June 17, 2009 · 7:45 am–noon
Ronald Reagan Building
Atrium Ballroom
· Washington, D.C.
Lynn Harold Vogel, Ph. D., FHIMSS, FCHIME
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Associate Professor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Lynn Vogel, Ph.D., is Vice President and Chief Information Officer and Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (UT-MDACC), and Adjunct Professor of Management at The University of Texas School of Public Health, both in Houston. UT-MDACC is a $3B+ clinical, research and teaching institution that is the world's largest and consistently one of the highest rated facilities devoted to the care and cure of cancer. He serves as the senior IT executive managing a 700+ person IT division, and is leading the in-house development of UT-MDACC's Electronic Medical Record (EMR). He also serves as a faculty member for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) CIO Boot Camp experience.
In 2007, he was named as one of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders, and was awarded one of ten "Best in Class" designations for his work in bridging clinical care and research through information technology (IT).
Mark Blatt M.D.
Director for Healthcare Industry Solutions, Intel
Dr. Blatt joined Intel in the summer of 2000 working in the New Business Group. He is currently the Director for Healthcare Industry Solutions, in the Digital Health Group. In this role he is concentrating on how Personal Health IT systems might assist with care delivery outside the hospital. Dr. Blatt is working with care delivery systems in many countries, including the UK, China, Mexico, Australia and the USA to enable cost effective, sustainable systems that will allow Clinicians to provide "virtual care" to patients in settings as diverse as rural remote clinics or the patient's home.
Previously, from 2005-2006, he was the Director for Global Healthcare Strategies in the Digital Health Group. During this time he helped design Intel's Payor and Pharma strategy as well as worked with the team that brought Intel's Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) computing platform to market. Dr. Blatt received the Intel Achievement Award (Intel's highest honor) in 2007 for the MCA design. Prior to this, Dr. Blatt served for 3 years as the Manager for Worldwide Healthcare Strategies, in the Sales and Marketing Group. During this time he played a key role in formulating Intel's Integrated Digital Hospital vision. This vision has gained significant momentum and mindshare with Intel's healthcare customers, fellow travelers, and industry thought leaders worldwide.
He has also worked on a variety of health related Internet business efforts including an early platform in 2001 to deliver home-based medical care. Prior to joining Intel he was the managing partner of a five-provider group of family practitioners. He practiced family medicine for 15 years before returning to Yale University to earn his MBA (2000) in finance. Dr. Blatt earned his Medical Doctorate at Albany Medical College of Union University (1979). He completed a residency in Family Practice at the University of Connecticut (1982). He then served two years as a Commissioned Officer in the US Public Health Service before starting private practice. He is a member of the IEEE Medical Technology Policy Committee, the American Telemedicine Association, on the Board of the Center for Improving Medication Management, a Life-time member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and a diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice.
Elliot Sloane, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Accounting and Information Systems
Villanova University
Dr. Elliot Sloane has spent nearly 35 years in a dual career spanning IT and medical devices to improve healthcare, and is an advisor to US federal agencies and to the World Health Organization. His first 15 years were at ECRI Institute, and, as vice president of laboratory operations he was responsible for medical device evaluations, accident investigations and ECRI's IT design and development. After leaving ECRI, he was vice president for MEDIQ/PRN for 10 years, where he was responsible for the service, support, regulatory compliance, and quality assurance programs of their nationwide medical device and pharmaceuticals distribution and manufacturing facilities and all related services. Dr. Sloane then spent nine years as an MIS faculty member at Villanova University's School of Business, doing research and teaching of IS management, database management, eCommerce, healthcare information systems, service oriented architectures, system of systems engineering, verification and validation, telecommunications, and business ethics topics.
Today, Dr. Sloane leads the non-profit Center for Healthcare Information Research and Policy outside of Philadelphia, and its ShareMIX Health Information Exchange project. The Center's focus is assuring the next-generation of health IT products and services are truly patient-centric. Areas of the Center's research, education, and services cover three issues: enhancing EMR/EHR/PHR products to support patient's needs and choices, ensuring the privacy, confidentiality and security of PHRs, and eliminating medical errors and the patient health consequences and litigation those errors cause.
A past president of the American College of Clinical Engineering and a Senior Member of the IEEE, Dr. Sloane has also become a very active HIMSS member in areas of medical devices, interoperability standards, and privacy and security. He has presented at every HIMSS Annual Conference since 2001, several of the HIMSS national summer conferences, and repeatedly at HIMSS regional conferences in the Atlanta, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Portland, OR areas. Since 2005 Dr. Sloane has co-chaired the IHE International program on behalf of HIMSS. In 2007, he was ratified by the HIMSS Board to join their HIMSS Privacy and Security Steering Committee, and in 2008 he was appointed to chair that group. Since 2007, as the IHE delegate, Dr. Sloane has been repeatedly been elected by the full community of national healthcare-related standards organizations as one of their four Board members in the US ANSI HITSP project that is creating the security and privacy and data architecture standards for the US Nationwide Healthcare Information Network on behalf of HHS.
