Dr. Joseph C. Barrow, Jr. began his career in education in 1980.  Prior to becoming Superintendent, he has served previously as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal, across the K-12 spectrum in several Georgia school systems. He has been awarded multiple honors during his career; including being named the Georgia Association of Educational Leader’s Outstanding Educator, the coveted Georgia School Superintendents Association’s Bill Barr Leadership Award, and was recognized by the Georgia Senate for efforts in Educational Excellence. He and his wife, Dr. Susan Barrow, are the parents of five children.

In the past five years since Dr. Barrow became Ware County’s Superintendent of Schools, accomplishments include: 1) Improved Student Achievement; 2) Increased Graduation Rate; 3) System wide 21st Century technology implementation and Connection to PeachNet/Internet2; 4) Educationally overcoming the largest wild fire in the history of Georgia; 5) Construction of the new award winning DAFFODIL PreK Center and state of the art CTAE Center at Ware County High School; 6) The establishment of WARE Centers (SBHC via TeleHealth).  He has accomplished all of this, while dealing with massive budget challenges.

Dr. Barrow subscribes to the school system slogan, “Pathways for All, Success for All" in all endeavors, and puts children first in every situation.

Eta S. Berner, Ed.D., is Professor of Health Services Administration and Co-Director of the Biomedical Informatics Component for the UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science.  Dr. Berner leads the UAB Health Information Technology Curriculum Development Project, one of five national Curriculum Development Centers that are funded through ONC’s Workforce Development Program.   Dr. Berner is nationally recognized for her research studying the impact of health information technology on clinician decision making.

Dr. Berner is a Fellow of both AMIA’s American College of Medical Informatics and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).  Her informatics research activities have focused on evaluation of health informatics and health services interventions. She has published informatics articles in leading journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and the International of Medical Informatics.  She is the editor of a book entitled ‘Clinical Decision Support Systems: Theory and Practice’, now in its second edition. Dr. Berner is a member of several national external advisory committees including  one for Clinical Decision Support funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and one on using electronic health record data in genomic research (eMERGE Network).  She has been a World Health Organization consultant, and has served in leadership positions at the national level in professional informatics and health professions educational organizations.  She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, the Journal of Healthcare Information Management, and the International Journal of Medical Informatics.

Wallace Ed Brown is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the Gwinnett Medical Center  in Lawrenceville, Georgia.  He joined GMC  in October 2001 and has responsibility for strategy, development and support of  information and biomedical systems.  Ed earned a B. S. degree in Mathematics and M. S. degree in Information and Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Ed was previously affiliated with Wellstar Health System from 1997 until October 2001, most recently serving as Vice President and Chief Information Officer.  Prior to Wellstar, Ed worked at Richland Memorial Hospital, First Consulting Group, and Emory University Hospital.  Ed’s federal and military service was as a mathematician for the National Security Agency and a naval officer during the Vietnam War serving in the Naval Security Group. He is a member of the Health Information and Management Systems Society, CHIME, and VHA CIO Council.

Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH, FHIMSS has over 20 years experience in healthcare information technology, patient safety, clinical transformation, and public health. During his career, he worked with the National Institutes of Health, U.K’s. National Health Service, McKesson, and BearingPoint.

Over the past 15 years Chaiken provided expertise in quality and patient safety to provider and payor organizations helping them utilize information technology to improve clinical and administrative activities. He has served as guest lecturer and consultant on topics including patient safety, clinician adoption of information technology, quality improvement and managed care. Chaiken also assisted hospitals and technology firms in the creation of medical software products and authoring of marketing communication materials.

Chaiken is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health as well as Health Care Quality Management. He is currently Chief Medical Officer at DocsNetwork, Ltd. where he offers clients his expertise in strategy development, clinical transformation, and quality improvement.

Chaiken serves as a Healthcare Advisory Board member at Imprivata, Inc, ProtoHIT, Inc., and Symphony Corporation, and as Senior Fellow at the Institute for Health Technology Transformation. He has delivered more than 60 CME lectures, and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Patient Safety and the journal of Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare. Chaiken writes a column on technology and quality for the journal Patient Safety and Quality Health Care. He also serves as Conference Chair of the annual Digital Healthcare Conference and is a frequent contributor to WTN Media’s online publications.

