Leadership Strategies for Information Technology in Health Care January 30—February 3, 2017 (Module I) and May 15—19, 2017 (Module II) Faculty Biographies

Program Directors

Mary Finlay, MBA Lecturer Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development Department of Health Policy and Management Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Boston, Massachusetts Phone: (617) 432-5112 Email: [email protected]

Mary Finlay is a Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy & Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and brings twenty-five years of industry experience into her Strategy and Health IT classes. She has also taught as a Professor of Practice at the Simmons School of Management. She directs multiple executive education programs including: Leadership Strategies for Information Technology in Healthcare, Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers, and the Program for Chiefs of Clinical Services. She consults with organizations in the areas of IT organization, strategy and staff development.

Previously, she was the Deputy Chief Information Officer of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. and Chief Information Officer of Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Former roles include being the Chair of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, a faculty member for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executive (CHIME) CIO Boot camp, and an appointed member of the Governor’s Information Technology Advisory Board. She currently serves on the IT Subcommittee of the Board for UMASS Memorial Medical Center.

She has been recognized with leadership awards from the Boston Business Journal, the Simmons School of Management, CIO, the New England Business and Technology Association, and Babson College’s Center for Information Management Studies and YearUp.

She holds an MBA from the Simmons School of Management and a BA in Psychology from Allegheny College.

5/8/2017 Page: 1 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, FACP, FACMI, FHIMSS Chief Informatics & Innovation Officer Apervita, Inc. Lecturer Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Nashville, Tennessee Phone: (617) 335-7098 Email: [email protected]

Blackford Middleton is the Chief Informatics & Innovation Officer at Apervita, Inc. He is also Past- Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Previously, he was a Professor of Biomedical Informatics, or of Medicine, at Stanford, Harvard, and Vanderbilt Universities. Dr. Middleton’s work is focused on clinical informatics – the applied science surrounding design, implementation, and evaluation of clinical information systems in complex environments.

From 2013-2014, he was Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Chief Informatics Officer (CIO) at Vanderbilt. During this time he implemented a comprehensive organizational and process redesign to better achieve worldclass software development at scale. During his tenure there, Vanderbilt was recognized as one of the “Most Wired” healthcare systems. During his tenure at Vanderbilt he was also Professor of Biomedical Informatics, and of Medicine, and engaged in mentoring junior faculty, Fellows, and students.

Prior to joining Vanderbilt, he was Corporate Director of Clinical Informatics Research & Development (CIRD) at Partners Healthcare System, Boston, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and a Lecturer in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health from 2001-2013. His work at Partners HealthCare focused on building an advanced informatics infrastructure to support translational research, and the development and implementation of tools for cloud-based clinical decision support (provider and patient), knowledge engineering, population management, and providing support for technology assessment and comparative effectiveness research. While at Harvard, he was fortunate to lead as PI and collaborate with others in many research grants and contracts that resulted in numerous publications reflected on his CV.

Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Clinical Informatics, and Chief Medical Officer, for MedicaLogic/Medscape, a provider of electronic medical records software (Logician™), and professional and patient portals (Medscsape.com, and AboutMyHealth.com) from 1995 to 2001. Prior to that he was Medical Director of Information Management and Technology at Stanford University Medical Center, from 1992 to 1995. At Stanford he was the first to occupy a CMIO type role and lead the implementation of the first clinical data repository at Stanford, and was PI for the Bay Area Communication and Health Education Network (BAYCHEN, 1991).

Dr. Middleton is nationally and internationally recognized as a thought-leader in healthcare information technology.Dr. Middleton is a member of the Board of Directors at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA, and was Chairman of the Board 2014-15). He also serves on several Editorial Boards. He served as a member of the National Quality Forum Health IT Advisory Council (HITAC) from 2010-12, and on the Board of Stewardship Trustees for the Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) health system (and Quality, and Strategy subcommittees of the Board) from 2006-12, and the Board of Directors of the CHI Institute for Research and Innovation from 2009-12. He served on the National

5/8/2017 Page: 2 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Aligning Forces for Quality program (Dr. Mark McClellan, Chair). He currently is a member of the China Health Information Management Association International Advisory Board.

Middleton was appointed by US Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt to serve on the National Committee of Vital and Health Statistics (NCHVS) and served from 2008-12 on the Quality Committee (Co-Chair), and Population NCVHS sub-committees. He was a co-founder of the Institute for Decision Systems Research in Palo Alto, CA in 1994, and of the Center for Information Technology Leadership (C!TL) at Partners in 2002 and led its research in valuebased technology assessment until 2010. He is past Treasurer of the American Telemedicine Association and of the American College of Medical Informatics, and past Chairman of the Computer-based Patient Record Institute (CPRI, 2000), and past Chairman of the Healthcare Information Management & Systems Society (HIMSS, 2005).

Dr. Middleton was recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the top 300 influential people in Healthcare in 2008 and as one of the US Top 25 Clinical Informaticists in 2010. Dr. Middleton received the SUNY-Buffalo Medical Alumni Achievement Award – “Presented in honor of your extraordinary accomplishments and leadership in the field of medicine” in 2010. He was recognized in 2011 as one of HIMSS 50 in 50: one of 50 individuals who “have made recognized, lasting, and influential contributions to the theory, adoption, and use of healthcare information and management systems” in HIMSS 50 year history, and was recognized as one of the Top 100 Healthcare CIOs in 2014 by Becker’s Hospital Review. Dr. Middleton is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Medical Informatics, and of HIMSS.

Dr. Middleton studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received a Masters in Public Health degree from the Yale University School of Public Health with a dual concentration in Epidemiology, and Health Services Administration. He received an MD from SUNY Buffalo, and was a resident in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Sciences Center. He completed an AHCPR Fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Stanford University, where he received his Master of Science degree in Health Services Research, focusing on clinical informatics.

