As Chairman and CEO, Dr. Soley is responsible for the vision and direction of the world's largest consortium of its type. Dr. Soley joined the nascent OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's world-leading standardization process and the original CORBA® specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling, leading first to the Unified Modeling Language (UML®) and later the Model Driven Architecture (MDA®).

Previously, Dr. Soley was a cofounder and former Chairman/CEO of A. I. Architects, Inc., maker of the 386 HummingBoard and other PC and workstation hardware and software. Prior to that, he consulted for various technology companies and venture firms on matters pertaining to software investment opportunities.

Dr. Soley has also consulted for IBM, Motorola, PictureTel, Texas Instruments, Gold Hill Computer and others. He began his professional life at Honeywell Computer Systems working on the Multics operating system.

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Dr. Soley holds the bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

James Peake, M.D., was nominated by President George W. Bush to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs on October 30, 2007. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on December 14, 2007, and served from December 2007 through January 2009.

Dr. Peake was the principal advocate for veterans in the U.S. government and directed the nation's second largest cabinet department, responsible for a nationwide system of healthcare services, benefits programs, and national cemeteries for America's veterans and dependents. During his tenure, VA employed more than 280,000 people at hundreds of medical centers, nursing homes, benefits offices, and national cemeteries throughout the country. One of Dr. Peake's major responsibilities and accomplishments was the assembly of VA's budget for fiscal year 2009, considered the most representative budget to support veterans' needs since the early 1950's.

Dr. Peake is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and the American College of Cardiology. He has been honored with the Order of Military Merit; the "A" Professional Designator; and the Medallion, Surgeon General of the United States.

Wes Rishel is a vice-president and distinguished analyst in Gartner's healthcare provider research practice. He covers electronic medical records, interoperability, health information exchanges, the nationwide health information network and the underlying technologies of healthcare IT, including application integration and standards.

Rishel is a commissioner of the CCHIT, a past chair of HL7 and has served on the boards of WEDI and HIMSS. He was the primary author of the Gartner report summarizing the NHIN Prototype Architecture contracts of the NHIN.

Steve Wretling
Executive Director, Kaiser Permanente Enterprise Architecture, Applications and Integration Architecture

Stephen Wretling is an information technology professional who has led the architecture, design and development of numerous large-scale enterprise systems using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). He has much experience in highly scalable, distributed application architecture and development including the areas of Telecommunications and Healthcare. Most recently, he has directed the development of the SOA Strategy and Enterprise Architecture for Kaiser Permanente. Mr. Wretling's experience includes a seat on the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) Technical Advisory Panel helping to direct the state's approach on Health Information Exchange.

Ken Rubin is the Chief Healthcare Architect, responsible for EDS, an HP Company's Civilian Government & DoD Healthcare Portfolio. Ken provides direction of strategy in the areas of health informatics and enterprise architecture. Ken is an active member of the standards community, holding positions as co-chair of the Object Management Group Healthcare Domain Task Force, the Health Level Seven (HL7) Service-Oriented Architecture Special Interest Group and the Healthcare Service Specification Project.

Ken Lunn, Ph.D.
Director of Data Standards and Products, Technology Office, NHS
Ken Lunn is Director of Data Standards and Products for the NHS Technology Office. He is responsible for a broad range of standards, including HL7 message specifications for the NHS Spine, the UK edition of SNOMED CT, and the NHS Data Dictionary. He is a member of the HL7 Board and the IHTSDO Technical Committee. Ken has a Ph.D. in Distributed Computing, and he has held senior roles in academic and leading industrial organisations before joining the NHS.

Dr. Wendell Ocasio is a board-certified surgeon with extensive experience as an enterprise architect in complex settings. He leads Agilex Technologies healthcare sector strategy as its Chief Medical Officer and manages an integrated team of consultants, clinicians and architects supporting a number of major healthcare programs. He served as the Lead Architect of the contract support team for the U.S. Military Health System's Chief Enterprise Architect, where he implemented the Integrated Requirements-Design methodology. He serves as a member of the HL7 Architecture Review Board. As a prior Air Force Medical officer, he was the Chief Architect for the DoD worldwide longitudinal electronic health record program. Since leaving the military, he served as the lead architect for one of the initial NHIN architecture prototypes.

