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Howard J. Anderson
Executive Editor
Health Data Management

Howard J. Anderson is executive editor of Health Data Management magazine, which covers all aspects of information technology in health care. He was the founding editor of the magazine, which launched in 1993, and formerly served as its publisher. In his 30-year career in journalism he also has served in various editorial roles at Hospitals magazine, Healthcare Financial Management, and Modern Healthcare, as well as several newspapers.

Gary Baldwin
Senior Technology Editor
HealthLeaders Media

Gary Baldwin is senior technology editor at HealthLeaders Media, a division of HCPro. He is an experienced reporter and analyst covering healthcare IT. He has won awards for editorial excellence from the American Society of Business Publication Editors for the last three years.

Dr. William F. Bria
CMIO
Shriners Hospitals for Children

Dr. William F. Bria is a Pulmonary/Critical Care physician and currently the Chief Medical Information Officer for the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children System, headquartered in Tampa, Florida. He is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan and University of South Florida. Dr. Bria has been a leader in Applied Medical Informatics for over 25 years. He has authored numerous articles and books on informatics and most recently, The Physician Computer Conundrum.

Dr. Bria is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, past president of the Medical Information Systems Physicians Association, and the review board of the Journal of Healthcare Information Management Healthcare Informatics and Healthcare Informatics.

Over the past 16 years he was Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems at the University of Michigan and Medical Director of the Critical Care Medical Unit. Dr. Bria is a Fellow in the American College of Chest Physicians.

Dr. Bria has been a consultant for the Institute of Medicine on the Computerized Patient Record and to the United States Congress on matters of the application of information technology to the practice of medicine. He has lectured on medical informatics throughout the U.S. and around the world.

He is currently engaged in research in applied medical informatics and completing a book on Personal Health Records.

Terry Clark
President
MD Informatics, LLC

Dr. Clark is a board certified General Surgeon and is President of MD Informatics, LLC. Dr. Clark has over 20 years experience in healthcare and nine years experience in information sciences, system implementation, and business process assessment and reengineering. Dr. Clark has completed a two-year fellowship in Medical Informatics and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture internationally on information technology in healthcare. Most recently, Dr. Clark served as a commissioner on a Presidential Task Force to make recommendations to improve healthcare for America’s Veterans.

Josh Fisher
Founder and Managing Partner
Lux Capital, LLC

Josh Fisher is the founder and managing partner of Lux Capital, LLC, a company focused on healthcare and technology investments. Mr. Fisher has been investing in healthcare companies for over 12 years. Previous to Lux Capital, he was a principal at Pequot Capital Management for 5 years. Mr. Fisher is a graduate from UC Berkeley.

Dr. Ahmad Hashem
Informatics Unlimited, LLC
Principal

Dr. Ahmad Hashem is a medical informatics consultant, author, and lecturer. He served recently as Global Manager for Microsoft's Healthcare and Life Sciences group. Dr. Hashem worked in such diverse healthcare environments ranging from rural Egypt, to India, Jordan, Kuwait, Taiwan, South Korea, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In addition to his doctorate in medicine from the University of Damascus, Dr. Hashem holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts and a doctorate in Medical Informatics, Cognitive Program, from the University of Pittsburgh.

Steven T. Hester, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer
Norton Healthcare

Dr. Steve Hester is Chief Medical Information Officer for Norton Healthcare, a not-for-profit 5 hospital system in Louisville, KY.  Prior to joining Norton Healthcare Dr. Hester practiced Emergency Medicine for 5 years.  During this time he served as Regional Medical Director for a 40 physician Emergency Medicine group with greater than 110,000 patient visits per year.  During his tenure he worked to improve quality and volume with significant success, while redefining multiple processes within the organization.

Dr. Hester holds a BA in Chemistry from the University of Louisville and an MD from the University of Louisville.  Dr. Hester is currently completing his Master’s in Business Administration at Bellarmine University.  He completed his clinical training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.  Dr. Hester is Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.  He holds appointments both as Assistant Clinical Professor in Medicine (General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Health Policy Research) and Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics at the University of Louisville.  He has served Norton Healthcare in multiple positions including representation on the System Medical Executive Committee and President of Medical Staff for a Norton affiliated facility.

Dr. Hester is currently a board member for the local American Heart Association, Louisville Science Center and active within the community. 

Marc Holland
Program Director
Health Industry Insights, an IDC Company

Marc Holland, with over 25 years of healthcare and IT research experience, leads the provider research and advisory practice. Prior to Health Industry Insights, Mr. Holland was the Senior Managing Consultant at System Research Services (SRS), a software development and consulting firm specializing in strategic consulting, information system management and operations improvement, primarily for the hospital segment of the health industry.

