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2019 Speaker Photos and Biographies

Allen Abshire HIT Operations Director

Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum

Allen Abshire is the Director of HIT Operations for the Louisiana Health Care

Quality Forum. Allen provides oversight of daily operations of the Louisiana

Health Information Exchange and oversees a number of strategic health IT

initiatives. Allen’s experience includes more than 35 years in information

technology, including over 25 in the field of health care information technology. He has worked in

various roles with regional HIEs, including Healthcare Access San Antonio, Greater Houston

Healthconnect and LaHIE, and has served on the Louisiana HIT Committee and subcommittees. He

currently serves on the Health IT Advisory Committee for the Louisiana Department of Health and PCDH

Governance Council for SHIEC and the Board of Directors for Louisiana HIMSS Chapter.

Nicholas Blake VP of Client Services, Briljent

Nick Blake is the Vice President of Client Services for Briljent where he

brings a deep understanding of HIT/HIE policies and landscape to support

Briljent’s work around strategic planning, operational support and federal

funding of HIT/HIE initiatives. Mr. Blake came to Briljent from CMS where

he was a national leader of federal and state HIT/HIE programs. In this

role, he led a technically skilled team and was responsible for the evaluation of federal compliance of

HIT/HIE systems and policies. Mr. Blake authored federal regulations and developed sub-regulatory

guidance around HIT initiatives for states and other stakeholders. Mr. Blake was the CMS lead for the

Medicaid Eligibility Modernization Program for the state of California where he administrated California

Medicaid eligibility programs and approved federal funding requests for information technology (IT)

system design, implementation, operations, and maintenance. At CMS, Mr. Blake also managed the

administration of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program for 17 states. He was

responsible for the review and approval of state Medicaid HIT strategies and funding. Mr. Blake is

known as a leader and strategic thinker, having driven some of the nation’s largest Medicaid system

implementations and initiatives.

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Jamie Bland CEO

Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII)

Jamie Bland, DNP, RN-BC, is the CEO of Nebraska Health Information Initiative

(NEHII). Prior to joining NEHII, she worked with a provider organization as a

Chief Clinical Officer and at the VA Midwest Region (VISN 23) office in Eagan,

MN as the PCMH and health promotion disease prevention program manager for the primary care service

line. She has extensive experience establishing and leading care management, population health and

clinical quality initiatives.

Phil Beckett Chief Executive Officer

Healthcare Access San Antonio (HASA)

Phil Beckett is CEO of HASA. He joined the organization in 2015 to deliver HIE

services in Dallas/Fort Worth, north Texas and west Texas. Previously he

served as the CTO and Privacy and Security Officer with Greater Houston

Healthconnect. Formerly trained in biochemistry and metabolism at the

University of Aberdeen in Scotland, Phil came to Houston as a post-doctoral

fellow to study protein metabolism at the Children’s Nutrition Research

Center. At Texas Children’s Hospital he developed a rapid amino acid assay

used to perform protein clamps and measure insulin sensitivity in children with diabetes. Phil kickstarted

his IT career in the neonatal ICU writing interfaces to capture data electronically from monitoring

systems around the concept that quality is driven by data. He cofounded a startup, RosettaMed as a

developer for patient data capture applications with interfaces to electronic health records. He led the

sale of the company to Kryptiq Corporation and worked there on secure clinical messaging before

joining Baylor College of Medicine to lead their clinical information systems implementation (Epic, iSite

PACS). He was instrumental in establishing the connection between HASA and GHHC in 2011-2012 to

help prepare for a potential disaster and any aftermath. He holds a medical degree from Baylor College,

a PhD from the University of Aberdeen, and his undergrad from Bangor University in Wales.

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Nick Bonvino CEO

Greater Houston Healthconnect

Nick Bonvino has served as a healthcare executive for over 25 years,

applying IT-based products and services to enhance the financial,

administrative, and clinical performance of healthcare organizations.

Since joining Healthconnect as CEO in 2014, the HIE has tripled its hospital members signing all major

health systems, doubled the number of physician practices, and expanded its service area, all while

achieving financial sustainability. Through the rapid deployment of its interoperability platform,

Healthconnect has now connected over 1000 clinical entities across disparate EHR platforms. Nick’s

strategy of deep integration into clinical workflows has resulted in robust adoption by caregivers across

the region. Leveraging these connections, Nick led the introduction of additional service lines driving

value in Quality Improvement, Population Health, and Research.

Nick’s leadership has furthered other HIE initiatives in Illinois, Florida, New York, North Texas, and

Europe. Nick was National Practice Leader for CTG and Northside Consulting, served as CIO for Triad

Hospitals, and led sales divisions for Siemens, EDS, and IBM, where he started as a semiconductor

engineer.

He is a frequent presenter on HIT transformation at industry conferences and has chaired and served on

the advisory boards of several healthcare IT companies.

Nick holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Norwich University and was selected to attend

specialized programs at Harvard Business School, Wharton School of Business, IBM Sales & Marketing

Education, and EDS Strategic Value Selling.

He is an active member of CHIME (College of Health Information Management Executives) and HIMSS.

Ryan Bramble Executive Director

CRISP DC

In 11 years with CRISP Ryan has worked in a number of roles within the

organization and currently oversees all activity in Washington, DC serving

as CRISP’s Executive Director for that region. Ryan also leads CRISP’s

product development work including its Point Solutions in-house software

development team as well as outside vendor relationships as the Senior

Director of Product Development. In his previous roles as Project Manager, Director of IT, and Senior

Director of Technology Ryan has worked with a variety of stakeholders over the past decade whom have

helped shape the landscape of HIE in the Mid-Atlantic. Ryan currently serves on the CareEquality

Steering Committee helping to inform national HIE strategy.

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Jim Cavanagh

President

Executive Healthcare Consulting

Jim Cavanagh is President and Principal Owner of Executive Healthcare

Consulting. Jim has over 30 years of leadership experience in hospital HIT

and has combined a strong technology background with a keen

understanding of the healthcare industry. In addition to a bachelor’s degree

in Computer Science, Jim has earned a master’s degree in healthcare

administration. Jim has served as CIO for a large, urban healthcare system,

provided board-level support of several HIEs, and has been an advisor to

healthcare executives in the public and private sectors. Jim is currently working with the New Jersey

Innovation Institute in support of the New Jersey Health Information Network for the New Jersey

Department of Health. Jim is also a part-time professor at Rutgers University and has had numerous

speaking engagements and publications regarding a variety of healthcare information technology topics.

Jim lives in New Jersey with his wife and four children and is active with his Church, Schools, Boy Scouts

and volunteer outreach in rural Appalachia.

Jocelyn Chacko Data Analyst

Bronx RHIO

Jocelyn is currently a Data Analyst working for the Bronx Regional

Health Information Organization in New York. She has a demonstrated

history of working in the health care industry conducting both financial

and clinical analyses to aid leadership in strategic data-driven decision

making to improve patient care and lower costs. As an information

technology professional, she has strong skills in SQL, SAS, and Python.

Prior to working for the Bronx RHIO, Jocelyn has been an analyst at both

Healthfirst (a hospital-owned insurance company) and Montefiore Medical Center (an academic medical

center). These roles have allowed her to explore her interests in health care delivery system reform and

innovation from the perspective of both payers and providers. Accordingly, she has mined both claims

and EHR data for insights for programs such DSRIP, ACO, contracting, and program evaluation efforts.

These experiences have significantly contributed to the seamless integration of clinical and claims data

at the Bronx RHIO. She holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Biological Sciences with a Concentration in

Nutrition and a minor in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University. She also completed a

Master of Arts in Urban Studies from the CUNY School of Professional Studies, with a health care policy

concentration where she completed a quantitative thesis with a focus on the intersections of health and

social risk factors on hospitals’ ability to meet pay-for-performance metrics.

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Sonia Chambers Executive Director West Virginia Health Information Network (WVHIN)

Sonia Chambers has a wide variety of heath care experience. She began her

professional life working for Congressman Bob Wise, serving as Legislative

Aid, Legislative Director and Staff to the House Budget Committee. In 1992,

Ms. Chambers returned to West Virginia where she served in various state government capacities

including Director of Policy for Governor Caperton, Special Assistant for Coordinated Health Purchasing

for the West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency and Deputy Secretary for the West Virginia

Department of Health and Human Resources. In 2001, she was appointed to the West Virginia Health

Care Authority (WVHCA). As Chair of WVHCA, she oversaw administration of hospital Rate Review,

Certificate of Need, Clinical Data Analysis and Financial Disclosure. Since 2015 she has led the West

Virginia Health Information Network (WVHIN), the state’s Health Information Exchange. In addition to

public sector positions focused on health care, Chambers has worked for Marshall Health as the

Affiliation Manager and Corporate Compliance Officer.

Gary Christensen General Manager States

Public Sector, InterSystems

Mr. Gary Christensen joined InterSystems in 2014 to provide executive-level

assistance to State and regional customers in their efforts both to implement

HIE and to develop products and services to drive better care, reduced costs,

and healthier populations.

Previously, Mr. Christensen spent five years as the COO/CIO for the Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI),

where he led the implementation of InterSystems’ HealthShare platform as RI’s statewide HIE. RIQI is a

center of collaborative innovation that advances health and healthcare transformation. Before

becoming involved in healthcare, Mr. Christensen spent eighteen years in Financial Services IT.

Gregg Church President

4Medica, Inc.

