In September 2009, Dr. Robert Kolodner transitioned from the federal to the private sector to continue his work to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities worldwide by advancing the proliferation and rapid, collaborative evolution of health information technology (IT) tools and solutions.

Upon leaving the federal sector, Robert M. Kolodner, MD, co-founded and became President of Collaborative Transformations, LLC, where he consults with organizations regarding their health IT strategies and plans. Additionally in October 2009, Dr. Kolodner was hired as Chief Health Informatics Officer for the non-profit organization Open Health Tools, Inc. (OHT). His plans in the private sector build on his prior track record of success in two large federal Departments.

From 2006 to April 2009, Robert M. Kolodner MD served as the President's designated lead for the United States eHealth initiative as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (IT) in Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). His responsibilities included developing, maintaining, and directing the implementation of a health IT strategic plan as well as directing related national activities that were necessary to advance the nationwide adoption of person-centered, interoperable health IT solutions.

For over 28 years prior to transferring to HHS, Dr. Kolodner had been the key clinical champion in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) providing vision, direction, and effective leadership for the development and pervasive use of VA's award-winning suite of health IT solutions, , including My HealtheVet, a Personal Health Record for veterans, and VistA - the world's first successful large-scale Electronic Health Record implementation. His VA activities also included research and teaching, with clinical faculty appointments at Emory University, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and the University of Maryland.

Dr. Kolodner received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine, and completed his Psychiatric residency at the Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Kolodner has medical specialty board certification in psychiatry and is a Fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics.
 

John Quinn is a Senior Executive and Thought Leader in Accenture’s Health Life Sciences (H&LS) Practice, CTO to the Health Level Seven (HL7) Standards Development Organization and CTO to the Accenture’s Provider Practice Group in H&LS responsible for domain expertise on Healthcare Information Technology. He has an extensive background in information systems planning, development, support and systems integration; provider HIT vendor architectures, vendor and systems evaluations, and hardware and software implementations.
 

Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner at ZapThink, is a well-known expert in the field of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, and XML-based standards. Ron has been featured in and has written for periodicals, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences and in front of some of the largest busineses in the world.Ron Schmelzer was the lead author of XML And Web Services Unleashed (SAMS 2002) as well as co-author of Service-Orient or Be Doomed (Wiley 2006) with Jason Bloomberg, due to be released in 2006. Ron has served as the chair of the RosettaNet Cluster 1 Workgroup, working group member of CPExchange, member of the UDDI advisory group, and was a member of the CompTIA Electronic Commerce Standards Board (ECSB). Prior to ZapThink, Ron was founder, CTO, and “ePostle of Partners” of ChannelWave Software, as well as founder and President of VirtuFlex Software, and founder and CEO of VirtuMall, one of the first online eCommerce sites in 1994.
 

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®).

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.