Charles P. Friedman, PhD. is currently the Chief Scientific Officer for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As ONC’s chief scientist, he leads a group responsible for tracking and promoting innovation in health IT, for research programs to improve technology, for applications of health IT that support basic and clinical research, for evaluation of all of ONC’s programs, for programs to develop the health IT workforce, and for activities supporting global eHealth. Dr. Friedman served as Deputy National Coordinator for two years prior to assuming his new position. He was lead author of the national Health IT Strategic Plan released in June of 2008.

Prior to joining ONC, Dr. Friedman was Associate Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. In this capacity, he founded the Center for Research Informatics and Information Technology, and functioned as the Institute's Chief Information Officer. Dr. Friedman first joined NIH in 2003, as a Senior Scholar at the National Library of Medicine.

From 1996 to 2003, Dr. Friedman was Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh where he established a health sciences-wide Center for Biomedical Informatics, a well-funded program of informatics research, and masters and doctoral degree programs in biomedical informatics. He also served as Chief Information Officer for the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences.

Dr. Friedman obtained bachelors and masters degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also received a PhD in education from the University of North Carolina (UNC). He wrote his first computer program in 1966. He spent over 19 years on the medical school faculty at UNC and served as Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Informatics. In 1985, he established the Laboratory for Computing and Cognition at UNC and, in 1992, started UNC's medical informatics training program.

Dr. Friedman has written extensively for scientific journals, and authored a well-known textbook. He is a past president of the American College of Medical Informatics, and was the 2005 chair of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
 

Mark Frisse is the Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Professor of Management at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. His work focuses on the intersection between health care informatics, economics, policy, and health care transformation. His primary research is directed toward an understanding of economic sustainability and toward the development of technical and administrative measures to ensure the integrity of security and privacy efforts. His work is funded through the SHARP research program of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He also directs the executive-level Masters of Management in Health Care program at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management.
In Tennessee, Dr. Frisse led the development and oversight of a six-year federal- and state-sponsored effort to create and operate a health information exchange for the greater Memphis area. This exchange currently has over 7 million records covering the care of over 1,200,000 individuals and is now managed completely by a Memphis-based board and a commercial vendor. He has also worked with other states and communities to develop their HIT programs.

Dr. Pak is the President and CEO of HSP Technology, which specializes on strategic consulting in the federal HIT sector. Until recently, he was the Chief Information Officer of the Army Medical Department, a $11 billion healthcare system with over 60,000 employees providing healthcare to 9.5 million Army and DoD beneficiaries worldwide. He led and managed the command's IM/IT workforce of over 1,200 while supervising the operations of 158 officers, civilians and contractors. As the CIO, he managed the command's annual IM/IT program in excess of $500 million. Prior to becoming the first physician CIO for the AMEDD, he was the Army's first Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) and was focused on transforming and optimizing how AMEDD deliver healthcare through clinical information technology. Before his appointment as the CMIO, he was the Chief of Advanced Information Technology Group at the Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, and responsible for conducting R&D for Military Healthcare System's CIO office to identify, evaluate future advanced healthcare information technologies for MHS. He is a distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy (class of 1989). He completed his medical degree at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and a fellowship in dermatology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1999. Dr. Pak is internationally recognized as a leader and innovator in the field of telemedicine. Dr Pak has conducted extensive research and published numerous articles, chapters, book on telemedicine, teledermatology, and dermatology. Moreover, he is on the editorial board for Journal of Telemedicine and eHealth. In addition, he is past president of the Association of Military Dermatologists and past president of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). He holds dual adjunct faculty position at USU in Bioinformatics and Dermatology.
 

Jim St.Clair is a Senior Director for Interoperability and Standards for HIMSS, the largest U.S. cause-based, not-for-profit healthcare association focused on the optimal use of information technology and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.

St. Clair joined HIMSS in 2011. In his current role, he oversees, standards, interoperability, and privacy and sustainment of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiatives in the US and internationally.

Previously, St. Clair was Director of Government and Healthcare Solutions at AGJ Systems and Networks, a disabled veteran-owned small business providing IT governance, architecture, project management and managed services, in partnership with superior technology partners. In this role, he provided support to numerous government and healthcare customers in implementing technology solutions, assessing security, risk and managing regulatory compliance.

Additionally, St. Clair has been active in numerous associations, including the Association of Government Accountants (AGA); Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP); National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO); he also chaired a HIMSS Working Group in Medical Banking. He has served on the Federal Working Group in XBRL-US and has developed several white papers and presentations in the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL).

St.Clair also completed 10 years in the US Navy, serving in various capacities along the East Coast and Washington, DC. During this time, he served in several federal working groups in technology and national security.

A prolific speaker and presenter, St. Clair is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), a Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB) with the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and a Project Management Professional (PMP). He earned a BA in Business Administration from the University of Mississippi.
 

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.