Mr. Church brings to 4medica a rare combination of business acumen, senior

leadership, operational and strategic marketing experience. He began his

career with a consumer-facing healthcare provider referral company in

Boulder, CO where he quickly moved up the ranks from managing corporate

marketing communications to becoming the company’s senior vice president of

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corporate marketing and communications. From there, he led business development and marketing at

an electronic data interchange (EDI) company which was eventually acquired by TriZetto. The consulting

giant also recruited Mr. Church, who ran the Colorado Division Operations.

In his next position with technology company ACOM Solutions, headquartered in Southern California,

Mr. Church began as the senior vice president of corporate marketing before becoming the company’s

general manager of its newly formed healthcare division. Here Mr. Church developed an active partner

channel program to help catapult the company’s cloud-based EMR, practice management system, and

RCM consulting services, to being the number #1 platform in the pain management sector of healthcare.

In 2009, Mr. Church joined 4medica, again in a senior marketing executive position. He helped 4medica

expand its interoperability customer base, and further defined new product lines in the patient identity

matching, clinical data exchange, and revenue cycle management service areas. Today, he is president

of the company.

Mr. Church routinely speaks with health IT leaders representing the Office of the National Coordinator

(ONC), PEW Charitable Trusts (PEW), Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC),

eHealth Initiative and Foundation (eHI), U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and many other

government and private sector organizations.

Kathy Church Director of Clinical Operations

HealthLINC

Kathy serves as the Director of Clinical Operations of HealthLINC. She provides leadership in daily activities and partners with physician and community leaders to focus on the greater medical community. Kathy now

assists in workflow redesign and use of technology to assist HealthLINC’s clients in improving quality and safety of patient care while assuring privacy and security. Kathy has a wide array of nursing experience including inpatient care--from intensive care to Obstetrics, and outpatient care--from emergency department to academic residency. Until recently, Kathy blended her HealthLINC activities with the role of Ambulatory Project Manager for Bloomington Hospital, now Indiana University Health Bloomington. Under her leadership, the hospital launched a Provider Portal, a physician and staff access to patient information. Kathy spent 10 years managing nursing support at Michigan State University Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, a multi-discipline residency program, during the launch of an EHR system. Previously, Kathy provided nursing care and department management at Promptcare Physicians Clinic in Bloomington as the Quality Assurance Director and Staff Educator, and at Bedford Regional Medical Center in Bedford, Indiana as the supervisor of Emergency Services. Kathy received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Evansville and a Project Management Certification from PMI. She enjoys travel and organic farming.

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Danielle Culp Criminal Justice Health Information Exchange Coordinator Office of Behavioral Health - Colorado Department of Human Services

Danielle Culp is the Health Information Exchange Coordinator for the Office

of Behavioral Health for the State of Colorado. Danielle oversees the

Medication Consistency Pilot program and is actively involved in other health IT-related initiatives for

the State of Colorado that include behavioral health. She has extensive clinical experience as an Exercise

Physiologist, which is why she is so passionate about supporting various individuals as they try to reach

their optimal health and well-being. She also worked for Health First Colorado (Colorado Medicaid

Program), which allowed her to be heavily involved in strategic demonstration projects and quality

improvement activities. She has presented multiple times at the CMS Quality Conference as well as the

Adolescent Health Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Danielle is experienced in public speaking,

project management and integrating health with information technology. She served on several state

committees that enable her to create very diverse and innovative approaches to health care delivery.

She has been recognized both locally and nationally for her role in large-scale projects or initiatives that

have created meaningful outcomes for many vulnerable populations. Danielle received her Bachelor of

Science degree from Colorado State University and currently resides in Littleton Colorado with her

husband and three children.

Raj Davda, MD

Medical Senior Director

Cigna

Douglas Dietzman Executive Director, Great Lakes Health Connect (GLHC) Doug has been the Executive Director of Great Lakes Health Connect since July 2014. Doug developed and implemented the start-up corporate business plan and private sustainability model. He also led the integration activities associated with the creation of GLHC through the merger of Michigan Health Connect and Great Lakes Health Information Exchange. From an idea and initial seed money from the founding healthcare organizations, revenue has grown over 30 percent per year and the organization currently has a staff of over 30 high performing individuals.

His experience over the past 25+ years includes business and technology leadership in integrated delivery systems, health plans, physician offices,

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consulting and startup companies having worked for Andersen Consulting, Spectrum Health, First Consulting Group, iBelieve.com, Mercy Health Services, and Michigan Health Connect.

Lammot du Pont Senior Advisor Manatt Health Lammot du Pont advises healthcare industry organizations on business and

technology strategies, planning and management services, and policy and

communications. His particular focus is using health information

technology to create effective healthcare delivery systems. Lammot helps

organizations create strategic plans, secure funding and manage the

implementation of complex health IT programs, as well as address

healthcare delivery and payment initiatives. He develops strategic and

implementation plans for health information exchange for federal and

state agencies, health information organizations, technology firms and

integrated delivery networks. Working with multiple stakeholders, Lammot develops detailed strategies

for the design, deployment and sustainability of health information exchange projects. He has done this

work for the states of Maryland, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee, among others. For hospitals

and physician organizations, he assesses opportunities and implementation approaches for health

redesign, including bundled payments and patient-centered medical homes.

Before joining Manatt, Lammot was in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information

Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. At ONC, he worked to improve the

quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare delivery by analyzing and supporting regional, multi-

stakeholder collaborations engaged in the secure, accurate and timely exchange of health information.

Lammot also worked on the effort to develop a nationwide health information network with an

interoperable, standards-based architecture for the secure exchange of healthcare information across

the country. Prior to ONC, Lammot supported the use of health information technology to improve

healthcare, education and social services delivery in his work at the Foundation for the eHealth Initiative

and at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology

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Andrew Fair Data Analytics Manager Bronx RHIO

Andrew Fair is a data analyst with over a decade of experience working in

public health and healthcare. He joined the Bronx RHIO in 2017 as Senior

Data Analyst and now serves as the RHIO’s Data Analytic Manager. He

specializes in interactive data visualization and dashboard development, as

well as setting up automated data processing pipelines. Prior, he spent most

of his career at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

There, he supported NYC’s dramatic reduction in smoking as a tobacco cessation analyst, helped

develop and implement a web-based patient engagement platform for persons with serious mental

illnesses, promoted adoption and use of health information technology by behavioral health providers,

and analyzed electronic health record data from various provider networks, for population health

promotion. Andrew has a BA in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, an ScM in Society, Human

Development, and Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, and an MS in Applied Urban Science

and Informatics from NYU’s Center for Urban Science + Progress, or CUSP. He completed additional

graduate coursework in Interactive Web Mapping at Pratt Institute.

Jennifer Faries Accountable Health Communities Program Manager MyHealth Access Network Jennifer Faries is currently the Program Manager of the Accountable

Health Community Project which is a cooperative agreement between

MyHealth Access Network and CMS where MyHealth serves as the bridge

organization for this innovative social needs screening for the entire state

of Oklahoma. At MyHealth, Jennifer oversees the AHC team and the work

done by partner organizations on the AHC project in addition to all of the

day-to-day operations of the AHC Program. Jennifer is also involved in

Social Determinates of Health work and Community Health Worker task forces throughout the state.

Jennifer brings more than 12 years of experience and a unique background to her work at MyHealth

Access Network in their work as the state HIE. Jennifer has a Master’s in Business Administration from

Oklahoma State University along with a Master’s in Clinical Psychology from The University of Tulsa and

a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Education from The University of Tulsa. Jennifer spent several years

previously working in the areas of program management, corporate development and finance in the oil

and gas industry. Prior to that, she worked in the mental health field serving as the Clinical Supervisor of

a mental health clinic and the Program Director for an early childcare consultation program. She also

served as the Placement Supervisor and a Therapist for a therapeutic foster care program.

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Randy Farmer Chief Operating Officer Delaware Health Information Network Randy Farmer joined DHIN in September of 2011 as Director of

Provider Relations and Business Development and assumed the role of

Chief Operating Officer in October 2013. Reporting directly to DHIN’s

Chief Executive Officer, Farmer focuses on ensuring the integrated

commercial success of DHIN. As the COO, he drives the overarching

commercial strategy, specifically in the areas of marketing, brand development, product development,

operational integrity, business development and customer service.

Farmer joined DHIN after a decade at JP Morgan Chase in Wilmington, where he managed strategic

partnerships, including all aspects of the co-branded credit card relationships with Sony Electronics,

N.A., Toys ‘R’ Us, Philips Electronics, Borders Books & Music, the American Medical Association, and

several other household brand names. He also served as senior communication and public affairs

manager during his 10 years at Chase.

Before joining Chase, Farmer held positions with Associates National Bank at the Credit Card Operations

Center, where he was the assistant vice president in charge of performance excellence and at Villanova

University where he was the director of student development in the Division of Student Affairs. Farmer

earned a Master of Science in Human Organization Science at Villanova. He also earned a Master of

Education in Higher Education Administration, and a bachelor’s degree in Communication from the

University of Delaware.

Lindsey Ferris

Program Director, HIE Programs

CRISP

Lindsey currently serves as the Program Director of HIE Projects at

CRISP, the health information exchange serving Maryland and DC, and partnered with the West Virginia

HIE. She has been with CRISP for over 7 years and is responsible for overseeing public health, behavioral

health, and Prescription Drug Monitoring Program projects. She holds a Master of Public Health and

recently completed a Doctor of Public Health from Johns Hopkins

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Stefanie Fink Director of Business Operations and Process Security Officer

Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII)

Stefanie Fink is the Director of Business Operations and Process and

Security Officer for NEHII. In her role, she provides the leadership,

management and vision necessary to ensure the company has the proper

operational controls; administrative and reporting procedures; and people systems in place. Stefanie

also plays an integral part in safeguarding and augmenting the efficiency of the company’s operations to

facilitate accelerating development and long-term success.

