Josh Fisher
Founder and Managing Partner
PresPoint Capital

Josh Fisher is the founder and managing partner of PresPoint Capital, a company located in San Francisco focused on global healthcare and technology investments. Mr. Fisher manages over $400 million in investments and has generated positive returns for 7 consecutive years, including 2008 when he was up 8% in his fund. Previous to PresPoint Capital, he was a principal at Pequot Capital Management for 5 years. Mr. Fisher is a graduate from UC Berkeley.

Dr. Ahmad Hashem
Chairman and CEO
Rawasi Investing Group, LLC

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.

Matthew Holt
Author, The Health Care Blog
Co-Founder, Health 2.0 Conference

Matthew Holt has spent more than 18 years in health care as a researcher, generalist forecaster, and strategist. He’s conducted in-depth studies about the health care market, information technology and policy for public release and private clients. He learned from some of the best in forecasting, policy and survey organizations, like Institute for the Future and Harris Interactive. But these days he’s best known as the author of The Health Care Blog and as the co-founder of the Health2.0 Conference. For that he’s been mostly self-taught!

Scott Lundstrom
Research Vice President
Health Industry Insights, an IDC company

As Research Vice President, Mr. Lundstrom is responsible for managing Health Industry Insights’ research practices and strategic focus. Mr. Lundstrom has global responsibility for the broad health market at IDC including life sciences, healthcare providers, and payers.

Prior to joining the HII team, Lundstrom was SVP Research 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 has also worked with health and life science companies on corporate IT issues, including compliance, performance management, infrastructure strategies, integration and technology innovation.

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.).

Brett R. Mello, CPHIMS
Chief Technology Officer
Bronson Healthcare Group

Brett Mello is senior IT leader at Bronson Healthcare Group, a Malcolm Baldrige award winning not-for-profit healthcare system that covers 9 counties in southwestern Michigan. Mr. Mello has over 18 years experience in IT delivering enhanced productivity, streamlined operations, and innovative business solutions in both healthcare and manufacturing. He specializes in IT infrastructure and architecture as well as planning, process improvement, and organizational development. Mr. Mello currently serves on the newly formed Southwest Michigan RHIO and the CIS advisory council at Western Michigan University.

He is currently a member of The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), CIO Executive Council, as well as Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

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.

Bernie Monegain
Editor
Healthcare IT News

Bernie Monegain is editor of Healthcare IT News, a nationwide BtoB publication, published by MedTech Publishing Company. She joined the company in 2005. She covers the role of IT in hospitals and integrated delivery systems, manages the commentary section and makes sure Healthcare IT News offers balanced and accurate coverage throughout. Prior to coming to MedTech Publishing she served as reporter and editor at a daily newspaper in Maine, where she covered healthcare, business and technology and other topics. Her work on the “Economics of Health Care,” earned her a Knight Fellowship. She has also served as editor of CC News, a trade publication focused on contact center technology. Healthcare IT News is recipient of a 2006 Jesse Neal Award and a finalist, along with its sister publication Healthcare Finance News, for a 2009 Neal Award.

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)

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.

Jay Srini
Chief Innovation Officer
UPMC Health Plan

Jay Srini has more than 20 years of operational, strategic and executive leadership experience and is currently serving as Chief Innovation Officer at UPMC Health Plan. 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 Vice President of Emerging Technologies at UPMC HealthPlan and prior to that managing director for e-health initiatives at Internet Venture Works (IVW). She also served in interim executive management roles for IVW portfolio companies. She currently serves on the HIMSS board PAeHI Board and the advisory board of School of Computer Sciene at CMU and select emerging technology companies in the Pittsburgh area.

Andrew Ury, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
McKesson Provider Technologies

Andrew Ury was the founder of Practice Partner, one of the first EHR companies, and one of the most widely deployed EHR’s today. Dr. Ury is Vice Chair of the EHR Association and was formerly a CCHIT Commissioner. He is a graduate of Stanford Medical School and did his Family Practice Residency at the University of Washington.

Ferdinand T. Velasco, M.D.
Chief Medical Information Officer
Texas Health Resources (THR)

Located in Arlington, Texas, Dr. Velasco is the physician champion for THR’s medical informatics initiatives and has operational responsibility over the physician engagement and clinical decision support groups. He co-chairs the executive steering committee which oversees implementation of the electronic health record at THR.

Prior to joining THR in 2002, Dr. Velasco was Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where he served as physician champion for the medical center’s initiative to implement CPOE.