Prior to SRS, Mr. Holland was a hospital system IT Outsourcing Executive for both First Consulting Group (FCG) and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), where he directed an annual $28M outsourcing contract, managed a 200 headcount organization, and was responsible for applications, operations, client relations, regulatory compliance, project management office, financial reporting and service level agreement metrics reporting. He also has previously served as a senior advisor at Superior Consulting Company (now ACS), focusing on healthcare IT planning and implementation.

In addition, Mr. Holland served as Deputy CIO at Montefiore Medical Center, one of the largest (1,322 bed) private, not-for-profit hospitals in the U.S., with responsibility for IT planning, clinical and administrative system selection and integration (including ambulatory), system quality assurance and management reporting. Previously as Director of Management Sciences at Montefiore, he led numerous operations research and process improvement initiatives including revenue cycle, ERP, lab, pharmacy, radiology, and emergency department patient flow redesign.

Mr. Holland is a speaker at industry conferences and was a contributing author to the HIPAA Security Compliance Guide. He holds a B.S. (Management) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a M.S. from New York University, with an emphasis in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.

Bruce Kleaveland
President
Kleaveland Consulting, Inc.

Mr. Kleaveland is one of the most tenured executives in the relatively young healthcare information technology (HIT) industry with over 20 years experience in both software and devices. As Chief Operating Officer of Practice Partner, now part of McKesson Corporation, he helped navigate the company to technology and marketplace leadership in the electronic health records market. He is currently president of Kleaveland Consulting, Inc., an independent consulting firm specializing in advisory services to provider organizations and the HIT industry. He is a faculty member for the Medical Group Management Association and Pri-Med, a technology columnist for Physicians Practice magazine and a member of the Microsoft Healthcare User Group (MS-HUG) Advisory Board.

Mr. Kleaveland has a Bachelor of Science in Biology with honors from Washington State University and a MBA from the University of Washington.

John-David Lovelock
Research Director
Gartner Group

John-David Lovelock is a research director in Gartner's Technology and Service Provider Research group for the last three and a half years, covering the Healthcare Payer and Provider markets worldwide.  Mr. Lovelock has 30 years of experience within the IT industry, including working eight years in a variety of healthcare environments. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Lovelock co-founded and managed a consulting firm that specialized in large software solutions with a special emphasis on the healthcare industry. This included planning and implementing ERP systems, authoring custom software solutions, and developing long-term IT strategies at large and midsize hospitals. As a consultant, Mr. Lovelock participated in many challenging projects for companies worldwide, including Europe, North America, the Caribbean and South America.

Scott Lundstrom
Research Vice President
Life Science Insights
IDC

As Research Vice President, Mr, Lundstrom is responsible for managing Life Science Insights’ research teams of specialized analysts and research agenda as well as the company’s IT Executive Councils, peer-group forums in which executives address strategic industry challenges.

Prior to joining the LSI team, Lundstrom was a SVP and Chief Technical Officer at AMR Research, where he was responsible for AMR’s business process and technologies research teams, including ERP, supply chain, CRM, compliance and enabling technologies.  Lundstrom also worked with life science companies on corporate IT issues, including compliance performance management, and infrastructure strategies, as well as new technologies, such as RFID and web services.

Mr. Lundstrom’s previous experience includes leadership positions in software and business development at Visibility, Dun & Bradstreet Software, Powersoft and Anderson Consulting.  Lundstrom is a regular speaker on the future of information technology in business, supply chain management, manufacturing, and compliance.

Tom Mackey
Chief Technology Officer
Aultman Health Foundation

Tom Mackey joined Aultman Health Foundation located in Canton, OH in January 1996. Currently, Mr. Mackey serves in the role of Chief Technology Officer. In the last year, he has spoken at several conferences including the MS-HUG Tech Forum in February 2007 and was selected as a Member of MS-HUG Advisory Committee (HIMSS committee) for the term July 07-July 09.

Charlene Marietti
Director, Corporate Editorial Initiatives, The Vendome Group, LLC
Editorial Director, Healthcare Informatics

Ms. Marietti is responsible for supporting a strategy that assures Healthcare Informatics' claim as a thought leader in the healthcare information technology industry. Her experience includes clinical and consulting experience in a broad range of healthcare settings extending from consumer health support services to physician offices, clinics, hospitals and large, integrated delivery networks, as well as analysis and reporting experience in the publishing industry.

