Swati Abbott, President, MEDai Swati Abbott is President of Orlando, Florida-based MEDai, a leader in predictive analytics and clinical outcomes analysis, owned by Elsevier, a leading international provider of health and medical content and solutions.  MEDai serves providers, payers, vendor partners and the government with analytical software and tools that make healthcare data more useful and understandable, enhancing patient care quality, safety and efficiency. MEDai’s solutions identify evidence-based treatment protocols, deliver feedback on medication and testing compliance, address meaningful use requirements, achieve interoperability with multiple information systems and improve chronic care management through the electronic health record.  Since joining MEDai as Vice President of Business Development in 2004, Ms. Abbott has held positions of increasing responsibility.  As President, she has expanded the company’s markets to include providers, which it serves with solutions that identify and improve clinical performance; collect, report and submit data to The Joint Commission; and generate evidence-based alerts at the point of care. Ms. Abbott is a recognized expert in the predictive modeling field and is on the editorial advisory board of Predictive Modeling Magazine.  She is a well known speaker, having addressed the National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, Predictive Modeling Symposium, AHIP Institute, Spring Managed Care Forum, Joint Commission Resources Annual Conference on Quality and Patient Safety and BCBS - A Distinctively Blue Conference.  Ms Abbott graduated from the University of Delhi, India with a M.S. in Computer Science and spent more than a decade as a Managing Director for the Medical Management Strategic Business Unit at ViPS, a healthcare information technology provider, before bringing her innovative spirit and strategic vision to MEDai.
	Phyllis Albritton, Executive Director, CORHIO Phyllis Albritton is the Executive Director of the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO), a non-profit public-private partnership created to facilitate health information exchange to improve care for all Coloradans.  Governor Ritter has designated CORHIO the state-level entity for health information exchange (HIE) in Colorado so that all Coloradans will benefit from federal funding for HIE.  In addition, the Colorado Health Foundation has invested in CORHIO’s efforts to provide these services state-wide. CORHIO is also the lead for the Colorado Regional Extension Center (Co-REC) – a collaboration among a number of organizations serving safety net and primary care providers and is expected to assist the state Medicaid program in developing Colorado’s EHR Adoption Incentive Program. Ms. Albritton has more than 20 years experience in health, education and telecommunications policy.
	Tom Arnold, Senior Project Manager, DSS, Inc. Education: • MBA, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver • AB, Harvard College Experience: • Tom Arnold is a Sr. Project Manager with the vxVistA division of DSS and manages deployment of vxVistA for DSS clients such as hospitals, clinics and community mental health centers. Prior to joining DSS, he served as CIO for a startup hospital corporation where he was responsible for the launch of a new green-field acute care psychiatric hospital. His work included selection and deployment of all computer and communications technologies including a vxVistA EHR. The system was live upon hospital opening and the hospital achieved Joint Commission Certification within 90 days. • Mr. Arnold has over 10 years experience as an entrepreneur running a management consulting practice that ! served industries including media, finance, and health care. In this role he was responsible for sales, contract development, design and delivery of consulting services including financial analysis, process redesign, quality improvement, competitive research. • Mr. Arnold has worked as a software engineer and engineering manager with overall responsibility for design, development and delivery of enterprise systems for mid-size and large private enterprises, as well as consumer-oriented software.
	Samantha Burch, Director, Healthcare Policy & Research, Federation of American Hospitals As Director, Healthcare Policy & Research, Samantha Burch is responsible for researching, analyzing and developing written comments and proposals about existing and emerging health policy issues, particularly quality measurement, patient safety, and health information technology. Additionally, she represents the FAH at various related public forums and coalition meetings and supports the work of FAH member committees. Prior to joining the FAH, Ms. Burch served as a health care aide and press secretary for Rep. Al Green (D-TX), and has worked with the American Cancer Society, AcademyHealth, and the Ohio Department of Health. Ms. Burch received a Masters of Arts degree in government from the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC and a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations from The Ohio State University.
	Barry Chaiken, MD, FHIMSS, Chief Medical Officer, DocsNetwork, Ltd., HIMSS Chair 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 provides thought leadership and offers clients his expertise in clinical transformation and quality improvement. Chaiken serves as Chief Medical Officer at Imprivata, Inc., Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Symphony Corporation and on the Healthcare Advisory Board of Evolvent Technologies, Inc. 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. 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 is also a Board member, Board Liaison to HIMSS Europe, 2009-2010 Board Chair and a Fellow of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS). Chaiken holds an appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.
