Speakers: 2016 Beverly Hills Health IT Summit

Charles Aunger, Managing Director, Technology, Health2047

Charles Aunger is a Managing Director at Health2047 and leads technology. He has a comprehensive understanding of digital transformation of the healthcare IT market and deep experience in cloud and enterprise technology market strategy. He previously served as senior executive director of IT at Stanford Health Care, supporting over 15,000 employees, enabling pivotal partnerships, and ensuring digital alignment for patient-user interactions. Previously, Charles was a senior vice president at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, where he led the strategic planning and tactical execution efforts around cost balancing, business model development and technical operations optimization. Additionally, Charles has served in executive roles at major technology-driven organizations including Mubadala, Accenture, Citrix, NHS, Numonyx, and Bupa. He is recognized for his achievement and contribution to the IT profession and is a British Computer Society Fellow. Charles received his MSc in Information Systems Management from University of Liverpool.

Robert Bart, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Health

Dr. Rob Bart attended medical school at the University of Hawaii, followed by pediatric residency and critical care fellowship at Duke University Medical Center. After two years at Washington University in St. Louis he moved to Los Angeles. In LA he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California (USC) and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). While attending in the ICUs at CHLA, he became enamored with healthcare information technology. This interest led Rob to split his time between CHLA and Cerner, as a Chief Medical Officer, from 2007 – 2012. Although he continues on the faculty at USC and CHLA, in late 2012 he joined the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) as their first Chief Medical Information Officer. In March, 2016 the implementation of an integrated enterprise EHR was completed across DHS. The next step in evolution is implementing a solution to manage care at the population level.

Sri Bharadwaj MS, FCGMA, CPHIMS, CISSP, CLSSBB, PMP, Director, Information Services, UC Irvine Health

Sriram Bharadwaj (Sri) is Director, Information Systems and Security, University of California, Irvine, Healthcare (UCI Health) and has over 25 years of Information Management Systems experience in multiple industries including healthcare. Sri has held many leadership positions in health plans and prior to his current work at UCI Sri consulted with Integrated Delivery Network (IDNs) around ACO, HIE and population health management. Sri has expertise in Applications Development, Enterprise-wide IT Infrastructure and Operations. Sri is well known for his process knowledge delivering performance improvements in multiple industries during his long tenure with Deloitte in various parts of the Americas, Asia Pacific and EMEA region.

Sri is a CPHIMS, PMP, CISSP, Chartered Global Management Accountant (FCGMA)(U.K), Professional, Academy of Healthcare Management (PAHM), and a Six Sigma Black Belt (ASQ). Sri is past committee member for the CIO Healthcare Summits and has delivered many presentations on Healthcare regulations and compliance at various conferences. Sri is the Past Chair, Privacy and Security Committee, National HIMSS. Sri has been on the Southern California HIMSS Board for many years and also is involved with the HIMSS Interoperability and Standards Workgroup, Patient Engagement Workgroup providing thought leadership and opinion on various matters around population health management, patient engagement, interoperability, healthcare legislation, privacy and security.

Lauren Cheung, MD, MBA, Medical Director, Strategic Innovations, Stanford Medicine

Dr. Lauren Cheung attended medical school at the University of California Irvine where she received her MD-MBA followed by an internal medicine residency at Stanford Medicine. She now serves as the Senior Director of Strategy and Operations at Stanford’s Center for Digital Health as well as the Assistant Medical Director of ClickWell Care at Stanford Medicine. In her various roles at Stanford, she has helped with the design and implementation of Stanford’s telemedicine strategy including the design and implementation of ClickWell Care, a first-of-its-kind comprehensive virtual primary care clinic. In addition to her work on telemedicine, she assists with the evaluation and integration of new technologies into the health system and is highly interested in the design of new care models and intersection of healthcare and IT.