Chaiken received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NYC, his masters in public health degree in health services administration from the Harvard School of Public Health and his bachelors of arts degree in psychology from the University at Albany. He acquired his specialty training from the Centers for Disease Control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and from the New Jersey State Department of Health as a preventive medicine resident. He served as a Board member (2006-2010), Board Liaison to HIMSS Europe (2006-2009), and Board Chair (2009-2010), and continues his involvement as a Fellow of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS).

Phil Chuang is director, information services for Sutter Care at Home, the homecare division of Sutter Health, a $9B integrated health system in Northern California.  He leads technology efforts for Sutter Care at Home, helping to extend care into the community and into the patient's home.

Prior to Sutter Health, Phil was CIO for Telecare Corporation, a mental health provider that operates over 60 inpatient hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and community-treatment offices in 5 states.  Phil has also served as CIO for University Health Services at UC Berkeley, and as vice president of web products for a healthcare software company, i-Beacon, developing award-winning consumer health software tools for government and Fortune 500 clients.  Phil began his career in the healthcare practice of Accenture.

Phil and his teams have been recognized with numerous awards for their work, including an IT Leadership award from CIO Decisions magazine, a Premier 100 Leader award from Computerworld magazine, and a CIO100 award from CIO magazine.

Phil holds a BA from UC Berkeley and a PhD from UCLA.  He is a HIMSS fellow, a member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), and has served on two work groups (Long Term and Post Acute Care,
Security) for the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT).

Tiffany Crenshaw currently serves as President and CEO of Intellect Resources, a healthcare IT recruiting firm offering innovative and comprehensive consulting and hiring solutions within the healthcare IT market.  Intellect Resources offers search, consulting, go live and creative services focused on the implementation of electronic health records, including Big BreakSM, a patent-pending American Idol style audition process where candidates compete to become a healthcare IT trainer. 

A North Carolina native, Tiffany grew up in Charlotte, attended Peace College and UNC Chapel Hill, and now resides in Greensboro, NC with her husband, two children and a not-so-bright golden retriever. Tiffany is a founding member of Inspired Wining and Career Moxie and was included in the 2012 list, Women to Know in Healthcare IT. In addition to her roles as president, wife and mom, Tiffany is a NCASP Board Member, a member of the NCHICA planning committee and HIMSS, a sustaining member of the Junior League of Greensboro, a Church Council participant and a member of the Advisory Board for Lifespan, an organization that develops and operates programs that educate, employ and enrich the lives of people with developmental disabilities.

Jean DerGurahian is the executive editor for SearchHealthIT.com. As news writer when the site launched she covered a range of issues including health IT policy, meaningful use, standards requirements and data privacy and security. Jean formerly reported on health IT, quality and safety for Modern Healthcare and has more than 13 years of business journalism experience. She holds an MBA and a bachelor's in communications.

Robert Fortini is the Chief Clinical Officer for Bon Secours Medical Group in Richmond Virginia. He is responsible for facilitating Provider adoption of EMR, coordinating clinical transformation to a Patient Centered Medical Home care delivery model, and facilitating participation in available Pay for Performance initiatives as well as Physician advocacy and affairs. He has extensive experience in Operations and Clinical Policy development, and experience in workflow re-engineering and CQI in ambulatory care.

Before coming to BSMG, Mr. Fortini served as the Chief Medical Affairs Officer at Queens Long Island Medical Group engaged in quality and HIT adoption. He successfully applied for the fir! st Level 3 NCQA recognized PCMH in NY State. Prior to that, at Community Care Physicians Medical Group, Mr. Fortini participated in the successful launch of the Bridges to Excellence Collaborative in Upstate New York.

Mr. Fortini has 30 years of experience in healthcare. He is a graduate of Fordham University and The State University of New York College of Health Professions at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY

Michael Flesher is the Chief Information Security Officer at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), a position he has held since February of 2011. Mr. Flesher is responsible for managing the security risks faced by the school, and ensuring that the Information Security program protects the MSM community. The MSM Information Security program encompasses technology operations for the educational programs, Research, and the clinical practice, Morehouse Medical Associates. Before joining MSM, Mr. Flesher held leadership positions in Information Security in the banking, credit card services, and transportation industries. He has also served as a Healthcare Security consultant, specializing in HIPAA security program development. Mr. Flesher holds the CISSP and CISM certifications, as well as a B.A from St. Bonaventure University in Olean, NY.

