Rich Correll is the President and CEO of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), an 1100-member professional organization for healthcare information executives, and Executive Director of the CHIME Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the educational initiatives of CHIME through the corporate sponsorship of nearly 60 healthcare IT/IS product and service providers.

Previously, Mr. Correll has held the positions of President for the Center for Healthcare Information Management (CHIM), President of California Health Management Systems (CHMS), and Corporate Director, Management Engineering, for Harper-Grace Hospitals in Detroit, MI.

In addition to his responsibilities within CHIME, Mr. Correll is a member of the American Society of Association Executives and Fellow in the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society.

He holds a degree in industrial engineering form the University of Michigan and an MBA from Wayne State University.

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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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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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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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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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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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