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CHIME10 Fall CIO Forum |
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Cara Babachicos
 Cara A. Babachicos has more
than 20 years of experience in Information Systems. She is currently CIO for Partners Continuing Care, the
non-acute care services division of Partners HealthCare System where she responsible for the management and
oversight of the Information Technology and Strategy for Partners Home Care, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital,
Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands, Shaughnessy-Kaplan Rehabilitation Hospital, and the Partners
Long Term Care Facilities. She received an undergraduate degree in Management from Boston College and a Masters
Degree in Healthcare Administration from the University of New Hampshire.
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Daniel Barchi
 Daniel Barchi is CIO of the seven-hospital,
1,200-bed Carilion Clinic and President of the Carilion Biomedical Institute. He was formerly Director of Technology and
Engineering for WorldCom and Director of Global Project Management for MCI. He began his career as a U.S. naval officer
where he served at sea in cruisers. He holds a Master of Engineering Management from Old Dominion University and a Bachelor
of Science from Annapolis, the U.S. Naval Academy. He is active on several corporate and community service boards and he is
a marathon runner.
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Kevin Burchill
 With over 25 years of senior-level healthcare executive experience (as a CEO/COO/Executive Director/Administrator in a variety of settings), Kevin Burchill has true depth and breadth of experience in strategic planning, physician contracting and operational turnarounds, including post-bankruptcy situations.
Mr. Burchill’s extensive hands-on experience includes administration at small and rural hospitals, community hospitals, hospital mergers/affiliations, state-wide not-for-profit hospital networks, community teaching hospitals, long term acute care hospitals (LTAC), skilled nursing facility (SNF), physician service companies and for-profit experiences with three nationally-recognized companies.
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Russ Branzell
 Russ Branzell is the Vice President of IS/CIO, Poudre Valley Health System and the President/CEO of Innovation Enterprises (PVHS’ for profit IS entity). Poudre Valley Health System is an integrated health system with a reputation for excellence and innovative care. They most recently are the recipients of the 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the highest Presidential honor given to United States businesses and organizations that demonstrate performance excellence.
Mr. Branzell is a Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) through CHIME, a fellow of CHIME and HIMSS, and board certified through the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). He was awarded the 2005 ACHE Regent’s Award as the Young Healthcare Administrator of the Year for the State of Colorado. PVHS has received numerous industry awards in recognition of it’s commitment to the advancement of healthcare informatics.
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Richard Boehler
 Richard Boehler, M.D., is Vice President
of Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer at St. Joseph Medical Center (SJMC) in Towson, MD., and responsible for all
medical staff affairs. Prior to SJMC, Dr. Boehler served 12 years in similar roles at Cambridge Health Alliance in MA and
St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany, NY. Previously Dr. Boehler spent more than eight years practicing internal medicine and in
clinical and teaching roles with academic appointments at Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins Medical School and Albany
Medical College.
Dr. Boehler received his B.A. from SUNY at Albany and his M.D. from Albany Medical College. Dr. Boehler has been board
certified in internal medicine since 1983 and maintains M.D. licensure in the state of Maryland. In 2004, Dr. Boehler
earned his M.B.A. from SUNY Empire State College.
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Drexel DeFord
 Drex DeFord is Senior Vice President and CIO at Seattle
Children’s Healthcare System and Research Institute. He is responsible for all information services and health information management
delivered to the $500 million, not-for-profit, pediatric hospital/academic medical center with 250 beds, and research institute,
including seven outlying clinics and homecare services, Children’s serves Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho.
Previously, Drex served as Corporate Vice President/CIO at Scripps Health in San Diego, CA, where he was responsible for all
information services delivered to a $1.7 billion not-for-profit, San Diego county-based healthcare system. He also served as
Chief Technology Officer United States Air Force (USAF) Healthcare System, World-Wide Operations, in Washington, D.C., and CIO
at David Grant Medical Center, Travis AFB, CA, and CIO for the Office of the Command Surgeon, HQ Air Education & Training Command,
San Antonio, TX.
Drex earned his M.S. in Health Informatics, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and MPA from the University of Oklahoma.
He also holds a BS in Business Management from the University of Maryland. He is a CHIME Fellow and HIMSS Fellow.
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Rod Dykehouse
 Rod Dykehouse is VP of Information
Services and CIO of ProHealth Care, a two hospital community health system including a large group practice, 16
medical centers, nursing homes, and hospice, all located in Waukesha, WI.
Most recently Rod served as CIO of UCLA Medical Sciences, including the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Medical Group, UCLA Medical Center, UCLA – Santa Monica Hospital, Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric
Hospital at UCLA, and Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA. The UCLA Medical Sciences has approx 950 beds and net
revenues of $2 billion. Rod led the IT Transition into the $1 billion Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and the
development of an Information System strategy for the UCLA Enterprise. Before that, Rod was CIO at Froedtert &
Community Health (F&CH), a two hospital academic and community Health System in metropolitan Milwaukee where he
was responsible for telecommunication and information systems. Prior to joining Froedtert, Rod was Vice President
of Information Systems for St. John Health System in Detroit, a seven hospital, 1750-plus beds, Integrated Delivery
System. Rod’s experience with St. John Health System began in 1983 after acquiring his Masters in Health Services
Administration from the University of Michigan. He also holds a B.A. in Biology from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
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Adrienne Edens
 Adrienne Edens is the Vice
President and CIO at St. Luke’s Health System in Boise, ID, where she oversees strategic planning and
operations for this regional health system.
