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Instruction is provided by a faculty of CIOs who have demonstrated continued success, leadership, and organizational excellence in their careers.
Russ Branzell (Program Director)
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Poudre Valley Health System
Russ Branzell is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer, 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 Colorado Performance Excellence Peak Award (first and only organization in the state), Solucient’s 100 Top Hospitals, Health Grades Distinguished Hospital Award, Magnet Hospital for Nursing Excellence designation, Avatar International 5 Star National Award, and US News and World Report-America’s 50 Best Hospitals. In addition to these honors and awards, the Information Services Division was recognized in 2004/5 by Hospital and Health Networks as recipients of both the “Most Wired”/“Most Wireless” awards, Information Week Magazine’s Top 500 Award for innovative technology usage and also received the Business Technology Optimization Excellence Award for IT Governance Best Practices (2004).
Prior to joining PVHS, he was the Regional Deputy Chief Information Officer and Executive Director of Information Services for Sisters of Mercy Health System in St. Louis, MO. Before his time in St. Louis, Mr. Branzell served on active duty in the United States Air Force and continues to serve in the Air Force Reserves. While on active duty, Mr. Branzell served in numerous healthcare administration positions including Chief Information Officer for the Air Mobility Command Surgeon General’s Office. In 1996, he was selected for the Air Force Medical Service Fellowship program and completed a Chief Information Officer Internship at the Unity Health System in St. Louis, MO.
Russ is currently on the Board of Directors of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and serves as the Chairperson, Education Committee.
He is a fellow of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 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.
Russ serves on numerous editorial, volunteer, community and management boards. Additionally, he has been a speaker at regional, national, user groups and vendor conferences.
A native of San Antonio, Texas, Russ earned an undergraduate degree in business administration specializing in human resource management and labor relations from the University of Texas. In 1995, he earned a Master’s degree in Administrative Science from Embry-Riddle University with an emphasis in management.
Mary Finlay
Deputy Chief Information Officer
Partners HealthCare System, Inc.
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.
John P. Glaser Ph.D. FCHIME
Vice President and CIO
Partners Health Care System, Inc.
John Glaser 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 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 a recipient of CIO Magazine’s 20/20 Vision Award. Partners HealthCare has received several industry awards for its effective and innovative use of information technology.
Dr. Glaser is on the editorial boards of CIO Magazine, Healthcare Informatics, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, and Journal of Healthcare Information Management. He has published over eighty articles and two books on the strategic application of information technology in healthcare.
He holds a Ph.D. in Healthcare Information Systems from the University of Minnesota.
David S. Muntz
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Baylor Health Care System
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.
Stephanie L. Reel
Vice President of IS and CIO
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Stephanie L. Reel, Chief Information Officer and Vice Provost for Information Technology for the Johns Hopkins University, and Vice President for Information Services for Johns Hopkins Medicine, received a B.S. in Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland, and an MBA in Business Administration from Loyola College of Baltimore. Mrs. Reel was named CIO of the Year by the College of Healthcare Information Systems Executives in April 2000.
Mrs. Reel has more than fifteen years of experience in Information Systems, working with health care providers and payors. Under her direction, the Johns Hopkins Health System is enhancing and advancing the use of the Johns Hopkins Electronic Patient Record, utilizing web-based and client/server technologies. This product provides device-independent access to a broadly deployed clinical repository, including discharge summaries, operative notes, clinic visit notes, clinical results, radiological images, allergy lists, problem lists and medication lists, across the continuum of care. Outcomes management and care management systems solutions are also being implemented. These efforts have been recognized by Computerworld and the Smithsonian Institute with an award that remains on display in the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History.
Under Mrs. Reel's direction, The Johns Hopkins Hospital has implemented state-of-the-art patient-centric clinical systems in support of a new comprehensive cancer center. These same solutions are now being more broadly deployed across the enterprise. Clinical decision support, and executive decision support systems have also been implemented, to improve the care delivery processes, and to address many of the fiscal pressures realized by academic medical centers.
Mrs. Reel is a member of the Board of Directors for the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group, the Healthcare Information Systems Executive Association, the College of Healthcare Information Systems Executives, the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society, and the National Alliance for Health Information Technology. Mrs. Reel also serves on the State of Maryland’s Medical Privacy and Confidentiality Advisory Board.