Fred Mills
Global Healthcare Director, Netapp
Fred currently heads up the Global Healthcare Program for NetApp. He has been in the technology industry for over 28 years with a specific focus within the Healthcare Clinical IT segment. Fred has worked closely with hospitals, CPO's, and the leading clinical application providers such as GE Healthcare, Agfa, FujiMedical, Siemens Medical, and Cerner around the delivery of data management solutions to the healthcare provider market.
Prior to joining NetApp, Fred was a senior director at Hitachi Data Systems where he was responsible for developing the global healthcare vertical. His expertise is in the area of sales, marketing, and business development having experience in both the domestic and international markets.
Fred grew up in the Boston area attending Boston College and later executive studies at Duke University. He resides in Raleigh, NC.
Axel Wirth, MS
National Healthcare Solutions Architect, Symantec Corporation
As Healthcare Solutions Architect at Symantec Corporation, Axel Wirth is responsible for defining and promoting solutions to help hospitals and providers meet their growing IT challenges.
Drawing from over 25 years of international experience in the healthcare provider space, Mr.Wirth is spearheading Symantec's launch of healthcare solutions for security, legal e-discovery, regulatory compliance and storage management. He is an active participant in industry organizations and a frequent speaker at forums and webcasts on subjects including complianc e automation, infrastructure optimization, and other topics.
Mr. Wirth has an extensive background in the healthcare IT and medical imaging industries and has held strategic and product marketing roles within Siemens Medical Systems, Analogic Corp., Mitra Inc. and Agfa Healthcare. His education includes a BS Engineering degree (EE) from the Fachhochschule Düsseldorf and an MS Engineering Management degree (MSEM) from The Gordon Institute of Tufts University.
Prem Jadhwani
Senior Solutions Architect, GTSI
Prem Jadhwani is a Senior Solutions Architect in the Enterprise Solutions Group at GTSI. His primary responsibilities include defining the solutions, capabilities, standard operating procedures, and "go-to-market" strategy for solutions involving networking, security, and emerging technologies.
Mr. Jadhwani has 12 years of experience working in the enterprise IT space with both commercial and Federal customers. He has a strong blend of technology and marketing experience and worked with a number of technology and software firms, including Motorola, TIBCO Software, See Beyond Technology Corporation (acquired by SUN Microsystems), and Infogix Systems Inc. prior to joining GTSI in 2004.
Mr. Jadhwani has well-rounded and extensive product management experience and has a proven track record of successfully taking solutions from concept to launch. He provides technical and business expertise in enterprise networking, information assurance, unified communications, wireless, and IPv6 transition solutions to GTSI customers and is a prominent speaker at various tradeshows and industry conferences. He also teaches various graduate classes in computer science as an Adjunct Faculty at reputable universities in Virginia.
Mr. Jadhwani has earned a MS degree in computer science and MBA degree in Marketing & Strategy from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and completed his graduate work towards a Ph.D. degree in Information Security at George Mason University in Virginia. He holds a number of professional certifications including CISSP, CSSLP, CISM and GSLC.
Todd Leto
Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, GTSI
Todd Leto is Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing and is responsible for all groups that contribute to a positive end-to-end customer experience. In addition to sales and marketing, he leads GTSI's customer supply chain which includes customer service, order fulfillment, purchasing and the distribution center. He reports directly to Scott Friedlander, GTSI's President and Chief Operating Officer.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Leto was Senior Vice President of GTSI's global sales organization where he managed a sales and supporting technical organization of about 280 professionals strategically positioned around the world. With the addition of marketing and the supply chain functions, Mr. Leto's organization is comprised of about half of all GTSI's employees.
He began his tenure at GTSI in 2002, joining the Company as Vice President of the Integrator Solutions Group (ISG), which he created that same year and grew rapidly. As the head of ISG, a sales division focused on growing the Company's integrator business and expanding sales of GTSI's managed service offerings, ISG grew to represent 20% of GTSI's overall business.
Mr. Leto has nearly two decades of public sector sales experience. Before GTSI, he was Director of Sales, State, Local and higher education, for Peregrine Systems where he managed a nationwide sales organization. Prior to Peregrine, he was the director of worldwide, public sector sales for Access360 which was acquired by IBM. Additionally, he spent seven years at Oracle Corporation in positions of ascending responsibility culminating with Regional Sales Manager where he was responsible for one-third of Oracle's federal practice.
Mr. Leto holds a BS from the University of Maryland, College Park and has completed the post graduate executive program at the Darden Business School of the University of Virginia.