Aaron S. Fink, MD is Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the Emory School of Medicine and an Attending Surgeon at the Atlanta VA Medical Center (VAMC).  Prior to retiring in 2011, Dr. Fink served as Service Line Manager for Surgical and Perioperative Care at the Atlanta VAMC.

Dr. Fink received a bachelor’s degree in Biology, Phi Beta Kappa, from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Penn. and doctor of medicine degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  Dr. Fink performed his General Surgical residency at the University of Michigan and then joined the General Surgery faculty at UCLA Medical Center and Sepulveda VAMC.  He completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Center for Ulcer Research and Education in Los Angeles and Clinical Fellowships at the Department of Surgery, University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario and at The Middlesex Hospital, in London, England.  In 1989, Dr. Fink assumed the Directorship of the Surgical Endoscopy program at the University of Cincinnati.  In 1993, Dr. Fink accepted the position of Chief of the Surgical Service at the Atlanta VAMC until 2009, when he assumed the position of Chief Surgical Consultant for the VA Southeast Network.

A Governor in the American College of Surgeons and Past President of the Association of VA Surgeons, Dr. Fink previously served on the NSQIP National Executive Committee.  He has published over 120 research papers, review articles and book chapters.  Dr. Fink was the Co-Principal Investigator of a VA HSRD-sponsored study, a multi-center, randomized, controlled trial investigating the potential benefits of “repeat back” within a computerized informed consent program.

Naomi Fried, Ph.D. is Children’s Hospital Boston’s first Chief Innovation Officer and is building and developing a program in clinical innovation, aimed at improving care quality and assisting the hospital in shaping the future of health care.  Previously, she was the Vice President of Innovation and Advanced Technology at Kaiser Permanente (KP) where she led an effort to identify and assess new and emerging technology and trends in the delivery of care; chaired the board of its internal Innovation Fund for Technology, which provided funding for innovative technology projects within KP; formed and chaired KP’s Telehealth Working Group, which developed strategy for Kaiser in the emerging area of telehealth; and was involved in the start-up and governance of KP’s Innovation laboratory, the Sidney R. Garfield Center for Health Care Innovation. Prior to this position, she was Managing Director of KP’s Archimedes Project. Before KP, Naomi advised two venture capital firms on life science and health care information technology investments; served as the General Manager and Vice President for Business Development of 1747, Inc., which conducts online clinical trials for new drugs; and was instrumental in the formation of the medical informatics internet start-up company (e-SKOLAR, formerly SHINE) spun out of Stanford School of Medicine, serving as interim President for its first year. Naomi has a BS in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from MIT.

Blake Fulenwider is Deputy Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH). With a strong background in health policy, both state and federal, Fulenwider brings a wealth of experience to DCH.

Fulenwider assists the Commissioner with program oversight, support and management. He also provides guidance and support for the Medicaid Division and the Division of Health Information Technology assisting with the comprehensive redesign of Georgia Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the establishment of a statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE).
  
Prior to becoming Deputy Commissioner, Fulenwider worked in Gov. Nathan Deal’s office as the governor’s chief health policy adviser. He also served Gov. Deal in Washington, D.C., in a similar role when then-Congressman Deal was the chairman and ranking member of the Health Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Fulenwider’s work on legislation includes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA), Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Reauthorization Act, food safety and biopharmaceuticals.

In addition to his policy advisory role, he serves as the Commissioner’s designee to the board of Georgia Health Information Exchange Inc. Fulenwider is a native Georgian and a graduate of the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration/Finance.