Robert (Rim) Cothren, PhD, Executive Director, California Association of Health Information Exchanges, (CAHIE)

Dr. Cothren is a leader in developing policies, processes, and technologies that promote widespread, secure sharing of health information to deliver coordinated care and improve community health. As Executive Director for the California Association of Health Information Exchanges, Dr. Cothren leads California’s stakeholders in realizing secure statewide interoperability. As CTO for the National Association for Trusted Exchange, he promotes sharing of electronic health information among organizations with different regulatory requirements, including between providers and their patients. As a consultant, Dr. Cothren aids federal and state government and private organizations in advancing their health IT systems through implementation of governance, processes, and technologies. Dr. Cothren led the implementation of California’s statewide HIE strategy under HITECH, and has over 20 years of experience in health technology, over 15 years in systems integration, and over 10 years in health information sharing. Dr. Cothren currently teaches health informatics as part of the University of California Davis Extension program.

Jake Dorst, Chief Information and Innovation Officer, Tahoe Forest Hospital District

Jake Dorst is currently serving as the Chief Information and Innovation Officer at Tahoe Forest Health District located in Truckee, California. Jake received his undergraduate degree form Christopher Newport University and his MBA from Saint Leo University. He has been working in the Healthcare Information Technology field for more than 17 years. Jake has worked held leadership roles in large corporate, non-profit, rural, and critical access sectors. Jake is currently responsible for ensuring that the information systems and services employed at Tahoe Forest Health District support the organization's mission and strategy of creating a healthier community that is actively involved in their personal health. Jake is meeting these goals by providing the necessary tools to providers in order to deliver the best care for patients at the bedside, in the office, and in the community.

Scott Ellner, DO, MPH, MHCM, FACS, President and Chief Executive Officer, Centura Health Physician Group (CHPG)

Scott Ellner, DO, MPH, MHCM, FACS is the group operating president and chief executive officer for Centura Health Physician Group (CHPG). CHPG is an employed, multi-specialty group with over 900 providers and 3,000 associates, which is part of the Centura Health system of 18 hospitals within Colorado and western Kansas.

Dr. Ellner trained in general surgery at UC San Diego and was an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine for 10 years, where his research focused on surgical quality and patient safety. He has created a patient safety curriculum used by the University of Connecticut medical school and is a faculty member of the American College of Surgeon, Leading Surgical Quality Program. Dr. Ellner speaks nationally and internationally on surgical quality, value-based health care delivery and physician leadership and has several peer-reviewed publications and book chapters on these subjects.

With a degree in Health Care Management from the T. H. Chan Harvard School of Pubic Health, Dr. Ellner’s emphasis has been on change management, conflict resolution, value-based reimbursement models and competitive strategy for large, employed physician groups. He is a recipient of the Roger Schenke Award from the American Association for Physician Leadership and the Founder of the Connecticut Surgical Quality Collaborative.

Gary A. Gooden, Chief Information Security Officer & Dir IT CPM (Center for Personalized Medicine), Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Gary Gooden is currently the Chief Information Security Officer for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). He reports into the Chief Information Officer for CHLA

In his current role Gary has been driving the IT Security Strategy and executing against a roadmap that was created by him in an effort to modernize the Information security footprint within the hospital environment. This is been done in close coordination with other IT departments within the hospital environment.

Gary who joined CHLA on March 10^th of 2014 previously held the role of IT Director, Technology Project Delivery. In that role he worked with the technology teams to accelerate the implementation of in house infrastructure solutions in close coordination with CHLA’s PMO office.

Prior to joining CHLA, Gary spent the last 23yrs at Amgen, Mattel and The Walt Disney Company in several IT executive leadership roles within Information Systems Infrastructure and Application Development and delivery. Most recently, Gary managed all demand and infrastructure capacity (physical and resource) planning activities while being responsible for the Global IT Infrastructure portfolio.

Richard Greenberg, CISSP, Information Security Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

Richard brings over 25 years of management experience and has been a strategic and thought leader in IT and Information Security for both the private and public sectors. His Project Management, Security Operations, and Policy and Compliance experience has helped shape his broad perspective on creating and implementing Information Security Programs in organizations.