Faculty

Marjorie Bessel, MD VP, CMO Community Delivery Banner Health

Phoenix, Arizona Phone: (602) 747-7532 Email: [email protected]

Current Responsibilities Dr. Marjorie Bessel is the VP for Clinical Integration and Regional Chief Medical Officer for the Arizona East Division of Banner Health, serving on the system-wide clinical leadership team, with direct supervisory responsibilities over the Chief Medical Officer’s in the AZ East division, Banner 5/8/2017 Page: 3 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 Home Care and Hospice, Banner Pharmacy, Banner Health Transfer Services and leadership for Post Acute Services. Banner Health has been named by Thomson Reuters as a top 5 health system three of the past five years. The ten hospitals in the Arizona East region include a 655-bed tertiary care facility three specialty focus facilities (cardiovascular, pediatrics and oncology), two facilities located in a rural Phoenix community and one in rural Gila County, AZ and two general acute care facilities. Bessel has held an interest in physician leadership since first starting in medicine, seeing it as a way to affect patient care for a broader number of patients than her one-on-one patient days could produce. One of Dr. Bessel’s top priorities for the Banner Health is clinical integration across the continuum. Her interests are integrating technology and clinical decision support to improve outcomes of quality, safety, efficiency and patient experience. .

Prior Experience During her role as CMO for Banner Gateway she led the opening of the new, state-of-the-art, fully electronic facility in September, 2007. She led the medical staff in the big-bang adoption of a complete EMR. She subsequently led this big-bang adoption at Banner Desert. She implemented a fully employed, geographically-staffed hospitalist model which utilizes new communication tools and midlevel providers to facilitate optimum efficiency and quality of care. She has led system-wide efforts in a variety of areas in addition to clinical IT and hospitalists including emergency preparedness, Ebola preparations and meaningful use. She has been part of executive teams for recent acquisitions of three hospitals into her region. Her clinical background is as a hospitalist and she maintains active staff membership and privileges at Banner Gateway Medical Center.

Education, Awards and Professional Affiliations Dr. Bessel earned a BS in biology, magna cum laude from Syracuse University, after which she attended Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois. At Rush Medical College Dr. Bessel was presented the James B. Herrick award for most outstanding performance in internal medicine. In 1993, Dr. Bessel completed her residency in internal medicine at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois. She continued for an additional year in the capacity as Chief Resident, a position considered to be a high honor at that institution.

Paul Biondich, MD, MS Director, Global Health Informatics Program and Research Scientist Regenstrief Institute, Inc.

Phone: (317) 274-9035 Email: [email protected]

Dr. Paul Biondich is a Medical Informatics Researcher at the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University School of Medicine, where his research interests include decision support systems and controlled medical vocabularies. As a practicing pediatrician, he has significant experience in the design, implementation, and installation of multiple decision support systems, particularly within outpatient settings.Dr. Biondich is the co-creator of the Child Health Improvement through Computer Automation (CHICA) system, which is designed to improve the process of outpatient pediatric preventive care. He is active nationally in pediatric vocabulary and guideline developmental efforts. Much of this work with the American Academy of Pediatrics involves the disambiguation and active revision of pre-existing clinical guidelines, along with the ultimate development of supporting standardized vocabularies. He also has practical experience with clinical repository development, having co-developed a next generation, open source, enterprise-quality repository designed to support

5/8/2017 Page: 4 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa.After receiving his biology degree from Emory University, Dr. Biondich attended medical school at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He received his medical degree in 1998, and subsequently completed a residency in Pediatrics. Prior to his research position at Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute, Dr. Biondich was a National Library of Medicine fellow in Medical Informatics. He completed his masters in Health Services Research with a concentration in Medical Informatics during this two-year program.

Elaine Bridge, DNP, RN Vice President of Clinical Operations Partners HealthCare System, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts Phone: (857) 307-4371 Email: [email protected]

Elaine Bridge is currently the Vice President of Clinical Operations on the Partners eCare leadership team. The Partners eCare team is responsible for oversight and implementation of the Epic electronic health record for the entire Partners Healthcare System (PHS), fully replacing most legacy IS solutions across the PHS enterprise. In this role, Elaine is responsible for the design and facilitation of the overall (Pminers) Partners eCare organizational readiness, training, clinician engagement and clinical continuity activities including stabilization and optimization across the enterprise. Partnering with each site executive along the five year Epic implementation timeline, Elaine is involved in supporting PHS stakeholder needs related to this technology platform, while ensuring successful interactions between our system and our caregivers. Elaine served as the Senior Vice President for Patient Care Services/Chief Nursing for the prior 14 years as well as serving as the interim Chief Operating Officer for Newton Wellesley Hospital from 2013-2014. This extensive leadership and operations experience in all care settings, along with Elaine's broad and deep understanding of our care environments, guides her ability to establish the vision, areas of focus, and key performance indicators of a successful deployment across the Pminer's eCare program. Elaine received her BS in nursing from the University of Rhode Island and her MBA from Framingham State College. She has completed the Executive Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. Elaine is a member, and past President of the Organization of Nurse Leaders of MA/RI, a Clinical Instructor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions and an Assistant Professor Graduate School of Nursing at UMass Worcester. She is also a member of the nursing advisory boards at Regis College, University of Rhode Island and Framingham State University.

John Brownstein, PhD Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Chief Innovation Officer Children's Hospital Boston

Boston, Massachusetts Email: [email protected]

5/8/2017 Page: 5 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 John Brownstein, Ph.D is Professor at Harvard Medical School and is the Chief Innovation Officer of Boston Children’s Hospital. He also directs the Computational Epidemiology Lab and the Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator both at Boston Children’s. He was trained as an epidemiologist at Yale University. Overall, his work aims to have translation impact on the surveillance, control and prevention of disease. He has been at the forefront of the development and application of data mining and citizen science to public health. His efforts are in use by millions each year including the CDC, WHO, DHS, DOD, HHS, and EU, and has been recognized by the National Library of Congress and the Smithsonian. In addition to research achievements, this translational impact comes from playing an advisory role to numerous agencies on real-time public health surveillance including HHS, DHS, CDC, IOM, WHO and the White House. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government to outstanding scientists and the Lagrange Prize for international achievements in complexity sciences. Dr. Brownstein is also Uber’s healthcare advisor and co-founder of digital health companies Epidemico and Circulation. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles on epidemiology and public health. This work has been reported on widely including pieces in the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Nature, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, National Public Radio and the BBC.