Amnon Gavish, Senior Vice President of Vertical Solutions brings more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications market. Before joining Vidyo in October 2009, Amnon was the Chief Technology Officer at Keisense Inc., an innovator in the field of textual user interface for Computer Electronics devices. Previously, he served as Vice President of Business Development at RADVISION, where he was responsible for the company's strategic partnerships and for the definition of the company's product offering to the service providers market. Amnon was the CEO and co-Founder of Surf Communications, where he was responsible for all companyAs activities, from product inception, through go-to-market strategy, strategic partnerships and sales. Amnon holds a Sc.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Gerald L. Glandon, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Services Administration. Dr. Glandon has had a distinguished career in research, health administration education, and academic administration. His primary research interests have been technology evaluation (cost-effectiveness of new drug therapies, assessing information technologies, etc.), the economic aspects of aging and aging markets, patient and physician satisfaction assessment and assessment of organizational performance. He has received numerous grants as principle investigator and co-principle investigator including funding from the National Institute on Aging, Searle Inc., Bureau of Health Professions, Illinois Hospital Association, John A. Hartford Foundation and Ortho-Biotech, Inc. He also has extensive publications in such journals as Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Medical Care, Hospital and Health Services Administration, and Health Services Research as well as numerous books and book chapters. Over the years, Dr. Glandon has kept his research and practice skills current by engaging in extensive consulting with academic health centers, external agencies and organizations. These activities have included process improvement, employee satisfaction assessment and reporting, litigation support in health care antitrust and wrongful death cases and nursing organization, quality and cost studies. In recent years he has worked extensively in international health with engagements in Albania, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. He has both developed and delivered management education in these countries and provided health care strategic analysis to Ministries of Health and to individual hospitals. Prior to coming to UAB, he had been Program Director of the Department of Health Systems Management at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago.

Paula Guy has 11 years of leadership experience in building telemedicine networks in the state of Georgia.  She currently serves as CEO for Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth. Under her direction, Georgia Partnership for TeleHealth has become the most robust, comprehensive telehealth network in the nation. She serves on the board of the DCH Georgia Health Information Exchange. She has served on the advisory board for Georgia Technology Authority, has served on review boards for grants and has been a frequent telemedicine expert speaker and consultant. Before coming to the Georgia Telemedicine Program in 2004, she served 18 years at the Southeast Health Unit, Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Public Health Waycross District in the capacity’s of Telehealth Director, Coordinator for the Georgia State Cancer Registry, and Director of the Community Care Services Program. Paula is a Registered Professional Nurse and graduate of Georgia Southwestern University. She is married to Teddy Guy. They have one son, Blake and reside in Waycross, GA.

Rick Jennings joined vRad in 2007 as Chief Technology Officer. He has more than 25 years of information technology-related experience and is responsible for managing and enhancing Virtual Radiologic's teleradiology technology platform and infrastructure.

Prior to joining vRad, Rick served as President and Managing Director of Assess IT, a technology management consulting firm providing technology assessment and chief technology officer services to early stage public and private technology-enabled companies. Prior to founding Assess IT, he held numerous management technical positions in the information technology industry, including eight years as Vice President and General Manager (Western Region) for Computer Sciences Corporation’s technology management business unit providing technology integration, outsourcing, and consulting services to clients in healthcare, aerospace, and energy industries.

Rick serves on the board of MedNet Solutions, a privately held healthcare clinical trials technology firm.

Rick holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas, Austin, and a master of science degree in management from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Additionally, he holds the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential issued by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).

Timothy Kelly is Vice President of Dialog Medical, a Standard Register Healthcare Company.  Kelly is responsible for marketing and business development; he also serves as the company’s research liaison in support studies and investigations. 

Kelly received bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering from the University of Bridgeport, a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Drexel University and a master’s in business administration from Mercer University.  Before joining Dialog Medical in 2004, he held positions in the marketing departments of two divisions of C.R. Bard Inc., most recently serving as marketing director for Bard Medical Division. In that role, he was responsible for leading a team that conducted a 40-institution clinical trial of an investigational respiratory product. Kelly also spent time managing C.R. Bard’s urology, critical care, surgical and infection control product lines. Prior to his 17 years with Bard, he served as a fellow at the Biomedical Engineering and Science Institute, where he focused on telemetry and gastroenterology. Prior to that, he worked for four years in the research and development group of the Hospital Products Division of Chesebrough-Ponds, Inc.