	Charles E. Christian, Chief Information Officer, Good Samaritan Hospital Charles E. Christian, FCHIME, FHIMSS is the Director of Information Systems and CIO of the Good Samaritan Hospital, a 102-year old free-standing, acute care, community hospital in southwest Indiana. Christian is responsible for all information technology activities throughout the enterprise; which includes Good Samaritan Hospital, Samaritan Center, Good Samaritan – Lincoln Trail Hospice, as well as outpatient/outreach clinics. Christian is serving his 21th year in this role and his 39th year in healthcare. Good Samaritan Hospital received the McKesson VIP Award in 2004, identified as a Solucient Top 100 Hospital – Quality Improvement Leader in 2005, listed as Most Wired (small and rural) in 2004 & 2005, a 2006 recipient of the VHA Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence and a 2008 recipient of the VHA ! Leadership Award for Supply Chain Excellence. Good Samaritan has most recently been recognized as a Magnet hospital by the ANA. Christian is a Fellow of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and is the current Past Chair of the Board of Directors for this organization. Christian was previously a member of the HIMSS Analytics Board of Directors. Christian served as the board liaison for the Advocacy & Public Policy Steering Committee and is the past Chair of the HIMSS BOD Executive Committee. Christian is a Fellow and charter member of CHIME (College of Health Information Management Executives) and served on the CHIME BOD from 2003 through 2004 during which time he chaired the Membership Committee of the CHIME BOD. Christian is a charter member of the re-established Indiana Chapter of HIMSS and has served as a BOD member since 2000. Christian is a member of the Executive Advisory Board for Advance for Health Information Executives magazine, a m! ember of the Technology Advisory Committee for the Vincennes City Scho ols, and a member of the Curriculum Advisory Committee for Vincennes University. Christian is serving on the KLAS Advisory Group and to the CDW-Healthcare CIO Advisory Council. Christian is serving on the Board of Directors of the Indiana Health Informatics Corporation by appointment of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. Christian was recently asked to join the AHA Strategic Development Advisory Committee as a charter member. Prior to joining Good Samaritan Hospital, Christian worked in healthcare IT for Compucare and Baxter Travenol, in both management and implementation roles. Christian started his career in healthcare as a Radiologic Technologist, serving in various Radiology roles for 14 years. Christian studied natural sciences at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Lacrosse University. Christian has presented at the SHS Management Engineering Forum, multiple HIMSS Annual Conference, HIMSS Summ! er Conference, and was the keynote speaker for the AIMSVAR (Association of Medical Systems Value Added Resellers) 2009 annual meeting. Christian has also published many industry related articles and been featured in many other publications. More recently he and co-authors Judy Kirby and Steve Bennett recently published “Make I.T. Know – Marketing Strategies and Case Studies in the Healthcare Environment”.
	Cathleen Crowley, CIO, Columbia Memorial Hospital Cathleen Crowley, has been the CIO for Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson New, York since March of 2009. Cathy has been the driving force for managing the New York Heal V grant requiring implementation of electronic medical records in ambulatory physician offices and long term care facilities. She is the presiding president of the Columbia Memorial's Community Health Information Technology Adoption Collaborative (CHITA) which promotes the adoption of ambulatory electronic medical record in the community. Cathleen has also been responsible for building a data center, upgrading their entire network structure and implementing bedside medication management. Prior to her position as CIO, she was a manager at First Consulting Group (FCG) from 1998 to 2009 where she provided project team leadership, information managemen! t, customer support, implementation services, and pre-implementation planning. Cathleen worked for Meditech where she was the manager of the International Division, responsible for implementing clinical applications in England, Scotland and South Africa. Cathleen has an interest in improving patient safety through the implementation of technology.
	Jessica Grosset,Chair, IT Applications Department, Mayo Clinic Minnesota Jessica Grosset is the Chair of the Department of Information Technology Applications at Mayo Clinic, supporting an extensive array of electronic clinical and administrative systems. Ms. Grosset is a member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). She is currently a member of the KLAS Advisory Board.  Ms. Grosset received a Bachelors Degree from the State University of New York. Mayo Clinic is the world's first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group medical practice, providing clinic and hospital services in Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; and Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona. Mayo Clinic has been in the top two rankings for almost two decades inU.S. News & World Report's rankings of America's Best Hospitals; has been a Magnet status recipient since 1997, for its "Excellence in Nursing Service”; and has been named to FORTUNE Magazine’s "100 Best Companies to Work For" for seven consecutive years.  Mayo Clinic is one of four institutions recently named as recipients of a SHARP (Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects) award by the Department of Health and Human Services; and one of 15 institutions to receive an award through the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program. Mayo Clinic is on the recently published 2010 "Most Wired Hospitals" list; has achieved Level 6 of the HIMSS Davis award; and has had its medical records completely online for several years.