Sreekanth Chaguturu, MD Vice President, Population Health Management Partners HealthCare System, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts Phone: (617) 278-1055 Email: [email protected]

Sree Chaguturu, MD is Vice President of Population Health Management at Partners HealthCare and is part of the leadership team focused on insuring that Partners meets its aspirations of improving quality and reducing costs for the populations it serves. Partners is an integrated health care delivery system in Boston, Massachusetts, that includes two large academic medical centers – Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital – with more than 6000 physicians. Along with his responsibilities of implementing the Medicare Pioneer Accountable Care Organization and assisting with the development of population health information technology, Dr. Chaguturu is the Medical Director for the self-insured Partners employees and dependents. Prior to joining Partners, Dr. Chaguturu was a health care consultant at McKinsey and Company and Vice President of the McKinsey Hospital Institute. He is a practicing internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chaguturu received his internal medicine and primary care training at Massachusetts General Hospital and received his undergraduate and medical degree from Brown University.

Tom Davenport, PhD President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology & Management Babson College

Babson Park, Massachusetts Phone: (781) 239-4485 Email: [email protected]

Tom Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, the co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of 5/8/2017 Page: 6 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 the MIT Center for Digital Business, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He teaches analytics and big data in executive programs at Babson, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School, and Boston University.

Davenport pioneered the concept of “competing on analytics” with his best-selling 2006 Harvard Business Review article (and his 2007 book by the same name). His most recent book is Big Data@Work, from Harvard Business Review Press, and he has a forthcoming book called Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines in early 2016.. He wrote or edited sixteen other books and over 100 articles for Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, the Financial Times, and many other publications. He also writes a regular column for the Wall Street Journal’s Corporate Technology section. In 2003 he was named one of the world’s “Top 25 Consultants” by Consulting magazine. In 2005 Optimize magazine’s readers named him among the top 3 business/technology analysts in the world. In 2007 and 2008 he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the IT industry by Ziff-Davis magazines. In 2012 he was named one of the world’s top fifty business school professors by Fortune magazine.

Larry Garber, MD Medical Director for Informatics Reliant Medical Group

Worcester, Massachusetts Phone: (508) 852-0600 Email: [email protected]

Dr. Garber is a practicing Internist and the Medical Director for Informatics at Reliant Medical Group, a 525-provider multispecialty group practice. He is a board-certified Clinical Informaticist and has had decades of experience and success in Medical Informatics. He is Chair of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative’s Executive Committee, a member of the Massachusetts State Health Information Technology Council, and has been a member of ONC Policy Committee’s Interoperability Workgroup, Jason Task Force, Privacy & Security Tiger Team, and Interoperability Experience Task Force. Dr. Garber has been Principal Investigator on $4 Million AHRQ, ONC and MeHI grants to develop innovative Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). Under the AHRQ grant, Dr. Garber designed the technical architecture and led the development and implementation of SAFEHealth, an efficient opt-in consent model HIE that has been live and self-sustaining since 2009. Through ONC’s HIE Challenge Grant known as IMPACT, Dr. Garber led the technical design, development, and implementation of LAND & SEE which facilitate receiving/creating/sending CDA documents via HIEs regardless of an organization’s technologies. LAND is being used throughout Massachusetts & SEE was piloted in central Massachusetts with 8 nursing facilities, and a home health agency. Through IMPACT, Dr. Garber also co-chaired the ONC S&I Framework Longitudinal Coordination of Care Workgroup which used an evidence-based approach to drive updating the HL7 Consolidated CDA to R2.0 in order to meet the needs of care transitions and care planning. He also participated in the Trillium Bridge Project to study exchanging standard documents between Europe and the US. Dr. Garber now leads IMPACT 2.0, a MeHI Connected Communities Implementation Grant to automate health information exchange and event notifications to ambulances, ERs, nursing facilities, home health agencies, a behavioral health hospital, primary care physicians, and care managers. Dr. Garber is recipient of the 2010 eHealth Initiative eHealth Advocate Award, the 2011 Health Data Management EHR Game Changer Award, and an ONC Health IT Fellow. He led the HIMSS 2011 Davies Award-winning implementation of Reliant’s EHR system along with the 2013 recognition of it

5/8/2017 Page: 7 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 achieving HIMSS Ambulatory Stage 7 and the 2015 incorporation of 70 Million records of clinical data representing over 30 years of patient history from an external EHR.

Cyrus Gibson, PhD Initiative on the Digital Economy MIT Sloan

Cambridge, Massachusetts Phone: (617) 324-7335 Email: [email protected]

Dr. Gibson is an independent consultant in IT strategy, IT management, and IT-enabled business transformational change, with a particular current engagement with the Center for the Initiative on the Digital Economy at the MIT Sloan School. His work has spanned over thirty years in academia and consulting.

Prior to his current position Dr. Gibson was a Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School, where he taught IT- business management and field research seminars to undergraduates, MBA’s and executive students and was involved in research on IT-enabled change management. He worked with the Center for Information Systems Research with particular responsibilities for sponsor relationship management.

Until 1996 Dr. Gibson was a senior vice president at CSC Index, a management consulting firm in reengineering and information systems management, where he had been since 1978. Prior to that he was an associate professor at the Harvard Business School, where he taught in MBA and executive programs in organizational behavior and IT management and conducted research on organizational and behavioral change in relation to the implementation of information systems.

Dr. Gibson’s publications include the books, The Information Imperative (with Barbara Jackson), 1987, and Managing Organizational Behavior, 1980, and over twenty articles, including, “Managing the Four Stages of EDP Growth” (with Richard Nolan), Harvard Business Review, which set a pattern for subsequent research and management practice in the field of IT management, and "IT-enabled Business Change: An Approach to Understanding and Managing Risk", MIS Quarterly Executive Vol 2 No 2, Sept 2003. He has written over twenty-five case studies, with recent particular emphasis on the management of large scale IT-related change.

