Mohit Kaushal, MD, MBA, Former Director of Connected Health, Federal Communications Commission

Dr. Kaushal has had an extensive career within clinical medicine, academic research, venture capital, public health and health policy. Previously, Kaushal built and led the first dedicated health care team at the Federal Communications Commission, where his team initiated collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration for the regulatory streamlining of converged telecommunication and medical devices and produced the Health Care chapter of the National Broadband Plan. During his time in government he was a member of the White House Health IT task force and testified to Congress on the application of beneficial technology to the Medicare population.

Dr. Mohit Kaushal is the former Executive Vice President of Business Development and Chief Strategy Officer of the collective West Health effort, an independent, one-of-a-kind initiative whose mission is to lower health care costs by creating innovative, patient-centered solutions that deliver the right care at the right place at the right time. As a member of the executive leadership team, he identified and pursued strategic opportunities to advance its mission through the West Health Institute, West Health Policy Center, West Health Investment Fund and West Health Incubator.   

Prior to this position, Kaushal was an investment professional at Polaris Venture Partners, and held roles with Merrill Lynch’s Health Care Investment Banking Group and the World Health Organization. In addition to his role at West Health, Kaushal is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University and serves on the advisory board of the Johns Hopkins University Biomedical Engineering department.  He also serves as a mentor to the HHS Innovation Fellows Program and has been appointed to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics advising HHS on Data Access and Use. Kaushal holds an MBA from Stanford and an MD with distinction from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London.

Jeffery Kendall, VP of Healthcare and Life Sciences, Kony Solutions Inc.

Jeffery Kendall is an experienced leader in the healthcare information technology space. With over 15 years of healthcare vertical experience, he brings in depth consulting in the areas of patient experience, revenue cycle management, clinical workflow and operational efficiency. Jeffery has a rich background in developing strategies and solutions for patient and provider interaction within the healthcare value chain. Prior to joining the Kony team, Jeffery  was responsible for directing the strategic alliances, channel partners and global product marketing for NCR’s self-service healthcare solutions. Previously, Jeffery has held multiple IT leadership roles within the hospital environment and was responsible for the innovation and implementation of a unified portal strategies focusing on patients, physicians and employees.

Cynthia Kilroy, SVP of Provider Strategies, Optum

Ms. Kilroy has over twenty years of experience as a healthcare professional focused on helping clients conceive and implement strategic decisions that change the concept of the business they are in to meet emerging challenges and market needs. She has experience working in managed care, hospitals, physician organizations including products and services. She has assisted organizations in strategic planning, financial analysis, product development, operations restructuring and program management.

Ms. Kilroy is SVP of Provider Strategy for OptumHealth where she is responsible for the go-to-market strategy, product positioning and product oversight for solutions focus on assisting provider organization navigate through the changing business models, care delivery models and reimbursement models. She is acti! vely engaged in services and technology strategies focused on population health management, predictive modeling, behavior management, provider consumer engagement and risk mitigation.

Prior to her career at Optum, Ms. Kilroy worked or consulted in healthcare organizations including Andersen Consulting, KPMG Peat Marwick, Kaiser Permanente, Massacheusetts General Hospital, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Hill Physicians, El Camino Hospital, U.S. Healthcare (Aetna), Mercy Health Plan and McKesson HBO & Company.

Ms. Kilroy received her MBA from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business with a certification in Health Sector Management. She received her B.S. in Computer Science from DeSales University. Ms. Kilroy is a Dignity Health – St. Francis Hospital Board Member in San Francisco.

Deborah Kobza, CGEIT, Executive Director/CEO, National Health ISAC

Deborah Kobza is the founder and CEO of the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC).  NH-ISAC is the nationally recognized ISAC by the DHS, HHS and the National Council of ISACs.  NH-ISAC performs cybersecurity threat and vulnerability monitoring, assists in the development of countermeasure solutions, best practice and education for the nation’s healthcare and public health sector.

She is also the founder and CEO of the Global Institute for Cybersecurity and Research (GICSR) a non-profit international organization headquartered in Cape Canaveral, Florida that is dedicated to forming collaborative partnerships with NASA, NIST, DHS, NSA, NSF, security certification organizations, technology leaders, private industry, academia, and technology associations.

Deborah has more than 35 years of experience in applied research, development and implementation of enterprise best practice principles and practices to meet organizational and workforce development strategic goals and objectives.

Howard M. Landa, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Alameda County Medical Center

Howard Landa, MD did two years of surgical residency 1983-85 at NYU and Bellevue. He trained in Urology at the University of California-San Diego and completed a fellowship in Pediatric Urology at Texas Children’s Hospital.

After training Dr. Landa joined the Loma Linda University to practice pediatric urology and during his first year, he built a document management system to help the practice manage transcribed documents and became the Director of Medical Informatics for Loma Linda University Medical Center in 1996. He joined Kaiser Hawaii in 2001 to practice pediatric urology and as one of their physician IT champions, and became their Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) in 2005. He was the physician lead for both Kaiser’s national downtime project and the operating room software; and under his leadership Kaiser Hawaii completed the EHR implementation, attaining HIMSS level 6 two months after inpatient go-live and Level 7 in 2012.

In 2009 he became the CMIO of the Alameda County Medical Center. He has been the Program Director and Vice-Chair of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) since 1997; is the Chair of the HIMSS/AMDIS Physician Community; and was named one of the top 25 Clinical Informatacists in 2010 and 2011.