Michael W. Smith
Chief Information Officer
Lee Memorial Health System
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).
Tim Stettheimer
Vice President & CIO
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Timothy Stettheimer, Ph.D. serves as vice-president and chief information officer for St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. St. Vincent’s is the Flagship Digital Hospital for Ascension Health and leads the system as well as the industry in the use of innovative and enabling technology such as robotic surgery, pervasive mobile computing, integrated clinical repositories and electronic patient records. Dr. Stettheimer previously served as a regional information services executive in Fort Worth, Texas for Florida-based Adventist Health System. He has experience in all aspects of technology-enabled health care. His Ph.D. was earned from the University of North Texas, focused in the field of medical informatics.
As well as serving as a hospital executive with responsibility for all strategic and tactical information technology initiatives, Dr. Stettheimer is also responsible for alliances and partnerships with external companies to support information initiatives. He reports directly to the CEO and is active in board level activities. Dr. Stettheimer also coordinates all health system level information initiatives with the hospital as well as serving in system level initiatives to fulfill Ascension Health’s Call to Action for Healthcare that is Safe and Healthcare that Works.
Dr. Stettheimer is a Diplomat with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) as well as an active member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the Society for Information Management (SIM). He has also been certified as a professional in healthcare information management systems (CPHIMS) as a member of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Dr. Stettheimer was named a medical Informatics Fellow under a National Institute of Health Grant (1993-1995) during his doctoral studies. He has held faculty positions with the University of North Texas and the University of Phoenix.
Dr. Stettheimer is a charter member of the HP Healthcare Executive Council. He also serves on the Advisory Board for The Emerging Technologies and Healthcare Innovations Conference (TETHIC) as well as the Editorial Advisory Board for Advance for Healthcare Information Executives. Dr. Stettheimer has delivered presentations on diverse healthcare technology topics and is frequently quoted and published in national trade publications.
Lynn H. Vogel
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Lynn Vogel is Vice President and CIO at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, a $2B clinical, research and teaching institution devoted to the cure and care of cancer. As the senior IT executive managing a 480 person IT organization, he is leading the in-house development of M.D. Anderson’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) with a major focus on the integration of research and clinical data. Dr. Vogel is also Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University in New York City.
Previously, Dr. Vogel has served as Vice President, Information Services, New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System in New York City; Vice President and CIO, Information Management Systems and Services, Mount Sinai Medical Center, in New York City, and as CIO at The University of Chicago Hospitals.
Previously, Dr. Vogel has served as Vice President, Information Services, New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System in New York City; Vice President and CIO, Information Management Systems and Services, Mount Sinai Medical Center, in New York City, and as CIO at The University of Chicago Hospitals.
Dr. Vogel’s education at the bachelor’s, masters and doctoral level was completed at The University of Chicago, where he also served as a faculty member for twelve years. For the past five years, he has taught a highly popular course in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, entitled “Economics of Informatics: Cost and Investment Issues in Healthcare Information Technology”. He has also lectured in Columbia’s new Intensive Biomedical Informatics Executive Program, in the introductory Biomedical Informatics course, and in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Vogel is a charter member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), and is currently a member and Fellow of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
Timothy R. Zoph
Vice President of IS and CIO
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Timothy R. Zoph has been Vice President of Information Services and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Northwestern Memorial Corporation since 1993. Prior to assuming this position, he served as Assistant Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and as Senior Consultant in information systems for Andersen Consulting.
Mr. Zoph served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) in 2000. He also serves on several corporate and association strategic advisory committees in the healthcare industry. Mr. Zoph is a member of the First Advisor Expert Panel for IT Business Strategy for the Advisory Board Company in Washington, DC. In the past year, he has been actively engaged in standards setting activities through the National Alliance for Health Information Technology. He has also led an industry wide initiative to form a healthcare Information Sharing Advisory Council with the Department of Homeland Security and the White House Critical Infrastructure Protection Board.
Mr. Zoph received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1978 from the University of Utah, his Master of Science degree in Accounting from Georgetown University in 1980 and his Management degree from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University in 1990.
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