He holds a PhD from the Sloan School, MIT, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and a BE from Yale. He is a member of the Advisory Board of ICEX, Inc., a knowledge management services firm, and the Advisory Board of PleniaLocatel, a retail medical products firm. He has served on the Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, the Board of Directors of the Squam Lakes Association in New Hampshire, and has participated in several other volunteer organizations related to conservation and preservation.

Dr. Gibson and his wife Joanne live in Concord, Massachusetts. They have three grown children and nine grandchildren. He enjoys hiking, birding, sculling, tennis, and reading.

John Glaser, PhD Senior Vice President Cerner Corporation Instructor Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Kansas City, Missouri Phone: (816) 221-1024 Email: [email protected]

John Glaser, PhD, Senior Vice President, is responsible for driving Cerner’s technology and product strategies, interoperability, and government policy development. Glaser has devoted his career to advancing health care through innovation, and is committed to helping clients maximize their investment in health care information technology. Previously, Glaser was CEO of Siemens Health Services, a company acquired by Cerner in February 2015. Prior to that, Glaser was vice president and chief information officer at Partners HealthCare. He also previously served as vice president of information systems at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Glaser was the founding chair of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the past-president of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He’s served on numerous boards including the eHealth Initiative, the National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT), and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). Additionally, Glaser is a fellow of CHIME, HIMSS and the American College of Medical Informatics. He also is a former senior advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Glaser has published more than 150 articles and three books on the strategic application of IT in health care, including the most widely used textbook on the topic, Healthcare Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management. Glaser is on the faculty of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the Harvard School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. in health care information systems from the University of Minnesota.

John Halamka, MD, MS Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Chief Information Officer Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts Phone: (617) 754-8002 Email: [email protected]

John D. Halamka, MD, MS, is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange

5/8/2017 Page: 9 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 Network (NEHEN), co-Chair of the national HIT Standards Committee, co-Chair of the Massachusetts HIT Advisory Committee and a practicing Emergency Physician.

As Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative and academic information technology serving 3000 doctors, 14000 employees and two million patients. As Chairman of NEHEN he oversees clinical and administrative data exchange in Eastern Massachusetts. As co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee he facilitates the process of electronic standards harmonization among stakeholders nationwide. As co-Chair of the Massachusetts HIT Advisory Committee, he engages the stakeholders of the Commonwealth to guide the development of a statewide health information exchange.

Tonya Hongsermeier, MD, MBA Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer Lahey Health

Burlington, Massachusetts Email: [email protected]

Tonya Hongsermeier, MD MBA is currently Vice President and CMIO at Lahey Health, an integrated healthcare system serving New England. Formerly, she was a Principal Informatician in Clinical Informatics R&D at Partners Healthcare System and has served as a Team Lead on both the AHRQ- funded Clinical Decision Support Consortium project and the ONC-funded Advancing Clinical Decision Support project. Prior to this, she served for 5 years as Senior Corporate Manager for Clinical Knowledge Management and Decision Support. In this capacity she built a knowledge management team and lead implementation of a collaboration, CDS authoring and content management platform for enterprise Clinical Decision Support. She also served as a co-chair for the Semantic Web Healthcare- Life sciences Special Interest Group for the World Wide Web Consortium. She received her MD from Boston University and completed her Residency in Medicine and Fellowship in Clinical Nutrition at the Deaconess Hospital. She received an MBA in Healthcare Management from BU School of Management in 1995, and has held several positions in industry leading a variety of informatics efforts. Prior to joining Partners Healthcare System, she was VP for Knowledge Management Solutions and Patient Safety at Cerner Corporation.

Kamal Jethwani, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Dermatology Harvard Medical School Senior Director of Connected Health Innovation Partners Healthcare Center for Connected Health

Boston, Massachusetts Phone: (617) 724-3410 Email: [email protected]

As the Senior Director of Connected Health Innovation (CHI), Kamal Jethwani is responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team to identify and solve challenges in healthcare delivery using innovative technology-based solutions. CHI embraces value-based reimbursement across all care settings, and its solutions enable improved outcomes by making care delivery a continuous function of patients’ lives. His team is engaged in needs assessments across the system, product development and 5/8/2017 Page: 10 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 evaluations, and rigorous research to prove the value and outcomes of using connected health solutions. Their innovations are routinely scaled within clinical practices at Partners, and made part of the usual care provided to Partners’ patients. Kamal is also actively engaged in working with industry partners to scale innovations outside of Partners through strategic partnerships and licensing opportunities. The core focus of his research is in enabling better care delivery through connected health programs, by enabling better patient engagement, patient-provider communication, and patient satisfaction with care. His research so far has shown that programs that are personalized to each patient’s unique psychology and needs forge higher engagement, and in turn better outcomes. Kamal continues to develop analytic and programmatic modalities to improve the understanding of personalization concepts to connected health. He has worked extensively with sensor technology, wearables, and mobile as well as social media to deliver care to patients. The ability to personalize care and understand behavioral motivations that dictate health choices remains central to all his work at Partners CHI.

Ashish Jha, MD, MPH Director Harvard Global Health Institute K.T. Li Professor of International Health & Health Policy Department of Health Policy and Management Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Physician VA Boston Healthcare System

Cambridge, Massachusetts Phone: (617) 432-5551 Email: [email protected]

Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H. is Director for the Harvard Global Health Institute, K.T. Li Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing Internal Medicine physician at the VA Boston Healthcare System.

Dr. Jha received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and trained in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco where he also served as Chief Medical Resident. He completed his General Medicine fellowship from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and received his M.P.H. from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Jha’s major research interests lie in improving the quality and costs of healthcare with a specific focus on the impact of policy efforts. His work has focused on a broad set of issues including transparency and public reporting of provider performance, financial incentives, health information technology, and leadership and management, and the roles they play in fixing healthcare delivery systems.

Thomas Koulopoulos CEO Delphi Executive in Residence Bentley University

Andover, Massachusetts Phone: (617) 500-4300 Email: [email protected]

Thomas M. Koulopoulos is President and founder of Delphi Group, a Boston-based think tank and advisory firm. Delphi was founded in 1989 and has served nearly 20,000 clients across all industries, federal and state government agencies around the world.