Prior to joining NEHII, Stefanie served as the Vice President of Client Services at Microsoft where she

played a key role in developing, implementing and evaluating a formal vendor management strategy.

She has also held roles at Archway Marketing Services, Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest and

Farm Credit Services of America.

Stefanie received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, management and operations

from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She also holds a Master of Business Administration from

Creighton University.

Rob Hack President and Chief Executive Officer HealtheConnections Mr. Hack serves as President and CEO of HealtheConnections. He is responsible for the overall administration, general management, business affairs, governance, operations and growth of the organization.

HealtheConnections is one of seven RHIOs recognized in New York State as Qualified Entities (QEs) of the State Health Information Network of NY (SHIN-NY); providing regional governance and support services for health information exchange (HIE) for twenty-six counties in New York state. In addition to HIE services, HealtheConnections also provides population health improvement, sharing best practices and data across counties to improve the region’s health; and value-based care solutions, giving providers and organizations analytics guidance and tailored services. Hack is active in community and New York state initiatives and committees. He serves as a member of the Onondaga County Health Department Advisory Committee. With New York State, he serves as a member of the Advanced Primary Care Statewide Steering Committee which supports the New York state Health Innovation Plan and is chair of the SHIN-NY Business Operations Committee, which provides strategic and operational guidance supporting health information exchange operations and policies. As a community leader, Hack has served on the Regional Leadership Team of the American Heart

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Association Heart Walk, as well as, The American Cancer Society’s Real Men Wear Pink campaign. Prior to joining HealtheConnections, Hack served as a company officer and Chief Information Officer for both Oneida Ltd in Oneida, NY and Marietta Corporation in Cortland, NY.

Denise Hines Executive Director, GaHIN

Chief Americas Officer, HIMSS

Denise Hines, DHA, PMP, FHIMSS is Chief Americas Officer at HIMSS.

She also serves as Executive Director of Georgia’s state designated HIE,

Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN). Dr. Hines is an award-

winning, nationally recognized expert in healthcare technology. Dr.

Hines has more than two decades of healthcare experience in a variety

of settings, including health systems, physician offices, home health,

technology vendors, consulting, state government and revenue

management. In 2011, Dr. Hines founded eHealth Services Group, a health technology consulting firm

focused on leading healthcare delivery transformation through technology. The firm was engaged in

2013 to operate GaHIN, with Dr. Hines providing insight and strategy as the non-profit’s Executive

Director. Before forming eHealth Services Group, Hines was vice president of Government Solutions at

HealthNovation and consulted for both AT&T and the Georgia Department of Community Health’s Office

of Health Information Technology.

Dr. Hines holds her doctorate degree in healthcare administration where she focused her studies on the

use of electronic personal health records and the impact on patient health. She also maintains

certifications in project management, software development, and healthcare law.

Matthew Hoffman, MD, M.S. Chief Medical Informatics Officer, UHIN

Dr. Matthew Hoffman is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO)

at the Utah Health Information Network (UHIN). Based in Salt Lake City,

UHIN operates the cHIE, Utah’s state-designated health information

exchange. Matt earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from

Brigham Young University. Afterward, he worked as a research

coordinator for the Utah Psoriasis Initiative where he co-authored

multiple papers published in National Dermatology Journals. He

earned his Medical Doctorate from the University of Utah in 2010.

While earning his M.D., Matt also completed his Master’s Degree in

Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah. Following his graduation from medical school, Matt

completed a fellowship in Pharmaceutical Informatics with Roche in San Francisco, CA.

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At UHIN, Matt has architected and overseen the implementation of CareAchieve, UHIN’s data analytics

tool. He has also presented nationally on health information exchange, at the Health Information

Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and the eHealth Initiative Annual Conference.

Kate Horle Chief Operation Officer and Privacy Officer

Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) Kate Horle is the Chief Operating Officer and Privacy Officer for the

Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO). Kate

oversees the Outreach, Transformation Support Services and Internal

Operations teams at CORHIO. She has a 25-year, varied business

background with a focus on general business operations,

communications and public policy. Kate is a creative strategic planner and

negotiator and has been responsible for positive financial outcomes in both the private and non-profit

sectors. She is an experienced in team management, research, program development, advocacy,

coalition building and management, public speaking and message development. Kate received her

Master of Public Administration degree in Public Policy and Bachelor’s in Political Science from the

University of Colorado Denver.

David Horrocks Chief Executive Officer

CRISP

David Horrocks serves as President & CEO of CRISP, a Health

Information Exchange based in Columbia, MD. CRISP serves all of

Maryland and the District of Columbia, and West Virginia via contract

with the West Virginia Health Information Network. David has led CRISP since the organization’s

inception, having participated in a collaborative process in 2006 that included a handful of visionary

business and healthcare leaders who agreed to cooperate on health information technology initiatives

that would benefit all Marylanders. This led to CRISP’s incorporation as an independent nonprofit in

2009 and the launch of the statewide health information exchange in 2010.

David is Treasurer of the board for The Sequoia Project, a non-profit which advocates for nationwide

health information exchange and is the parent company to both Carequality and the eHealth Exchange.

He is also on the boards of the West Virginia Health Information Network and of Health Quality

Innovators, a Virginia based QIO. David holds a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania

and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business. He has obtained an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins

Bloomberg School of Public Health where he continues work towards a DrPH.

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Robert Horst

Vice President of Operation Audacious Inquiry

Mr. Horst joined Audacious Inquiry in 2010 and currently leads Security

and Operations for the business. He is a proven healthcare

information technology leader with over 17 years of experience

delivering technology solutions in the healthcare domain. He excels in

client engagements that serve both public and private sector

enterprises and stakeholders, and has served as an instrumental team

member in the launch and subsequent access of the Regional Extension Center program for the State of

Maryland’s Health Information Exchange (a.k.a. “CRISP” or Chesapeake Regional Information System for

our Patients).

Mr. Horst received his MBA from the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, and earned a

Bachelor of Science in Biology at Elon University.

Ryan Howells, M.H.A., PMP

Principal

Leavitt Partners & the CARIN Alliance

Ryan Howells is a Principal at Leavitt Partners. Ryan has worked

with the White House, VA, CMS, CCIIO, ONC, & OCR on health

care issues & is a frequent speaker at major industry events. Ryan

currently helps lead the CARIN Alliance, a multi-sector, public-

private alliance focused on providing consumers digital access to

their health information. Ryan is also a member of CMS’ Medicaid

Information Technology Architecture (MITA) Governance Board

and board observer for a major technology company. Ryan

received his master’s in health administration from USC where he

was a Dean’s Merit Scholar & bachelor’s degree in English from BYU.

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Carmen Hughes

Health IT Division Director of HI-BRIDGE Solutions and

HI-BRIDGE Health Information Exchange

Morehouse School of Medicine

Carmen L. Hughes currently serves at the Health IT Division Director of HI-BRIDGE Solutions (formerly GA-HITEC) and HI-BRIDGE Health Information Exchange at the Morehouse School of Medicine’s National Center for Primary Care in Atlanta, Georgia. Aligning with her experience in healthcare administration, Carmen leads the day to day program

management, strategic direction, and operations of the Division. Under her leadership, over 4000 Georgia healthcare providers have received direct education and support in becoming meaningful users of Electronic Health Records technology in the CMS Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. Carmen also oversees the contract to provide technical assistance to providers in small, underserved, and rural communities for the MACRA Quality Payment Program (QPP). She engages in several other related federal and state-funded programs designed to inform and support clinicians primarily serving in these disparate areas in the advancement of health equity. Carmen’s business acumen and vision have been the driving force behind HI-BRIDGE Solutions’ maturity as a Health IT resource. The program continues to expand in providing education and outreach to clinicians and hospitals in the areas of Promoting Interoperability, the Quality Payment Program, Health Information Exchange, and other practice transformation activities. In 2014, Carmen headed the team that launched Georgia Health Connect (GaHC), now HI-BRIDGE HIE, the first regional health information exchange connected to Georgia’s statewide Health Information Network, GaHIN. Carmen is committed to the mission of eliminating health disparities and creating opportunities for equitable patient care delivery through enhanced clinical practice improvement and technology. Carmen effortlessly builds solid client relationships while leveraging business opportunities and bringing complex and ever-changing pieces together, professionally and personally through her dynamic leadership, professionalism, and vision. Carmen is the founder and former vice president and Strategic Analyst for SatisQuest, a statewide program designed through VHA Georgia to improve patient/family experiences in ambulatory and hospital settings. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a Marketing and Management Concentration from Spelman College, and is currently seeking her Executive Master’s of Business Administration at Kennesaw State University’s Coles College of Business. She continuously pursues specialized certifications such as Promoting Interoperability, QPP, HIPAA, and HIT. Carmen actively demonstrates her dedication to community service and outreach. She is actively involved with several civic organizations that align with her personal mission of communal engagement, serves on the Community Regional Advisory Board and the Hospital Authority Board for WellStar Cobb Hospital, as well as the Advisory Board for Family’s First Healthy Families and Relationships. Carmen is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

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Mark Jacobs Chief Information Officer DHIN

Mark J. Jacobs, MHA, is the first Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the

Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN). Jacobs brings considerable

healthcare and information technology experience to the statewide Health

Information Exchange.