Richard is actively involved in the Information Security community, serving on the Boards of the Los Angeles Chapters of both ISSA and OWASP. He is also a member of the ISSA CISO Executive Program, where he collaborates with other Information Security Officers from around the country.

Richard recently was awarded Senior Member standing in ISSA by the Fellow Selection Committee. He also served on the ISSA International Conference - Attendee Development Committee and the CISO Forum - Planning Committee.

Richard currently serves on the OWASP Global Conference Committee, and co-chaired the highly successful OWASP Global AppSec USA 2010 Conference. He is a member of the IANS Pacific Security Forum Steering Committee and the CISO Executive Summit Governing Body in Southern California.

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.

Mike Hogarth, MD, FACP, FACMI, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Davis Health System

Dr. Hogarth is board certified in Internal Medicine and is clinical attending faculty on the Internal Medicine in-patient service at UC Davis Health System. He currently also serves as an informatics and data quality lead for the UC Davis Health System healthcare analytics team. He is also Vice Chair for Informatics in the Dept. of Pathology where he manages a pathology informatics team supporting a number of grant and contract funded activities. Dr. Hogarth has been the informatics lead for a number of large-scale initiatives. These include California Electronic Death Registration System (California EDRS), the Athena Breast Health Network project (http://www.athenacarenetwork.org), the novel I-SPY2 adaptive breast cancer clinical trial, and the pSCANNER clinical data research network (CDRN). He is also the UC Davis principal investigator for the California Precision Medicine Consortium (CaPMC), which was recently awarded a grant to recruit patients into the NIH funded national precision medicine registry. In 2015 he was elected to the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). He is also a founding volunteer advisor for Health Technology Forum (http://healthtechnologyforum.com), an organization promoting the development of innovative technologies to transform healthcare and improve access to affordable care. By 2106, there were 10,000 HTF participants across 16 chapters around the world.

Chris W. Joerg, CISSP, CISA, CISM, Chief Information Security Officer, Cedars-Sinai Health Systems

Chris Joerg is the Chief Information Security Officer for Cedars-Sinai Health System. Joerg has worked for two decades as an information security industry expert with a record of developing, running and improving information security strategy, organizations and infrastructure. Most recently, he worked at UNISYS, a global information technology company, where he was responsible for global information security.

Joerg also held leadership positions at ISS - IBM, CompuCom Systems and Caesar's Entertainment Corporation. He holds a master's degree in management from Texas A&M.

Len Kleinman, MD, MPH,Clinical Professor of Health Sciences, UCLA, Medical Director, VA Greater Los Angeles Telehealth Program, Medical Director, VA Desert Pacific Network Telecare Program

Len Kleinman, MD, MPH, is Clinical Professor of Health Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and serves as a physician in the General Internal Medicine Division at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. He is currently also the Medical Director of the VA Greater Los Angeles Telehealth Program, as well as the Medical Director of the VA Desert Pacific Network Telecare Program.

During his career, he has work as a consultant for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the Medical Board of California, the School of Information Systems and Technology at Claremont Graduate University, and the University Of New Mexico School Of Medicine. His areas of expertise include primary care, health information technology, quality management, and mid-level health practitioners.

He received his MD from the Keck School of Medicine at USC and his MPH from the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. He is a Graduate of the Family Medicine Residency at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center.

Dr. Kleinman is appearing as a private individual, and his opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the US Department of Veterans Affairs or UCLA.

Dan Kurywchak, Chief Technology Officer, California Telehealth Network

Mr. Kurywchak is the Chief Technology Officer for the CA Telehealth Network (CTN). He has developed hundreds of Telemedicine programs worldwide including; the Brazilian Amazon, China, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, South Africa, South Korea, and the United States. He has trained over 800 clinicians and holds two patents in the field of Telemedicine. Prior to CTN, he worked for the University of CA, Davis for over 17 years. He held the positions of Director of Telemedicine Technology and the Director of the Telemedicine Learning Center. Dan later joined the Intel Corporation as a Senior Engineer and was responsible for Telemedicine operations worldwide. Dan is also the founder and CEO of Telemedicine.com, inc.