Since launching Delphi Group in 1989, Mr. Koulopoulos propelled Delphi to its position as an Inc. 500 company (one of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the USA) with global offices, a trusted brand, and a leading independent advisor on business and technology trends to large enterprise and government.

Tom is also a columnist for Inc.com; an Executive in Residence at Bentley University, where he teaches graduate courses on Innovation; a Board member of the Kaplan School for Information Technology; and a faculty member of Harvard University’s School of Public Health. Tom has also been an adjunct professor at the Boston College Wallace E. Carroll Graduate School of Management and a guest lecturer at the Boston University Graduate School of Management. He is the past Founding Executive Director of the Babson College Research Center for Advanced Business Innovation, where he oversaw some of the world’s leading research and thought leadership on the topic of Business Innovation.

Named one of the industry’s “Killer Consultants” and most influential management consultant by InformationWeek magazine, he has delivered consulting services as a senior level advisor to hundreds of global organizations, including: Apple, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Oracle, USGS, FBI, Secret Service, DuPont, UBS, BAA, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Digital Equipment Corp., NYSE, NY Port Authority, Pepsi, Washington Mutual, SAP, Intel, Library of Congress, Department of Justice, NY Life, Air France, British Airways, LG CNS, Microsoft, California Federal, Lawrence Livermore Labs, National Life, Revenue Canada, Canadian Government, USAF, Kimberly Clark, Las Vegas Water Authority, Dow Corning, Tennessee Valley Authority, CitiCorp, Arthur Andersen, Exxon Mobil, GD Searl, Warner Lambert, Mayo, Kellogg’s, Nomura, Intel, and Microsoft.

Mr. Koulopoulos’ ten books include his most recent, The Gen Z Effect; Cloud Surfing; The Innovation Zone; and Corporate Instinct. During the past two decades Mr. Koulopoulos’ works have introduced core industry concepts, frameworks and vernacular such as Innovation Zones, Smartsourcing, Single Point of Access, Touch Points, Digital Control Rooms, Business Operating Systems and Corporate IQ, that are widely used today in describing the impact of technology on business. His insights have received accolades from luminaries such as Peter Drucker, Dee Hock, and Tom Peters who called his writing “a brilliant vision of where we must take our enterprises to survive and thrive.” According to Peter Drucker, Tom’s writing “makes you question not only the way you run your business but the way you run yourself.”

5/8/2017 Page: 12 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 Mr. Koulopoulos’ philanthropic interests include being an early advisor to the non-profit Tech Foundation, which makes technology accessible to the non-profit sector in an attempt to bridge the widening digital divide and an Advisor/Donor/Team Manager for Destination Imagination, a global K- 12 program with more than 200,000 participants in 20 countries, which focuses on developing creative problem solving and team-building skills in children to better prepare them for an innovation-based economy.

Joseph Kvedar, MD Vice President Partners Health Care Associate Professor of Dermatology Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts Phone: (617) 726-4447 Email: [email protected]

Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Vice President, Connected Health, Partners HealthCare, is creating a new model of healthcare delivery, developing innovative strategies to move care from the hospital or doctor’s office into the day-to-day lives of patients. Dr. Kvedar is leveraging information technology – cell phones, computers, networked devices and remote health monitoring tools – to improve care delivery. Partners connected health programs are also helping providers and patients better manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes. Based on the technology platform developed at Partners, a personalized health technology company was launched and later acquired by a leading insurance company to support its program encouraging healthy behavior and wellness education among employee populations. In 2013, Dr. Kvedar launched Wellocracy, a leading source of impartial, easy- to-understand information on new personal “self-health” technologies like activity trackers, wireless devices and mobile apps to empower people to get and stay healthy. He is internationally recognized for his leadership and vision in the field of connected health, and has authored over 90 publications on the subject. Dr. Kvedar serves as a strategic advisor at Qualcomm Life, West Health Institute, Puretech Ventures and BD Technologies, and is a mentor at Blueprint Health, providing guidance and insight to developing companies. Dr. Kvedar is also a mentor at the Harvard Innovation Lab and serves as a judge for its President's Challenge for Entrepreneurship.

Adam Landman Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Harvard Medical School Chief Information Officer Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts Email: [email protected]

Adam Landman, MD, MS, MIS, MHS is Chief Information Officer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an attending emergency physician at BWH. He is an expert in information systems development and implementation. He led a three-year, $7 million custom software development project to move BWH Emergency Department clinicians from paper-based to electronic documentation. Over the past three 5/8/2017 Page: 13 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 years, he helped oversee the implementation of Epic and several critical laboratory information systems. Dr. Landman has also designed and developed mobile apps to securely capture and store clinical images and to improve electronic medication administration and reconciliation. He also created the BWH Digital Health Innovation Group to spur hospital use of digital technology as well as facilitate appropriate use of digital tools by clinicians, innovators, and researchers. As CIO, he is currently responsible for the stabilization and optimization of the EHR, all other hospital information systems, and digital health innovation.

Thomas Lasko, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Nashville, Tennessee Phone: (615) 936-5732 Email: [email protected]

Tom Lasko is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. His current research is focused on using data-driven methods to discover previously unrecognized disease phenotypes from population-scale medical records data. Prior to joining Vanderbilt, Tom was a Software Engineer at Google, where he worked on methods to identify clinically interesting patterns in the mind-bogglingly-massive Google query stream. He also worked on improving search results for medical searches, developing a completely data-driven algorithm that powers the computational diagnosis engine known as Google Symptom Search, for which he has several patents.

Tom earned an MD from UC San Diego and a PhD in Computer Science from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Octo Barnett's Laboratory of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a clinical internship at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, WI, where he learned about all of the ways in which those wonderfully bucolic farms will try to kill you if you set foot on them.

Mia Levy, MD, PhD Ingram Assistant Professor of Cancer Research, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics/Assistant Professor of Medicine Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Nashville, Tennessee Phone: (615) 936-0809 Email: [email protected]

Dr. Mia A. Levy is the Director of Cancer Clinical Informatics for the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine.