Mark Larson, Senior Director, Sg2

Sandra Lillie, VP, Sales and Partnerships, Informatics Corporation of America (ICA)

Christopher A. Longhurst, MD, MS, Chief Medical Information Officer, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Clinical Association Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine

John McDaniel, National Practice Leader – US Healthcare Provider Market, US Public Sector Division, NetApp

David Minch, President & COO, HealthShare Bay Area

Mr. Minch is the President and COO of HealthShare Bay Area.  Prior to that, he spent 14 years with John Muir Health, an IDN in the SF East Bay, as their HIPAA/HIE Project Manager responsible for technical leadership of all HIPAA/HITECH, security, and HIE-related projects, and before that was Manager of Business Engineering for Kaiser’s Northern California Region.  He received a Bachelor of Sci­ence degree from the University of California, Irvine, and entered the hea­lth care industry with Amherst Associates after spending seven years in insurance data process­ing; and has accumulated over thirty five years of health care computing and strategic planning experience.

In addition to his current responsibilities for building and operating a Health Information Exchange in the SF Bay Area, Mr. Minch co-chairs the Security Committee of the California Office of Health Information Integrity (CalOHII), is a co-founder of the California e-Health Collaborative, and is a director on the board of MDISS (Medical Device Innovation, Safety, and Security consortium). He has also contributed to the California HIE planning workgroups, is a member of the Cal eConnect Policy and Technical Committees and is leading the California participation in the national EHR-HIE Interoperability Workgroup. 

Mr. Minch participates in several HIMSS national committees and is the immediate past chairman of the national HIMSS HIE Committee, which he helped to found in 2007.  He is also the 2012-2013 secretary of the HIMSS Northern California Chapter Board.  Mr. Minch has spent several years as a National HIMSS educational program reviewer, and speaks frequently at HIMSS national and regional forums.

Aaron Neinstein, MD, Clinical Fellow in Endocrinology, UCSF School of Medicine, Co-Founder, GreenDot Diabetes

Dr. Aaron Neinstein is a physician who is passionate about improving people's health through the dual roles of providing personal care for his patients and by creating healthcare systems innovations.  He is co-founder of GreenDot Diabetes, a company that has created an open, cloud-based platform that makes data for type 1 diabetes more accessible, actionable, and intuitive.  GreenDot Diabetes was a semi-finalist in the 2012 Sanofi Data Design Diabetes challenge.  Dr. Neinstein tweets at @aaronneinstein and authors Diabetes Technology, a blog focused on diabetes, but exploring many aspects of digital health.  His primary focus is on using a patient-centered approach toward designing tools that improve clinical decision making by facilitating the understanding of medical information and communication between the clinical team and the patient.

He earned a BA in American Studies from Northwestern University and an MD from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.  He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).  He was then a practicing Internist and ambulatory physician lead for the Epic electronic health record implementation at UCSF before moving on to his current position as a clinical fellow in Endocrinology at UCSF.

Dr. Sean Rogers, Medical Director, Bend Memorial Clinic

William A. Spooner, FCHIME, Senior Vice President & CIO, Sharp Healthcare

"The Sharp Experience is our culture of excellence as we work to shape the health care system of the future, which offers ready access to cost-effective, high-quality care."

Bill Spooner has been chief information officer (CIO) for more than 15 of his 30 years at Sharp HealthCare. He has led an aggressive IT effort that placed Sharp on the Hospitals and Health Networks 100 Most Wired list for 12 of the list's 14 years. IT was cited for its contributions to Sharp's 2007 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Sharp was an early leader in electronic health records and has received several awards for its consumer website. In 2010, Sharp launched its mySharp portal to more closely engage its patients in their care, followed by the mobile mySharp in 2012 with an iPhone®, iPad® and iTouch® app.

Recipient of the 2009 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award, Spooner is a member of the Healthcare Information Systems Executive Association, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and a Fellow in the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, in which he served as chair in 2006. He recently joined the Boards of the National eHealth Collaborative and the Digital Pathology Association. Spooner serves on the Healthcare IT News Editorial Board, the California Hospital Association Health Informatics and Technology Committee and a number of industry advisory councils. In 2011 he was named by Information Week as one of the 25 leaders driving the health care IT revolution.

Jay Srini, Chief Strategist, SCS Ventures, Adjunct Faculty Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, iHT² Advisory Board Member

Jim Sweeney, Chief Technology Officer, V3 Systems

Jim Sweeney, Chief Technology Officer for V3 Systems, was previously the CTO for GTSI Corp.  Previously he served as manager of GTSI’s Virtualization and Cloud Computing Consulting Practice. In this role, he has worked with various federal, state, and local agencies to develop technical solutions for server, desktop, and application virtualization, as well as storage virtualization and consolidation. He also served as GTSI’s lead architect for Cloud in the public sector, where he led the company’s efforts to assist the public sector in taking maximum advantage of this emerging technology.

Mr. Sweeney has more than 35 years’ experience in the development and integration of enterprise IT applications and technologies. Prior to joining GTSI, he held diverse positions with VA Linux Systems, Commodore Business Machines, and The Singer Company. 

Betsy Thompson, MD, DrPH, Chief Medical Officer, Region IX, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Luke Webster, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, CHRISTUS Health

Dr. Webster is the CMIO at CHRISTUS Health in Dallas, TX and has over 17 years of clinical and healthcare information technology experience. He previously held roles as both Medical Director and Physician Executive at two healthcare IT consulting firms. Dr. Webster was a senior physician and was instrumental in patient portal and clinical information systems implementations at the Southeast Permanente Medical Group in Atlanta. He earned a medical degree at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and completed residency at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and is board certified in Adult Psychiatry.

Jed Weissberg, MD, SVP, Hospitals, Quality and Care Delivery Excellence, Kaiser Permanente