Michael Ong, MD, Medical Director, Strategic Innovation, Stanford Medicine

Michael K. Ong, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California, and a staff physician at the Greater Los Angeles VA Health Care System where he is the research leader for its section of hospital medicine. His research interests focus on improving the delivery of appropriate and efficient health care by general internal medicine physicians. His research has applied this focus in several areas of general medicine, including health system-based care, mental health, and tobacco control. Dr. Ong is the Director for UCLA Connected Health, which oversees all telemedicine, telehealth, and mHealth activities for the UCLA Health System.

Glenn E. Pearson, FACHE, Founder and Principal, Pearson Health Tech Insights, LLC (PHTI)

Glenn E. Pearson, FACHE is founder and Principal of Pearson Health Tech Insights, LLC (PHTI). PHTI assists both product developers in their design phases and investors in their due diligence processes determine if a product or service is likely to be embraced by its target market. PHTI also helps emerging and established healthcare products companies fine-tune their marketing approaches to see if there are opportunities to enhance their effectiveness.

Glenn has over 30 years of experience in the hospital field. He served for 19+ years as Executive Vice President at Georgia Hospital Association in Marietta, Georgia where he provided leadership in the following areas:

Financial Services (Medicare, Medicaid, commercial payers, etc.)
mHealth/Digital Health and Emerging Technologies
Georgia Hospital Health Systems, Inc. (For-profit entrepreneurial subsidiary)
Public Relations and Communications
Data Services
GHA’s Information Technology infrastructure

Chuck Podesta, Chief Information Officer, UC Irvine Health

Over thirty (30) years experience in Information Technology for Healthcare, the last eighteen years as a Chief Information Office. Podesta has worked for Academic Medical Centers, Health Systems and Community Hospitals. He is currently the CIO for University of California Irvine Health. Previous to this engagement Podesta was SVP & CIO of Fletcher Allen Healthcare, a large academic medical center and health system in Burlington, VT.

Other positions included SVP & CIO at Caritas Christi Health Care, now Steward Health in eastern MA, CIO at Berkshire Health Systems, Pittsfield, MA, Director of IS and Interim CIO for Baystate Health Systems in Springfield, MA. And prior to that, leadership positions at St Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA; UMASS/Memorial, Worcester, MA and Magee-Women’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.

Over the years Podesta has made numerous presentations at national conferences and is quoted widely in healthcare publications on a variety of IT topics including Epic’s Community Connect Program

Mark W. Stevens, Principal, ARRAHealth Consulting, Inc.

Since 2010, Mr. Stevens has lead the health IT consulting firm he co-founded, ARRAHealth. During that time, Mark Stevens also served as a Vice President at Best Practice Partners (BPP), a leader in healthcare training, process re-design and IT optimization solutions serving providers, payers, HIEs and ACOs, where he focuses on strategic partnerships and executive search in health data analytics. Mr. Stevens also served as President and COO of BPP’s accountable care subsidiary, EnableHealth, which he co-founded in 2013. Prior to joining BPP, Mr. Stevens was Vice President of Digital Collaboration Solutions, a health It professional services firm; Senior Director for eHealth Innovation at World Congress, a leader in healthcare conference management; and Executive Director of the Pennsylvania eHealth Initiative (PAeHI), a not-for-profit organization founded in 2005 by Pennsylvania’s leading healthcare stakeholders to promote broader adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchange (HIE).

