| David R. Artz, MD Chief Medical Information Officer Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
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Prior to joining Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Dr. Artz was Medical Director of Information Services at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and a physician in the faculty practice and General Internal Medicine group of Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine. He has an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Health Industry Management from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He trained in Internal Medicine at Boston City Hospital and obtained his MD from West Virginia University. |
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Jennings Aske is the Chief Information Security Officer of Partners HealthCare. Prior to Partners, Aske was the Chief Information Security Officer for UMass Memorial Hospital. Aske was also the Chief Information Security Officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's Executive Office of Health and Human Services, responsible for coordinating information security across the 16 state agencies. Prior to that Aske was the Information Security Officer for the Commonwealth's Department of Public Health. Aske is a licensed attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Aske graduated from the Boston University Law School in 2002, where he was the Executive Editor of the American Journal of Law & Medicine. Aske is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP). |
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Dr. Bormel joined QuadraMed Corporation in 2001. He is the senior member of the company's care management team. Dr. Bormel travels extensively, consulting senior hospital clinicians and other decision makers about the latest advancements in healthcare IT, and establishing goals for its enterprise-wide implementation. He is an industry authority on computerized physician order entry (CPOE), and is responsible for the technology of QuadraMed Care Management products. His current focus includes advancing the technology and adoption of interoperable Electronic Medical Records and enriching clinical decision support to identify relevant evidence based medicine, which will accelerate better healthcare delivery that is not only consistent with, but exceeds Meaningful Use criteria. Previously, Dr. Bormel served as a director and chief architect for Medical Measurement and Management System Solutions at Cerner Corporation. |
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Dr. Bormel received Board Certification in Internal Medicine in 1991. His clinical training included both Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. He has completed a Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in medical informatics directed by the National Institutes of Health, and earned a Masters of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness and Health Management from Harvard University. Dr. Bormel holds advanced standing with the American College of Physician Executives, and has earned non-medical degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from The Johns Hopkins University. Aske is a licensed attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Aske graduated from the Boston University Law School in 2002, where he was the Executive Editor of the American Journal of Law & Medicine. Aske is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP). |
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Tina Buop |
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Tina Buop is Chief Information Officer for Muir Medical Group IPA, a multi-specialty IPA of over 600 physicians. She is responsible for the clinical, business and technical integration of independent physician practices and internal IPA IT operations. Tina champions the business planning, development, implementation, training, adoption and support of electronic health records, practice management solutions and health information exchange. In addition, she fosters interfaces with hospitals, labs, imaging, payers, and related patient base applications such as PHRs and websites. Tina has business and technical teams for over 18 years for Fortune 100 & 500 Companies (Robert Half International, DHL Worldwide Express), as well as Blue Shield of California. |
| Click here to listen to a podcast with Tina Buop, giving a preview of her session on quality data reporting. | |
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| John Calabro Health Information Technology Coordinator Oklahoma Health Information Exchange Trust - OHIET |
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Jim Elert |
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Jim Elert, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, has responsibility for the IT application, technology, program management, and information security functions for Trinity Health. Prior to his current position at Trinity, Elert was CIO at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland and then CIO and Vice President of Information Services at Allegheny Health in Pittsburgh. Elert is a member of CHIME and the Healthcare Information Systems Executive Association (HISEA). |
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| Mark Hagland Editor-in-Chief Healthcare Informatics |
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Mark Hagland was named Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Informatics in January 2010. Prior to that, he had spent more than ten years as a Contributing Editor, then Senior Contributing Editor, to the magazine. He has spent over two decades in healthcare publishing, and in the course of his healthcare publishing career, has won numerous national and regional journalism awards, and is the author of two published books on quality and efficiency in healthcare. He is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the magazine. He has a B.A. in English from the University of WIsconsin, and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. |
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Jason Hess is KLAS' General Manager of Clinical Research. Mr. Hess has 15 years of experience in Business Development, Sales and Consulting, with most of that time spent in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. He is responsible for all clinical research at KLAS. He has worked with hundreds of CIOs, healthcare providers, and vendor executives in monitoring the performance of Healthcare IT. His main areas of expertise include: Core Clinical, Health Information Exchanges, Pharmacy, Surgery Management, Emergency Department, Pharmacy, Lab, Pharmacy Automation, and others. Mr. Hess is a frequent contributor to several publications including: The Wall Street Journal, Modern Healthcare, Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Informatics, Health Data Management, and Inside Healthcare Computing. He is a repeat presenter at HIMSS national and state events, CHIME, TEPR, and other national conferences. Mr. Hess is a HIMSS Fellow. He has a Bachelors Degree from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the University of Utah. |
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Linda Hodges |