	Brad Hawkins, VP of Clinical Experience, MEDSEEK As Vice President of Clinical Experience, Brad Hawkins oversees MEDSEEK's sales of physician, referral, and health information exchange Web portal solutions. Brad’s background includes 5 years with MEDSEEK and has included roles in direct sales, management, business development, marketing and support. Brad has worked with many of the leading Healthcare organizations in the North America including Marion General, Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, Western North Carolina Health Network, Hamilton Health Sciences, and many others to assist them with their eHealth goals. Brad attended Oklahoma State University on a full academic scholarship where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis on Marketing and Public Communication. Following graduation Brad worked with Physicians and Healthcare organizations while working with Abbott Labs and Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals.
	Rick Hayes, VP of Business Development, Intelichart Rick Hayes has accumulated more than 18 years of sales and technical experience in IT services and healthcare. Throughout his career, Rick has been associated with entrepreneurial companies seeking aggressive growth strategies and has a proven ability to help them succeed.  Before joining InteliChart, Rick gained valuable experience at NextGen Healthcare where he provided information systems including practice management, electronic medical records, e-prescribing, document management systems and electronic data interchange to medical practices and hospitals.  His blend of analytical and creative skills helped NextGen grow from sales of $5 million dollars a year to nearly $200 million dollars a year. Rick created and delivered winning presentations for Best Product at TEPR and HIMSS.  Following these presentations, NextGen’s sales increased exponentially.  During his tenure at NextGen he sold over $30 million in software and was consistently in the top 5 in sales year over year and he is their only salesperson ever to hit quota 8 years in a row.  As Vice President of Strategic Accounts, Rick was credited with building one of the fastest growing regions at the company Rick has a BS degree in Management and Finance from Northeastern University in Boston.
	Evon Holladay, VP Business Intelligence, Catholic Health Initiatives Evon is a seasoned professional in architecting BI solutions through running BI operations.  She has built scalable, high-value solutions for health care, telecommunications, retail, and manufacturing.Currently she serves as the Vice President Business Intelligence for Catholic Health Initiatives.  She is leading CHI's efforts to provide information to customers and stakeholders to support timely strategic and operational decision making. She has a passion for designing and operating solution that provide measurable value.  Her specific areas of interest are enterprise information integration, data quality management, and working with business partners to build information solutions that improve the quality of care delivered. Business Intelligence is a relatively new function for CHI.  This function is responsible to provide a historical, current and predictive view of business operations.  This is accomplished through an enterprise data warehouse. CHI currently a patient data warehouse that provides information for strategic reporting and core measures regulatory compliance. Prior to joining CHI, Evon lead the implementation of a Business Intelligence solutions that created value by integrating information from multiple source systems to provide high value. Her focus is on creating a cross-functional collaborative whereby the information is utilized and maintained.  As a 'downstream' information consumer, many Business Intelligence activities fail to achieve long term success due to the changing nature of data.  Evon's focus on governance as a tool to create business ownership has been a critical success factor. Business Intelligence is partnering with leadership across CHI to develop metric standards and define key performance indicators and best practices benchmarks.  The goal will be to reduce latency in decision making by having information readily available.
	Christopher Jackson, PhD, Physician Informaticist, Sisters of Mercy Health System 15 years Emergency Medicine Experience 4 years Experience in EHR and Informatics Certified Physician Informaticist AMIA Residency Trained Board Certified Emergency Physician Fellow of American College of Emergency Physicians Fellow of American College Osteopathic of Emergency Physicians Dr Jackson has been instrumental in the design, build, implementation, optimization and physician transformation of a large health care system of an enterprise solution of a fully integrated EHR.
	Gary Kolbeck, Healthcare General Manager, LodgeNet Interactive Corporation As General Manager of Healthcare at LodgeNet Interactive Corporation (NASD: LNET), Mr. Kolbeck is responsible for carrying out LodgeNet’s Healthcare Initiative, which is to leverage its interactive digital content delivery system into care facilities to address patient satisfaction, engagement and education goals. Mr. Kolbeck’s expertise is grounded in developing new business models and markets for LodgeNet’s digital interactive television platform in the healthcare industry, providing on demand patient entertainment, education and communication solutions. Mr. Kolbeck began his tenure with LodgeNet in May 1990 as an electrical design engineer, spearheading projects involving designs of remote controls, power supplies, and set-top technologies.  After that, he segued into a myriad of different managing director positions within the Engineering and Technology Development group to facilitate LodgeNet’s growth. Some of his notable accomplishments include three design patents for LodgeNet, helping to grow and further define LodgeNet’s viability in the marketplace. Mr. Kolbeck currently resides in Sioux Falls and is a graduate of South Dakota State University where he earned Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degrees.
