CPHIMS, Director Systems/Programming and ARRA Coordinator: Centra Health

Terri Ripley is the Director Systems/Programming and ARRA Coordinator for Centra has over 24 years of Health IT experience implementing/integrating hospital systems and serves as a member of Virginia’s Health Information Technology Advisory Commission.

Thomas M. Deas
MD, Board Member, Founding Member North Texas Specialty Physicians: Chief Medical Officer, Sandlot

Dr. Tom Deas currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Sandlot LLC and is an active Board Member for North Texas Specialty Physicians where he served as President from 2003 until 2007. He is also a practicing gastroenterologist.

Jerry Rankin
Industry Strategy Director: Lawson

Rankin is a 20-year veteran of healthcare management business development and healthcare IT consulting. He has been actively involved in consultation and implementation for leading Health Information Exchange projects in the US.

Tim Kieschnick leads User Experience and Web Analytics for Kaiser Permanente?s externally-facing web presence.Kieschnick has spent over 20 years developing, implementing, and evaluating programs that put technology-based tools into the hands of health care consumers and purchasers.  He has been a driving force behind kaiserpermanente.org, a comprehensive web-based service that provides customized decision support, communication links, and automated transactions to Kaiser Permanente members and customers.  From same-day lab results to secure doctor-patient messaging, to online sales and account management, Tim ensures that everything is focused on the needs and wants of the end-users.Kieschnick has consulted with a wide variety of groups on the use of technology to support health education, shared decision-making, and access to health services. He is co-author of the Health Informatics Directory and regularly presents to diverse audiences on the role of consumer-oriented technology in health care.Kieschnick?s current work focuses on the use of user-centered design principles and methodologies within an agile development environment.

Valerie M. Sue, Ph.D., is a consultant at Kaiser Permanente who specializes in online survey research.  She manages a range of survey projects for KP and is instrumental in the production several Web Analytics reports.  Prior to working at KP, Sue was an Associate Professor of Communication at California State University, East Bay, where she taught a variety of Communication theory and research methods courses and was director of the Communication Department?s graduate program.  She recently co-authored a book, ?Conducting Online Surveys,? and edited and co-authored a special issue of the journal of the American Evaluation Association focusing on using online surveys in evaluation.  She has also authored numerous journal articles and delivered presentations at the conferences of the International Communication Association, American Evaluation Association, and the American Public Health Association.

Dr. Todd Rowland

Dr. Todd Rowland is Executive Director of HealthLINC and Director of Medical Informatics for Bloomington Hospital. He received his Doctorate of Medicine from Indiana University and completed a Medical Informatics Fellowship at Harvard/MIT.

Rodney Cain

Rodney Cain is the primary architect of HealthBridge’s regional network that includes 29 hospitals, multiple labs, and more than 800 physician offices. Rodney serves also on the NHIN Coordinating and Technical Committees.

Tony has been the PC Support Technician and HIPAA Security Officer at Box Butte General Hospital for two years.  Previously, he worked as IT Manager at another hospital for three years and has over 11 years experience in IT sales, service and support.  He has extensive experience with networking, firewalls, VPN’s, backup systems and servers as well as PC’s.  Tony is currently a leader on a hosted virtual desktop project at BBGH.

Mandy Whaley is network administrator for Box Butte General Hospital (BBGH) and has nearly ten years of experience in healthcare information technology. She began her career at BBGH where she is responsible for maintaining user access and identity management systems for all the healthcare IT systems.Box Butte General Hospital (BBGH) is a 265-employee, non-profit facility, owned by the citizens of Box Butte County, dedicated to serving the needs of residents and visitors alike.  BBGH is accredited by The Joint Commission, the nation?s predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care since 1951.

Victor Freeman
MD, MPP, Medical Officer / Quality Lead: Ofc. Health IT & Quality - HRSA - USDHHS

Dr Freeman has a BA from Harvard an MD from Stanford and did his Medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has a Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown where he did his Health Policy Fellowship in their Clinical Economic Research Unit.