Prior to joining St. Luke’s, she was the Vice President and Information Officer for the Kaiser Foundation
Health Plan in Oakland, CA and held multiple executive positions in that organization. Previous positions
include Executive IT positions with Catholic Healthcare West in Northern California and Vice President,
Information Systems with Mercy Healthcare in Sacramento, CA. She also served as Practice Director for First
Consulting Group in San Francisco, where she developed and managed the Pacific Northwest healthcare system’s
consulting practice.
She holds an M.A. in Applied Psychology from the University of Santa Monica and received her B.A. from the
University of California, Davis. She is a CHIME Fellow and is an active member of HIMSS.
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Richard Eshbach
 Richard Eshbach is the
Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA). MSHA is a large
integrated healthcare delivery network in NE Tennessee and SW Virginia consisting of 14 hospitals,
numerous urgent, primary, and outpatient care sites, 200+ employed physicians, and 9000+ team members.
Mr. Eshbach has a BS in both Medical Laboratory Technology and Computer Science and is a Certified
Professional in Health Information Management Systems. Mr. Eshbach has over 27 years experience in
information technology in the challenging healthcare environment.
As CIO for MSHA, Mr. Eshbach is responsible for strategically aligning and implementing information
and telecommunications technologies to support MSHAs strategic priorities. During his tenure, MSHA
has adopted a philosophy of “systemness” including standardization of information systems technologies,
applications and support services across all MSHA entities.
Mr. Eshbach has served on many advisory boards for technology and healthcare vendors, served in the
originating “think tank” and on the Board of Directors for CareSpark, a truly collaborative HIE serving
providers and patients in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia.
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Celwyn Evans
 Celwyn is a senior leader responsible
for strategic direction, product development, knowledge management and training, Evans holds more than 20
years of management and consulting experience. Prior to forming Greencastle, Evans worked independently as
a project manager and with an environmental engineering consulting firm. Evans is a retired U.S. Army Ranger,
where he served 22 years of service as an officer. Currently, he is chairman of the board of the Southern Berks
Regional Emergency Medical Services and a founding member of the Keystone Chapter of the Project Management
Institute. Evans earned a degree in chemistry and environmental science from Kutztown University.
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Lorraine Fernandes
 Ms Fernandes is
responsible for customer relationships and leading Initiate Systems’ healthcare outreach to industry
organizations. Ms. Fernandes works with U.S. and international professional and industry leadership
groups addressing patient and provider identification and data exchange. She has over 25 years experience
in the healthcare industry, 10 of which she served as Director of Health Information at large hospitals.
She received the 1998 American Health Information Management Discovery Award and the 2001 California Health
Information Association. She has spoken at state, national, and international healthcare conferences and
publishes on the issues of person or provider identification and data linkage.
Some of her most recent speaking engagements include:
- California Health Information Association June 2009, Desert Springs.
“Real-World Data Exchange: Overcoming the Challenges of Patient Consent, Data Quality and Data Governance”
- CHIME Webinar, March 2009.” Interoperable Health: Building the Foundation, Yes We Can!!”
- AHIMA 2008, October 2009, Seattle. “ NHIN2: The Journey Toward a Nationwide Health Information Network”
- HISA 08, August 2008, Melbourne Australia. “Successful Patient Identification and Interoperability on Both Sides of the 49th Parallel”
- World of Health IT, October 2007, Vienna, Austria. “The Canadian Experience of Developing a Nationwide EHR: Patient Identification is the Foundation”
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Mary Finlay
 Mary Finlay is the
deputy Chief Information officer of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. In this role, Ms. Finlay is
responsible for the daily management of an organization of 1,300 information systems and
telecommunications staff. Previously, she was the Chief Information Officer of Brigham and
Women’s Hospital. She is also a member of the faculty for the Simmons School of Management.
Ms. Finlay is the Chair of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, an association of
500 members. She also serves on the board of the Boston Chapter of the Society of Information
Management (SIM) and is an active member of the College of HealthCare Information Management
Executives (CHIME). She has been recognized with leadership awards from the Simmons School of
Management, CIO, the New England Business and Technology Association, and Babson College.
She received her BA from Allegheny College and her MBA from the Simmons School of Management.
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Charles Fitch
 Charles Fitch is the CIO of
Delta Health Alliance in Stoneville, MS. His 25-year background in technology includes nearly 20 years in
healthcare informatics, with an emphasis on the development and implementation of electronic health records
systems in rural and urban settings, bringing together private physicians, clinics and hospitals, academic
medical centers, and large multispecialty academic group practices. His work has included such projects as
rural physician adoption of health information technology, Service as a Software, and ASP-based delivery
models, developing an ASP business to deliver EHR and other healthcare technologies to the Mississippi Delta,
and state- and region-wide integration of telemedicine and electronic health records systems.
Prior to Delta Health Alliance, Chuck was the CIO of the 400-physician University of Tennessee Medical
Group at UT Health Science Center in Memphis, TN, where he was responsible for the development, implementation,
and management of electronic medical records and practice management systems, statewide telemedicine initiatives,
and technology and business process reengineering.