	Lisa Khorey, Director, Interoperability, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Lisa Khorey has spent the last 20 years in IT in various roles, primarily directing teams to integrate electronic medical records and automate workflow processes at UPMC. Ms. Khorey currently serves as the Director of Interoperability for UPMC—the largest integrated health care delivery system in Pennsylvania and one of the leading nonprofit medical centers in the country. Ms Khorey began her career as a systems programmer, later transitioning to systems administrator, and then making a switch to healthcare. After completing her MBA at Duquesne University, she spent the last decade in IT leadership at UPMC, including two years as the CIO for UPMC community hospitals. One of the original UPMC Cerner inpatient medical record implementation team members, she built a group of fifteen interface analysts wh! o engineered and franchised integration across two hundred disparate systems and developed more than a thousand interfaces. In her current role spearheading UPMC’s evolution to enterprise-wide interoperability, Ms. Khorey leads a team of technical and clinical analysts, programmers, and physicians, whose goals include the broad span of legacy integration using HL7, aggregation of all electronic data into UPMC’s interoperability platform, intelligent presentation of clinical data to support the patient in the transition of care, and the development of integrated process orchestration.
	Mary Anne Leach, VP & Chief Information Officer, The Children’s Hospital With thirty (30) years experience in healthcare information technology, Ms. Leach is currently Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for The Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. The Children’s Hospital is a $1B child health enterprise with seventeen (17) locations and an academic affiliation with the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Health Sciences program. Prior to joining Children’s, Ms. Leach served as Vice President, Clinical Applications, for Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) in Denver, responsible for clinical applications strategy, planning, implementation and support for a 70-hospital, $9B healthcare organization. While at CHI, Ms. Leach delivered a $200M, 11-hospital implementation of an EHR and integrated clinical applications. Prior to CHI, as President, M.A. Leach & Company, Inc., Ms. Leach managed a consulting firm for eight (8) years, delivering E.M.R. and clinical implementation services to integrated health systems nationwide. Prior to running her own consulting firm, Ms. Leach served as Director, Clinical Information Systems and Systems Integration at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Some of Ms. Leach’s other previous roles include: Executive Director, Superior Consultant Company, Inc.; Director, Implementations, IHC Affiliated Services, Inc. (a division of Intermountain Health Care). Ms. Leach holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Utah, with post-graduate studies at the University of Utah (math, physics, and computer science), Stanford University (medical informatics), Johns Hopkins University (health information management) and DePaul University (School for New Learning). Ms. Leach was a member of NAHIT (National Alliance for Healthcare IT) from 2004 to 2007, leading national HIT policy development (including the 2006 Stark law changes). Ms. Leach remains an active member of CHIME, the CHIME Advocacy Leadership Team (ALT), HIMSS, CHIMSS, the CHCA CIO Forum, and NACHRI.
	Robyn Leone, Director, Colorado Regional Extension Center Robyn joined the CORHIO team in April 2010 as the Director of the ONC Grant Funded Colorado Regional Extension Center. CORHIO is a non-profit public-private partnership created to facilitate health information exchange to improve care for all Coloradans and were one of 32 initial awardees of a Regional Extension Center. Prior to joining CORHIO, Robyn worked at Kaiser Permanente of Colorado where she headed an newly formed analytic team dedicated to bringing together outside hospital related activities with the internal activities of the integrated delivery system. Robyn has 14 years of healthcare experience with an emphasis in process improvement, Six Sigma, and program outcome analysis of both operational and clinical improvement programs. Her entry into healthcare began as a co-owner of a specialty medic! al clinic where paper-based charts and manually entry of information were the norm. Over the years Robyn has managed large demonstration projects for Medicare and state Medicaid agencies. Ms. Leone received her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Kansas and her Masters in Business Adminstration from Baker University.
	Mark Levine, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Denver, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid     Dr. Levine is Chief Medical Officer at the Denver regional office of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Born and raised in New Jersey, he did his undergraduate work at Rutgers College before graduating from Temple University with a Doctorate of Medicine. His residency training in Internal Medicine was at Temple University Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania Health System. He moved to Colorado for fellowship training in Clinical Immunology at the University of Colorado. A practicing internist, he is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Levine is past chair of the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. As Clinical Professor of Medicine, he teaches in the Division of Geriatrics and at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He also serves on the faculty of the Colorado School of Public Health. He founded and now serves on the board of the Colorado Patient Safety Coalition.
	Mark McCurry, Executive Director, Healthcare, Covisint For the past 20 years, Mr. McCurry has been assisting early and later stage companies build, launch, successfully market and sell services and solutions in the HealthCare market space. Mr. McCurry has held Senior Executive positions at Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, GEAC Corporation, Best Doctors, Per-Se Technologies, General Partner, Catalysta Partners, LLC and currently as the Executive Director , Health Care at Covisint. Mr. McCurry has extensive experience in clinical and administrative solutions for healthcare technology. Mr. McCurry has been a speaker a TEPR, CHIME, Gartner and HIMSS Health Care conferences on applying technology to improve the efficiency of healthcare workers. Mr. McCurry graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA from A&T State University.