Jacobs has amassed more than 30 years of Health Information Technology with several leading health

systems. Previous roles include Director of Technology for Wellspan Health System, Director of

Technology for Lancaster Health Alliance and Director of Information Technology for Wyoming Valley

Health System. Mark holds a Master’s Degree in Health Administration from Wilkes University and has

attained the status of Certified Professional in Health Information Management Systems (CPHIMS).

John Kansky

CEO, Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE)

John’s prior roles include CIO of the Health and Hospital Corporation of

Marion County (Indiana), Director of Clinical Engineering at the Indiana

University Medical Center, and biomedical engineering researcher at the

University of Washington School of Medicine. He is co-inventor on three

U.S. patents for diagnostic imaging technology. John currently serves on the

Board of Directors of HIMSS North America, has chaired the HIMSS HIE

Committee, and is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the

eHealthExchange.

Brian Kegley, RN Senior Data Analyst

The Health Collaborative

Brian Kegley, RN has a unique skillset and experience that combines

clinical nursing and data analytics. He is a Senior Data Analyst at The

Health Collaborative and part of a team that aggregates claims data

from multiple Health Plans. Mr. Kegley analyzes, interprets, and

provides training regarding the function and practical application of

the multi-payer claims data for process improvement. Using the

Tableau visualization software, he has developed the end-user visualizations for the The Health

Collaborative’s Aggregated Claims Data Tool. The Tool is designed to create easily interpretable and

actionable views of claims-based patient data. As a registered nurse, he utilizes his clinical training and

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experience to interpret and convey relevant data to other healthcare professionals and leads primary

care physician practice education and training efforts around claims data aggregation. He has worked as

a Quality Improvement Nurse for the health insurance industry and was tasked with leading and

directing an interdepartmental team created to increase provider engagement and improve member

care in the Northern Kentucky, Greater Cincinnati, and Dayton, Ohio area. His clinical experience

includes interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, and intensive care.

David Kendrick, MD, MPH, FACP Founder and Chief Executive Officer MyHealth Access Network

Dr. Kendrick is the founding CEO of MyHealth Access Network,

Oklahoma’s non-profit Health Information Exchange, which ensures

that every Oklahoman’s complete health record is securely available

where and when they need it for care and health decision-making. He

has been principle investigator for multiple programs including

Oklahoma’s Beacon Community Award, the Route 66 Accountable

Health Communities Program, as well as the CMMI’s Comprehensive

Primary Care initiative and CPC+ Data Aggregators, and GKFF’s

Community Holistic Integrated Data System (CHILD), connecting the partners in the Birth to Eight

Strategy for Tulsa (BEST) program.

David has been elected chair of the Board of Directors for the National Committee for Quality Assurance

(NCQA) and serves on the boards of the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC);

The Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI), the Advisory Board to the Sequoia Project;

and convening faculty for the Comprehensive Primary Care program (CPC). Dr. Kendrick proposed the

Patient Centered Data Home™ model of nationwide interoperability which enables secure patient

record exchange among states and regions where individuals receive care. Dr. Kendrick has also served

as Senior Counsel for Interoperability to the National Coordinator for Health IT and continues to work

closely with the Office of the National Coordinator and CMS/CMMI as a technical advisor and assistant

to numerous states on the deployment of technology and policy to achieve success in value-based

payment models and population health.

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Ron Kloewer Chief Information Officer

Montgomery County Memorial Hospital

Ron Kloewer, MHA CHCIO CPHIMS is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at

Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Red Oak, IA since February

1992. Ron leads the organization’s health information technology efforts.

He is the administrator of the organization’s provider clinics and is the

director of campus development. Ron has a Bachelor of Science degree in

Management of Information Systems from Bellevue University, and a

Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA), also from Bellevue University. He is a board certified Chief

Information Officer for healthcare (CHCIO), a Certified Professional in Health Information Management

Systems (CPHIMS), a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), and of the

College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME). Mr. Kloewer has executive

responsibility for the development, management, and business effectiveness of all information systems

and related technologies including all ongoing activities that serve to maintain the privacy, security and

integrity of patient, provider, employee, and business information in a complex integrated environment.

He is responsible for providing leadership and accountability for all information technology and related

processes. As an integral member of the executive team, he has administrative leadership of the six

Hospital owned physician clinics and the hospitals support services departments. As Director of Campus

Development, he organizes and leads the effort to turn strategic facility goals into reality.

Lou Larocca President and Chief Executive Officer J2 Interactive Lou LaRocca has over 20 years’ experience as a software

developer, systems designer, and executive with expertise in

business applications, internet content and services, and

technology consulting. As President and CEO of J2 Interactive,

Lou manages the company’s business development, finance, staffing, and operational activities. He was

the lead developer for several key clients in J2’s early years, and still loves to write code whenever he

gets a chance.

Prior to founding J2 in 2001, Lou spent seven years at Kenan Systems Corporation, where he began as a

software developer and IT consultant for clients such as Fidelity Investments, Hewlett-Packard, and the

U.S. Postal Service. He played a key role in the establishment of Kenan’s product division, building and

ultimately directing a business unit responsible for a suite of business intelligence applications for

telecommunications companies.

Soon after Kenan Systems was acquired by Lucent Technologies in 1999, Lou joined JuniorNet

Corporation, where he first worked alongside Mickey Yalon. As CTO and VP of Operations, respectively,

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Lou and Mickey led JuniorNet’s team of multimedia developers, systems engineers, database architects,

and quality assurance staff through three major release cycles of a content-rich and safe online service

for children.

Lou holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science, summa cum laude, from Harvard College.

Mark Lassaux CTO Quality Health Network

Marc joined QHN in 2006. In his role as CTO his responsibilities include

planning for technology infrastructure and architecture, providing

technology vision, enabling innovation, and understanding the health

information technology solutions that create business value. He currently

serves on the Colorado eHealth Commission appointed by Governor

Hickenlooper and is a co-chair for the Colorado State Innovation Model (SIM)

Health Information Technology Workgroup. Marc previously served as a co-chair for the Beacon

Community of Practice for Health Information Technology (HIT) and Meaningful Use under the Office of

the National Coordinator (ONC) for HIT. QHN is using advanced technology to deploy sociotechnical

infrastructure, support new payment models, enable innovative risk stratification/predictive modeling

tools, facilitate community-based data sharing and resource networks, and many others.

Don Lee

Director of Business Development

HealtheConnections

Don is a product and business development strategist, and accomplished

Health IT expert with a 20+ year track record of driving value with

technology. Don began his career as a custom software developer and

eventually built and lead a team of more than 30 engineers. Later, he was

the subject matter expert, product manager and head of sales and marketing

for a digital health startup that launched a SaaS-platform focused on

administrative simplification in healthcare.

Today, Don is Director of Business Development at HealtheConnections. He is responsible for the

identification and creation of value-added services that build on the high-quality, comprehensive

community data available through the Health Information Exchange.

Don is the Executive Producer and Host of The #HCBiz Show!, a podcast dedicated to unraveling the

Business of Healthcare. The podcast features weekly interviews with industry leaders and explores new

ways to align patient, clinician, and business value.

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Don is a partner at VBP Forward, a new conference focused on value-based payment for complex and

special needs populations.

William R. Mac Kenzie, MD RADM USPHS

RADM Mac Kenzie is the Deputy Director for Science in the Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services. CSELS is a cross-cutting center that acts as an interface between CDC programs and state and local health departments, focusing on surveillance, data science, workforce development, laboratory systems, and information dissemination. As a leader in CSELS, Dr. Mac Kenzie oversees the management and improvement of about 40 of CDC’s scientific services. Bill currently is

working with partners to develop of new innovative services for public health surveillance such as electronic case reporting and harmonized data vocabulary standards.

Bill Mac Kenzie has had a distinguished career at CDC and in serving state and local public

health organizations. In 2017, RADM Mac Kenzie served for six months as CDC’s acting

Associate Director of Science. In the 7 years prior to becoming Deputy Director of CSEL, he was

Supervisory Medical Officer and Team Lead in the Clinical Research Branch of the Division of

Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention.

RADM Mac Kenzie’s prior positions at CDC have included being an EIS Officer assigned to the

Wisconsin Division of Health; Supervisory Medical Officer in the Division of Field Services,

Epidemiology Program Office (a forerunner of CSELS); Supervisory Medical Officer in the

Division of Parasitic Diseases; and Quarantine Medical Officer assigned to the Los Angeles

International Airport for the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine.

Dr. Mac Kenzie received his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco and trained in both internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at Stanford University. Bill was an EIS officer (Class of 1991).

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Steve Maggio Senior Project Manager

Bronx Health Access

Steve is a PMP certified IT project manager working in the health care

industry, focusing primarily on Information Technology and Finance.

Through a NYS delivery system reform program (DSRIP), Steve has provided

strategic level support on Health Information Technology (HIT) needs with

regard to Health Information Exchanges, Analytics, and Electronic Medical

Record deployments. He provides strategic level support on Value Based

Payment by analyzing policy, agreements, and modeling various risk

agreements to identify opportunities for provider organizations in their technology deployments. Prior

to his work on DSRIP, Steve worked at the NYC Health and Hospital Corporation as the project manager

for the EPIC EMR Ambulatory application build team. Steve also worked on NY DSRIP’s predecessor,

HEAL (specifically HEAL 10 and 17) with a collaboration of FQHC’s. He also worked as a Medicaid

Researcher for The Pennsylvania State University and in government relations at HIMSS. He holds a

Bachelor of Science with honors in Health Policy and Administration from Pennsylvania State University

with undergraduate and graduate course work in a range of topics including finance, accounting, and

health policy.