He has a degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Memphis, and is the Co-Principal
Investigator on two HRSA-funded initiatives related to the use of EHR and telemedicine to improve access to
care and healthcare outcomes for the rural Mississippi Delta region. Chuck serves as Board Member of the
Coahoma County Wireless Advisory Board, and is a member of several healthcare and technology related
professional organizations.
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Archie Galbraith
Archie Galbraith is the CTO of UCLA Medical Sciences. Archie has been working with UCLA for 3 years, and prior to that, he lead the Accenture global Electronic Medical Records practice and headed up the European Health providers team. This group managed IT implementations across dozens of hospital systems and countries, and included 3,000 staff with a turnover of $400M a year. Prior to his time with Accenture, Archie worked for the National Health Service of Scotland, implementing change programs, mergers, and strategy for 40 hospitals.
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Kent Gale
 Kent L. Gale is Founder and Chairman of the
Board for KLAS. In 1996, when it was obvious that unbiased reporting of client satisfaction was missing from the HIT
industry, he founded KLAS. Kent has been deeply involved in healthcare IT for 35 years, serving healthcare providers
(Intermountain Healthcare), software vendors (Medlab, Sunquest, 3M, GTE, Compucare), and research/consulting
organizations both nationally and internationally.
Kent is a graduate of Brigham Young University and has lived in Brazil, Germany, and the Philippines. He has traveled
worldwide exploring the use of HIT and is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences. He is a
former member of the CHIME Board of Trustees and recipient of CHIME’s 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award. Currently a
member of CHIME and HIMSS, Kent has also presented at HIMSS National Meetings and HIMSS Regional Seminars. He was
formerly a member of HISSG and SCAMC, and has been affiliated with ECHO, an IBM Health Industry Professional
Association. He is currently serving on the CHIME Education Foundation Board.
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John P. Glaser Ph.D. FCHIME
John Glaser, PhD, is Vice-President and Chief Information Officer, Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Previously, he was Vice-President, Information Systems at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Prior to Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Glaser managed the Healthcare Information Systems consulting practice at Arthur D. Little.
Dr. Glaser was the founding Chairman of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and is past President of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He is past-President of the eHealth Initiative and has been a member of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Dr. Glaser is a former member of the Board of the National eHealth Collaborative. He is the former co-Chair of the Board of the National Alliance for Healthcare Information Technology. He has been a Senior Advisor to the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
Dr. Glaser is a Senior Advisor, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HHS.
He is a fellow of HIMSS, CHIME and the American College of Medical Informatics. He has been awarded the John Gall award for healthcare CIO of the year. CHIME has established a scholarship in Dr. Glaser’s name. He was elected to CIO Magazine’s CIO Hall of Fame. Partners HealthCare has received several industry awards for its effective and innovative use of information technology.
Dr. Glaser has published over one hundred and fifty articles and three books on the strategic application of information technology in healthcare.
He holds a Ph.D. in Healthcare Information Systems from the University of Minnesota.
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Linda Hodges
 Linda Hodges is the Vice President and
Information Technology Practice Leader at Witt/Kieffer in Oak Brook, IL. She is considered among the nation’s top
healthcare CIO and information systems search consultants. Her career has focused on identifying IT leaders for
hospitals and integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers, managed care companies, physician organizations
and healthcare associations, suppliers and consulting firms.
Before joining Witt/Kieffer, Linda served as executive vice president with Hersher Associates, Ltd., a healthcare
and higher education executive search firm. In this role, she specialized in the recruitment of CIO executives and
other senior information systems management positions, including physicians and other clinicians in IT. Earlier in
her career, Linda held management positions with Sheldon I. Dorenfest & Associates, Ltd. in Chicago, a national
healthcare information systems consulting and market research firm. She speaks frequently on behalf of HIMSS and
CHIME, is a frequent author and contributor on healthcare IT leadership trends and co-authored the book, Career
Success in Healthcare Information Technology. Linda holds a B.S. from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
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David Holland
 Dave Holland is Vice President/CIO at Southern
Illinois Healthcare, a 3-hospital system in rural Southern Illinois. He has spent more than 25 years in Information Technology
Leadership. He has been a CIO in two mid-size health systems in Michigan. He has been Vice President of Product Management for a
leading health imaging company and the COO of an EMR software company. Additionally, he spent 3 years as a college CIO and worked
for 13 years in the Banking industry. He has a BBA in Management Information Systems from Cleary University.
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Elizabeth Johnson
 With over 30 years experience in executive positions, significant healthcare policy committee expertise and care provider roles, Ms. Johnson has a comprehensive knowledge of healthcare operations, quality measurement and the role IT and clinical transformation play in enabling the deployment of leading clinical practice.
