Speakers
Farzad Mostashari
Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM currently serves as a Senior Advisor for policy and programs with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Previously, he served at the NYC Health Department (DOHMH) as Assistant Commissioner for the Primary Care Information Project, with the goal of encouraging and facilitating the adoption of prevention-oriented health information technology in underserved communities. Dr. Mostashari also led the CDC-funded NYC Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics, and an AHRQ-funded project focused on quality measurement at the point of care. Prior to this he established the Bureau of Epidemiology Services at the DOHMH, charged with providing epidemiologic and statistical expertise and data for decision making to the Agency. He was one of the lead investigators in the outbreaks of West Nile Virus and anthrax in NYC, and among the first developers of real-time electronic disease surveillance systems nationwide.
Pawan Goyal, MD, MHA, PMP, FHIMSS, CPHIMS
Sess 1-1, Tues June 15 / 11:00am-12:00pm
Dr. Goyal is currently the Chief Medical Officer for HP Federal Healthcare. As a senior advisor to the U.S. Veterans Affairs portfolio he is responsible for establishing the strategic direction in areas of health informatics, electronic health record global strategy, best practice sharing, industry expertise, and enterprise business transformation. As a recognized leader and subject matter expert on process re-engineering for healthcare and electronic health records interoperability, Goyal often serves as an author, panelist and public speaker in areas such as patient medical records and effective EHR institutionalization and utilization.
Dr Stephen Ondra, MD
Sess 1-1, Tues June 15 / 11:00am-12:00pm
Senior Policy Advisor for Health Affairs
Department of Veterans Affairs
In 2009, Dr. Stephen Ondra was appointed as Senior Policy Advisor for Health Affairs in the Department of Veterans Affairs by President Obama. Prior to that, he served on the Veterans Affairs group in the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team and the Campaign Health Policy and Veteran’s Policy committees.
In addition to serving many years in the military, Dr. Ondra has worked at the University of Michigan and at Illinois’ Northwestern University. He also chaired the Medical Device and Technology Committee at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was promoted to Professor of Neurological Surgery.
Dr. Ondra has also worked with several Government agencies including: The Scientific Advisory Board for the Defense Spinal Cord and Column Injury Project for the Department of Defense and The Medical Coverage Advisory Committee with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. His medical expertise has allowed him to advise and discuss health policy matters with members of Congress, Cabinet Members and foreign government leaders.
Michael Cowan, MD
Sess 1-2,
Tues June 15 / 1:45pm-2:45pm
Michael Cowan joined BearingPoint Consulting in October 2005 as Chief Medical Officer and moved to Deloitte Consulting as a part of their acquisition of BearingPoint in May 2009. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President for Healthcare Solutions at Oracle, Inc. Michael spent 33 years in the U.S. Navy Medical Department and was the Navy’s 34th Naval Surgeon General. He earned his MD from Washington University, St. Louis, and completed residency training at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. Michael is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Certified Executive of the American College of Physician Executives and Distinguished Professor of Military Medicine at USUHS.
Cynthia Walker
Sess 1-3,
Tues June 15 / 3:00pm-4:00pm
Cindy Walker has focused most of her 26 year career promoting data governance quality assurance security and information sharing best practices to improve enterprise performance. An honors graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ms. Walker launched her consulting career supporting the U.S. Navy enterprise data administration program in 1984. Since that time she has assisted dozens of federal agencies and private enterprises embrace and mature their data information and knowledge management capabilities to overcome data quality security and information sharing challenges. Ms. Walker is the chief architect of KGS's Data Confidence offerings a set of best practices that ensure enterprise data assets are visible accessible shareable governed understandable secure and trusted. Ms. Walker is currently working with homeland security justice intelligence defense and healthcare clients.
Erik Pupo
Sess 1-4,
Weds, June 16 / 8:00am-9:00am
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 policy issues and supporting and advising the FHA CONNECT and TRANSFORM teams on privacy and security issues.
