Michael Barr, MD, Executive Vice President, Quality Measurement and Research Group, National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, MACP is a board-certified internist and executive vice president for the Quality Measurement & Research Group at NCQA. His portfolio at NCQA includes performance measurement development; research; managing NCQA’s contracts and grants portfolio; and contributing to strategic initiatives, public policy and educational programs. Prior to joining NCQA in 2014, Barr was senior vice president, Division of Medical Practice for the American College of Physicians, where he was responsible for promoting patient-centered care through development of programs, services and quality improvement initiatives for internists and other health care professionals.
From 1999–2005, Barr was chief medical officer for Baltimore Medical System, Inc., a Joint Commission accredited Federally-Qualified Health Center. He practiced internal medicine full time in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University from 1993–1998 and held various administrative positions, including physician director, Medical Management Programs, for the Vanderbilt Medical Group. From 1989–1993, Barr was an active duty physician in the United States Air Force at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. Barr has a BS in forest biology from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He attended New York University School of Medicine through the U.S. Air Force Health Professions Scholarship Program, completed his residency in internal medicine at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago and earned an MBA from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. Barr was a commissioner on the Maryland Health Care Commission (2013–2015), previously served on the Health Information Technology Policy Committee Meaningful Use Workgroup (2010–2012) and is currently on the Board of Trustees of The Horizon Foundation of Howard County.
Mark Hagland, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Informatics
Mark Hagland has been Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Informatics (www.healthcare-informatics.com) since January 2010. Prior to that, he was Contributing Editor and then Senior Contributing Editor to the magazine, for over ten years. He has spent a quarter century in the health care publishing field, as a writer, editor, public speaker, and author. He has won numerous national and regional journalism awards, and is the author of two books on healthcare quality and efficiency: Paradox and Imperatives in Health Care (2008, with Jeffrey C. Bauer, Ph.D.) and Transformative Quality: The Emerging Revolution in Health Care Performance (2009). He holds a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Michael Hogarth, MD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center
Michael Hogarth received a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering in 1985 from Texas A&M University. In 1991, he received a Doctor of Medicine from University of Texas, Southwestern (Dallas, TX). After completing residency training in Internal Medicine at the UC Davis Medical Center in 1995, he entered a Medical Informatics fellowship in the UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He completed the fellowship in 1997 and joined the faculty of the UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine where he currently serves as an Associate Professor. Currently, Michael Hogarth is a member of the Masters of Public Health faculty, the Medical Informatics graduate program faculty, and the UC Davis Computer Science graduate group. He also attends on the Internal Medicine wards and serves in the Department of Pathology as a member of the Pathology Informatics faculty. He is the principal investigator for the California Electronic Death Registration System (CA-EDRS; http://www.edrs.us), the largest and most active electronic death certificate system in the U.S. Michael Hogarth is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Health Level 7 (HL-7), the National Association of Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS), and the California Regional Health Information Organization (CalRHIO).
Geoffrey N. Swanson, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Propel Health
Dr. Swanson is the Chief Medical Officer of Propel Health, an innovative collaborative founded by seven of Oregon’s important health systems and an insurer. Previously, he was the president of St. Luke’s Clinic Coordinated Care where his primary responsibilities include the development and operation of the St. Luke’s clinically integrated delivery network and the clinical integration initiatives necessary to deliver high value care.
Dr. Swanson brings 18 years of clinical practice as a board certified family medicine physician and a unique perspective blending an understanding of hands-on care delivery, a comprehensive understanding of medical evidence, and an in-depth view of the insurance process of benefits, actuarial support, and data analysis.
Keith Brown, Senior Director of Client Engagements, WhiteCloud Analytics
Keith has extensive marketing and business development experience at both software start-ups and larger companies, including Print Inc, Onyx Software, ProjectGuides.com, and Hewlett-Packard Company. Prior to joining WhiteCloud, while at HP, Keith helped develop personalization technology for call centers and web-based support applications. In a previous HP project, he developed a system to automate ER documentation. This technology used a digital pen to record medical records in real time. Keith holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from DeVry Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Montana. He is originally from Montana but has resided in Idaho for the majority of the last 20 years. Keith is passionate about customer advocacy and the unique culture at WhiteCloud. He rides his bike to work every day, and loves all manner of outdoor activities.
Jim Whitfill, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Innovation Care Partners
Dr. Whitfill is currently the Chief Medical Officer for Innovation Care Partners (formerly Scottsdale Health Partners), a Clinical Integrated Network in Phoenix Arizona. Dr. Whitfill received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and his Medical Degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He did his Residency and Chief Residency in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and completed a fellowship in Medical Informatics in the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine. His focus has been on the use of business intelligence for clinical and operational improvement within healthcare organizations; leadership and team development; and workflow-focused information technology. He currently serves as a Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. He frequently lectures on the intersection of population health and information technology. He previously held and currently holds advisory board responsibilities at GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, IDX, KLAS and Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine. In recent years, he has transitioned his focus to include population health.