	Linda Minghella, VP & Chief Information Officer, Boulder Community Hospital Linda S. Minghella, Vice President & Chief Information Officer.  Linda has been with Boulder Community Hospital, a 265 bed hospital located in Boulder, Colorado for over 2 years.  She has primarily responsibility for the Information Technology Department, the IT Strategic Plan, Telecommunications and the Medical Records Department.  Linda is a graduate of the University of Maryland and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems Management with certifications in both Database Management and Project Management.  She completed her Master of Science degree in Information Technology in March 2008 and has over 18 years of experience in healthcare information technology.  Linda has held information technology and leadership positions at St. Luke's Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, a Mayo Clinic affiliated hospital, and two community hospitals in Southern Maryland before joining Boulder Community Hospital. Linda's accomplishments include implementing an integrated electronic medical record including document imaging for paper records, on-line clinical documentation, bedside medication verification and an ambulatory electronic medical record system.  She is currently working to implement clinical documentation and physician order management at Boulder Community Hospital.  Linda has also overseen the implementation of wireless networks to aid in point of care clinical documentation, established secure remote access to the electronic medical record for physicians, and provided information technology leadership for an $82 million construction project. Ms. Minghella is a member of the Health Information Management System Society (HIMSS), and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). She is a Certified Professional in Health Information Management Systems (CPHIMS) and retired as a Senior Chief Petty Officer from the U.S. Naval Reserves in 2001.
	Bernie Monegain, Editor, Healthcare IT News Bernie Monegain, is editor of Healthcare IT News, a monthly print publication that reports on news that affects the healthcare IT industry. The publication has more than 54,000 subscribers. Before joining Healthcare IT News, Monegain worked as a reporter and city editor of a daily newspaper in Maine, where she reported on healthcare, business and technology and other issues. Her work on the rivalry between two hospitals in one small community earned her a Knight fellowship.

	John Moore, Managing Partner, Chilmark Research   Mr. Moore, is founder and managing partner of the healthcare IT analyst firm, Chilmark Research, which was founded in 2007.  Current research at Chilmark focuses on the convergence of consumer-driven healthcare policies and healthcare technologies with the move to digitize the healthcare sector and future implications. In May 2008, Chilmark Research published its first major report iPHR Market Trends & Analysis.  In March 2010, Chilmark will release a series of reports addressing the pivotal Health Information Exchange market.  Other areas of research focus include Cloud Computing models in healthcare, mobile health applications and Platform as a Service (PaaS) trends including such healthcare-centric PaaS as Dossia, Google Health and Microsoft's HealthVault. Prior to founding Chilmark Research, Moore led corporate worldwide industry and market intelligence for Europe's second largest enterprise software firm, Dassault Systemes.  While at Dassault, he worked with the leadership team to define key global market opportunities, create forecast growth and develop critical paths to market for its numerous software products. Upon defining target markets, both global and regional, Moore led his team to develop key messaging, positioning and sales training tools for successful, global market penetration. Moore has held a number of other senior positions during his career including: directing all enterprise IT research activities for the analyst firm, ARC Advisory Group; Research Associate at MIT; VP of Marketing for an analytical instrument company and policy analyst for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. An accomplished speaker, Moore has made numerous presentations on current and future IT trends and their impact to markets.  Widely quoted in numerous publications, he has also been interviewed by: AMA News, Baseline, CIO, ComputerWorld, eWeek, Health Data Management, InformationWeek, Investors Business Daily, US News & World Report, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
	Dana Moore, SVP & Chief Information Officer, Centura Health Dana has served Centura Health in various consulting engagements since 2001. After successfully leading Centura's IT strategy for nearly a year as interim senior vice president, Centura Health named Dana senior vice president and chief information officer in June 2005. In this capacity, he is responsible for the overall development and implementation of IT strategy. In December 2008, Dana also assumed the role of managing director of Centura's service center which includes the supply chain, laboratory, regional float pool, system recruiting, central verification, call center and business intelligence.  Dana has more than 20 years experience in healthcare financial management. He founded and served as president of The Moore Consulting Group, LLC, a full-service healthcare-consulting firm, from 1999-2005 and served as national director in charge of the revenue cycle practice for the Certus Corporation from 1997-1999. Prior to that, Dana held various executive positions, including chief financial officer for a two-hospital system and various other financial and revenue cycle positions.  Dana holds a bachelor's degree in business administration with a major in accounting from The Ohio State University.