Deven McGraw General Counsel & Chief Regulatory Officer Ciitizen Deven McGraw is the General Counsel and Chief Regulatory Officer for

Ciitizen, a consumer health technology start-up. Prior to joining Ciitizen,

she directed U.S. health privacy and security through her roles as

Deputy Director, Health Information Privacy at the HHS Office for Civil

Rights (the office that oversees HIPAA policy development and

enforcement) and Chief Privacy Officer (Acting) of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.

Widely recognized for her expertise in health privacy and security, she directed the Health Privacy

Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology (a nonprofit civil liberties organization) for six years

and led the privacy and security policy work for the HITECH Health IT Policy Committee. She also served

as the Chief Operating Officer of the National Partnership for Women and Families. She has also advised

health industry clients on HIPAA compliance and data governance while a partner at Manatt, Phelps &

Phillips, LLP. Deven graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and has a

Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.

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Carly Medosch

Health IT Lead

CMS Innovation Center

Carly is currently the Health IT Lead for the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus

(CPC+) model and the Primary Care First (PCF) models in the Division of

Advanced Primary Care at the CMS Innovation Center. She was formerly led

outreach and education, and project management for the Blue Button 2.0 FHIR API in the CMS Office of

Enterprise and Data Analytics (OEDA). Carly has 10 years of experience in the private sector and has

served in the federal service for 6 years. She has served as a member of the ONC's consumer eHealth

workgroup, and as a coach for the HHS Ignite program.

Alexandra Mugge Deputy Chief Health Informatics Officer

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Alexandra Mugge is the Deputy Chief Health Informatics Officer at

the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She has been with

CMS since 2010 and during that time she has worked on multiple

CMS quality reporting and value-based purchasing programs, with a

focus on health IT. Before joining the Office of the Administrator in

her current role, Alex served as the Deputy Director of the Division

of Health IT, where she and her team lead the overhaul of the EHR Incentive Programs and advancing

care information performance category to create the Promoting Interoperability initiatives. Alex earned

her Masters of Public Health from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University where she

specialized in Public Health Policy.

Jay Nakashima

Vice President

eHealth Exchange

Over the past 25 years Jay Nakashima has designed EHRs, implemented

EHRs, optimized EHR configuration, optimized clinical workflow, directly led

user-centered design research analysts and usability engineers, and

spearheaded data exchange. Jay has worked for health IT vendors,

providers, payers, and now, for the eHealth Exchange focusing solely on

addressing the challenges of secure, interoperable nationwide health

information exchange. Today, Jay leads the eHealth Exchange, the largest public-private health

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information network in the United States, which celebrated 10 years of exchange in 2019.

Ashley Newmyer, MPH Deputy Director Public Health

Nebraska Division of Public Health

Ashley Newmyer is the Deputy Director of Health Data for the Division of Public

Health at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. Ms.

Newmyer oversees the Vital Records and the Epidemiology and Informatics

sections. She has worked for the Division of Public Health for 8 years, with

training in epidemiology and biostatistics. Her initial role with the division was

to manage the Nebraska trauma registry, subsequently she then transitioned to injury epidemiologist

where she oversaw and enhanced the injury surveillance system. She has managed projects around

health data collection, data quality, data analytics, establishing public health surveillance systems, and

has developed a successful collaboration between the Division of Public Health and the Nebraska Health

Information Initiative.

James Noland Product manager Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN)

James Noland is a Product Manager at the Michigan Health Information

Network Shared Services (MiHIN) where he serves as an expert in patient-

matching solutions, patient to provider attribution, and encounter

notifications/transitions of care messages. Mr. Noland has worked with

participating organizations and the State of Michigan around multiple MiHIN

program activities. Before taking on this role, Mr. Noland served as a both Program and Project Manager

where he managed the implementation of several health information technology (HIT) projects,

including the implementation of MiHIN’s patient matching solution, the Common Key Service.

Mr. Noland has also worked with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) as a

Funding Sources Coordinator. While there, he served as the MDHHS liaison to the Center for Medicaid

and Medicare Services and Food and Nutrition Services. He managed different projects including the

development of nine of the state’s Advanced Planning Documents, helping the State’s Medical Services

Administration secure hundreds of millions of dollars in Federal funding to support Health Information

Exchange. Mr. Noland received his B.S. in Healthcare Administration from the University of Michigan.

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John Novak Senior Director of Architecture, New Jersey Innovation Institute

(NJII), Healthcare Delivery Systems iLab

John is leading the Healthcare Delivery Systems iLab core process and support team that implements appropriate controls to ensure stable and reliable service delivery to a rapidly growing staff and client base. As part of his efforts he established information technology standards and control policies, created technology and infrastructure road maps; and established provisioning and onboarding processes for the organization.

He has also performed numerous IT infrastructure assessments and spearheads multiple projects related to Health IT transformation and innovation including Health Information Exchange, Master Person Index and other value-based initiatives. Prior to his time at NJII, John was the Director of Information Technology and Reporting for Beacon Health Options where he led the establishment, operations of the regional engagement center to support the outsourcing of the behavioral health and substance abuse business for a major health insurer in New Jersey. John also worked for Barnabas Health as a Director of Technology Resources and System Director of Project Management. John holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Project Management Professional (PMP) and is a Six Sigma Black Belt.

Mike O’Neill Chair OSEHRA Mike is the Founder & Chairman of the Board of the Open Source

Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA), a non-profit dedicated to

advancing open source EHR software and related health IT. He serves as

a board member at Prime Photonics, a provider of advanced sensor

technology for aerospace, energy, and industrial markets, and as a

member of the Technology Advisory Board for Henry Schein. Mike is an international speaker and has

appeared on POLITICO’s Outside-In. He is the CEO of MedicaSoft and serves as a mentor to Virginia Tech

engineering students for career advice and patent submissions.

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Dave Page, MD Family Care Medical Group David Page, MD is currently developing an integrated behavioral health

model in the primary care setting and has an active grant application to

develop the program in other primary care settings. He is past medical

director of the Accountable Care Coalition, the first MSSP in central New

York. Prior to this role, Dr. Page was president of Family Care Medical

group for 17 years. The group grew from 16 to 65 physicians in that time,

adopted an EMR in 1999 and developed several innovative programs over

the years to help control health care costs and to keep physicians in a

leadership role as healthcare has evolved. FCMG also started with population management programs

around 2010, giving the group valuable experience for changes we are all working through now. During

this time, he has maintained a full-time medical practice in Family Medicine. Dr. Page is a past president

of the Onondaga County Medical Society and serves as an officer on the executive committee of the

Health Collaborative of Central New York. He is the board chair for the health advisory committee for

the Onondaga County health commissioner. He is the father of 3, lives with his wife of 31 years and

enjoys hiking, skiing, scuba diving, and photography.

Cindy Pan Veteran’s Health Information Exchange Program Manager for Query-Based Exchange Partners and Networks Department of Veterans Affairs

Cindy Pan joined the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) earlier this year as a Veterans Health Information Exchange (VHIE) Program Manager overseeing the VA's query based exchange (VA Exchange) partners and networks. In addition to the internal and external operations of account management for all of VA Exchange, she leads the team in strategic direction for interoperability with VA's Community Care partners. Cindy's background working directly with VA Medical Center end users, Community Care Partners, and Veteran patients uniquely equips her with the broad perspective needed for optimization during expansion and overall vision. After nearly a decade of experience working in Healthcare IT, she brings consultative technical tactics, successful experience in end-to-end implementation, and large scale account management to the VA VHIE Program. Her passion for collaboration and efficiency brings all the best ingredients together for leading the VA's interoperability efforts. Cindy double majored at her alma mater, University of California Los Angeles, where she studied abroad in Hong Kong developing a passion for travel. She currently resides in beautiful San Diego, CA with her significant other and pack of furry and scaly pets.

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Vatsala Pathy Senior Consultant Rootstock Solutions, LLC

Vatsala Pathy brings over two decades of experience in health policy and public health. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Rootstock Solutions LLC, a healthcare consulting firm where she has had numerous clients including the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

Vatsala has served as a Senior Advisor at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and previously, as the SIM Director in the Office of Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper. She was a senior program officer at The Colorado Health Foundation, where she was responsible for grant making and initiative development to support healthcare delivery for low-income populations. Vatsala was a program officer at the CDC Foundation, where she served as a steward and manager of a number of national and international public health projects. She has extensive experience on state health policy research and program implementation with the Office of Colorado Governor Roy Romer, the Georgia Health Policy Center and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado. Vatsala is a recipient of the American Marshall Memorial Fellowship and was selected to participate in the University of Colorado’s Denver Community Leadership Forum. She is presently a trustee of the New Venture Fund, St. Anne’s Episcopal School, the Bell Policy Center, the Children’s Museum of Denver, and World Denver. Previously she has served as a trustee for the Bonfils Blood Center Operating Board, an advisory board member of Playworks, and a member of the Denver Public Schools Bond and Mill Levy Committee. Vatsala received a Master of Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and a Master of Arts degree from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She graduated cum laude with distinction with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and history with a Latin America concentration and a minor in North American Studies from The Colorado College.