Dr. Ocasio completed his surgery residency at the NYU Medical Center. He earned his M.D. at the Harvard - MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, where he specialized in advanced technology and research.

Moderator:

Dipak Kalra, MD, PhD
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics, University College London

Panelists:    

Richard Mark Soley, PhD
Executive Director, SOA Consortium, Chairman & CEO, Object Management Group
As Chairman and CEO, Dr. Soley is responsible for the vision and direction of the world's largest consortium of its type. Dr. Soley joined the nascent OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's world-leading standardization process and the original CORBA® specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling, leading first to the Unified Modeling Language (UML®) and later the Model Driven Architecture (MDA®).

Previously, Dr. Soley was a cofounder and former Chairman/CEO of A. I. Architects, Inc., maker of the 386 HummingBoard and other PC and workstation hardware and software. Prior to that, he consulted for various technology companies and venture firms on matters pertaining to software investment opportunities.

Dr. Soley has also consulted for IBM, Motorola, PictureTel, Texas Instruments, Gold Hill Computer and others. He began his professional life at Honeywell Computer Systems working on the Multics operating system.

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Dr. Soley holds the bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Steve Flammini
Chief Technology Officer, Partners Health Care

The Honorable James B. Peake, M.D.
Lieutenant General, USA (Ret)
James Peake, M.D., was nominated by President George W. Bush to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs on October 30, 2007. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on December 14, 2007, and served from December 2007 through January 2009.

Dr. Peake was the principal advocate for veterans in the U.S. government and directed the nation's second largest cabinet department, responsible for a nationwide system of healthcare services, benefits programs, and national cemeteries for America's veterans and dependents. During his tenure, VA employed more than 280,000 people at hundreds of medical centers, nursing homes, benefits offices, and national cemeteries throughout the country. One of Dr. Peake's major responsibilities and accomplishments was the assembly of VA's budget for fiscal year 2009, considered the most representative budget to support veterans' needs since the early 1950's.

Dr. Peake is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and the American College of Cardiology. He has been honored with the Order of Military Merit; the "A" Professional Designator; and the Medallion, Surgeon General of the United States.

Theresa Ann Cullen, M.D., M.S., is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director of The Office of Information Technology for the Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services as well as a practicing family physician. As CIO, Dr.Cullen oversees a diverse range of agency functions in health information systems planning, development, and management. She has overseen the successful development, implementation and deployment of multiple health information technology applications, including clinical quality reporting, population health management and bidirectional data sharing. These applications are part of RPMS, the health information system for Indian Health Service. The Clinical Reporting System won the HIMSS Davies Award for Public Health in 2005 and 2008. Prior to her current position, she served the IHS as the OIT Senior Medical Informatics Consultant from 1999-2006.

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).

Randy Carroll 
Wintergreen Technologies
Randy Carroll, Wintergreen Technologies, Continua Technical Working Group, Open Health Tools. Recognized Continua Health Alliance key contributor. Co-author, "Continua: An Interoperable Personal Healthcare Ecosystem".

Charles currently is responsible for managing Information technology for both clinical and research for the University of Texas MDAnderson Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Department. Charles is also responsible for managing Information technology for both clinical and research for the University of Texas MDAnderson Clinical Research Information Department. Major focus is on the integration of clinical and research data for the optimization of productivity and translational research. Charles formally was the Technical Director of Informatics for the University of Colorado Cancer Center and Director of Informatics for Bone Marrow Transplant, University of Colorado. Charles has over 20 year of IT and Informatics experience. Charles has worked at the national level in the development of strategies for electronic data transfer from University Hospitals to the National Institute of Health, National Cancer Institute and Cancer Center groups such as Southwest Oncology Group and other medical institutions.

