Denise Anderson has over 25 years of management level experience in the private sector. Denise is President of the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC), a non-profit organization that is dedicated to protecting the health sector from physical and cyber attacks and incidents through dissemination of trusted and timely information.

Denise currently serves as Chair of the National Council of ISACs and participates in a number of industry groups such the Cross-Sector Cyber Security Working Group (CSCSWG). She was instrumental in implementing a CI/KR industry initiative to establish a private sector liaison seat at the National Infrastructure Coordinating Center (NICC) to enhance information sharing between the private sector, CI/KR community and the federal government and serves as one of the liaisons. She is a financial and health sector representative to the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) — a Department of Homeland Security-led coordinated watch and warning center that improves national efforts to address threats and incidents affecting the nation's critical information technology and cyber infrastructure. She sits on the Cyber Unified Coordination Group, (UCG) - a public/private advisory group that comes together to provide guidance during a significant cyber event – where she also represents the financial and health sectors.

Denise is certified as an EMT (B), Firefighter I/II and Instructor I/II in the state of Virginia, and is an Adjunct Instructor at the Fire and Rescue Academy in Fairfax County, Virginia. She is also certified under the National Incident Management System (NIMS). In addition, she has served on the Board and as Officer and President of an international credit association, and has spoken at events all over the globe.

Denise holds a BA in English, magna cum laude, from Loyola Marymount University and an MBA in International Business from American University. She is a graduate of the Executive Leaders Program at the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.

Rena Brewer, RN, MA, CEO of Global Partnership for Telehealth, Inc., has 11 years experience in building telemedicine networks across the southeast. Global Partnership for Telehealth, Inc. (GPT), a charitable nonprofit corporation is the umbrella organization for Georgia Partnership for Telehealth, Alabama Partnership for Telehealth, and Florida Partnership for Telehealth which are nonprofits dedicated to promoting improvements in healthcare by assisting in the establishment of telehealth programs. As GPT has expanded operations; international opportunities with mission organizations have developed resulting in the 2013 formation of GPT Missions. GPT Missions is partnering with various mission groups to implement telehealth services in orphanages, clinics, and hospitals in Guatemala, Afghanistan, Macedonia, and Honduras.

Prior to her current position she served as the Director of the Southeastern TeleHealth Resource Center (SETRC), one of 14 federally funded regional & national resource centers providing support & guidance to those wishing to implement telehealth services in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. SETRC is a HRSA grant awarded to GPT in 2010, 2013, and again in 2016. Rena directed the development & launch in 2011 of SETRC’s workforce training program, the National School of Applied Telehealth (NSAT). NSAT’s accredited, on line courses are offered through HomeTown Health University and 1400+ national and international students have received training. www.nsat.us (http://www.nsat.us)

Mark Hagland, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Informatics