Carrie Paykoc Interim Director, Office of eHealth Innovation

State of Colorado, Governor's Office of eHealth Innovation As Colorado’s Interim Director of the Office of eHealth Innovation

(OeHI) and State Health IT Coordinator with the Governor’s Office

of eHealth Innovation, Carrie provides strategic leadership and

coordination for health information technology, health information exchange, and data sharing

statewide and across Colorado’s state health agencies. As the Interim Director of OeHI, Carries leads the

eHealth Commission and implementation of Colorado’s Health IT Roadmap. Prior to this assignment she

led numerous healthcare projects of varying size and complexity, significantly reducing time and costs

associated with implementing and adopting electronic health records (EHR). Carrie has over 15 years of

healthcare experience in both not-for-profit and private organizations- in both clinical and

administrative roles. This includes working as the Executive Director at Global Health Connections, a

local 501C-3, and at Donor Alliance, a local organ and tissue donation procurement organizations-

leading, coordinating and facilitating aseptic surgical recovery. Carrie holds an MBA-Health

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Administration, Masters in Managing Organizations with an emphasis in sustainability, and Bachelor of

Science from the University of Colorado at Denver.

Tim Pletcher, DHA Executive Director Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) Dr. Tim Pletcher is the Executive Director of the Michigan Health

Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN), a public and

private nonprofit collaboration dedicated to improving the

healthcare experience, improving quality and decreasing cost for

Michigan’s people by making valuable data available at the point

of care through statewide health information sharing. Dr. Pletcher

is also an Adjunct Research Investigator of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan

Medical School. In 2000, Tim and the Medical Readiness Trainer Project team members at the health

system received a Smithsonian-Computer World Medal for utilizing virtual reality and computer based

modeling and human patient simulation to reduce medical errors. Tim frequently presents both

regionally and nationally on topics such as Health Informatics and Data Science. He received a Doctorate

in Health Administration and a Master’s Degree from Central Michigan University, and received his

Bachelors of Science from the University of Michigan.

Daniel E. Porreca Executive Director, HEALTHeLINK Daniel E. Porreca is executive director of HEALTHeLINK the clinical

information exchange and HEALTHeNET the administrative data

exchange for Western New York (WNY).

HEALTHeLINK is a collaborative effort among the WNY region’s

leading health care providers and health plans to share clinical

information in efficient and meaningful ways to improve the

delivery of care, enhance clinical outcomes and help control

healthcare costs.

Porreca has been leading HEALTHeLINK since 2007. Under his leadership, HEALTHeLINK has become one

of the leading clinical exchange networks in the United States.

Porreca serves as chair of the board of directors for the Strategic Health Information Exchange

Collaborative (SHIEC) and on the governing board of the Buffalo Translational Consortium for the Buffalo

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Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). Porreca also serves on the New York State

Commissioner of Health’s Transparency, Evaluation, and HIT Workgroup, serves as an advisor to the

board of Stella Technologies and previously served on the board for the New York eHealth Collaborative

(NYeC)

With more than 30 years of experience in the health care and technology industry, Porreca has a wealth

of knowledge and a strategic understanding of healthcare technology and its application in the clinical

setting. Prior to joining HEALTHeLINK, he served as president and chief sales officer for a healthcare

software company which he co-founded that provided software and other technology and support

services.

Porreca is a graduate of the State University of New York at Potsdam where he earned a Bachelor of Arts

degree in Computer Science.

John Rancourt

Director, Interoperability Division, Office of Policy

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information

Technology U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

John Rancourt serves as the Director, Interoperability Division, Office

of Policy, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information

Technology (ONC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Interoperability Division supports health IT policy implementation

through such activities as:

• The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.

• State and Medicaid interoperability efforts.

• Public health, including the opioid emergency.

• Value-based transformation enabled by health IT.

• Consumer engagement and data access.

• Engagement with behavioral health and long-term post-acute care providers.

During his career in health policy, John has worked on Capitol Hill, as a patient advocate, and as a

journalist

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Jeff Reger Chief Technology Officer Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN)

Jeff Reger serves as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN). Jeff joined DHIN in 2017 and is deeply involved in maintaining and improving DHIN’s technology and related policies, processes and procedures. Jeff brought 32 years of information technology experience to DHIN. Just prior to joining DHIN, Jeff spent 18 years with Verizon Business where he managed a large, geographically dispersed software development organization. Jeff has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Eastern Nazarene

College in Quincy, MA and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Colorado Technical University. He also holds multiple ITIL intermediate certifications and is a certified IT Architect using the TOGAF 9 Framework. He has 3 patents for technology related to secure video conferencing and has managed a variety of successful IT organizations and projects in industries including Manufacturing, Warehousing, Energy Delivery, Telecommunications and Healthcare. Since 2017, Jeff has managed DHIN’s Interim HITRUST certification and has helped deliver DHIN’s new FHIR-based Community Health Record system.

Teresa Rivera President and CEO, UHIN Teresa Rivera joined the Utah Health Information Network in 2007, becoming President in 2012 and Chief Executive Officer in 2014. Teresa is responsible for UHIN’s direction and financial viability. She has over 40 years of healthcare experience, including with BlueCross BlueShield of Utah, and HealthCare Insight Her focus is service, employee development and community involvement, which she believes are essential to business success. Teresa holds an MBA with an emphasis in Human and

Organizational Development and a Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, in Management with a minor in Computer Science from Westminster College. She is a current Board member of the Utah HIMSS Chapter (HIE Liaison), the Strategic HIE Collaborative and WEDI; a member of the eHealth Exchange Coordinating Committee; and the chair of the Utah Digital Health Commission.

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Andrew Robie, MD Chief Medical Information Officer Unity Health Care Dr. Robie has been with Unity HealthCare for the previous 11 years and currently serves as its Chief Medical Information Officer. He is also a Family Physician at Unity and previously served as the Medical Director at its Anacostia Health Center Location. Dr. Robie has been invovled in HIE efforts for several years and currently chairs the CRISP DC Clinical Committee and is invovled in several committees related to HIE within District Government.

Lynda Rowe

CEO, InterSystems Corporation

Lynda Rowe has more 20 years’ experience in Health

Information Technology (HIT) strategy, policy and

implementation, including significant experience as a leader

in healthcare consulting to both the private sector and the

federal government. She currently serves as a senior advisor

for value-based markets for Cambridge, Mass.-based

InterSystems Corporation.

Previously, Ms. Rowe was an executive in the health market at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she led a

number of projects for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and the Office of the National

Coordinator (ONC) within Health and Human Services. In this capacity, she provided leadership for quality

measurement, health information technology use and adoption, Health Information Exchange,

interoperability and standards and Meaningful Use projects.

Ms. Rowe holds a BSE from the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in electrical engineering

from the University of Rhode Island and an MBA from Babson College. She currently serves as the

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Family Health Center of Worcester and on several workgroups and

task forces for HIMSS.

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Todd Rowland Chief Medical Informatics Officer HealthLINC Dr. Todd Rowland has 25 years of health care industry experience including

the public and private sector. He brings unique executive experience as a

practicing physician, CEO of health information exchange, chief medical

information officer, enterprise senior vice president CIO, and principal

investigator for federal grants.

His portfolio of work includes engagement with physician, healthcare, and community leaders in the

production of large-scale health IT solutions. The large-scale solutions included both rural and

metropolitan environments.

Todd lead the development of a regional health information exchange in Bloomington, Indiana.

HealthLINC continues to provide 3 major services which support participation in value-based payment

models.

Tony Schueth Chief Executive Officer CEO of Point-of-Care Partners, the Program Management

Organization of the Da Vinci Project

Anthony (Tony) Schueth, MS, is the CEO and Managing Partner of Point-of-

Care Partners (POCP), a health information technology (HIT) strategy and

management consulting firm specializing in the evolving world of electronic

health records and the Program Management Organization for the Da Vinci

Project. A 25-year healthcare veteran, he is an expert in HIT, in general, and one of the nation’s

foremost experts in ePrescribing and eMedication Management. Mr. Schueth has led numerous

transformative industry initiatives, including the highly successful Southeastern Michigan (SEMI)

ePrescribing Initiative. Currently, Mr. Schueth is Editor-in-Chief of the ePrescribing State Law Review and

ePA State Navigator. In addition, he leads the eHealth Initiative’s Electronic Medication Adherence

Collaborative (eMAC) workgroup and is a member of the multi-stakeholder association’s Leadership

Council. His past leadership roles at NCPDP encompassed the Prior Authorization Workflow-to-

Transactions, Specialty Pharmacy ePrescribing, RxNorm and MC Specialty Task Groups. Tony has a

Master of Science in integrated marketing communications from the Medill School of Journalism at

Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Butler University

in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Richard Shonk MD, PhD Chief Medical Officer

The Health Collaborative

Dr. Shonk is a longtime supporter of health transformation in the Greater

Cincinnati region and throughout Ohio. In his current capacity as Chief

Medical Officer for The Health Collaborative (2013-present), Dr. Shonk is

advancing value-based payment reform and is championing new uses for

data to measure quality and cost.

Dr. Shonk coordinates the objectives of payors and providers in the multi-

stakeholder forum that conducts the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus initiative in the Ohio/N. Ky.