As Vice President of Applied Clinical Informatics for Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Ms. Johnson’s responsibilities include establishing the strategic vision and operational plan for provision of clinical systems used throughout the 52 hospital provider organization. As a recognized leader in the industry, Ms. Johnson will also serve as Tenet’s ARRA Program Delivery Leader. She often speaks nationally and internationally and has been published in professional journals on topics that improve the implementation and use of advanced clinical applications. Improving healthcare operations, patient safety and quality through the use of technology is her passion. Liz serves on numerous national committees and boards to influence health policy and technology standardization. Most recently Ms. Johnson has been appointed to the HIT Standards Committee at the Department of Health & Human Services in Washington, D.C. Ms. Johnson also serves as the Vice Chair of the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) National Board and Co-chair of the TIGER Initiative Staff Development Collaborative.
Immediately prior to joining Tenet, Liz served as Executive Vice President at Healthlink performing a variety of leadership roles.
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Joyti Kamal
 Jyoti Kamal, Ph.D., is the Director of the
Information Warehouse at the Ohio State University Medical Center. She also serves as Deputy CIO and holds an adjunct
faculty position at the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Additionally, she is the President & CTO of Health Care
DataWorks, an OSU Technology Commercialization Company.
Initially founding the Information Warehouse as a financial analysis tool in 1997, Dr. Kamal has since expanded the
IW into an enterprise-wide data warehouse service, supporting applications in all mission areas of the Medical Center,
from patient care to education and research. Working to optimize the use of Medical Center information assets, Dr. Kamal
has pursued many new technologies to provide integrated near-real time access to historical information in both retrospective
and operational roles. Her current efforts focus on expanding the use of operational BI tools in clinical and research domains,
the application of standard terminologies to aid data integration and data mining, as well as the adaptation of technologies
such as natural language processing, image integration, and data visualization to enhance the IW’s versatility in supporting
clinical and biomedical research.
Dr. Kamal holds a Ph.D. in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi and came to the U.S. as a Fulbright
Scholar. Prior to joining Ohio State University Medical Center in 1993 she held a teaching and research position in the Physics
Department at The Ohio State University. Dr. Kamal has several publications on the application of data warehousing technology
in medical informatics and has been a speaker at numerous meetings on the subject.
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Steve Margolis
 Dr. Steve Margolis is the CMIO at Orlando
Regional Healthcare where he leads the clinical implementation of the electronic medical record and is responsible for
their clinical strategy. Prior to joining ORHS he worked as a consultant for Price Waterhouse, IBM, and Cap Gemini
giving lectures and working with leading academics, hospitals, and healthcare systems internationally in the fields
of EMR deployment, clinical decision support, quality, process improvement, disease management, telemedicine, and
physician adoption of the EMR. Before leaving clinical practice Dr. Margolis headed up the Head and Neck Oncology
department at a large academic teaching hospital.
In addition to his medical degrees he holds degrees in information systems, Epidemiology, business, and is a Lean
Six Sigma black belt.
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Randy McCleese
 Randy McCleese is Vice President of Information Services and CIO at St. Claire Regional Medical Center in Morehead, Kentucky. He has worked in the IT field for the past 22 years with almost 14 of those years as the senior IT person at St. Claire. Prior to entering healthcare information technology at St. Claire, Randy worked as a geologist and in information management at Equitable Resources in Kingsport, Tennessee. Randy holds a bachelor of science in geology and a bachelor of business administration in computer information systems degrees from Morehead State University and a master of business administration degree from East Tennessee State University.
Mr. McCleese has been on the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Bluegrass Chapter of HIMSS for the past 8 years and served as its president from 2004-2005. He served as the Bluegrass HIMSS Chapter Advocacy Liaison from 2005 to 2009 and was instrumental in organizing the first Kentucky HIMSS Advocacy Day in 2008. Additionally, Randy is active in HIMSS national advocacy and has served as the Midwest Region Advocacy Vice-Chair since 2008. Randy is a HIMSS Fellow and a recipient of the 2008 HIMSS Founders Leadership Award.
Mr. McCleese is a founding member of the Northeast Kentucky Regional Health Information Organization and currently serves on its Board of Directors. He is involved with several health and information technology related functions at Northern Kentucky University and Morehead State University. He is an occasional adjunct information technology instructor at Morehead State University.
Mr. McCleese has been a member of CHIME since 1998 and recently attained CHCIO status. He has served on the CHIME Elections, Advocacy and Forum Planning Committees and has been part of the healthcare CIO certification development team. He is also a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).
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George McCulloch
 George McCulloch is an accomplished Information Technology leader with over 25 years experience in Healthcare Informatics. His formal education includes B.A, M.A. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Delaware, Northern Illinois University, and the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
George has held the Senior Management titles of Director, Deputy CIO, and CIO in organizations ranging in size and complexity from a 200 bed hospital in Northern Illinois, 800 bed IDNs in Western Michigan and Central North Carolina, to a 1,000 bed Academic Medical Center in Middle Tennessee.
George is the Deputy CIO in the Informatics Center of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Vanderbilt was recently named as one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies To Work For, and #16 in the US News and World Report Honor Roll. He serves on a number of industry advisory committees including those of AHA and CHIME and the recently chartered Middle Tennessee MTeHC RHIO.
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Pam McNutt
 Pam McNutt has been in the field of healthcare
information technology for 29 years, the last 18 of which in the role of Chief Information Officer (CIO).
She has worked for Medicus/HBOC, Hermann Hospital and is currently the Sr. Vice-President and CIO with
Methodist Health System in Dallas, Texas.