Mr. Stevens currently serves as President-Elect on the board of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Central Pennsylvania Chapter, which he co-founded. Mr. Stevens is a past recipient of the Spirit of HIMSS award, and in January of 2016 was named Contributing Editor for Health IT Leaders & News. Mr. Stevens is also an active member of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and serves on its Innovation Conference Committee board. His prior professional experience includes a decade each in public sector management and executive search. Mr. Stevens is active in his community, and serves on the Board of Directors of both the historic Charles A. Melton Arts and Education Center and the Brandywine Valley Business Council.

Mr. Stevens is a graduate of the University of Vermont, and attended graduate school at the University of Massachusetts and Boston University for public affairs and business administration, respectively. Mr. Stevens lives with his wife, son and two daughters in West Chester, PA.

David Tibi, Program Manager, NIC Partners, Inc.

Mr. Tibi oversees the planning and management of healthcare and education technology programs for NIC Partner, Inc. He is the co-founder of the NIC Partners, Inc. Technology Adoption Services practice, working with clients to convert their past, present and future technology investments into successful roadmaps of strategic outcomes relative to their Key Performance Indicators. He leverages systems-level thinking to transform people, processes and technologies into successful workflows that accomplish the strategic business goals of our clients.

Mr. Tibi has more than 20 years of experience leading technology initiatives that transform capabilities and solve problems specializing in: strategic planning, portfolio management, diagnostic analysis and project management.

Mr. Tibi serves the urban community in Orange County as a volunteer tutor-mentor for the Santa Ana High School wrestling team.

Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, Cedars-Sinai Health System

Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, is senior vice president and chief clinical transformation officer at Cedars-Sinai. He is a Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Health System and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Board certified in internal medicine and a fellow of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Weingarten has published approximately 100 articles and editorials on healthcare quality improvement, clinical decision support, and related topics, and has authored numerous chapters on improving the quality of patient care in some of the leading internal medicine textbooks. He has given more than 300 presentations on clinical decision support and related topics throughout the United States and internationally.

Dr. Weingarten has held positions on myriad national committees dedicated to improving patient outcomes, including those of the Institute for Medical Quality, the American Heart Association’s "Get With The Guidelines" program, and the quality improvement committee of the board of directors of St. Joseph's Health System. He is currently a Board of Director for the Scottsdale Institute. At Cedars-Sinai, he has been awarded both the President’s Award and the Golden Apple Teaching Award, and was Alumnus of the Year for 2009.
Dr. Weingarten was the co-founder, president and chief executive officer of Zynx Health, which is the leader for order sets and care plans for electronic health records. Scott sold Zynx Health to the Cerner Corporation and later to the Hearst Corporation. Zynx Health is one of the Hearst Corporation’s larger companies. He is a co-inventor of three software patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

After graduating from UCLA’s medical school, Dr. Weingarten completed his internship, residency and fellowship in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai. He later participated in a National Center for Health Services Research Fellowship at the RAND/UCLA Center for Health Policy Study. During the fellowship, he also earned a master’s of Public Health degree at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Weingarten has also worked as a primary care physician at Kaiser Permanente and was awarded partnership status at Southern California Permanente Medical Group.

Edward You, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, Biological Countermeasures Unit

Mr. You is responsible for creating programs and activities to coordinate and improve FBI and interagency efforts to identify, assess, and respond to biological threats or incidents. These efforts include expanding FBI outreach to the Life Sciences community to address biosecurity. Before being promoted to the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, Mr. You was a member of the FBI Los Angeles Field Office Joint Terrorism Task Force and served on the FBI Hazardous Evidence Response Team.

Mr. You has also been directly involved in policy-making efforts with a focus on biosecurity. He served as a Working Group member for the National Security Council Interagency Policy Committee on Countering Biological Threats and is a current Ex Officio member of the NIH National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. He also serves on two National Academies committees, the Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Microbial Threats and the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law’s Forum on Synthetic Biology.

Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. You worked for six years in graduate research focusing on retrovirology and human gene therapy at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine. He subsequently worked for three years at the biotechnology firm AMGEN Inc. in cancer research.

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Mark Hagland, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Informatics

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