Region sponsored by the Center for Medicare/Medicaid Innovation. He also oversees the largest of the

CPC+ regions, guiding 560 practices and 14 payers representing over 3 million lives through the program

milestones designed to reduce the overall cost of care by improving care coordination, patient

engagement and intervention in primary care offices. Dr. Shonk also serves as a liaison between CPC+

and the Ohio CPC SIM project aligning this Medicaid approach with the CPC+ model.

Dr. Shonk leads efforts with the payer community to create a regional data utility made up of claims

data for those patients attributed to the CPC+ project producing practice and provider level reports

across 16 cost and utilization measures and 8 HEDIS measures. Dr. Shonk was in private practice for 10

years and continues to be active clinically. Dr. Shonk is a board-certified physician in Family Medicine

and a Certified Physician Executive with the American College of Physician Executives. He earned

doctorates in Medicine and Pharmacology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Thomas Simmer, MD

Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Dr. Thomas L. Simmer oversees Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan’s medical

policy, professional payment policies and national programs to improve quality,

cost and access to medical services. He’s responsible for reimbursement to more

than 25,000 physicians throughout Michigan. Under his leadership, Blue Cross

introduced physician incentive programs to promote cost-effective ways to

prescribe drugs and to provide consistent care for people with chronic illness. Dr. Simmer also provides

leadership to the Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium. MQIC works with health plan medical

directors across Michigan to create and put evidence-based guidelines into use. In 2010, Crain’s Detroit

Business honored Dr. Simmer with a Healthcare Hero award. It recognized his work promoting health

care transformation in Michigan through the Patient-Centered Medical Home initiative and other

collaborative programs with doctors and hospitals throughout the state.

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Prior to joining Blue Cross, Dr. Simmer served as vice president of Health and Medical Affairs for Health

Alliance Plan. He also served as associate program director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program

at Henry Ford Hospital and was the recipient of several Distinguished Service Awards. Dr. Simmer

graduated from Wayne State University’s School of Medicine and earned his bachelor’s degree from the

University of Michigan. He’s a member of the American Medical Association, Michigan State Medical

Society and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Walkitria Smith

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Director, Morehouse

Health Care Telemedicine Services

Morehouse School of Medicine

Dr. Walkitria Smith is a humanitarian, community health advocate,

and physician who is changing the trajectory of medicine with her

innovative practices and technological advances in the field of

medicine. Dr. Smith is a native of Mobile, Alabama. She received

her degree in Biology from Spelman College and Medical Degree

from Morehouse School of Medicine. She later completed her

residency at Chesterfield Family Practice in Richmond, Virginia. During her time at Chesterfield Family

Practice, she served as a Chief Resident while holding a dual teaching appointment at Virginia

Commonwealth School of Medicine.

Dr. Walkitria Smith has dedicated her life to reducing health disparities through education, primary care,

and preventive medicine. Dr. Smith’s clinical and medical research interests include Women’s Health,

Pediatrics Preventive, and Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Smith strategically focuses on diet, exercise, and living

a holistically healthy lifestyle. She also has a strong interest in chronic disease, particularly empowering

patients to navigate their diagnosis through health education. Dr. Smith has successfully integrated

technology with practicing medicine, she communicates with patients about their food and exercise on a

weekly basis. Dr. Smith serves as the chair of the Clinical Process Improvement Committee for the

Department of Family medicine. As chair, she identifies QI projects, processes, and interventions to

improve patient care and health outcomes. Dr. Smith has served as the chair of the Clinical Competency

Committee, where she help create tools and assessment to evaluate resident milestones. Dr. Smith also

currently serves as the Director of Telemedicine for Morehouse School of Medicine as well as the

Associate Program Director of Residency for the Department of Family Medicine.

Dr. Smith sits on various committee’s at Morehouse School of medicine such as: the research, student

progress, and quality committee. She also serves as chair of the planning committee for Program

Director Retreat. Dr. Smith has developed various Clinical Programs that have been implemented in the

healthcare sector. The programs consist of transition of care, controlled substance prescribing,

childhood obesity group visit, faculty teach and serve, clinical process improvement retreat series,

medicare annual wellness campaign, and maternal child health fair and forum.

Dr. Smith is a distinguished member of the American Board of Family Physicians, the Georgia Academy

of Family Physicians, American Telemedicine Association, Association of Family Medicine Residency

Directors, and Society of Teachers for Family Medicine. Outside of Medicine she continues to give back

to her community by coordinating a Maternal Child Health fair, serving on Think Tank for Pretty Girls

Sweat, Inc., and a contributing writer for the proactive family. Dr. Smith has participated in research,

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quality improvement, contributed to academic journals and grant funding. In addition to her leadership

roles she serves a mentor to high school and college students. Dr. Walkitria Smith is on a quest to impact

the lives of many by assisting patients in achieving a great level of optimal health. Dr. Smith is an

innovative 21st century leader in the field of the medicine who is leaving a mark that will not be erased.

Jude Soundararajan

Executive Director, Health Information Technology

Social Security Administration

Jude Soundararajan is the Executive Director, Health Information

Technology, for the Social Security Administration. Previously, he served as

an Associate Deputy General Counsel and ethics counselor for the Army

Office of the General Counsel where he focused on financial compliance and

ethics. Jude has also served as a policy advisor for the White House Initiative

on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. In addition to his civilian position,

Jude serves as a Major in the Army Reserve Judge Advocate General’s Corps. In his military capacity, he

regularly travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to teach ethics and advise on conflict

mineral issues. Before entering public service, Jude was a Senior Compliance Officer at JPMorgan Chase,

concentrating on banking compliance, internet and technology issues. Jude also advises early stage

technology companies, including 8tracks, a leading streaming audio mobile application. He has also

worked as a database administrator for ABN-AMRO and Grant Thornton with a concentration on Sybase,

Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. Jude’s experience in traditional databases led to his interest in

blockchain, artificial intelligence, and big data. Jude is a Fellow in the Truman National Security Project, a

Board Member of the Filipino Veterans and Recognition and Education Project, and The Unforgotten

Fund, which assists waste pickers in developing countries. He received a B.S. in Biology from the

University of Illinois, and a J.D. from the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Jami Snyder

Director

Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)

Jami Snyder serves as the Director for the Arizona Health Care Cost

Containment System (AHCCCS), providing comprehensive health

care coverage to 1.9 million Arizonans at a cost of $14 billion

annually. Prior to her current role, Ms. Snyder served as the Deputy

Director of AHCCCS and the Medicaid Director for the state of

Texas, a program offering coverage to 4.7 million enrollees at an annual cost of $29 billion. She has over

20 years of public and private sector experience in the health and human services industries. Ms.

Snyder’s areas of expertise include regulatory oversight, policymaking and leadership development,

stemming from her tenure in Texas as well as her prior service at AHCCCS, the Arizona Department of

Health Services and the University of Arizona Health Plans, where she functioned as the managed care

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organization’s Chief Operating Officer. Ms. Snyder holds a master’s degree in political science from

Arizona State University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Gustavus Adolphus College.

Nita K. Thingalaya, MD, BCMAS , ABOM

Director, Medical Affairs

Independence Blue Cross

Dr. Nita Thingalaya is the Co-Chair for the Payor Coverage Decision Exchange -

Da Vinci Project.

Da Vinci Project, a private-sector initiative, founded by health plans, care

providers and vendor organizations to accelerate the adoption of FHIR to

support and integrate value-based care data exchange across communities.

Dr. Thingalaya is board certified in internal medicine, medical affairs, and obesity medicine. She, is a

thought leader in the field of interoperability and cognitive healthcare and has independently authored

articles in Medical Economics and Doximity. She is a Doximity Fellow for the year 2019-2020.

Dr. Thingalaya is a Medical Director in Independence Blue Cross. In her current role, Dr. Thingalaya is the

subject matter expert for vendor liaison for sleep medicine and cardiology for commercial and Medicare

line of business. She serves on committees including P&T, injectables, and medical cost transformation.

She brings in extensive experience working with providers, pharmacy benefit managers, and CMS

initiatives for process improvements. She is a finalist for the Know Your Value 2019 Program at

Independence Blue Cross.

Dr. Thingalaya, is a member of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and

American College of Physicians ( ACP ) and continues to practice medicine as an internist .Dr. Thingalaya

is passionate about” Real World Medicine “ and "Reducing Provider Burden."

Kelly Hoover Thompson CEO, Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC)

As SHIEC CEO, Kelly Hoover Thompson is responsible for working collaboratively with SHIEC’s members and board of directors to develop and actively advance an organizational strategy that ensures SHIEC’s success. Her goal is to elevate the awareness, stature, and perception of HIEs on the national healthcare landscape. Before joining SHIEC, Thompson was Deputy Secretary at the Pennsylvania Department of Health. While there, she created a new long-term care partnership in care delivery and oversight.

Under her leadership, the eHealth Partnership achieved statewide connectivity, offering electronic health

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information exchange in every county of the Commonwealth. She also co-founded and led the Commonwealth’s Privacy and Security Practice Group.

Prior to this, Thompson was a senior advocate of policy and regulatory matters for the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania. In that role, she advised providers on health policy, regulatory and legislative matters. She established the Annual Organ & Tissue Donation Hospital Campaign and was a primary drafter of the Commonwealth’s deemed status legislation, aimed at ensuring timely standards for health care facility oversight.

Thompson serves on the board of the YWCA of Greater Harrisburg. She holds an appointment to the Lower Swatara Township Civil Service Commission.