Ms. McNutt is an active member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME),
the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the Healthcare Information Systems
Executives Association. She served as a Director on the HIMSS national Board (1998-2001) and currently
serves on the CHIME Board of Trustees.
Pam is a fellow in HIMSS. She was awarded the John Gall CIO of the year award in 2002, the HIMSS Leadership
award in 2001 and the HIMSS Information Systems award in 1998. She participated as faculty in the CHIME
Healthcare CIO Boot Camp 2003- 2006.and currently serves as a member of the Dallas Fort Worth Hospital
Council Data Initiative Executive Committee.
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David Muntz
 David Muntz, a 34-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 450 employees who care for a delivery system with more than 140 points of entry.
Mr. Muntz most recently served as Senior Vice President of Information Services and Chief Information Officer for Texas Health Resources (THR), an integrated healthcare system created in 1997 by the merger of Harris Methodist Hospital System and Presbyterian Healthcare Resources, for the past eight years. Prior to the merger, Mr. Muntz worked at Presbyterian Healthcare Resources where he was responsible for all information system functions including Medical Records. In his tenure as senior information officer, his information services organization received national recognition 9 years in a row.
Early in his career, Mr. Muntz worked at the Wadley Research Institute and Blood Bank in Dallas, Texas, an organization whose entities included a hospital, outpatient facilities, research institute, computer institute, and the blood bank for Dallas County. During his tenure, Mr. Muntz led the team that created a complete online record for the community’s blood bank. In addition, Wadley’s other divisions, the hospital, clinic, and physician practices, shared a computer based patient record created by Mr. Muntz and his staff. Eventually Mr. Muntz assumed the role of CEO for Wadley leading a major restructuring shortly before resuming pursuit of his major interest, Medical Information Systems.
Mr. Muntz received an MBA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and an AB degree in Premedicine and English from Columbia College in New York City.
He is currently a member the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the Society for Information Management (SIM), and has been a speaker for numerous local, state and national organizations. He was recognized as CIO Innovator of the Year by CHIME in 2005 and was listed as one of the “Top 5 CIOs” in the June 1999 issue of Health Management.
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Marc Probst
Marc Probst is CIO and VP at Intermountain Healthcare and has been a leader in Information Technology and Health Care Services for the past 20 years. Prior to Intermountain, Marc was a Partner with Deloitte Consulting and has served as the Chief Information Officer for a major Third Party Administrator (TPA) and as a Partner for Ernst & Young. Marc is experienced in all aspects of information technology planning, design, development, deployment, and operation.
Marc’s key competencies include: systems design, development, and implementation; I.S. Governance strategic planning; system consolidation; I.S. operations and management; and project management. His major areas of focus have been health care, managed care, eCommerce, and health care payor services.
Marc graduated from the University of Utah in Finance and has an MBA from George Washington University with an emphasis in Information Systems.
Marc has been a resident of Utah for the past 13 years. Prior to living in Utah, Marc and his family lived in Reston, Virginia and Tampa, Florida. Marc is married with five children, aged 23, 20, 18, 11 and 3.
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Linda Reed
 Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Ms. Reed is responsible for planning, acquiring and implementing information technology and telecommunications. Her primary focus is aligning corporate and business unit
strategy with information technology requirements to deploy appropriate solutions to achieve the
best possible experience for Atlantic’s patients, physicians and employees Ms. Reed obtained her Bachelor
of Arts degree from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. She earned her Master of Science in nursing with
distinction from Pace University in Peekskill, NY, and a Master of Business Administration from Widener
University in Chester, PA. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, International Nursing Honor Society and
Sigma Beta Delta, National Honor Society for Business, Management and Administration. Ms. Reed is a long
standing member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and is currently a member
of the CHIME Board of Directors.
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Frank Richards
 Frank Richards is Chief Information Officer for the Geisinger Health System, an integrated delivery system located in northeastern and central Pennsylvania with revenues of $2 billion annually. Mr. Richards is responsible for all aspects of information technology for the system, including strategic planning, IT integration with key business initiatives, establishing enterprise-wide IT standards, and proactive staff development. He currently oversees a staff of over 500 IT professional, and has been involved with the delivery of health information technology for over 25 years
Information Technology is currently responsible for all applications, technology and telecommunications for the entire enterprise. The department has more than 500 IT professionals supporting approximately 70 sites in northeastern and central Pennsylvania. Prior to this role, Mr. Richards served as vice president for Information Technology for the Penn State Geisinger Health System. Mr. Richards has over 25 years experience in healthcare IT.
Geisinger Health System is an integrated delivery system, which includes four hospitals, 45 clinics, over 700 staff physicians and an insurance company. Located in central and northeastern Pennsylvania Geisinger provides health care for about 2.5 million people in 31 counties in the state, and employs over 12,000 physicians, nurses and other support personnel. Geisinger has made significant investments in information technology over the past fifteen years and has one of the most advanced electronic health record systems in the country. With annual revenues of over 2 billion, it is the largest healthcare provider in central Pennsylvania.
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Tony Rodgers
 Tony Rodgers was appointed by the Governor of Arizona as the new Director of the State of Arizona Medicaid/SCHIP programs, known as Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System. Prior to being appointed as Director of AHCCCS, Mr. Rodgers was General Manager for WellPoint Health Networks, State Sponsored Programs. As General Manager he was responsible for the Medicaid and SCHIP product lines which had over 1 million members and for State Sponsored Programs health plan operations.