Kelly serves as Dialog Medical’s representative on the National Quality Forum, and is a member of HIMSS, ASHRM and ACRP.  He is a frequent contributor to numerous publications, including:  Hospitals & Health Networks, Healthcare IT News and Medscape News.  Kelly has presented at various national conferences including:  ASHRM, ACRP and HIMSS.  He holds two U.S. patents.

Dominic Mack is a native of Augusta GA where he attended elementary and high school. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Paine College in Augusta and his Medical Doctorate in 1987 from Meharry Medical School in Nashville TN. He completed his residency in Family Medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Mack practiced at Southside Community Health Center in Atlanta, GA for 11 years where he served as Chief Medical Officer during his tenure. He returned to Morehouse School of Medicine in 2001 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. While at Morehouse he served as the Medical Director for the Family Medicine Department and later became the Associate Chair of Clinical Affairs. In 2003, he graduated from Kennesaw State University with a Master of Business Administration Degree. In 2006 Dr Mack served as the Associate Director for the National Center for Primary Care and Project Director for the Regional Coordinating Center at the Morehouse School of Medicine. He later took the position of Chief Medical Officer for Americorp Holdings/The AeroClinic which has opened on airport clinics in Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta Airport and the Philadelphia International Airport.  He is also the founder and past president of Mack Medical Consultants a company dedicated to the improvement of business practices in medical organizations. Dr. Mack currently serves as the Deputy Director of the National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine and the Director of the Georgia Health Information Technology Extension Center. He has spent many years practicing Family Medicine in underserved communities of Georgia including providing mental health services at GA Regional Mental Hospitals. Dr. Mack has received numerous awards of commendation for his work in the field of Medicine and Public Health. He has also served internationally as the leader of student and physician ambassador groups to Australia and China. After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Dr. Mack worked extensively across the Gulf Coast with devastated communities to help rebuild and expand the damaged health systems in the region through the expansion of Electronic Health Record and Telemedicine programs. Dr. Mack is married to Wanda Holt Mack a native of Atlanta GA and they have three lovely children.

Dr. Marchand is a graduate of San Diego State University in San Diego, CA and earned his Medical Degree at Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals, where he served as chief resident in his final year. He has over 15 years of experience in Medicine and Medical Informatics.  He is currently employed by MedStar Health at Washington Hospital Center where he serves as Senior Attending Physician and the Director of Informatics, Department of Emergency Medicine and concurrently serves as Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Marchand continues to work in collaboration with the Microsoft Corporation in the Health Solutions Group in the ongoing development and deployment of the Amalga UIS.

Janet Marchibroda serves as the Chair of the Health Information Technology (IT) Initiative for the Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC’s) Health Project, led by former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Bill Frist (R-TN) and former Governors Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Ted Strickland (D-OH).  The Health IT Initiative is bringing together public and private sector leaders—across every sector of health care, to identify and widely disseminate strategies and best practices for leveraging and aligning health IT investments to support delivery system and payment reforms.  The primary focus of the effort in 2011 is the exploration of the alignment of significant public and private sector health IT investments with rapidly emerging new models of care that promote accountability, care coordination, and patient-centeredness. Such work is being conducted with the guidance of the Bipartisan Policy Center Task Force on Delivery System Reform and Health IT, co-chaired by Senators Daschle and Frist and comprised of nationally recognized experts and leaders across every sector of health care.

 Marchibroda also serves as the Executive Director for Doctors Helping Doctors Transform Health Care, a non-profit, collaborative effort, led primarily by doctors for doctors—to provide a “trusted resource” for physicians as they work to transform health care—initially through the use of health IT.

Prior to her role with the Bipartisan Policy Center, Marchibroda led stakeholder engagement activities in support of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Marchibroda previously served as the founding Chief Executive Officer for eHealth Initiative (eHI), an independent, non-profit multi-stakeholder organization whose mission is to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of health care through information and information technology. While at eHI, she developed consensus among leaders across every sector of health care on principles, policies and strategies for leveraging health IT to drive improvements in health and health care and successfully advocated for significant federal leadership and financial support for the use of health IT to drive positive health system change, which culminated with passage of HITECH, which was signed into law in February 2009.