Dr. Levy received her undergraduate degree in Bioengineering from The University of Pennsylvania in 1997 and her Medical Doctorate from Rush University in 2003. She then spent 6 years at Stanford University completing post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology while completing her PhD in Biomedical Informatics. She joined the faculty at Vanderbilt as an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Medicine in August 2009. She is a practicing medical oncologist specializing in the treatment of breast cancer.

5/8/2017 Page: 14 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 Dr. Levy’s research interests include biomedical informatics methods to support the continuum of cancer care and cancer research. Current research projects include informatics methods for 1) clinical decision support for treatment prioritization of molecular subtypes of cancer, 2) longitudinal clinical plan management, 3) image based cancer treatment response assessment using quantitative imaging, and 4) learning cancer systems. She is co-inventor of MyCancerGenome.org, a publically available knowledge resource for genome directed cancer treatment selection.

Bradley Malin, PhD Co-Director Health Data Science Center Professor & Vice Chair of Biomedical Informatics Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Professor of Biostatistics School of Medicine Professor of Computer Science School of Engineering Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee Phone: (615) 343-9096 Email: [email protected]

Bradley Malin, Ph.D., is the Vice Chair for Research and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University. He is also a Professor of Biostatistics, a Professor of Computer Science, and is Affiliated Faculty in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society. He co-directs the Health Data Science (HEADS) Center, the Center for Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings (GetPreCiSe), and the Big Biomedical Data Science Ph.D. program. He is also the director of the Health Information Privacy Laboratory (HIPLab), which was established to address the growing need for data privacy research and development for the health information technology sector. His research is funded through various grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Since 2007, he has led a data privacy consultation service for the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network, an NIH consortium. He is also the co-chair of the Data Privacy and Security Working Group of the All of Us Cohort Program of the U.S. Precision Medicine Initiative. His investigations on health data privacy security have been cited by the Federal Trade Commission in the Federal Register and certain privacy enhancing technologies he developed have been featured in popular media outlets and blogs, including Nature News, Scientific American, and Wired magazine. He is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and was honored as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Dr. Malin completed his education at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received a bachelor's in biological sciences, a master's in public policy and management, and a doctorate in computer science.

Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH Donald A.B. Lindberg Professor of Pediatrics & Professor of Biomedical Informatics Harvard Medical School Director Computational Health Informatics Program Boston Children's Hospital

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Kenneth D. Mandl, MD, MPH is a Professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Director at Boston Children’s Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program.

Recognized for research and teaching, Mandl received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the Clifford A. Barger Award for top mentors at Harvard Medical School. He was advisor to two Directors of the CDC and chairs the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NIH’s National Library of Medicine. Dr. Mandl has been elected to multiple honor societies including the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Society for Pediatric Research, American College of Medical Informatics and American Pediatric Society.

Mandl leads two postdoctoral training programs in clinical and informatics research and directs the Population Health Track of the new Masters Degree in Biomedical Informatics at HMS. Mandl is a faculty member in the HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics and in the Division of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT.

Through scholarship intersecting epidemiology and informatics, Mandl pioneered use of IT and big data for population health, discovery, patient engagement and care redesign. Mandl leads the transformative SMART Platforms initiative to design the “app store for health" and is principal investigator of the Scalable Collaborative Infrastructure for a Learning Health System across Boston hospitals and nationally. Recognized for research and teaching, Mandl received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the Clifford A. Barger Award for top mentors at Harvard Medical School. He was advisor to two Directors of the CDC and chairs the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NIH’s National Library of Medicine. His clinical training and experience is in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine. Dr. Mandl has been elected to multiple honor societies including the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Society for Pediatric Research, American College of Medical Informatics and American Pediatric Society.

James Murray, MS, CPHIMS Vice President, Information Technology CVS/MinuteClinic CVS Health

Woonsocket, Rhode Island Phone: 406770650 Email: [email protected]

James Murray is Vice President, Information Technology for MinuteClinic at CVS/Caremark. He is responsible for the all systems and solutions to support over 800 walk in medical clinics. Mr. Murray works to support a medical practice of over 2500 providers by enabling the efficient use of technology in the clinical setting. MinuteClinic maintains a strong focus on collaboration with medical systems in the communities we serve. The integration of medical records with their affiliate institutions across the country helps to improve continuity of care and enable communication around all aspects of a patient’s care. Mr. Murray has over 20 years experience in Healthcare Information Technology beginning his career as an application developer for the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Mr. Murray moved on to technical management at Brigham and Women’s Physicians

5/8/2017 Page: 16 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 Organization prior to accepting a role of Corporate Manager of Support and Technology Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization. While working at MGH, he led teams supporting patient administrative systems as well as the development and deployment of a variety of software including mobile solutions for physicians and ambulatory patient tracking. Mr. Murray moved on to work for Partners Healthcare corporate Information Systems as a Technology Architect. Mr. Murray is a member of the Board of Directors for eHealth Initiative in Washington, D.C. He holds a bachelors degree in economics from the University of Nebraska and a Master of Science in Medical Informatics from Northwestern University.

Roberto Rocha, MD, PhD, FACMI Clinical Informatics Director Partners eCare Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts Phone: (857) 307-4307 Email: [email protected]

Dr. Rocha is the Clinical Informatics Director for Partners eCare at Partners HealthCare, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School. At Partners, Dr. Rocha leads the Clinical Informatics team responsible for system-wide clinical knowledge management activities, including clinical decision support interventions implemented across different clinical systems. The clinical knowledge management activities encompass the entire lifecycle of multiple types of knowledge and terminology assets, and include an integrated software infrastructure for collaborative authoring and curation. Dr. Rocha also leads applied informatics research projects and is one of the Associate Directors of the Partners Clinical Informatics & Innovation Fellowship program.