A registered medical technologist (MT-ASCP) with an MS in clinical pathology, she has also held various academic teaching positions, including at the Ohio State University School of Allied Health Sciences and at Camden County Community College (N.J.).

Bob Mitchell
Managing Editor
ADVANCE for Health Information Executives

ADVANCE for Health Information Executives delivers articles written by leading IT executives and CIOs who discuss practical IT solutions and strategies.

Mr. Mitchell has been with ADVANCE since the magazine’s inception in 1997. He is managing editor of the magazine. Previously, he was account executive at National Risk Management, a third party administrator of workers’ compensation trusts in Valley Forge, Pa., and before that he was a technical writer in the company’s software division, NRM Consulting. Prior to these positions, he was a general assignment reporter and religion page editor at The Daily Mail in Catskill, N.Y.  He holds a bachelor of science degree in Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Conn., and studied theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.

Doris Nessim, B.Sc.Phm., R.Ph., M.A. (Ed.)
Healthcare Informatics Consultant & Director of Pharmacy Svcs
North York General Hospital

Ms. Nessim has over 15 years of health care management experience, including project management with a supplier of health care information systems, as well as pharmacy management, practice, education, and research.

Ms. Nessim has worked with large teaching and community hospitals in the United States and Canada, facilitating interdisciplinary teams to develop strategic clinical and business objectives, selection criteria, and implementation plans and execution with enabling health care technologies. These have included pharmacy information systems, point of care, clinical decision-support software, and other medication safety-related health care technologies.

Ms. Nessim is well published and has led presentations on topics such as critical success factors for implementing computerized prescriber order entry, areas of process improvement in the medication management process across the continuum of care, and clinical and operational pharmaceutical services.

Ms. Nessim is currently Director of Pharmacy Services with a large community teaching hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ms. Nessim holds an undergraduate degree in pharmacy, has a hospital pharmacy residency, a Masters of Arts Degree in higher education, and maintains licensure as a registered pharmacist.

Charles Potter, CPHIMS
President
Seapotter Corporation

Mr. Potter founded Seapotter Corporation in 2007 after 28 years experience in applied systems development and business process management. He served as CIO at Strang Cancer Prevention Center and was Associate Computer Scientist in Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell from 1991 to 2007. Prior to joining Strang Cancer Prevention Center and Cornell, he worked for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and IBM TJ Watson Research Center.

He is a member of The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), New York Academy of Sciences, and Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN)

Wes Rishel
Vice President, Healthcare Provider Practice
Gartner, Inc.

Wes Rishel covers interoperability, health information exchanges, the nationwide health information network and the underlying technologies of healthcare IT, including application integration and standards.

Rishel is a commissioner of the CCHIY, a past chair of HL7 and has served on the boards of WEDI and HIMSS. He was the primary author of the Gartner report summarizing the NHIN Prototype Architecture contracts of the NHIN.

Benjamin Rooks
Director
William Blair & Company, LLC

Before becoming a healthcare investment banker in 2003, Ben spent close to a decade as an equity research analyst where he covered over 25 healthcare information stocks in addition to e-health, drug information and pharmacy benefit management. He has been a judge for the MS-HUG Industry Solution Awards since its inception and was a Zacks All-Star Analyst.
Ben earned his MBA with a concentration in healthcare from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his BA in psychology from Brandeis University.

John Russell
Executive Editor
Bio-IT World

John Russell is the Executive Editor of Bio-IT World, and one of its founding editors. He is also a founding editor of Digital Healthcare & Productivity (formerly Health-IT World.) and currently its editor. He is the founder and editor of the Bio-IT World’s monthly Systems Biology e-newsletter. Russell holds degrees in both journalism and biology and has held editorial management positions at IDG and Reed Business Information Systems. He has 20 years of experience covering science and technology and is a Jesse H. Neal Award winner.

Jay Srini
Vice President of Emerging Technologies
UPMC

Jay Srini has more than 20 years of operational, technology and executive leadership experience and is currently serving as Vice President of Emerging Technologies at UPMC.  She is founder and president of Strategic Consulting Solutions, a consulting group focused on the integration of healthcare, technology, and business operations for established institutions and start-up ventures.  Previously, Srini was managing director for e-health initiatives at Internet Venture Works (IVW) and also served in interim executive management roles for its portfolio companies.  In addition, Srini has worked at Highmark Blue Cross where she was responsible for developing and executing strategies focused on products and solutions for Consumer Health Management.  As an independent consultant, she designed and implemented one of the earliest electronic healthcare claims submission systems in 1982.  She currently serves on the HIMSS board PAeHI Board and the advisory board of select emerging technology companies in the Pittsburgh area.