Dr. Smith is a Senior Member of IEEE (Computer Society). He has been on program committees and steering committees of international conferences has organized a number of international conferences and workshops. He holds an M.A. and PhD from Princeton University, and a B.A. from Columbia University.

Grace Lewis
Lead, System-of-System Engineering, Software-Intensive Systems Initiative
Grace Lewis is a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Lewis has 20 years of professional software development experience, mainly in industry. Her main areas of expertise include service-oriented architecture (SOA), legacy system migration, COTS-based systems and systems integration.

Grace is the lead for the System of Systems Engineering team within the Integration of Software-Intensive Systems (ISIS) initiative. Current projects of this team are

• Guidelines for Engineering Systems of Systems
• Migration of Legacy Systems to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Environments using SMART
• Technology Evaluation using T-Checks
• Testing and Compliance in SOA Environments
• Identity Management in SOA Environments
• SOA Governance

Grace is also the lead for the establishment and evolution of "A Research Agenda for Service-Oriented Architecture". Lewis has teaching experience at the graduate and undergraduate level. She is currently a member of the technical faculty and a mentor for the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon University.

Robert Lario is the Founder and Principal for visumpoint, an Atlanta-based enterprise architecture strategy group. With more than 25 years of experience helping Fortune 100 companies position their IT strategy to support their overall business strategy, he has repeatedly demonstrated his ability to plan, develop and deploy cutting edge solutions to address business needs. His domestic and international experience spans a range of industries including transportation, healthcare, banking, defense, and telecommunications. This experience affords him a level of insight and understanding into business, technology, and the complex problems facing today's enterprise.

Robert serves on the Board of Directors for the Object Management Group (OMG). He is on the submission team and co-author of the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM) and Joint Records Management System (JRMS). Robert has contributed to or supported numerous standards development initiatives including SOA Modeling Language (SoaML), Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM), Business Process Management (BPM), and Unified Modeling Language (UML). He was a contributing author to the OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB) examination. In addition, he is TOGAF, SEI Architect and SEI ATAM certified.

In addition to his role with the OMG, Robert is a member of the Board of Education and Architect Training Committee for IASA (International Association of Software Architects). In this role, he helps develop and manage the official IASA curriculum.

Robert has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, a Masters in Systems Engineering from The University of Pennsylvania, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Old Dominion University.

Kevin D. Moore is the CIO for the US Military Entrance Processing Command (USMEPCOM) at North Chicago, IL. He has over 26 years of leadership experience and has held several senior level positions in the US Department of Defense (DoD). Kevin is a published author, active speaker, and has been interviewed for the successful transformation that is occurring at USMEPCOM. Also, as a result of his leadership, USMEPCOM recently won 2 Top Awards for its BPM and SOA implementation. It won the 2009 OMG Award for BPM Application that Demonstrates the Best Return on Investment (ROI) and the 2008 Gold Global Award for Excellence in BPM and Workflow for the North American Region. Additionally, he is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY.

Bogdan Motoc is a Business Process Architect for Alberta Health Services Business Process Engineering group where he is currently engaged in evaluating Service Orientation as a strategic approach to AHS business needs.

A senior IT specialist with a passion for Business Process Engineering, Bogdan has been part of several initiatives anchored in Organization and Process Optimization in Healthcare and other Industries. He is a firm believer in the value of differentiation and integration as modern business patterns.

Prior to joining AHS, Bogdan has occupied senior roles as IT Architect and Technical Executive with several Corporations in IT (IBM), Online Media (Toronto Star) and Healthcare Vendors (MediPattern).

Mr. Motoc holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, a post-graduate degree in AI and is author of patents in cognitive interfaces and cancer detection.

Mr. Cunningham is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo in Computer Science. He worked twenty years developing expert system technologies for the National Intelligence Community. Mr. Cunningham has been working in Health Care and Public Health for the last seven years.