While at eHI, she also led the organization in driving change at the state and local levels as well, building a coalition of and resource center for state and community health leaders; helping more than 20 state leaders develop “roadmaps” for health IT; and leading a program which provided support to “connect” several communities across the U.S. to support better health and health care. During her tenure at eHI, she served as the founding Executive Director of Connecting for Health, a public-private sector initiative designed to catalyze actions on a national basis to drive electronic connectivity and create an interconnected, electronic health information infrastructure; under a grant from the Markle Foundation with additional support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

In addition, she served as the Chief Health Care Officer for IBM where she was responsible for developing and executing a health care campaign, developing health care policy and strategy for the organization, conducting research and thought leadership activities, and serving as a spokesperson.

Marchibroda also served as the Chief Operating Officer of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, a non-profit, independent organization devoted to evaluating and improving the quality of health care for Americans--where she was responsible for accreditation of health care organizations, education programs, a national database performance measures for quality of care for health plans, electronic “report cards” on health care quality to support consumers, strategic planning, finance, human resources, information technology, and administration. 

Her experience also includes co-founding and serving as Chief Operating Officer for a for-profit organization focused on providing electronic information and publishing services for health plans, which was later purchased by Bertelsmann AG; and serving as the interim Chief Operating Officer for the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship.

Marchibroda is a nationally recognized expert on and advocate for using health IT to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of health care. She has worked extensively with leaders across two Administrations, leaders in both parties of Congress; and public sector leaders within nearly every state in the U.S., as well as private sector leaders across every sector of health care, many of whom have called upon her to provide neutral, expert advice and guidance for navigating the challenges related to and developing a path forward for improving health and health care through information technology. She has testified to several committees of Congress and numerous panels within the Administration and has served on numerous steering groups, advisory panels and boards. She has been recognized as one of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare magazine and received the Federal Computer Week Top 100 Award.

She holds a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia and an MBA with a concentration in organization development from George Washington University. She is married with two children, and resides in Fairfax Station, Virginia.

Dr. McClatchey has been an active staff member at Piedmont Hospital since 1978. His practice focuses on acute and chronic medical problems in adult men and women and preventive care. Board certified in internal medicine and rheumatology, Dr. McClatchey attended medical school at the Medical College of Georgia. His internship and residency were completed at Duke University.

Dr. McClatchey believes communication is vital in patient care and strives to provide very good care to his patients. He makes every effort to ensure continuity of care and coordination of care with other care providers.

Dr. Laura McCrary is the Executive Director of the Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN) based in Topeka, KS.   KHIN is a Kansas non-profit organization that provides core health information exchange technology services.   KHIN members include the Kansas Medical Society, the Kansas Hospital Association, and the two health information exchange organizations representing the large urban areas, eHealthAlign in Kansas City and the Wichita Health Information Exchange (WHIE).   KHIN provides health information exchange services to the entire state of Kansas and portions of western Missouri.   Previously, Laura was the Director of the Regional Health Care Initiative at the Mid-America Regional Council in Kansas City, Missouri.  In this role Laura was responsible for working with broad regional coalitions of health and behavioral health care stakeholders to improve access to high quality health and behavioral health care for people who are medically vulnerable.            

Laura has completed Post-Doctoral work at Kansas University; she has a Doctorate of Education from Kansas State University and MS degrees in the areas of Mental Illness and Learning Disabilities.   Laura participates in numerous volunteer activities focused on advocacy and support for individuals with disabilities.  She is also a state appointed educational advocate for children in the foster care system in Kansas.   Laura is married and has four sons. 

Scot Petersen manages editorial strategy and operations for the CIO/IT Strategy Media Group, which includes SearchCIO.com, SearchCIO-Midmarket.com, SearchCompliance.com and SearchHealthIT.com. He is responsible for maintaining the sites' editorial excellence, keeping news and resources focused on the unique needs of CIOs, IT, business and health care professionals. Scot joined TechTarget in March 2009. Previously, he was Director of Editorial Operations for Ziff Davis Enterprise and Editor of eWeek Magazine. Scot has been a recipient of several Jesse H. Neal and ASBPE awards. He holds an MBA from Northeastern University.