	Deane Morrison, Chief Information Officer, Capital Region Health Care Mr. Morrison has 25 years experience in the information technology industry, including thirteen years as the Chief Information Officer for Capital Region Healthcare.  He has strong background in all aspects of the IT industry, including telecommunications, data networking, application implementation, interface development, data center operations, web development, bio-medical engineering and vendor management.  He has also aligned his IT organization with ITIL best practices. As a member of CRHC's senior leadership team, he participates in setting short and long-term strategic and tactical directions for the system at large.  He is a member of the CEO's core strategic advisory team and is full time staff member at all CRHC board meetings. Mr. Morrison is a Registered Pharmacist and has a particular passion for implementing clinical IT systems.  He has extensive experience in the implementation of provider related information technology products in both the acute care hospital setting and in the ambulatory care physician office setting. In the acute care setting he has implemented physician portal programs in four hospitals, CPOE achieving over 70% adoption amongst members of the medical staff, advanced nursing documentation systems, and closed loop medication management meeting best practice for bar-coding the medication, patient, and nurse at the 98 percentile.  In the ambulatory care setting he has overseen the implementation of EMR systems in 30+ practices encompassing 200+ physicians and 300+ providers accounting for 250,000+ electronic patient records. His organization has been named Most Wired for the past three years and 5 out of the last 8 years.  The other 3 years his organization was listed as a Most Wired Small and Rural.  His CEO, Michael Green, was awarded the CEO IT Achievement Award in 2009. He is actively engaged in leading his organization towards achieving meaningful use and fully expects his organization will be certified in 2011.He is a past advisory board member for KLAS and a current advisory board member for McKesson, Vocera, and Kryptiq. He is an accomplished mountaineer having climbed worldwide.  His major ascents include Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina, Mt. Huascaran in Peru, Mt. Orizaba in Mexico, Mt. Logan in Canada and all the sixty-nine 14,000 foot mountains in the Continental United States. Mr. Morrison received his BS in Computer Management (1989) from Franklin Pierce College.  He also received a BS in Pharmacy (1976) from the University of Connecticut.  He is a registered and licensed pharmacist in the states of NH and VT. He has been a member of HIMSS since 1993 and a member of CHIME since 1995.
	Michael O'Rourke, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Catholic Health Initiatives Prior to accepting the Chief Information Officer role for Catholic Health Initiatives, Michael O'Rourke was the VP/CIO for Triad Hospitals, Inc.  Triad Hospitals operated 54 hospitals and 13 ambulatory surgery centers in 17 states and Europe with approximately 9,855 licensed beds.  In this role, he led a number of IT transformational programs including: the replacement of all current HIS systems with McKesson Corporation's suite of clinical products; implementation of an Ambulatory Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in physicians offices; and the deployment of a new suite of ERP products from Lawson Software.  In addition, Mr. O'Rourke consolidated and standardized IT resources across all the Triad facilities. Prior to joining Triad, Mr. O'Rourke was the vice president of clinical and regulatory IT strategies for Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), supporting 42 hospitals throughout California, Nevada and Arizona.  In his capacity at CHW he was responsible for the development of the IT clinical strategy that standardized clinical IT systems using Cerner and MediTech.  In addition, he led the enterprise imaging committee that standardized and deployed PACS systems and a single, standard image archive for all CHW. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Davis and a Master of Business Administration degree from North Central University in Prescott, Arizona. He is a member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, and was a contributing author for the 2001 book entitled, Information Technology for the Practicing Physician.
	Lauren Plunkett, State Health IT Program Director, State of Colorado – Governor’s Office of Information Technology As the State’s Health Information Technology (HIT) Program Director, Lauren is responsible for leading, identifying, and coordinating programs across the State’s health and human service enterprise for improved health care outcomes to citizens and to ultimately establish a tangible and viable strategy for effective HIT coordination in Colorado. She is committed to establishing a sustainable, long-term vision and operational plan to guide Health IT policy, funding and implementation decisions across the state’s many government agencies while ensuring close collaboration with the State Designated Entity, CORHIO, and other stakeholders across the state to ensure active engagement and participation and to develop buy-in for an interoperable and sustainable State Health IT Program model. Prior to her role as the State HIT Program Director, Lauren served as a Program Management Specialist in the Governor’s Office of Information Technology (OIT). She partnered with multi-stakeholder groups for the State of Colorado’s coordinated efforts to obtain federal funding for both the State-level Health Information Technology Program and Broadband Data and Development Program. Those efforts resulted in multiple successful American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant requests, including $9.175M for Health Information Exchange (HIE), $12.475M for Regional Extension Center Program (REC), and $2.1M for Broadband Mapping. Lauren also managed the successful completion of Colorado’s first-ever geographically-based map of broadband availability and spent the past three-plus years as the OIT HIT Program Manager for state Health IT-related projects and initiatives, including co-facilitation! of a legislatively required Health IT Advisory Committee tasked with conducting research and developing a long-range plan for Statewide Health IT that was published and delivered to the Governor in April 2009. , Lauren holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and International Affairs from the University of Colorado at Boulder and completed three study abroad trips to Japan.