Mr Cunningham is a founding member of OntoReason LLC., a company dedicated to building advanced reasoning solutions for the Health Care Community. OntoReason was founded in 2006 and works within the public and private health care sectors, integrating intelligent systems into enterprise wide IT infrastructure.

Othel Rolle is a Senior Manager at Pfizer, responsible for business line architecture. He has over twenty years of experience defining, implementing and managing software and data architectures within the pharmaceutical industry. This experience includes business line and program architect for Global Medical and Commercial Development solutions; defining and implementing strategic roadmaps to align application and data architectures with business strategy and lead architect in the development and management of electronic data capture technology for physician prescribing data. In addition to his architecture expertise, Othel is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Six Sigma Black Belt.

Dave Shaver
CEO, CorePoint Health

Brandt Welker
Director, Solution Analysis and Architecture, Veterans Affairs

Mr. Hamm is currently an Informatics Consultant at Apelon, Inc., a preeminent health care terminology products and services vendor. In this role he has worked internationally with both private and public sector institutions on the development and utilization of terminology services and terminology service standards.

Russell is an active participant in informatics standards activities, and is a regular participant and co-chair of the HL7 Vocabulary Work Group where he is responsible for maintaining the HL7 vocabulary, developing terminology service specifications and terminology maintenance interfaces.

As an active participant in informatics for over six years, Russell is a respected member of both the business and informatics standards communities. His activities range from designing terminology services specifications, creating on-line terminology authoring interfaces and providing education and guidance surrounding terminology best practices.

Galen Mulrooney is the Vice President of J P Systems, and serves as the Lead Information Architect for the Veterans Health Administration under the auspices of the Chief Health Informatics Office. He served as the Lead Modeler for the VHA Health Information Model (VHIM), which is the authoritative semantic standard that will be used to guide all interactions within the VHA and with external partners. Mr. Mulrooney is co-chair of the HL7 SOA Work Group, and is leading modeling efforts at ASC X12 and NCPDP. Mr. Mulrooney's company, J P Systems, is an Information Technology consulting firm specializing in healthcare informatics and enterprise architecture. J P Systems is proud to be a founding member of the Open Health Tools (OHT) foundation.

Joshua Painter is a senior architect with Intel's Software and Services Group in the SOA Products team, where he has a leadership role defining healthcare solutions strategy and architecture for Intel's SOA infrastructure products. Joshua has extensive experience in the areas of distributed computing, integration, enterprise application architecture and security. He spent the past decade working in international markets focused on solutions architecture for the public sector in the US, Europe and the Middle East. During his nine years with Intel, Joshua has held various roles within product development, sales and marketing and IT. He spent the last several years with Intel's healthcare division, where he helped bring Intel's first FDA-cleared in-home medical device to market.

Moderator:

Sorina Vlaicu, Ph.D., MD, MPH
George Mason University 

Panelists:    

John Dodd
EA Principal and Practice Leader, CSC

Samuel Waissman
Director Enterprise Architecture, Presbyterian Healthcare Services
  
Andy Bond
Director of Interoperability
National e-Health Transition Authority (Australia)

Michael Riben is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and completed his pathology and laboratory medicine residency at Albany Medical Center. After residency, he completed his NLM Medical Informatics Fellowship at Oregon health Sciences University, where he focused his work on Medical Terminology/ontology., before working briefly at Medicalogic (Now GE Medical systems) as a Product Manager and Clinical Knowledge engineer. Following a surgical pathology fellowship at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and a Cytopathology fellowship at M.D. Anderson he has been an Assistant professor in the Department of Pathology where he practices cytopathology and is the Director .of Anatomic Pathology informatics. In addition, he has been working for the last 3 yrs with the Department of Data Management and Application Services to develop an enterprise vocabulary and ontology services core services group that would support clinical, research and administrative applications.