Renee Towne Director of Quality Programs KPI Ninja

Renee Towne is the Director of Quality Programs at KPI Ninja and earned her Master of Occupational Therapy and Doctor of Education degrees from the College of Saint Mary. Renee has experience driving performance excellence across a variety of healthcare domains through people and process improvement methodologies. Prior to joining the KPI team, she worked with as a consultant

leading clinical transformation projects across the state of Nebraska.

Mark Vafiades Senior Advisor

National Coordinator for Health IT

Mark Vafiades serves as a Senior Advisor to the National Coordinator for Health

IT, having transitioned from within HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for

Health and the U.S. Surgeon General. Mr. Vafiades leads ONC’s outreach to health

information exchanges (HIEs) and community health organizations.

Prior to HHS, Mr. Vafiades was an electronic health records (EHR) site implementation manager for Kaiser Permanente in Southern California. There he led the conversion from paper charts to electronic records in his service area, later becoming the service area EHR site leader once the implementation was complete.

Before joining Kaiser Permanente, Mr. Vafiades served as a national lead training project manager for IBM. He also spent five years managing two state agencies for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

While living in Southern California, Mr. Vafiades worked as a reserve patrol deputy/first responder for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for twenty years. That experience gave him a unique understanding of the ground-level challenges facing the public health system.

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John Valutkevich Interoperability Program Director The Drummond Group John Valutkevich, MA is the Interoperability Program Director at Drummond. He is responsible for overseeing the strategic planning and launch of the Healthcare Interoperability Hub and other grant initiatives that are currently being developed as part of an ONC Cooperative Agreement. John has over 25 years of experience in healthcare IT with a particular focus on interoperability, strategy and product management. Prior to joining Drummond, he was an independent

consultant contractor within the healthcare division of the Berkeley Research Group, spent two years as a Senior Product Manager with Commvault and held various managerial and technical roles during a 20+ year span at MEDITECH. Since 2009 John has been instructing Information Technology and Management classes at Endicott College as an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate and Continuing Education program.

Gijs Van Oort, PhD

Advisor Healthcare Access San Antonio (HASA)

Gijs van Oort retired from the CEO position at HASA in December 2018

and is currently advising the company for SDOH implementation. He

currently teaches at the Texas A&M College of Business and assists

health care providers with various projects. He led HASA from a start-

up concept to a $2M annual revenue business. He actively engaged

with the creation of the State plan for HIE in 2010. His previous work

includes business development for the NutraSweet Company, the

development and implementation of analytics platforms for a TPA, and

the design-development and operations of Hospital based wellness

centers. He has taught at Temple University, Central Florida State, Erasmus University, and TAMU.

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Ryan Van Wert, MD Chief Executive Officer

Vynca

Dr. Ryan Van Wert is a co-founder and CEO of Vynca. In addition to his

role at Vynca, Dr. Van Wert is a part-time Clinical Assistant Professor at

Stanford University, where he maintains a small clinical practice. Prior to

Vynca, Dr. Van Wert co-founded AWAIR, Inc., a medical device company

focused on reducing complications for critically ill patients, which was

acquired by Cook Medical Technologies in 2015. He is frequently invited

to speak about his passion for improving care delivery at the end of life

and the process of value-driven healthcare innovation. He is a named

inventor on multiple issued and pending health technology patents.

Dr. Van Wert graduated with the University Medal in chemical engineering from Queen’s University,

Canada. He completed medical school internal medicine residency at the University of Toronto, and his

post-doctoral training at Stanford University in Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine and Biodesign.

He holds three board certifications from the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a fellow of the

Royal College of Physicians of Canada.

Seema Verma

Administator

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

President Trump nominated Seema Verma to be the Administrator for the

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on November 29, 2016,

and she was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 13, 2017. As

Administrator of CMS, she oversees one of the largest federal agencies

that administers vital healthcare programs to over 100 million

Americans. Before becoming CMS Administrator, she was the President,

CEO and founder of SVC, Inc., a national health policy consulting company. For over 20 years, Ms. Verma

has worked extensively on a variety of policy and strategic projects involving Medicaid, insurance, and

public health, working with Governor's offices, State Medicaid agencies, State Health Departments,

State Departments of Insurance, as well as the federal government, private companies and foundations.

Ms. Verma has extensive experience redesigning Medicaid programs in several states. Ms. Verma is the

architect the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP), the Nation's first consumer-directed Medicaid program under

Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana and Governor Pence’s HIP 2.0 waiver proposal. Ms. Verma has

supported Indiana through development of the historic program since its inception in 2007, from

development of the enabling legislation, negotiating the financing plan with the State’s hospital

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association, developing the federal waiver, supporting federal negotiations and leading the

implementation of the program, including the operational design.

Ms. Verma received her Master’s degree in Public Health with concentration in health policy and

management from Johns Hopkins University and her Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences from the

University of Maryland.

Lin Wan

Co-Founder and CTO, Stella Technology

Lin Wan is the Co-Founder and CTO at Stella Technology. A seasoned

executive with nearly 20 years of experience in healthcare software

development, Dr. Wan has a track record of successfully leading the design

and development of a variety of healthcare solutions. Recently, she has

spent a lot of her time trying to address the challenge of data quality, as

well as working on next generation technologies, including analytics and

blockchain. As Director of Engineering at Axolotl, Dr. Wan led the

development of Axolotl's Elysium product suite, including its HIE platform,

Clinical Messaging®, EMR, order entry, eRx, public health reporting and analytics applications. In her

position as Director of Product Strategy at OptumInsight, a UnitedHealth Group company, she played a

key role in designing Optum's next generation healthcare cloud platform.

Dr. Wan is an expert on healthcare interoperability and has been a key contributor to specifications

pioneered by federal and state interoperability initiatives, including the NHIN (now known as eHealth

Exchange), Direct, ONC S&I Framework, and the EHR|HIE Interoperability Workgroup (IWG). She helped

develop the specifications for and architect the NY Statewide HIE infrastructure (the SHIN-NY), and was

the Chief Architect who led the development of the Interoperability Testing Tool (ITT) used as part of the

ConCert by HIMSS™ program.

Dr. Wan has co-authored several papers on healthcare technologies, including “A Mobile Application

Accessing Patients’ Health Records Through a Rest API” and “Health Information Exchange Network

Interoperability Through IHE Transactions Orchestration”. She has a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton

University.

Lauren Ward

Leavitt Partners

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Claudia Williams Chief Executive Officer

Manifest Medex

Claudia Williams is the Chief Executive Officer of Manifest

MedEx, bringing over 20 years’ experience catalyzing and

scaling change and innovation in healthcare. She was

previously Senior Advisor for Health Technology and

Innovation at the White House where she helped lead

President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative and

collaborated with private and public partners that are leveraging HITECH, new payment models and

open data to remake the digital landscape in health care. Before joining the White House, Williams was

Director of Health Information Exchange at HHS, galvanizing national progress on health information

sharing between providers, with patients, and for research. Prior to joining HHS, she was Director of

Health Policy and Public Affairs at the Markle Foundation, where she led Connecting for Health, a 100

member public-private collaborative of technology, provider, consumer and health plan leaders working

to improve health and health care through health IT. She holds an MS in Health Policy and Management

from the Harvard School of Public Health and a BA from Duke University. She served as a Peace Corps

volunteer in Botswana.

Vineeth Yeddula Senior Analytics Consultant

Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII)

Vineeth Yeddula is the Senior Consultant for Analytics at NeHII. In this role, Mr.

Yeddula is overseeing the build and acceleration of analytics infrastructure to

support several Quality Improvement initiatives. Mr. Yeddula brings in extensive

experience working with regional provider networks, large health systems,

critical access hospitals, and independent practices to improve patient

outcomes and overall performance. Mr. Yeddula is also an entrepreneur with a

passion for technology. He is a co-founder of a healthcare technology and

consulting company, KPI Ninja. Prior to joining NeHII, Mr. Yeddula served as the Chief Analytics Officer for

Enhance Health Network. In this role, Mr. Yeddula lead the development of network-wide business and

clinical informatics and analytics capabilities. Mr. Yeddula holds a Masters in Industrial and Management

Systems Engineering from University of Nebraska, Lincoln and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical

Engineering. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP); a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

(CLSSMBB); a Certified Manager in Quality / Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE); a Certified Quality

Engineer (CQE); and he is a member of American Society for Quality (ASQ).

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S. Arnold Zimmerman (“Van”), Esq.

Executive Director, New Jersey Health Information Network

Compliance and Security Officer, New Jersey Innovation Institute

Van Zimmerman has nearly two decades experience in healthcare

information technology and compliance. Van began his career with

Atlantic Health System in New Jersey in 1997, ultimately becoming Chief

Privacy Officer, Director, Internal Audit, Compliance Counsel, and

Research Integrity Officer. In 2011, he also became the Privacy & Security

Officer of Jersey Health Connect, a Health Information Exchange that

Atlantic helped found. In 2012 he left Atlantic and focused his efforts on Jersey Health Connect, which

ultimately became one of the largest private HIEs in the United States. In April 2017, he became the

Executive Director of Jersey Health Connect. In September 2018, Van answered the call from the New

Jersey Innovation Institute to become the Executive Director for the New Jersey Health Information

Network. He has since become NJII’s Compliance Officer and Security Officer as well. A native of the

Panama Canal Zone, Van graduated from Lafayette College in 1990 with a Bachelors’ degree in

Economics and from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1995 with a Juris Doctor and Masters’ of

Business. Van is a member of (ISC)2 from which he received his CISSP in 2004. He does not maintain a

private practice but is a licensed attorney in New Jersey.