Justine Piereman
Sess 1-5,
Weds, June 16 / 9:15am-10:15am
Justine Piereman has a wealth of experience working on systems-related initiatives within the Social Security Administration (SSA). Since 1997, Ms. Piereman began an intensive focus on authentication, security and credentialing issues in support of SSA's internet service delivery initiatives. Ms. Piereman also managed the development of the agency’s Disability Case Processing System, a current initiative to consolidate State Disability Determination Service (DDS) business processes and support legacy systems. Ms. Piereman is now leveraging this expertise as Director and Program Manager for health information technology (Health IT) within the Office of Disability Systems. In this capacity, Ms. Piereman manages and coordinates all agency-wide systems strategic and tactical efforts pertaining to Health IT. Prior to joining SSA, Ms. Piereman spent time with the Department of Defense and Lockheed Martin, giving her both public and private perspectives of the IT industry. Ms. Piereman holds an MBA from Loyola College of Maryland and is Project Management Professional (PMP)-certified.
Robert Bond
Sess 1-5,
Weds, June 16 / 9:15am-10:15am
Robert Bond leads the Health IT/Reform group at Excella Consulting and has significant expertise in healthcare and information technology. He has worked with numerous clients including federal government, commercial organizations, and non-profits. As a speaker, Robert presents on topics covering healthcare, technology, and strategy. Robert holds an MBA from Duke University and an engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Janice Paterson
Sess 1-6, Weds, June 16 / 10:30am-11:30am
Attorney Paterson is a health law attorney with Medicaid and Medicare regulatory expertise. During her government career she was responsible for Medicaid policy planning and program implementation. As a consultant she currently provides business legal and technical support for MMIS data warehouse and PBM state information technology solutions.
Capt. Michael Weiner
Sess 1-7, Weds, June 16 / 11:30am-12:30pm
Capt. Weiner is currently serving as the Director of the Military Health System Electronic Health Record Way Ahead Planning Office. In this capacity, he is responsible for overseeing the development and deployment of the next generation of Department of Defense (DoD) electronic health record (EHR) systems operating in Military Treatment Facilities worldwide.
David Riley
Sess 2-1, Tues June 15 / 11:00am-12:00pm
CONNECT Initiative Lead (Contractor)
Federal Health Architecture Program in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)
Riley is the CONNECT lead for the Federal Health Architecture Program within ONC. In this role, he facilitates consensus among federal agencies, states and private sector organizations to enhance health information sharing on a nationwide basis. His work has resulted in the development and release of the CONNECT software as well as in the formation of the CONNECT open source community.
David Baquis
Sess 2-2, Tues June 15 / 1:45pm-2:45pm
David Baquis is an Accessibility Specialist with the U.S. Access Board. He is currently involved with updating accessibility standards and guidelines for Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act. Mr. Baquis writes technical assistance materials and has published many articles on assistive and accessible technology. In addition to responding to public inquiries on information and communications technology, he delivers training including recent presentations on: voting systems e-learning and health information technology. His background blends 30 years of experience in healthcare consumer education disability issues technology and public policy. Prior to his appointment at the Access Board he worked as Director of the National Center on Hearing Assistive Technology.
Pat Sheehan
Sess 2-2, Tues June 15 / 1:45pm-2:45pm
Patrick joined the Department of Veterans Affairs in 1989 as a Computer Specialist and worked within the VA’s IT test facility as an adaptive trainer until September 2002. As an adaptive trainer Patrick trained both disabled veterans and federal employees on a variety of access technologies that ranged from screen-readers, text magnification programs to hardware such as scanners, closed circuit televisions and note takers. Patrick is currently the Director for the Office of Compliance within the Office of Information & Technology and serves as the agency 508 Coordinator at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Bert Reese
Sess 2-3, Tues June 15 / 3:00pm-4:00pm
Bert Reese is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Sentara Healthcare, an integrated health system with net revenues of $2.9 billion. Sentara, a not-for-profit health care provider in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, is comprised of 9 acute care hospitals, a health plan with 300,000 covered lives, 7 nursing centers, 3 assisted living centers, and 400 physician medical group.
Sentara has constantly ranked as one of the most integrated health care network in the United States by Modern Healthcare magazine and is the only health care system in the nation to be named in the top 10 for seven consecutive years.