Tony Rodgers also served as chief executive officer of L.A. Care Health Plan for five years. L.A. Care grew to over 600,000 members under Mr. Rodgers leadership, making it one of the largest health plans in California and the largest public health plan in the United States.
Mr. Rodgers holds a Master of Science degree in public health and a Bachelor of Arts in economics and political science from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He completed a fellowship with the National Association of Public Hospitals in information systems management and planning, and served as an adjunct professor in health policy and administration at Arizona State University and the University of Southern California. He currently has an appointment as Visiting Professor UCLA School of Public Health.
Mr. Rodgers also has served on a number of association boards and state advisory commissions, including most recently the State of California Health Families Program Advisory Board.
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Sue Schade
 Sue Schade serves as the CIO for Brigham and
Women's/Faulkner Hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts, a position she assumed in January of 2000. Brigham and Women’s Hospital
is a 747-bed non-profit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Partners HealthCare System,
an integrated health care delivery network. In her role, she provides direction and oversight to information technology
initiatives at the Brigham and Women's and Faulkner Hospitals and the Brigham and Women’s Physician Organization.
Sue has 20-plus years experience in health care information technology management. Her experience includes 12 years in
positions of increasing management responsibility at a large integrated delivery system in the Chicago area. Following
that, she led the software division for a start-up healthcare software and outsourcing services vendor. Prior to coming
to the Boston area, Schade worked as a senior manager in the healthcare information technology practice at Ernst and Young.
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Rick Schooler
 Rick Schooler joined Orlando
Regional Healthcare in October, 2001 as Vice President/CIO. Mr. Schooler earned his Master’s degree in Business
Administration from The University of Indianapolis and his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Technology from
Purdue University in 1982. He is a member of various professional organizations and sits on a number of boards
and committees.
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Pat Skarulis
 Patricia Skarulis is the Vice President & CIO at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center in New York, where she oversees all computing and communications for this clinical and
research enterprise. Prior to joining Sloan Kettering, Pat served as Vice President and CIO at
Rush University Medical Center in Chicago where she was also an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Health Systems Management. Prior positions include Vice President for
Information Systems and Vice Chancellor at Duke University where she was also Professor of
the Practice of Computer Science; Director, Administrative Systems at Princeton University;
Assistant Director, Academic Computing at Rutgers University, and Associate Member of
Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories. She received her M.A. and B.A. in Mathematics from St.
John’s University in New York, and attended the Institute for Educational Management, an
executive program for higher education at Harvard.
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Herb Smaltz
 Dr. Detlev Herb Smaltz is the CEO of Health Care Data Works,
LLC, an Ohio State University Technology Commercialization Company. He is also the CIO of the Ohio State University Medical Center, a $1.7B,
6 hospital academic medical center comprising more than 1,100 beds and over 13,000 FTEs. As CEO of HCDW, he is exporting the intellectual
property developed at OSUMC to help other healthcare provider organizations leverage data analytics and business intelligence. In his role
as CIO of OSUMC, he leads an IT organization of 255 individuals with an annual operating budget of $42M. In addition, he serves as an Associate
Vice-President for Health Sciences leading collaborative initiatives between the three mission areas of the medical center: research, academics,
and patient care.
Dr. Smaltz also holds certifications in Knowledge Management from the Knowledge Management Certification Board. In addition,
he has served as an adjunct professor at Capital College, Laurel, MD, an associate professor at UAB, Birmingham, AL, and as a
professor at OSU, Columbus, OH. Dr. Smaltz earned a BS in Management Information Systems from the University of Tampa, FL in
1985, an MBA from Ohio State University in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Information & Management Science from Florida State University
in 1999.
Dr. Smaltz has more than 20 years experience in healthcare management with all but three of those years as CIO/CKO at various
sized organizations including a 20-bed community hospital, a 300-bed tertiary referral medical center, an 1,100-bed tertiary
referral medical center, a 5-state region, a 7-country international region and at the corporate headquarters of a $6.2B globally
distributed integrated delivery system. He is a Fellow of the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society and recently
completed a three-year term on the HIMSS Board of Directors and as the HIMSS 2004-2005 BOD Vice Chair. In addition he is a Fellow
in the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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Mike Smith
 Michael Smith currently serves as Chief Information Officer for Lee Memorial Health System, an integrated healthcare system including 3 acute care hospitals, a Children's Hospital, a Rehab Hospital, nursing home, home health services, outpatient services and one of the nation's largest multi-specialty physician group practices. As Chief Information Officer, Mr. Smith is charged with overall leadership of the System's efforts to utilize Information Systems/ Technologies and methods for the achievement of Lee Memorial's mission. He has operational responsibility for Information Systems/Information Technology, Tele-communications, and Health Information Management.
Mr. Smith joined LMHS in 1997, following 10 years in various Information technology leadership capacities at Baylor Healthcare System in Dallas, TX. Prior to that he served as the Vice President of Operations for National Data Communications, a healthcare information systems company also in Dallas, where he was responsible for software and hardware development and implementation. In total, Mr. Smith has more than 25 years experience in the healthcare information systems business.