Oren received his B.A. in applied mathematics from the Technion in 1994, and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Weizmann Institute in 2000. He worked on signal processing algorithms and radar target detection in ELTA--Israel Aircraft Industries, and during his military service in the Israeli Defense Forces. He worked and consulted for Orbotech, Inc. on the development of numerical algorithms for printed circuit board testing. After postdoctoral fellowships in Stanford University and the University of Utah, Oren became the Chief Software Architect of the RUReady, an adaptive college readiness learning and assessment program for mathematics at the Continuing Education Division at the University of Utah, and founded RUReady, Inc. with two colleagues through the U's Technology Commercialization Office. He is currently the Senior Software Architect of the FURTHeR project. Oren has published over 25 scholarly articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has a U.S. patent pending. His research focuses on the development of efficient numerical algorithms for chemical, biological and healthcare problems.

Dr. Parsa Mirhai is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Medicine and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Information Sciences in the School of Health Information Sciences. Dr. Mirhaji is the Director of the Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Informatics Research, where he has developed predictive epidemiology models and detection methodologies for emerging infectious diseases such as avian flu and a reference architecture for situational awareness for public health preparedness (SARA). Dr. Mirhaji has been an acting committee member on the Texas Hospital Preparedness Program at the Texas Department of Health and Human Services and the Texas Institute for Health Policy Research, a selected member of Technology Subcommittee - Health Information Technology Advisory Commission, Texas Department of Health and Human Services, the chair of the International Defense and Homeland Security Conference 2003-2006, and the chair at the International Conference on Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web, 2006.

Dr. Mirhaji and his fellow researchers have been awarded 'Best Practices in Public Health Award- 2003' by the Department of Health and Human Services for establishing 'Defense of Houston' portal only 5 days after September 11 terrorist attacks.

Dr. Mirhaji is the founder and director of the Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Informatics Research with ongoing research activities in the following areas: knowledge engineering and ontology research for public health information systems, architectural designs for Situational Awareness, Context Aware Systems, interoperability and information sharing in distributed environments, applications of artificial intelligence, computer reasoning and knowledge based systems in public health preparedness, knowledge and information representation, information visualization and epidemiological modeling.

Alan Honey

John Moehrke is a Principal Engineer specializing in Standards Architecture in Interoperability, Security, and Privacy for GE Healthcare. He is primarily involved in the international standards efforts related to GE's healthcare businesses. He is co-chair of the Security, Privacy and Infrastructure Domain Committee of HITSP. He is a GE representative to ASTM, CCHIT, DICOM, HL7, NEMA/MITA, OASIS, ISO, and IHE. He represents GE on issues of healthcare data security and privacy, IT Infrastructure, and clinical workflow. He has been active in the Healthcare standardization since 1999, during which time he has authored various standards, profiles and white papers.

Supported By:
Karen Witting - IBM - Co-Chair of IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Committee
Alean Kirnak - SW Partners - Editor of the IHE White Paper
Joshua Painter - Intel - Editor of the IHE White Paper

Skip McGaughey is Executive Director of Open Health Tools. Open Heath Tools is a collaborative open source effort between national health agencies, major healthcare providers, researchers, academics, international standards bodies and companies from Australia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom and Europe. Its goal is to develop common healthcare IT products and services and provide software tools and components that accelerate the implementation of electronic health information interoperability. Skip was co-founder of Eclipse. Eclipse is a multi-language, multi-vendor open source platform for tool integration. There are over 800,000 organizations and over four million developers using Eclipse. Eclipse pioneered the linkage between building open source software and enabling successful and profitable ecosystems to deliver technology to customers.

Ken Lunn is Director of Data Standards and Products for the NHS Technology Office. He is responsible for a broad range of standards, including HL7 message specifications for the NHS Spine, the UK edition of SNOMED CT, and the NHS Data Dictionary. He is a member of the HL7 Board and the IHTSDO Technical Committee. Ken has a Ph.D. in Distributed Computing, and he has held senior roles in academic and leading industrial organisations before joining the NHS

Leong Seng has an extensive background in the design, development and implementations of several large-scale IT projects, in the areas of broadband networking, messaging, Internet/E-Commerce, logistic tracking and healthcare related applications. In his more recent role, Leong Seng is actively involved in driving the Enterprise Architecture program, infrastructure consolidation and technology adoption roadmap within the public healthcare institutions. Concurrently, Leong Seng also manages a development unit that is responsible for the design, development and maintenance of an in-house developed Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system that has been widely deployed to several public hospitals and polyclinics.