	Dave Podwojski, Director of Government Education & Health, Citrix Dave Podwojski is Director of Government, Education and Health for the Americas at Citrix Systems. In this capacity Dave leads the Citrix Government, Education and Health team in bringing application and desktop delivery solutions to every level of state and local government, educational institutions, and public health providers. His particular areas of expertise include the delivery of mission critical applications, virtual desktops, mobile computing, disaster recovery, and green IT. Prior to Citrix, Dave has worked in the technology industry for over 25 years at Oracle, Aurigin Systems, Virtual Microsystems and Autogenic Systems.
	Erik Pupo, Chief Architect, Federal Health Architecture program, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Erik Pupo currently serves as the chief architect to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) for the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program, with specialization in issues associated with health IT privacy and security and health interoperability architecture. His work at ONC and FHA includes providing subject matter expertise on health IT standards to federal agencies through the FHIM project; work with privacy and security experts within HIMSS, HISPC, and CCHIT to facilitate security issue analysis for policymakers, and architecting and analyzing healthcare transformation opportunities for federal agency challenges as part of FHA TRANSFORM. In his role at ONC and FHA, he also is responsible for advising and briefing senior executives on health IT privacy and security pol! icy issues, and supporting and advising the FHA CONNECT and TRANSFORM teams on privacy and security issues. Mr. Pupo is the current chair of the HIMSS Privacy and Security Steering Committee, was the co-chair for the HITSP Internal Review Team, which was responsible for the development and maintenance of the HITSP standards harmonization process, and served on over 7 different HITSP technical committees. He led the HITSP modeling team responsible for the development of the UML models and tools associated with the HITSP standards harmonization process. He also is recognized by HIMSS as a Certified Professional in Health Information Systems (CPHIMS).
	Roy Sanford, Chief Marketing Officer, Stratus Technologies Roy Sanford joined Stratus in November 2009 as chief marketing officer, responsible for worldwide marketing, product management, and business development. His experience in high technology reflects consistent career growth through a variety of roles including sales, marketing, product management, business development, strategic alliances, and general management, involving both hardware and software application solutions. Prior to coming to Stratus, he held a number of senior executive positions during his 14 years at EMC Corporation, most recently as vice president coordinating the company’s entry into the software-as-as-service (SaaS) business. Prior to EMC he ran worldwide marketing & alliances with then start-up ON Technology, and has held leadership roles at Bull HN and Data General.  Sanford was awarded an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, an MS degree in operations research from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS degree in applied mathematics from Drexel University.
	Brigadier General Robert Stall, President, Medina Hospital and Commander, 108th Training Command (USAR) Robert Stall is President of Medina Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic regional hospital.  The 118-bed not-for-profit health care facility is dedicated to serving Medina County and the surrounding area.  Medina’s services and specialties include diagnostic, medical, surgical, obstetric, pediatric and therapeutic services as well as a 24-hour Emergency Department.  As President, Brig. Gen. Stall helped develop a 5-year strategic plan that addressed strategies for growth of inpatient census through a 22,0000 sq. foot Brunswick Freestanding Emergency Department; a physician staffing plan that influenced the reconfiguration and capital construction of the South Office Building; a $7 million Information Technology plan that culminates in the implementation of Epic Electronic Medical Records and the re-capitalization of needed equipment in Surgery, ICU, hospital floors, and other key areas. Currently, Brig. Gen. Stall is the Commander for the 108th Training Command (Initial Entry Training), with headquarters located in Charlotte, North Carolina.  He is responsible for over 10,000 soldiers that conduct Initial Entry Training for U.S. Army Reserve, National Guard and Active Component soldiers on 6 major facilities and units located nationwide throughout the United States. Prior to his current position, he served as the President of Euclid Hospital, Division Administrator of the Regional Medical Practice at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Financial Manager of the Division of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He is also active in his community, as he serves on several boards, including the Boy Scouts of America Cleveland Chapter, the Medina County Economic Development Corporation (Executive Committee and Board of Trustees Member), and the Euclid Chamber of Commerce. Brig. Gen. Stall earned a degree in marketing at John Carroll University, and continued on to Cleveland State University to earn an MBA in Quantitative Business Analysis.    Brig. Gen. Stall has 33 years of experience in the Active Component and the Army Reserve, including deployments to Kosovo in 1999 as the Commander of the 15th Psychological Operations Battalion, and to Iraq in 2003 as the Commander of the 358th Civil Affairs Brigade. He holds many military honors and awards, including the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal and Defense Meritorious Service Medal.
	Andrew Steele, MD, Director, Medical Informatics, Denver Health Dr. Steele is an Internist and Director of Medical Informatics at Denver Health, a large integrated public safety net organization. He oversees the clinical system selection, design, and implementation activities. He received his B.A from Stanford University, his M.D. from Yale University, and his M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He also received a Masters in Medical Informatics degree from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the University of Bath in the UK. He has been working in the medical informatics field for the last ten years with an emphasis on cost-effective utilization of computer technology in the clinical arena.