He earned his Bachelors Degree in Information Management from Dallas Baptist University, and also has a Degree in Electronic Engineering. He is a past member of the Board of Trustees for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), is on the Advisory Board of KLAS, and is also a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).
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Bill Spooner
Bill has been CIO for the past 12 of his over 25 years at Sharp HealthCare. Bill has led an aggressive IT effort that has placed Sharp on the Hospitals and Health Networks 100 Most Wired list for all 9 years since the list was established. Until its 2006 decision to consolidate hospital clinical systems with Cerner, Sharp had adopted common applications across all facilities, utilizing in a best-of-breed strategy towards its electronic medical record including a number of well-known applications on a common clinical desktop. Bill has also led the rollout of the Allscripts Touchworks EHR in the Sharp medical groups. Sharp has received several awards for its leading edge consumer web site. As a highly-penetrated managed care environment, Sharp was an early leader in its EDI development among its payers and providers.
Bill 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 the 2006 Chair. He is on the Editorial Board of Healthcare IT News. He recently joined the California Hospital Association Health Informatics and Technology Committee. He was previously active with Cal-RHIO, where he co-chaired the Technology Working Group in 2005.
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Lianne Stevens
 Lianne Stevens is a senior level information
technology professional with over 20 years of service in the healthcare industry. She has served in an IT management capacity
in both community and academic hospital settings. Currently she serves as Vice President of Information Technology/CIO for
The Nebraska Medical Center, one of the region’s premier health systems serving 25 percent of the Omaha area market with its
689 licensed beds. She is responsible for the provision of information technology application and technical services for the
organization. She provides guidance and support for the organization’s Information Management (IM) Governance process through
leadership of the Project Management Office structure. She is responsible for IT strategic planning in alignment with the
organization’s strategic priorities. She serves as chair of the hospital’s IM Infrastructure Committee and The Joint
Commission IM Committee.
Lianne holds a Master of Science degree in Information Systems from Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. She is a member
of CHIME-HIMSS and the Project Management Institute and holds CPHIMS certification. She is also an ASCP registered medical technologist.
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Hamish Stewart-Smith
 Hamish Stewart-Smith is a Partner at Greencastle
Consulting. He directs ongoing, multi-project engagements with key Greencastle clients. Overall, Hamish holds 20 years of experience
in management and consulting. Prior to Greencastle, Hamish was director of account management for RMH Teleservices. Earlier in his
career, he served in the U.S. Air Force for 11 years, achieving the rank of captain. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force
Academy and later earned an MBA at Temple University. Hamish is also a member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society,
the Project Management Institute, and the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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Ronald Strachan
 Ron Strachan, Senior Vice President and
CIO for WellStar Health System in Marietta, GA, has been working in Information Technology for more than 25 years with a
primary focus on healthcare IT. He has held positions at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, The Detroit Medical Center, St. John's
Health System (Michigan), Catholic Health Partners (Ohio), Matria Healthcare (Georgia), and HealthEast Care System (Minnesota).
In 2007 he served as Chairman of the Board of CHIME, he serves on the Century College Technology Curriculum Advisory
Committee (Minnesota) and is active in several community service organizations. Ron received a Master of Science in
Business from Central Michigan University, completed undergraduate work in Computer Science and Business Administration
at Davenport University in Dearborn, Michigan and post graduate studies at Michigan State University. He has been a
speaker at several information system vendor user groups and a guest faculty at the University of Minnesota's Carlson
School of Business Healthcare Information Technology Institute, University of St. Catherine’s HealthCare IT program,
the CHIME CIO Boot Camp, and Minnesota HIMSS educational programs.
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Judith A. Triano
 Judith A. Triano has more than 28 years of healthcare experience with the past 10 years focused in Information Systems. She is currently the Information Systems Director of Clinical and Financial Applications at Valley Health in Winchester Virginia, where she and her team are responsible for the maintenance, implementation and optimization of all clinical and financial information systems across the eight entities within Valley Health which includes more than 400 physicians and over 5000 employees. She received her undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Averett University and a Masters Degree in Strategic Leadership from Mountain State University. She is currently an active member of Insight, HIMSS and CHIME.
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Andy Truscott
 Andy Truscott leads Accenture's Security
Practice in Canada and has many years of experience gained in Canada, the United States and Europe. His current clients
include provincial and federal bodies, crown corporations and commercial organizations across a wide variety of disciplines.
Prior to joining Accenture Canada he was, for several years, the Director of Information Governance for the National Health
Service in the United Kingdom and a leader of the National Programme for Information Technology (Connecting for Health).
Prior to this he was the IT Director of the Commonwealth Business Council.
Providing leadership across more than the Security and Privacy domain, Andy believes passionately in the de-mystifying
of technology and ensuring that business drives technology - not the other way around.
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Lynn Vogel
 Lynn Harold Vogel, Ph.D.,
is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
(UT-MDACC) in Houston, Texas, a $4B+ clinical, research and teaching institution that is the world’s
largest and consistently one of the highest rated facilities devoted to the care and cure of cancer.