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Linda Hodges, senior vice president and leader of Witt/Kieffer's IT executive search practice, is a leading expert in health industry IT trends, regulatory and compliance issues and best practices in IT executive recruitment. With more than 20 years of healthcare IT executive search and consulting experience, Linda identifies leaders on behalf of hospitals, integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers, managed care companies, associations and universities. Prior to Witt/Kieffer, Linda was executive vice president with Hersher Associates, Ltd., a healthcare and higher education executive search firm. |
| Click here to listen to a podcast with Linda Hodges, giving a preview of her session on recruiting top healthcare IT talent. | |
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Dr. David Liebovitz |
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Dr. Liebovitz is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer for the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation at Northwestern University. He also serves as Medical Director for Clinical Information Systems at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Dr. Liebovitz is also the program director for the Northwestern School of Continuing Studies Masters Degree Program in Medical Informatics. In addition, Dr. Liebovitz has a clinical medical practice and supervises residents' inpatient and outpatient clinical experiences. Dr Liebovitz received his undergraduate degree in electrical/computer engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, medical degree at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and residency training at the University of Chicago. |
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Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
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| Dr. Christopher Longhurst is a board-certified pediatric hospitalist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He also holds an administrative appointment at Packard Children's as the Chief Medical Information Officer, where he has helped lead the organization through the implementation of a comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) since 2004. These efforts resulted in national attention when Dr. Longhurst published the first-ever correlation between implementation of a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system and a decrease in hospital-wide mortality in 2010. That same year he was honored to be the selected by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of the top 25 Clinical Informaticists in the nation. | |
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| Charlene Marietti Executive Director Editorial Initiatives Vendome Group |
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Charlene Marietti is Executive Director Editorial Initiatives for Vendome Group, the publishers of Healthcare Informatics magazine, where she has served as Editor-in-Chief. Her extensive healthcare experience includes clinical and consulting positions across the spectrum of healthcare facilities and service centers as well as teaching positions at university and college institutions. She is a medical technologist (MT-ASCP) with an M.S. degree in clinical pathology from The Ohio State University. |
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| G. Daniel Martich, MD, FACP Chief Medical Information Officer & Vice President, Physician Services University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
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G. Daniel Martich, M.D. has led the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's (UPMC) efforts in deploying clinical information technology for one of the nation's largest integrated delivery networks. During his tenure as CMIO, UPMC has gained a reputation as the nation's premier innovator in leveraging new products, processes and technology to solve various information technology needs for the betterment of patient care.
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| Dan has served as an intensivist and co-director of the cardiothoracic intensive care unit winning awards for his clinical acumen and teaching abilities. He started the critical care information system department shortly after joining UPMC and has served as its only medical director. That department provides for all of the bedside integration of information needs for each of the more than 150 critical care patients at UPMC-Presbyterian.
In 1999, Dan began serving in a similar capacity for all clinical information systems at the 19 hospitals of the UPMC, becoming responsible for developing standards of information sharing and display among the multiple care sites. Dan was appointed Vice President and Chief Physician of the UPMC eRecord, the health system's enterprise aggregation of all electronic medical record applications in 2003. |
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Kara Marx, RN, MHS, FHIMSS |
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Kara Marx, RN, MHS, FHIMSS is the Chief Information Officer of Methodist Hospital Southern California located in greater Los Angeles area. Methodist Hospital is a 460-bed, not-for-profit hospital serving the central San Gabriel Valley and is accredited by the Joint Commission and is a Center of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery. Prior to joining Methodist Hospital, Kara worked as a senior consultant with several consulting firms including IBM and First Consulting Group where she had the opportunity to engage with many leading health care organizations across the country. Additionally, Kara has experience working with a major pharmaceutical vendor, and a global health care IT software vendor. |
| Kara is a Registered Nurse, holds a Masters Degree in Healthcare Sciences from the New School of Social Research, and is a Fellow with the Health Information Management Systems Society. As a RN Kara spent many years providing patient care in the ambulatory and acute care setting. During this time she also held management positions establishing new service offerings to the community. | |
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Jane B. Metzger |
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Jane Metzger has been doing research and consulting about clinical systems for 39 years. She is currently Principal Researcher, Emerging Practices, the applied research arm of CSC Health Services. Over the years, her areas of focus have been clinical decision support tools in EHRs to improve quality and safety, successful implementation of CPOE and other clinical applications requiring major change management, and enterprise quality management—including governance models and quality measurement. Recently she analyzed the detailed requirements the HITECH hospital and EP quality measures by deconstructing the measure specifications into the unique data elements. |
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David Muntz |
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David Muntz, a 36-year veteran of Medical Information Systems, currently serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the Baylor Health Care System. In this role held since October 2006, he has responsibility for more than 600 employees who care for a delivery system with more than 140 points of entry. Baylor Health Care System received notoriety in Healthcare Information Technology (IT) as the #2 innovator in the healthcare sector on the 2008 Information Week 500 list (#1 in 2007) and for 2009 was recognized again for presenting one of the top 20 Great Ideas. |