Prior to joining BWH and Partners, Dr. Rocha was an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah (2000-2008), where he led the design and implementation of a distributed data and knowledge management infrastructure to support clinical and translational research. Concurrently with his faculty appointment at the University of Utah, Dr. Rocha was an EVP and the Lead Informaticist at Remedy Informatics (2006-2007) and a Senior Medical Informaticist at Intermountain Healthcare (2000-2006). During his tenure at Intermountain, Dr. Rocha managed the clinical knowledge management activities and data definitions used by Intermountain’s longitudinal healthcare record. Prior to Intermountain, Dr. Rocha was an Associate Professor of Medical Informatics at the Federal University of Paraná (1997-2000), Brazil, and the Chief Information Officer of a 650-bed University Hospital with a locally-developed hospital information system (1998-2000).

Dr. Rocha completed a PhD in Medical Informatics from the University of Utah (1996) and is the first recipient of the Reed Gardner Award for Faculty Excellence from the University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics (2006). Dr. Rocha received his MD from the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil (1987). His areas of interest include application of knowledge management principles and processes to biomedicine; modeling and representation of biomedical ontologies, data, and knowledge; and interoperability standards and best practices. Dr. Rocha is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.

S. Rosenbloom, MD, MPH Director My Health at Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University Director Comparative Effectiveness Research at VHAN Vanderbilt University Medical Center Associate Professor School of Nursing Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Nashville, Tennessee Phone: (615) 936-1541 Email: [email protected]

Dr. Rosenbloom is the Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics with secondary appointments in Medicine, Pediatrics and the School of Nursing at Vanderbilt University. He is a board certified Internist and Pediatrician who earned his M.D., completed a residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, a fellowship in Biomedical Informatics, and earned an MPH all at Vanderbilt. Since joining the faculty in 2002, Dr. Rosenbloom has become a nationally recognized investigator in the field of health information technology evaluation. His research has focused on studying how healthcare providers interact with health information technologies when engaging patients, documenting patient care and making clinical decisions.

Dr. Rosenbloom has participated as a mentor for numerous students, including PhD candidates from Biomedical Informatics, medical students performing predoctoral research projects or as part of the Vanderbilt Emphasis program, and Meharry medical students participating in National Library of Medicine-supported Summer training programs. He has been an advisor to medical students, and is now a Faculty Affiliate Advisor for the School of Medicine’s Chapman Advisory College. He has served on the School of Medicine’s Admissions Committee, on the Medical Center’s Medical Records Committee and on the Department of Biomedical Informatics’ Academic Program Committee. In addition, Dr. Rosenbloom has volunteered at the student-run Shade Tree Clinic since it first opened, and has been named a Shade Tree Clinic Clinical Care Leader.

Violet Shaffer, MA Research Vice President and Global Industry Services Director Gartner

Centreville, Virginia Phone: (703) 968-2445 Email: [email protected]

Vi Shaffer is Research Vice President and Industry Services Director - Healthcare for Gartner, the world's leading IT research and advisory firm. A 40-year industry veteran, she advises healthcare executives around the world in the areas of strategic planning, IT governance, change management, and organization structure/roles, healthcare mega-suite vendors and business intelligence/clinical analytics. She is particularly well-known internationally for her long-standing study of CIO-level issues the role of the Chief Medical Informatics Officer role and the CIO-CMIO relationship. Based in Washington, 5/8/2017 Page: 18 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 D.C., she actively monitors US federal healthcare reform, Accountable Care and Pay for Performance initiatives. Having played executive, consulting and senior strategist roles in IT and healthcare, she is frequent speaker and author on the fusion of healthcare and technology. She has lectured in executive and academic programs at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Gartner in 2004, she served as an executive of several healthcare IT-oriented companies, including APACHE Medical Systems, Cerner, Competitive Advantage Services, and MEDSTAT.

Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH Associate Professor Department of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine (Houston)

Houston, Texas Email: [email protected]

Hardeep Singh, M.D., M.P.H. is a general internist and Chief of Health Policy, Quality & Informatics Program, Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety based at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. He leads a portfolio of VA and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded patient safety research in improving the use of health information technology and reducing diagnostic errors in health care. In 2012, he received the AcademyHealth Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award for high impact research and in 2014, received the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama for pioneering work in the field. His multidisciplinary team’s work recently received the VA Health System Impact Award, which honors VA-funded research that significantly impacts clinical practice or policy.Hardeep’s research has informed several national patient safety initiatives and policy reports, including those by the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the IOM), US Department of Health and Human Services, National Quality Forum, American Medical Association, AHRQ, and the WHO. In addition to co-developing the national VA policy on diagnostic test results communication in 2015, he co-chaired the National Quality Forum committee on recommendations for health IT safety measurement and co-developed the "ONC SAFER Guides" that provide national recommendations for safe electronic health record use. In 2014, he was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics for significant and sustained contributions to biomedical informatics. He currently serves on the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee, which advises the CDC, FDA and CMS, and as an Associate Editor for journal Diagnosis.

Dean Sittig, PhD, FACMI Christopher Sarofim Family Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Bioengineering UT - Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality & Safety University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston

Bend, Oregon Phone: (713) 299-2692 Email: [email protected]

Sittig's research interests center on the design, development, implementation and evaluation of all aspects of clinical information systems (CIS), specifically measuring the impact of CIS on a large scale and improving understanding of both the factors that lead to the success of CIS as well as the unintended consequences associated with computer-based clinical decision support and provider order 5/8/2017 Page: 19 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 entry systems. He is particularly interested in ensuring the safe and effective use of technology in the clinical setting, using advanced clinical decision support interventions to improve the quality of care and patient safety while reducing the costs of healthcare and designing and developing the clinical knowledge required to create these advanced clinical decision support interventions. Additionally, Sittig is the Executive Director of the Clinical Informatics Research Collaborative,a group of academic applied clinical informatics researchers committed to improving our understanding of issues involved in the design, development, implementation, use and evaluation of all aspects of health information technology with a particular emphasis on EHRs.