In 2006, M. D. Anderson was named to the CIO100 list of the most innovative IT organizations, to the
top 100 of InformationWeek’s Top 500, has been honored twice as one of the top 25 connected healthcare
facilities by Health Imaging and IT, and named as the inaugural recipient of the Transformation Leadership
Award, jointly by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Center for
Healthcare Transformation. In 2007, Dr. Vogel was named as one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders,
and was awarded one of ten “Best in Class” designations for his work in bridging clinical care and
research through information technology (IT). This year, MDACC was again honored by Computerworld as
a leader in the healthcare industry by designation as a Laureate, and also awarding the institution
its prestigious 21st Century Achievement Award in Healthcare.
Dr. Vogel is also Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at UT-MDACC,
and Adjunct Professor of Management at The University of Texas School of Public Health. During his
almost thirty year career, Dr. Vogel has previously held faculty appointments at The University of
Chicago, The City University of New York and Columbia University. He has led IT organizations at
The University of Chicago Hospitals, and at Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York Presbyterian
Healthcare in New York City. At UT-MDACC, Dr. Vogel serves as the senior IT executive managing a
700+ person IT division, and is leading the in-house development of UT-MDACC’s Electronic Medical
Record (EMR) with a major focus on the integration of research and clinical data. He also serves
as a faculty member for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)
Healthcare CIO Boot Camp experience.
Dr. Vogel is a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences, and has authored numerous
articles on topics such as identifying returns from healthcare information technology investments,
implications of personalized medicine for information technology, governance strategies for IT
investment decisions, and information technology strategy and management.
Dr. Vogel’s education at the bachelors, masters and doctoral level was completed at The University
of Chicago. He is a Fellow, Charter Member and currently Trustee of the College of Healthcare
Information Management Executives (CHIME), a member and Fellow of the Healthcare Information
Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
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Greg Walton
 Greg Walton is CIO at El Camino Hospital. He is a
nationally known leader in health information technology with more than 35 years of industry experience; he joined El Camino
Hospital in late 2007. Before coming to El Camino Hospital, he served as Senior Vice President and CIO at Carilion Health System
in Roanoke, Virginia.
Mr. Walton has also held management positions at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Cap Gemini and SMS. His professional
accomplishments include serving as the former Executive Advisor to the Commonwealth of Virginia's Task Force for Health Care
Information Systems and serving on the Sub Committee Chair for The Governor’s Task Force for Electronic Health Records.
He is a Fellow of the Health Care Information and Management Systems Society, as well as the Past Chair of the HIMSS Board of
Directors. He received the HIMSS Health Care Leadership Award in 2004 and was named the John Gall CIO of the Year in 2005. He is
also a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). Mr. Walton holds a master of business administration from
Widener University in Chester, PA, and a Bachelor of Arts in social science from the University of Miami, Florida.
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Jamie Welch
 Jamie Welch, CPEHR, CPHIT, is CIO at the
Louisiana Rural Hospital Coalition, Inc. (LRHC), and Information Technology Director of the Louisiana Rural Health
Information Exchange (LARHIX). She is responsible for all health information technology (HIT) decisions for 24 hospitals
in north Louisiana and provides HIT strategic direction to 44 member hospitals.
As CIO and IT Director, she has been featured in numerous industry publications worldwide, including multiple cover
stories in Healthcare Informatics and Health IT News. Currently, she serves on the Louisiana Healthcare Quality Forum,
National Health Information Technology Standards Panel, National Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration,
and the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. Ms. Welch is also actively involved in a pilot project, and
was recently awarded from CMS for an EMR Demonstration pilot project in Louisiana, as well as the FCC Rural Telecom
award to Louisiana.
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Wes Wright
 Wes Wright is Vice President and Chief Technology
Officer at Seattle Children’s Hospital, where he reorganized the IS department around core services, instantiated a first-ever
IS Project Management Office, and formed an IS governance structure. He drove implementation of IS system for Emergency Department
billing; initial projections show an approximate addition of $5.5 million in charges, and completed a $20 million patient
management application instantiation with no interruption to services.
Previously Wes served as Operations Executive, IS/Deputy CIO at Scripps Health; a $1.7 billion not-for-profit, San Diego
County-based healthcare system. He also served as Regional CIO at Pacific Air Forces health system, CIO for the second largest
Air Force medical center in the United States Air Force, David Grant Medical Center (DGMC), Travis AFB, CA, Chief Technology
Officer at David Grant Medical Center, and Chief Assistant to the Air Force Medical Service CEO.
Wes earned his M.B.A from the University of New Mexico, Anderson School of Management, and a B.S. in Business and Management,
from the University of Maryland, Asian Division. He is an active member of CHIME and HIMSS.
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Tim Zoph
 Tim serves as the Senior Vice President,
Administration and CIO for Northwestern Memorial Hospital. This year marks his 16th anniversary at Northwestern
Memorial and 22 years as a CIO in the health care industry. Tim has earned graduate business degrees from the
Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Utah.
Through Tim’s leadership, Northwestern Memorial has been awarded one of the 100 Most Wired Hospitals for 8 years.
He was recently named the 2008 CIO of the Year by the Executives’ Club of Chicago along with The Association of
Information Technology Professionals. Tim is also a faculty member of the Chime CIO Boot Camp that is dedicated
to training current and future information technology leaders in the healthcare industry.
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