Ken R. Ong, MPH, MD, FACP, FHIMSS

CMIO
New York Hospital Queens

Dr. Kenneth Ong is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer of New York Hospital Queens, a member of the New York-Presbyterian Health System, where his responsibilities include The Meaningful Use initiative for the medical center for both inpatient and outpatient, clinical informatics governance, alert management, and other clinical EHR functionality. Dr. Ong also leads the core informatics work group, which includes nursing, pharmacy, ED, and radiology. Dr. Ong's past projects include developing and implementing an acute care EMR with CPOE; clinical decision support for the ambulatory and acute care EMR; a hospital pharmacy system; web-based results review; telehealth for heart failure, and mobile physician charge capture. Dr. Ong is a member of the Hospital Association of New York State's Health Information Strategy Group, the Greater New York Hospital Association Health I.T. Steering Committee, a past president of the New York State chapter of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS); past president and board member of Medical Informatics New York; and, a reviewer for the Informatics Review and the International Journal of Medical Informatics. Dr. Ong edited the textbook on health information technology, Medical Informatics: an Executive Primer, winner of the 2007 HIMSS Book of the Year Award; the second edition was published in 2011. At the Mailman School, his medical informatics seminar was among the top rated in 2005. Dr. Ong is a former deputy commissioner in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Liora Alschuler

Chief Executive Officer
Lantana Consulting Group

Liora Alschuler is a developer of XML-based standards for the exchange of electronic healthcare information and serves as a consultant in their application. In 1997, she led the design of the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), the first XML-based exchange specification for healthcare. She also helped launch the Health Story Project, which is developing implementation guidance for the integration of millions of clinical documents into the electronic health record.

Carina Edwards

Vice President, Healthcare Solutions Marketing
Nuance Communications

Carina Edwards is responsible for Nuance Healthcare’s marketing strategy and has direct line of authority for managing the solutions marketing efforts of the individual lines of business including HIM, Diagnostics and Dragon Medical. Prior to joining Nuance, Carina was the Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Zynx Health, where she transformed marketing and product management capabilities to achieve the organization’s growth goals. Carina has also held global marketing, product management, and business development leadership roles at Phillips Healthcare, Sapient, and Impact Innovations Group.

David McKanna

Healthcare Industry Marketing Manager, Imaging Division
Nuance Communications, Inc.

David McKanna is responsible for driving the Nuance Imaging division’s business in the healthcare industry. He has over 15 years industry experience in sales and marketing with companies such as Dialogic, OpenText, and Misys Healthcare Systems.

David holds an MBA from Boston College and a bachelor’s degree from Babson College, while also earning a certificate in Healthcare Informatics.

Patricia B. Wise, RN, MS, MA COL (USA ret'd)

Vice President, Health Information Systems
HIMSS

Patricia B. Wise is Vice President of HIMSS, the largest U.S. cause-based, not-for-profit healthcare association focused on the optimal use of information technology and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.

At HIMSS, Wise is responsible for directing initiatives that drive the quality, efficiency, effectiveness and safety of patient care through various tools and resources. Specifically, she oversees committees and task forces including Ambulatory Information Systems, Enterprise Information Systems, Personal Health Record Information Systems, Financial Information Systems, Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes, Health Information Exchange, Electronic Health Record Association and the Davies Award Program. Wise works closely with the HIMSS Physician Community and Plug In! She joined HIMSS in 2002 as the Director of HIMSS EHR Initiatives and member of the HIMSS Industry Affairs Department and was promoted to her current position in 2005. Before joining HIMSS, Wise was the Executive Director of Computer-based Patient Record Institute and Healthcare Open Systems and Trials (CPRI-HOST), a consortium of businesses and industries that promoted electronic medical records prior to merging with HIMSS.

Michael H. Zaroukian, MD, PhD, FACP

Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer
Michigan State University

Dr. Zaroukian is Professor of Medicine and Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at Michigan State University (MSU). Dr. Zaroukian is responsible for leading the advancement of MSU’s electronic health record (EHR) system capabilities, EHR-related research, and community EHR outreach. He also serves Sparrow Health System as EHR Project Medical Director and Director of Clinical Informatics & Care Transformation. He also served as principal investigator for a tri-county Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) planning grant in mid-Michigan.

Dr. Zaroukian directed MSU’s enterprise-wide EHR implementation project and is past president of a large, national EHR user group. He has conducted numerous regional, national and international presentations and workshops on the use of EHR systems to improve access to and use of health information in patient care, health professions education and healthcare administration. He served as director of the MSU Internal Medicine Residency Program, councilor of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM), and as a member of the informatics group at the 2002 Institute of Medicine Health Professions Education Summit. Dr. Zaroukian is a member of the American College of Physicians Medical Informatics Subcommittee, the AMA Health Information Technology Advisory Group, and the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) Enterprise Information Systems Steering Committee.

Brian Jacobs, MD, FHIMSS

VP & CMIO, Executive Director, Center for Pediatric Informatics
Children's National Medical Center

Brian R. Jacobs, MD, MS, FHIMSS, is vice president and chief medical information officer and professor of pediatrics at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Dr. Jacobs also serves as executive director at the Children’s IQ Network® in Washington, DC; the executive director at the Center for Pediatric Informatics; and an attending physician in the Pediatric ICU in Washington, DC. A HIMSS member since 2002, he has been actively involved in committees around clinical informatics and the Nicholas E. Davies Awards of Excellence. “In this time of fundamental and necessary healthcare change, HIMSS and its 35,000 members are well positioned to lead reform efforts through health IT and EHR initiatives,” said Dr. Jacobs

Carol Steltenkamp, MD, MBA, FHIMSS

Chief Medical Information Officer
University of Kentucky Healthcare

Carol Steltenkamp, MD, MBA, FAAP, FHIMSS, is the chief medical information officer at University of Kentucky HealthCare in Lexington. Previously, she served as the University of Kentucky’s medical director for clinical information systems. Dr. Steltenkamp, a HIMSS Member since 1999, has been active in HIMSS’ Physician Community and served on the Annual HIMSS Conference Education Committee and PHR Steering Committee. She is also active in the HIMSS Kentucky Bluegrass Chapter.

Paul Kleeberg, MD, FAAFP, FHIMSS

Clinical Director
REACH

Paul Kleeberg, MD, is the President of The Itinerant CMIO, LLC, a small consulting firm dedicated to assisting small hospitals and clinics become meaningful users of electronic health records. He is currently the Clinical Director of REACH, the health information technology regional extension center for Minnesota and North Dakota funded by the recovery act and is a member of the Office of the National Coordinator of HIT's Meaningful Use Community of Practice Steering Team. Dr. Kleeberg has over 17 years experience working as a family physician and in information technology. As a physician, he has been in private practice with a group that provided comprehensive ambulatory, emergency and hospital care in a small Minnesota town with a population of 10,000. Later, he practiced outpatient medicine in a large multi-specialty health system in the Twin Cities Metro. As an information technologist, Dr. Kleeberg has played a key role in the implementation of several patient portal, ambulatory and hospital electronic health records produced by Epic, McKesson, Centricity and Eclipsys. One of the implementations won the HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence in 2007. He has experience in the EHR selection process, physician engagement, build, work flow redesign, clinical content management, clinical decision support and overall EHR governance. Dr. Kleeberg has presented at local and national conferences on using the EHR to support optimal care and on understanding the details of the EHR incentive program funded by the recovery act.