Mr. Yannakopoulos with 26 years of experience as a computer scientist, including 17 years as an IT architect, has been involved with SOA since 2001. For the Department of Veterans Affairs, as a member of the Perot Systems, Government Services team, he has developed an architecture-centric framework which establishes an organizational readiness that can implement and maintain service-oriented solutions, and has co-authored the VA's SOA-Governance Framework.

Previously, as an IT Director for the Nielsen Company, he led the Enterprise Architecture team and several SOA Delivery teams. He corrected the misalignment between business architecture and IT environments by defining an architecture driven by business, selectively deploying new SOA systems and integrating them with legacy systems.

Mr. Yannakopoulos hold a Master of Science in Computer Science from Clemson University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from University of Ionnina, Greece, and has spoken in various IT Conferences throughout his career.

K. Scott Morrison is the Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, where he works to scale, simplify and secure Web applications. He has extensive IT and scientific experience in a number of industries, was previously Director of Technology at Infowave Software, and has also held senior architect positions at IBM. Scott has published more than 50 book chapters, magazine articles, and papers in medical, physics, and engineering journals, including ComputerWorld, ZDNet, Web Services Unleashed, Professional JMS, Ajax World Magazine, SOA World Magazine, Communications News, DM Review, and the Business Integration Journal. Scott is also a dynamic and highly sought-after speaker with extensive speaking experience at over 70 shows around the world, including the InfoWorld SOA Forum, JavaOne, ZapThink podcasts, the OMG SOA Consortium, the IDC IT Forum, Web Services on Wall Street, several Gartner events and Networld+Interop.

Phil Ruth
Director, Deloitte Technology
Phil Ruth is a Director in Deloitte's Technology practice with over fifteen years of IT delivery leadership. His experience is focused on large-scale systems implementation including strategic planning, enterprise architecture and application development services, electronic commerce, and multi-channel enterprise services and end-to-end testing. Phil has extensive experience across health care/life sciences, communications/media, and public sector industries. Phil leads Deloitte's technology testing services and is the sponsor of Deloitte's Services Thinking initiative for the Health Care and Life Sciences sector.

Don Jorgenson has more than twenty years of experience leading embedded system and software development projects in energy management, telecom and healthcare. Over the last eight years, his focus has been on healthcare information system interoperability, security and privacy. He serves as lead of the HL7-SOA PASS (Privacy, Access and Security Services) work group, leads the Open Health Tools openPASS project and has been active in Eclipse, IHE, and ASTM. Don holds a BS degree in Engineering Science and an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University. He is CEO of Inpriva, Inc.

Ulrich is co-founder & CEO of ObjectSecurity. He founded ObjectSecurity as a spin-out from his PhD in information security at University of Cambridge in 2000. ObjectSecurity is the leader in model-driven security and business-driven compliance management. The company offers the acclaimed (e.g. "Cool Vendor" by Gartner) OpenPMF security policy management product. OpenPMF is an easy-to-use, cost-saving application / BPM development tool add-on. OpenPMF automatically generates technical security policies for your applications and processes at the click of a button (e.g. for BPM, SOA, Cloud, SaaS, PaaS, Web 2.0). It also automatically enforces and monitors security, and it uniquely minimizes the security maintenance cost for agile applications and workflows. Ulrich is a renown SOA/middleware/modeling security expert. Ulrich also has received: an M.Sc. in Information Security Royal Holloway (Uni London); Business Marketing Strategy, Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern Uni); computer science & management Uni Munich and Royal Holloway; Book author, conference speaker.