David Ting, MD, FACP, FAAP Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Chief Medical Information Officer Massachusetts General Physicians Organization

Boston, Massachusetts Phone: (617) 724-7101 Email: [email protected]

Dr. David Y. Ting is the Chief Medical Information Officer of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO). Dr. Ting is dual-board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and is a practicing internist and pediatrician at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He earned his M.D. degree from Duke University Medical School and then completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency in the Harvard Combined Medicine-Pediatrics Program, where he later became the Program Director. Dr. Ting’s involvement in Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) began in 1997, when he implemented one of the first practice-wide electronic medical records in an MGH health center, pioneering the emerging technologies of the time, including handwriting-enabled wireless handheld devices, touch-screen laptops, automated E/M charge coding software, and electronic office scheduling. In 2010, he was named Associate Medical Director for Information Systems for the MGPO, and became its CMIO in 2014. In this role, Dr. Ting has overseen clinical systems implementations and workflow improvement projects, supervised grants and project proposals for clinical system enhancements, supported pay-for-performance and quality initiatives, and liaised among MGPO physicians and practices, MGPO leadership, MGH Information Systems teams, and Partners Healthcare enterprise management teams. Moving forward, he continues to drive the interests of providers and patients by expanding patients’ access and engagement with their electronic health records, implementing tele-health and virtual care options, and collaborating with academic and industry innovators to improve HIT. His major initiatives include preparing MGPO physicians and practices to meet federal EHR Meaningful Use requirements and the demands of Accountable Care Organization participation, implementing an enterprise-wide common clinical system at Partners HealthCare and MGH, and spearheading a major initiative to leverage technology and workflow reengineering to reduce administrative burden on physicians and their practices.

Micky Tripathi, PhD President and Chief Executive Officer Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative

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Micky Tripathi is the President & Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit collaboration of 34 leading Massachusetts organizations. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the eHealth Initiative, a national organization promoting health information technology, the Chair of the Information Exchange Working Group of the national Health Information Technology Policy Committee, which is providing recommendations to the federal government on health information exchange requirements related to the HITECH Act, and a member of the Board of Directors of the New England Health Exchange Network (NEHEN), a regional health information exchange based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Prior to joining MAeHC, Mr. Tripathi was a manager in the Boston office of the Boston Consulting Group, a leading strategy and management consulting firm. While at BCG, he served as the founding President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, an Indianapolis-based non-profit company partnered with the Regenstrief Institute to create a state-wide health information infrastructure in the state of Indiana. As a manager in BCG’s health care practice, Mr. Tripathi also served a variety of US and international clients in the non-profit sector as well as in the bioinformatics, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries.

He holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University, and an AB in political science from Vassar College. Prior to receiving his PhD, he was a senior operations research analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC, for which he received the Secretary of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award.

George Westerman, MBA, DBA Principal Research Scientist Initiative on the Digital Economy MIT Sloan School of Management

Cambridge, Massachusetts Phone: (617) 253-2939 Email: [email protected]

George’s research and teaching show senior executives how to drive competitive advantage through technology. He is an award winning author and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy where he is also faculty chair of the course, Essential IT for Non-IT Executives. A leading voice on how to shift the IT conversation from cost to value, his portfolio of research focuses on digital transformation, CIO-level leadership and innovation. Prior to his academic career, George spent more than 13 years in product development and technology leadership roles.

George’s books have received wide acclaim. His most recent, Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation, extends this thought leadership by showing CEOs and other senior executives how to lead digital transformation in their organizations. The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value was named the #1 book of the year in its field, and IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage, was recognized as one of the top five books of the year. He has also written numerous articles and other contributions for publications such as Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes.

Prior to joining the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2002, George earned a doctorate from Harvard Business School.

Adam Wright, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Senior Scientist Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts Phone: (617) 525-9811 Email: [email protected]

Adam Wright is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard and a Senior Scientist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Wright's research focuses on making electronic health records (EHRs) safer and more effective through better design, improved clinical decision support (CDS) and harnessing clinical data to drive a learning healthcare system. He currently leads two NIH-funded research projects: one focused on using CDS to improve clinical problem lists and the other focused on using statistical anomaly detection methods to make CDS more reliable and effective. He has previously led studies on service-oriented CDS, how CDS can reduce malpractice risk and how novel visualization and summarization methods can make EHRs easier to use. In addition to his research, Dr. Wright teaches Harvard's introductory biomedical informatics courses, and also teaches first medical students. He has a PhD in biomedical informatics from Oregon Health and Science University and a BS in mathematical and computational sciences from Stanford.

Timothy Zoph, MSA, MBA Client Executive and Strategist Impact Advisors

Northbrook, Illinois Phone: (312) 342-2001 Email: [email protected]

Tim recently joined Impact Advisors as Client Executive and Strategist. He guides the advancement of new and enhanced consulting services for leading healthcare clients. Tim is also directly engaged in advising clients on technology strategy, new facilities and cybersecurity.

For over 20 years, Tim served as Senior Vice President and CIO for Northwestern Medicine. In his tenure, Northwestern Medicine advanced to a $5B integrated academic health system and is a recognized leader in quality, education and technology. In addition to his CIO role, Tim had management responsibility for the Facility Design and Construction team and Enterprise Project Management Office. He had oversight for designing, building and activating over $1B of new facility projects. Tim earned graduate business degrees from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Utah.

Through Tim’s technology leadership, Northwestern Memorial Hospital has been awarded one of the 100 Most Wired Hospitals for 12 years. In December 2012, he received the Legacy Award from the Board of Trustees of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) for his decade of commitment to training over 875 emerging technology leaders as Program Director and Faculty of the CIO Bootcamp. Tim is the recipient the John Gall CIO of the Year award co-sponsored 5/8/2017 Page: 22 Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. May not be reproduced without permission. Copyright © 2017. TECH0117 by the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and CHIME in 2003. He was named the 2008 CIO of the Year by the Executives’ Club of Chicago along with the Association of Information Technology Professionals. Tim has served on the Board of Trustees for the Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Notebaert Museum. He is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago where he serves on the Membership Committee.

In the 2015 ranking of the nation’s “Best Hospitals” published by U.S. News & World Report, Northwestern Memorial ranks 11th among hospitals to make the Honor Roll.

Tim and his wife Jodi have been married 25 years and have one son Barret. Tim is a coach and cyclist with VisionQuest Coaching Team.

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