Mr. Reese is responsible for the Information Technology, Process Improvement, Information and Supply Chain Management for the health system. Most recently this group has implemented the Electronic Health Record across the enterprise, resulting in significant financial savings and improved clinical outcomes.
The group has received many national awards to include Most Wired, Top 100 Innovations, Best Employer in Information Technology, HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 to name a few.
Peter Fine, FACHE
Sess 2-3, Tues June 15 / 3:00pm-4:00pm
Peter Fine is president and CEO of Banner Health, one of the nation’s largest secular, nonprofit healthcare organizations operating hospitals spanning seven states. Banner employs more than 35,000 people and is Arizona’s second largest private employer.
Peter has also served as executive vice president and COO of Aurora Health Care, a large integrated system serving all of eastern Wisconsin. Before joining Aurora, Mr. Fine served in several hospital leadership positions, including president and chief executive officer of Grant Hospital and senior vice president of operations at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
He received his master’s degree in healthcare administration from George Washington University and is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. A number of prestigious organizations have honored Mr. Fine - some of them include: this 2010 CEO IT Achievement Award, Phoenix Business Journal’s Most Admired CEO Award 2010, Arizona Business Magazine with the Healthcare Leadership Award in 2010.
Jeff Blair
Sess 2-4, Weds, June 16 / 8:00am-9:00am
Jeff Blair has been Director of Health Informatics at Lovelace Clinic Foundation (LCF Research) in Albuquerque New Mexico since January of 2006. He has lead responsibility for the New Mexico Health Information Collaborative (NMHIC) the HIE network selected by the Governor as the State Designated Entity for ARRA. LCF/NMHIC actively participated in the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) Trial Implementations. LCF Research is playing a lead role for the Health IT Regional Extension Center in New Mexico and in the State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program. Mr. Blair has been appointed by the U.S. Congress to three consecutive four-year terms on the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) where he has played a leadership role in recommending standards for HIPAA electronic health records, e-prescribing and the NHIN. Mr. Blair held a variety of management and staff positions at IBM from 1967 through 1997. He has his MBA from Northwestern University.
Matthew Quinn
Sess 2-5, Weds, June 16 / 9:15am-10:15am
Matt Quinn is a Special Expert in the AHRQ Healthcare IT group. Before joining AHRQ Mr. Quinn was the Healthcare Program Manager for Teradata the global leader in data warehousing and analytic technologies and was responsible for healthcare strategy and partnerships for the company. Matt Quinn earned a BS from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from Colorado State University.
Arlene Stanton, PhD, NCC
Sess 2-6, Weds, June 16 / 10:30am-11:30am
Arlene Stanton is currently on detail (temporary assignment) to the Office of Communications for her agency, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). She has served as Government Project Officer for D-ATM since its early development and is involved in SAMHSA’s HIT and Data Initiatives and Pandemic Workgroup. She has overseen two national evaluations and consults internally on evaluation activities.
Dr. Stanton received her PhD from the University of New Orleans and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Mental Health Policy/Services Research at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining SAMHSA, she worked for consulting companies on social marketing and evaluation projects. For Tulane, she helped form a VIP Board, created the Medical Center’s Sponsored Research Office and later was TMC’s Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations. Dr. Stanton has won writing awards as a business journalist and freelance writer.
Daksha Arora, PhD
Sess 2-6, Weds, June 16 / 10:30am-11:30am
Dr. Daksha Arora has over 20 years of experience in behavioral health practice and research, of which last 10 years have been dedicated to work related to the use of information technology in behavioral health settings. Dr. Arora is currently the project director for the Digital Access to Medication (D-ATM) project sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Dr. Arora is also involved with another project sponsored by SAMHSA on developing an electronic behavioral health system. Dr. Daksha Arora has a Ph.D. in Social Policy and Practice from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a Certified Professional in Health Information Technology (CPHIT).
Harry Greenspun
Sess 2-7, Weds, June 16 / 11:30am-12:30pm
Dr. Harry Greenspun is the Chief Medical Officer of Dell Services providing strategic leadership with a clinical perspective. He has held a diverse range of clinical and executive roles across the healthcare industry giving him a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities faced in health IT. Dr. Greenspun is also the chairman of the HIMSS Government Relations Roundtable and has been named one of the Top 10 Healthcare IT Game Changers to Watch by ExecutiveBiz.com. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University and completed his residency and fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital where he served as chief resident in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.