MariJo Rugh is currently the Deputy CIO of Poudre Valley Health System in Fort Collins, Colorado.  She has over twenty years of diverse experience in the healthcare provider space focusing on the deployment of advanced clinical systems.  MariJo has successfully utilized clinical workflow re-engineering that leverages and optimizes EHR technologies to create solutions that have resulted in improved patient outcomes.  Prior to joining Poudre Valley Health System MariJo worked at Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.  She received a Master of Science in Medical Informatics from Northwestern University.

J. Gary Seay joined Community Health Systems in February 1997. He has more than 25 years of experience developing and delivering systems and business process solutions in the healthcare industry. Previously, he served as Vice President of Managed Care Systems for EQUICOR from 1987 to 1990; Vice President at CIGNA Systems from 1990 to 1993; and Director of Information Systems at Humana, Inc., from 1985 to 1987 and from 1993 to mid-1996.  Seay served on the United Way of Williamson County Board of Directors, is chair of the Tennessee HIMSS CIO Advisory Council, board member of the Nashville Technology Council, member of the HP Health and Life Sciences Board of Advisors, member of the Belmont University School of Pharmacy External Advisory Council, and member of the Technology Advisory Committee for the Heritage Healthcare Innovation Fund (HHIF).  He also recently participated in technology/healthcare program panels at Lipscomb University, and joined Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Management.

John Tempesco is the Chief Marketing Officer for Informatics Corporation America (ICA) a privately held company with Vanderbilt roots providing HIE solutions to the hospital, IDN, community and state healthcare market. He has over 3 decades of experience in healthcare and over 2 decades of HIT experience in the private and public sector. He was a Medical Service Corps Officer in the U.S. Navy for 21 years retiring in 1995. He holds a BS in management science at Lock Haven University and a MHA from Baylor University. He is a Fellow in both the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Life Management Institute, as well as, a Certified Managed Care Executive.

Neil is a Healthcare Industry Consultant with the leader in virtualization technology, VMware.  In his 12 years of Healthcare experience he brings a diverse skillset of working with providers and vendors to improve the quality and safety of healthcare, as well as its delivery and adoption.  Neil has worked with organizations to improve processes and streamline workflow for clinicians getting into EMR’s, as well as standardize care delivery and reduce variation, through evidence based clinical decision support.  In his role with VMware, Neil is focused on helping to reduce IT spend in hospital datacenters, and increase physician adoption of technology at the desktop through the transformation of clinician access from a desktop-restrictive environment, to a user focused one, though the use of cloud technology.

Mark Woodward was appointed EMC’s Healthcare Chief Technology Officer in the Fall of 2010 after serving various roles for EMC including their Healthcare Field Director and Solutions Operations. In these roles, he developed solutions focusing around PACS vendor neutrality, cloud preparation and virtualization solutions for integrated delivery networks, payers, and regional health networks.  He also led EMC’s healthcare strategy in integrating EMC’s vast portfolio of products and building vertical solutions for healthcare clients including their virtual patient strategy and document management initiatives.  He has extensive knowledge in storing, protecting and leveraging clinical, financial and operational information for broad scale advancements in IT operations.  As CTO, Mark is responsible for EMC’s healthcare technical strategy and direction, solution development /product positioning and working with customers on their IT challenges.

Prior to EMC, Woodward ran Partners Healthcare IT business operations, he managed aspects of Partners Healthcare’s IT strategy, Project Management Office, Human Resources, Finance, Contract Management and Innovation divisions for the 1200 employee/$180M division. Mark developed the awarding winning Partners Innovation Program shaping how Partners Healthcare leverages resources and business intelligence for clinical and financial gains. Prior to starting the Innovation Program, Mark led an organizational shift in how Partners delivers value and product to its customers, establishing Solutions Delivery methodologies, Project Initiation procedures and architecture counsels.

With more than 20 years of healthcare experience, Mark has spoken at various industry forums including HIMSS, CIO Council, Project Management Forum and Health Technology on Innovation, Project Management and IT Finance. He is an active member of HIMSS and CHIME.

Previous to his employment with Partners, Mr. Woodward worked as a computer management consultant for Pricewaterhouse Coopers developing solutions for finance and healthcare.  Mr. Woodward is a graduate of Babson College and earned his degree in Accounting and Managing Information Systems.