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Keynote Speakers
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Lt. Gen. James Peake |
Lt. Gen. 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.
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RADM Theresa Cullen |
RADM Theresa Ann Cullen, M.D., M.S., is the
Assistant Surgeon General, 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
CIO, Dr. Cullen oversees a diverse range of
agency functions in information systems
planning, development, and management. Dr.
Cullen is a commissioned officer in the U.S.
Public Health Service and holds the rank of
Rear Admiral.
Dr. Cullen began her IHS career in 1984
as a General Medical Officer. She served as
the Tucson Program Area Maternal Child
Health Coordinator and Area HIV Coordinator
and as a General Medical Officer and
Clinical Director where she managed clinical
performance improvement activities. Dr.
Cullen has also served as an IHS Senior
Medical Informatics Consultant, RPMS Program
Manager, Physician/Clinical Advisor, and the
IHS lead on interagency agreements.
Among Dr. Cullen’s numerous honors are
the Meritorious Service Medal; Outstanding
Service Medal; Achievement Medal;
Commendation Medal; Unit Citation Medal; the
IHS Director’s Award, and was Program
Manager when RPMS received the Davies Award
for Public Health from the Healthcare
Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
The Indian Health Service mission is to
work in partnership with American Indians
and Alaska Native people to raise their
physical, mental, social, and spiritual
health to the highest level, ensuring that
they have comprehensive, culturally
acceptable personal and public health
services. IHS operates 31 hospitals, 59
health centers, and 30 health stations, and
employs a staff of over 15,000 and a
clinical staff of over 4,800.
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Dr. Ken Lunn |
Dr. 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 organizations before joining the
NHS.
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Featured Speakers
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Wes Rishel |
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.
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Ronald Schmelzer |
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.
Ron was named "Geek of the Week"
in Internet Magazine and was listed in Boston
Magazine's Internet Top 40. Ron received a
B.S. degree in Computer Science and
Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT).
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Dr.
Lynn Harold Vogel |
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
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Last updated on
May 27, 2009
by Mike
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