Joy Forsythe
Sess IS-1, Tues June 15 / 11:00am-12:00pm
Joy Forsythe is responsible for developing security content for the Fortify suite of products. She leads Fortify’s research efforts to improve security in healthcare information technology and has publicly commented on developing standards and regulations. Joy is a current member of the Advanced Security working group of the Certification Commission on Healthcare Information Technology and contributes to their efforts to develop criteria and certification methods for HIT.
Daniel O'Donnell, MD
Sess IS-2, Tues June 15 / 1:45pm-2:45pm
Dr. O’Donnell has more than twelve years of healthcare IT experience, including large system RFP and selection experience at a multi-facility IDN, physician advisor for HIT vendors, and advisory roles in public health and academic medical systems in Vietnam. He has been the medical director of private and public facilities, including CEO of a 500+ bed public hospital, and regular faculty appointments at three leading academic medical centers. Dr. O’Donnell earned his M.D. and served his residency fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Kimberly Shreve, Esq
Sess IS-3, Tues June 15 / 3:00pm-4:00pm
Kimberly Shreve is the Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs for Availity. She is responsible for government business development and government affairs, including public/private collaboration initiatives, regulatory compliance, and legislative analysis. Ms. Shreve is a member of the Denver, Colorado and American Bar Associations.
Rich Budka
Sess IS-5, Weds / 9:15am
Rich Budka is the Director of Advanced Concepts for Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Services. In this role, Mr. Budka is responsible for developing and managing the Bio-science and Healthcare Solutions Research and Development portfolio. Mr. Budka earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and a Master’s of Business Administration from Saint Joseph’s University.
Christopher Brancato, RRT, RCP
Sess IS-6, Weds / 10:30-11:30am
Chris Brancato is currently a Health Information Technology Specialist Leader for Deloitte Consulting with special interest in achieving interoperability through the development and real-world application of health information standards. For the last three years, he has been engaged full time as a HIT subject matter expert/HIT advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) supporting the Office’s national efforts in HIT related regulations, standards, and interoperability and certification programs. He also served as the technical leader for the NHIN technical team. He is currently a member of the Health Information Technology Standards Committee, Clinical Operations and Vocabulary Workgroup, a Federal advisory committee to the National Coordinator. After leaving a faculty appointment at the University Of Virginia School Of Medicine, he’s held leadership positions with Revolution Health and several large Electronic Health Record and Electronic Data Interchange vendors.
Kimberly N. Ellison-Taylor
Sess IS-7, Weds / 11:30am
Kimberly N. Ellison-Taylor is the Executive Director of Health and Human Services Industry Solutions for Oracle Public Sector. In this capacity, she is responsible for leading Oracle's Health and Human Services Practice at the federal, state/provincial, and local levels. With the goals of improving the quality and access to services, reducing error, and managing costs, Ms. Ellison-Taylor targets the specific initiatives, key performance indicators, and reporting requirements that matter the most to senior government leaders. With her leadership, the applications and technology teams within Oracle provide industry specific guidance and solutions to Health and Human Services organizations throughout the United States and Canada.
Ms. Ellison-Taylor's educational background includes an undergraduate degree in information systems management and technical writing, a master of business administration, an accounting certificate, and a chief information officer certificate from Carnegie Mellon University. She is also a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Information Systems Auditor. Additionally, Ms. Ellison-Taylor has received a Master of Science in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon.
Doug Fridsma
CLOSING KEYNOTE,
Weds, June 16 / 12:45pm-2:00pm
Acting Director of Interoperability and Standards
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Dr. Doug Fridsma is the acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He is currently on leave from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University and from his clinical practice at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale. Dr. Fridsma completed his medical training at the University of Michigan in 1990 and his PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University in 2003. His research interests include the development of computational tools to study patient safety clinical work processes and methods to improve model-driven standards development processes. He has served on the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Board of Directors from 2005-2008 and was appointed to the HIT Standards Committee in 2009. He recently resigned from the HIT SC to become the acting director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards at ONC.