	Joann Strobbe, Chief Financial Officer & AVP of Administration, Finance & Technology, USF Health College of Medicine Joann Strobbe is Vice Dean, CFO and AVP of Administration, Finance & Technology for USF Health and the College of Medicine at the University of South Florida. She serves as a member of the USF Physicians Group Finance Committee and also serves as a member of the University of South Florida's System-wide Finance Council, Budget Council and Technology Sponsor Groups. She is also Executive Director of Finance and Accounting for the USF practice plan. Ms. Strobbe received her Master's degree in Higher Education Administration at Southern Illinois University. Her Bachelor's degree is in Economics with an emphasis in Information Technology. At SIU at Carbondale, Ms. Strobbe was the Financial Director for the Auxiliary and Business Services for the University community. However, she has spent the last 18 years in USF Health at the University of South Florida, first in the College of Medicine and in 1995 expanding to USF Health and the Faculty Practice Plan. As the Chief Financial Officer for USF Health, Ms. Strobbe is responsible for all financial reporting, state appropriations, legislative budgets, practice plan budgets and finances, post-award grant administration, electronic business systems, administrative computing, house staff administration, faculty effort reporting, hospital negotiations, financial strategic planning, financial compliance and audit functions and enrollment planning and facilities. In addition, Ms. Strobbe is responsible for the financial operations of the practice plan budget and the LCME Annual Financial Questionnaire used for accreditation. She has been an active member in the AAMC Group on Business Affairs serving as Southern Region Chairperson, National Professional Development Committee Chair, numerous ad-hoc committees, and was the National Chairperson for the AAMC-GBA. She grew up in Chicago but loves her new Florida home and the beach. She is an avid sports fan for the Tampa and USF sports teams. She has two sons and enjoys traveling, reading, and soaking in the Florida rays.
	Steven Vickner, MHA, FACHE, Chief Information Officer, Manhattan's Physician Group Mr. Vickner has worked in the healthcare information technology field—with a focus on electronic medical records—since 1999. His professional experience spans front-line technical and leadership positions, for Continuum Health Partners (CHP) and NYU Langone Medical Center (NYULMC), in Manhattan, NY. During his 7+ year-tenure with CHP, Mr. Vickner successfully built, designed and implemented a robust outpatient/acute care behavioral healthcare system (TIER). He later joined NYU as the Director of Ambulatory EMR, where he most recently led preparatory efforts for the implementation of the ambulatory and patient portal modules (Epic). Mr. Vickner’s educational background includes undergraduate and graduate degrees in Health Administration from the University of Scranton. He is a Fellow in the American College of ! Healthcare Executives, and an active member in CHiME and HIMSS. He has been married to wife Gina for over ten years, and has two children—Abigail and Grace.
	L. Albert Villarin, Jr., MD, FACEP, National Director, Physician Services, Thomson Reuters Al Villarin MD FACEP is a Solutions Executive and National Director of Physician Services at Thomson Reuters where he works to align the needs of clinicians and clients with integrated clinical solutions to achieve core measures, live surveillance and workflow efficiency.  Before joining Thomson Reuters, Al was the Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network.  Prior to that, he was Director of Medical Informatics, in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein.  Dr. Villarin attended Harvard University, Jefferson Medical School and began his career in active duty with the United States Army as an emergency physician, achieving the rank of Major.
	Lynn H. Vogel, Ph.D, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Institute 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, the world's largest and consistently one of the highest rated facilities devoted to prevention, research, and the care and cure of cancer.  M. D. Anderson has been named to the CIO100 list of the most innovative IT organizations, to the top 100 of InformationWeek's Top 500, and 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.  Dr. Vogel has also been 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.  This past year, MDACC was honored by Computerworld as a leader in the healthcare industry by designation as a Computerworld Laurate and by 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.  At UT-MDACC, Dr. Vogel serves as the senior IT executive managing a 700+ person IT division.  He also serves as a faculty member for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) CIO Boot Camp experience. 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).
	Chris Wood, Medical Director, Information Services, Intermountain Healthcare Dr. Chris Wood, MD is the Medical Director for Information Services at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, Utah.  He serves in a liaison role between Intermountain's Information Systems department and the hundreds of physicians who are served by that department.  He is responsible to coordinate physician input from Intermountain Healthcare to the creation of GE's Qualibria platform and software.  He assists in the deployment of Qualibria solutions at Intermountain Healthcare.  He is also working on a state wide health information exchange with Utah Health Information Network and Intermountain's partners in providing healthcare to the residents of the states of Utah and Idaho.  Dr. Wood has served as a faculty member and clinic director at the Utah Valley Family Medicine Residency and is an Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Utah.  He served as a Medical Director for Information Systems with ProHealth Care in Waukesha Wisconsin where he also completed residency and a fellowship in Faculty Development with a focus on Medical Informatics.  He graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City.