Mr. Staggs has been providing technical leadership in all aspects of application and computer security for more than twenty years, five of which has been in support of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Mr. Staggs currently supports the VHA office of Standards and Interoperability Offices in the development of the Cross-enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization (XSPA) model. The XSPA model fills a security access control standards gap identified by the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP). Mr. Staggs is the co-chair of the XSPA TC and an author of the XSPA profile of SAML and the XSPA profile of XACML, recently demonstrated at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference. Mr. Staggs is the author of four international security standards and is a licensed patent attorney.

Brendon Unland
President and Founder of Jericho Systems, BBA

Mr. Unland founded Jericho Systems in 2002. He provides strategic vision, leadership, and technical management to Jericho Systems. Jericho Systems provides next-generation SOA based security products, specializing in security policy engineering and attribute based access control (ABAC). Their XACML based product, called the EnterSpace Decisioning Service (EsDS), is deployed in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. The EsDS also enables robust, standards compliant, patient privacy and security.

Mr. Unland focuses on articulating, demonstrating, and delivering upon the benefits of the company's product and service offerings especially as they interrelate with: Service Oriented Architectures, open source, open standards, identity management, privilege management, and attribute based decisioning.

Mr. Unland was previously the Founder and Co-owner of Dallas Technology Group, a multi-million dollar technology firm specializing in real-time, distributed software consulting to Fortune 100 clients in the telecommunication and e-business arenas.

Prof. McClatchey has been research active for the past 25 years and has led many projects funded by industry and by the EC in the areas of large-scale distributed data and process management and database modelling and in systems design and integration. Currently a Fellow of both the British Computer Society and the Institute of Engineering and Technology with a PhD in Physics (Sheffield, 1982) and DPhil in Computer Science (West of England, UWE 1999). McClatchey has published over 150 papers and has held the Chair of Applied Computer Science at UWE since and current expertise lies in Grid data and knowledge management and particularly in its application to medical applications. He currently leads the Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems at UWE and is active in collaborative computing projects at CERN, and with many international partners in three EC projects: Health-e-Child, SHARE and neuGRID.

Moderator:

Sorina Vlaicu, Ph.D., MD, MPH
George Mason University
  
Panelists:    

Dennis Giokas, PhD 
CTO, Canada Health Infoway 
As the Chief Technology Officer for Canada Health Infoway, Dennis Giokas is charged with fueling the national transformation of the Canadian e-Health system into an open, interoperable environment that is being based upon a service-oriented architecture. In this session, Mr. Giokas will surface themes that have arisen during the Conference and blend them with his experiences in Canada to offer insights of relevance to organizations undertaking their own SOA initiatives.

Ken Lunn , PhD 
Director, Standards and Products, National Health Service (UK)
Ken Lunn is Director of Data Standards and Products for the NHS Technology Office. He is responsible for a broad range of standards, including HL7 message specifications for the NHS Spine, the UK edition of SNOMED CT, and the NHS Data Dictionary. He is a member of the HL7 Board and the IHTSDO Technical Committee. Ken has a Ph.D. in Distributed Computing, and he has held senior roles in academic and leading industrial organisations before joining the NHS

Peter Tan 
Executive Consultant, Ministry of Health Holdings Singapore
Peter has 16 years of experience in IT in public and private sector in a variety of roles, ranging from Education, Internet, e-Commerce, e-Government, and now Healthcare. Peter is currently working on the federated Enterprise Architecture for realizing the National EHR at MOHH, which is responsible for National Health IT strategy and governance. Prior to this, Peter was Assistant Director (eHealth) at the Ministry of Health, responsible for national e-health strategy and implementation. He implemented the EMR Exchange system in 2004, the first live system that facilitated the realtime transmission of medical records on-demand across the public sector healthcare providers.

As the Chief Technology Officer for Canada Health Infoway, Dennis Giokas is charged with fueling the national transformation of the Canadian e-Health system into an open, interoperable environment that is being based upon a service-oriented architecture. In this session, Mr. Giokas will surface themes that have arisen during the Conference and blend them with his experiences in Canada to offer insights of relevance to organizations undertaking their own SOA initiatives.