| He is currently a Fellow status member of and sits on the Board of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) where he serves on the faculty of the CHIME CIO Boot Camp. David also chairs CHIME's Advocacy Leadership Team. He is a member of the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and has been a member, chair, speaker, and/or Board Member for numerous local, state, and national organizations. He was recognized as CIO Innovator of the Year by CHIME in both 2005 and 2010. | |
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Charles Podesta |
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Charles Podesta joined Fletcher Allen Health Care, Vermont's Level I Trauma and Academic Medical Center, in June of 2008 as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. In 2009, Fletcher Allen implemented a comprehensive electronic health record management system, from Epic, which serves more than 30 facilities in Vermont. Fletcher Allen is rated as one of 3.5% hospitals in the nation currently at Stage 6 EMR adoption rate and has a 96% CPOE rate. Mr. Podesta is also on the board of VITL (Vermont Information Technology Leaders), which is the state sanctioned Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Regional Extension Center (REC). |
| Prior to Fletcher Allen, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Caritas Christi Health Care in Brighton, MA. Caritas Christi is the second largest health care system in New England with six hospitals serving eastern Massachusetts. | |
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Dr. George Reynolds |
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Dr. Reynolds is Vice President, Chief Medical Informatics Officer and Chief Information Officer at Children's Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. He is board certified in Pediatric Critical Care and General Pediatrics. He also holds a masters degree in Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2007, Dr. Reynolds was a recipient of the American Medical Directors for Information Systems Award for Excellence and Achievement in Applied Medical Informatics. |
| Dr. Reynolds has 20 years of experience in a broad range of physician leadership roles. His current responsibilities include IT strategic planning, CDS design and implementation, and physician adoption as well as oversight for all IT operations. Using commercially available business intelligence software, his team has developed clinical analytics tools that monitor both clinical and financial performance and guide system enhancements in order to optimize outcomes. | |
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Bill Spooner has been CIO for the past 14 of his 30 years at Sharp HealthCare. He has led an aggressive IT effort that placed Sharp on the Hospitals and Health Networks 100 Most Wired list for the first 11 years since the list was established. Sharp was an early leader in electronic health records, as the development site for a robust hospital EHR since the mid-1980s. More recently, Spooner spearheaded the rollout of industry-leading EHR's in both the Sharp hospitals and its medical groups. Sharp has received several awards for its foremost consumer web site. Sharp recently launched its mySharp portal to more closely engage its patients in their care. IT was cited for its contributions to Sharp's 2007 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. |
| Recipient of the 2009 John E. Gall Jr CIO of the Year award, Spooner is a member of the Healthcare Information Systems Executive Association (HISEA), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and a Fellow in the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) which he served as Chair in 2006. He has worked with CHIME's Advocacy Leadership Team since its inception in 2004 and chaired the group in 2005. | |
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Richard A. (Dick) Thompson |
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Dick Thompson is the Executive Director and CEO of Quality Health (QHN). As a collaborative not-for-profit organization focused on quality improvement, QHN has been live with their Health Information Exchange Network since 2005 and now connects more than 125 disparate organizations. As one of only 17 Beacon Community Award recipients, QHN will help model best practices as our nation moves to enhance our health and healthcare system. At the completion of the 30 month project, QHN's footprint will include more than 22 hospitals and attendant physicians in more than 20 Western Colorado counties. QHN also provides Regional Extension Center (REC) services under ARRA to help primary care physicians attain meaningful use of Electronic Health Records in ambulatory practices. |
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The organization has achieved significant milestones under Dick's leadership as the network became an operational Health Information Exchange in less than eight months and attained positive cash flow from revenues within two years of start up. The Grand Junction community's healthcare delivery system was showcased by President Obama for achieving low cost, high quality care and has been certified by the US Department of Health and Human Services as a Community Leader for Value-drive Healthcare. |
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Senior Partner, Healthcare IT and Services Practice
Sanford Rose Associates
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Timothy J. Tolan is the senior partner and managing director of the Sanford Rose Associates® - Healthcare IT Practice. Tim is a member of Sanford Rose Associates'® "President's Club", and is consistently recognized for operating one of the top-producing offices worldwide for Sanford Rose Associates®. He has conducted searches for CEOs, CIO's, presidents, senior vice presidents, vice presidents of business development, product development and sales. He has worked with IDN's, Academic Medical Schools, large and small cap companies, as well as privately held and early stage companies. |
| Tim has been in the healthcare technology field for over 25 years in executive-level positions for companies both public and private. His vast network of contacts comes from senior level positions he held with ProxyMed, Inc., Healtheon/WebMD, ePhysician, and CITATION Computer Systems, as well as the 12 years he spent in leadership roles in the hospital and provider marketplace. | |
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Sajjad A. Yacoob |
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Born in India and raised in southern California, Dr. Yacoob received his B.S. in Biology from UCLA in 1985, his M.D. from Albert Einstein Medical College in 1991 and completed his Pediatric residency at Children's Hospital Los Angeles 1991- 1994. He was Chief Resident at CHLA in 1994-1995 and has been an attending physician at CHLA since 1995. He maintains inpatient and outpatient care responsibilities at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Currently, he is the Chief Medical Information Officer at CHLA and is actively involved in medical education and hospital wide patient safety and quality initiatives. |
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