Dr. Vincent Bufalino is president/CEO of Midwest Heart Specialists, a 55-physician cardiology practice in the Chicago area with 15 offices in the western and northern suburbs.  He is board-certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease.  As chairman of the Midwest Heart Foundation, a nonprofit research arm of Midwest Heart Specialists, he oversees about 30 clinical research trials.  He is medical director of Edward Heart Hospital in Naperville, the first of its kind in Illinois.  He is a member of the DuPage County Medical Society.Dr. Bufalino has been an active volunteer for the American Heart Association for more than 20 years at the local, regional and national levels.  He has chaired the Advocacy Coordinating Committee and continues to serve nationally on issues related to public policy. Dr. Bufalino is past president of the AHA?s Greater Midwest Affiliate.  He has also served as a member of the national AHA Board of Directors and Administrative Cabinet.  He has been an active member of the Disease Management Expert Panel and was co-author of a publication redefining disease management. He currently serves on the national Nominating & Awards Committee and the Health IT Working Group. He is chairman of both the Ambulatory Registry Advisory Working Group and the Reimbursement, Coverage and Access Working Group ? the latter being a policy-focused work group of the Advocacy Advisory Team.  His awards include the AHA Physician of the Year in l997, the IANU Michelangelo Award Man of the Year in 1998, the AHA?s first Coeur d?Or Award in 2001, the AHA?s American Heartsaver Long-Haul Award in 2002, the AHA?s Scientific Sessions Chairman?s Award in 2005, and the AHA?s Gold Heart Award in 2008.

Ms. Nicolato is the Director of Quality & Health IT Business Development for the National Center of the American Heart Association. Ms. Nicolato is responsible for the strategic planning, visioning and execution of the Association's Quality and Health IT programs. Ms. Nicolato is currently leading the charge to launch Get With The Guidelines - Outpatient, which is set to launch on November 4th, 2009. The goal of Get With The Guidelines - Outpatient is to improve every CVH patient?s outcomes through widespread application of AHA/ACC primary and secondary prevention guidelines in the United States through data collection, analysis, feedback and QI.Ms. Nicolato also serves as co-chair for the CCHIT's Cardiovascular Workgroup. She previously served as a member of the PHR Workgroup for CCHIT.

Vivian Funkhouser, leads global business development for Motorola healthcare solutions. She has more than 20 years experience in healthcare marketing & sales globally, with focus on devising strategies for medical devices and healthcare IT solutions.

Wesley Eastridge, M.D. is a family practitioner in Gate City, Virginia in a small clinic of two doctors and a nurse practitioner.  He is interested in CareSpark and medical informatics, having written and used electronic medical records since 1991.  Educated at Emory University, East Tennessee State University and the Medical College of Virginia, he has served as President of the John Sevier Chapter of the Tennessee Academy of Family Practice in upper east Tennessee and as Chair of the Family Practice Section of the Southern Medical Association.  He is currently the SMA Councilor from Tennessee.  He has just begun submitting data to CareSpark and looks forward to good things to come from this venture.

Liesa Jenkins is known for her skills as a facilitator, resource developer and project manager, serving her community in education, literacy, neighborhood revitalization, civic leadership, cultural arts, recreation, environmental and health issues, diversity and economic development. Under her leadership, CareSpark has developed as a broad-based community-driven effort to improve health through sharing of health information. The organization is recognized at state and national levels as a leader in consensus-driven quality improvement process and model for collaboration.  Ms. Jenkins has served numerous non-profit organizations and has been honored with several recognitions, including 2005 "Health Care Hero." Her public speaking experience includes: NHIN2 Demonstrations, Sept. and Dec. 2008; "Addressing the Business of Health Information Exchange: Real-world Stories," AHIMA 2007; "A RHIO Vision for Public Health Improvement, Biosurveillance and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness," CDC PHIN Conference 2007; and "Privacy & Security," AHIC 2006.

William Perry is a registered nurse, educator, and programmer/analyst who specializes in Internet/Intranet application development and computer mediated education to support clinical and administrative personnel throughout Kettering Health Network.  In addition, he is an adjunct instructor at Wright State University College of Nursing and Health and a frequent contributor to Computers, Informatics, Nursing.