Gerald Beuchelt

Project Software Systems Engineer,
The MITRE Corporation

Gerald Beuchelt is a Project Software Systems Engineer. He is focusing on web services and identity management technology and their application in the context of complex government programs such as modernizing healthcare. Gerald is one of the original authors of the hData specifications, which are currently undergoing standardization within HL7 and the OMG. He has been focusing on improving interoperability and efficiency of data exchanges in highly distributed computing environments, using service orientation principles and RESTful architectural approaches. In this role he is also actively engaged with the identity and privacy management communities. Gerald is also active in other government acquisition programs, focusing on information assurance, security engineering, and certification and accreditation.

In his former role as a Web Services Architect in the Chief Technologist's Office of Sun Microsystems he was working on the development of new Microsoft interoperability technologies across Sun's software product portfolio, with a special focus on service interoperability and identity. In this role Gerald has successfully lead a number of high-profile internal and external projects and significantly influenced Sun's strategy.
 

Russ Hamm

Informatics Architect,
Apelon, Inc.

Mr. Hamm is an Informatics Architect 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 a past co-chair of the HL7 Vocabulary Work Group where he is responsible for maintaining the HL7 vocabulary and leading the Common Terminology Services - Release 2 (CTS 2) service specification within HL7.

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

Dr. Kensaku Kawamoto
Director, Knowledge Management and Mobilization,
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics,
University of Utah

Dr. Kawamoto is the Director of Knowledge Management and Mobilization for University of Utah Health Care and oversees the institution's operational clinical decision support and knowledge management efforts (www.healthsciences.utah.edu/avpit/projects/kmm.htm). Dr. Kawamoto is also the founder of the multi-institutional OpenCDS initiative, which is aimed at enabling clinical decision support and knowledge management at scale through a standardized, open-source, and service-oriented approach (www.opencds.org). Dr. Kawamoto is a co-chair of the Clinical Decision Support Work Group at the HL7 health IT standards development organization, and he has led the development of several international health IT standards related to clinical decision support, including the HL7/OMG Clinical Decision Support Service standard and the HL7 Virtual Medical Record specification.
 

Elisa Kendall

Principal,

Thematix Partners, LLC

Ms. Kendall has over 30 years professional experience in the design, development and deployment of enterprise-scale information management systems for communications, high technology, and aerospace applications. Her background includes many years in applied research in knowledge representation and ontology design, information architecture, complex event processing, and knowledge based systems development. She has been instrumental in bridging software engineering disciplines, such as the Object Management Group (OMG)’s Model Driven Architecture methodology, which provides a basis for automating metadata management, and knowledge representation and reasoning (Semantic Web) technologies. Ms. Kendall is principal architect of a UML-based ontology analysis, development and application deployment framework, and has developed rigorous methodologies for domain assessment supporting ontology development. Her formal training in Situation Semantics coupled with extensive systems integration experience led to Ms. Kendall’s innovative approach.

Ms. Kendall brings deep experience in large-scale, complex taxonomy, ontology and knowledge-based systems development, working for customers such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the DoD, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, SRI International. She represents ontology concerns on the Object Management Group (OMG)’s Architecture Board, and is co-editor of the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM). She is also an active participant in the ISO JTC1 SC32 WG2 Metadata working group and was a member of the W3C OWL and Best Practices working groups. Recent projects include commercial ontology development for travel, agricultural, chemical engineering, financial services, and telecommunications applications. (2YQ9)
 

Kevin Peterson, B.S.

Senior Analyst Programmer, Department of Biomedical Informatics,

Mayo Clinic

Kevin Peterson, B.S., is a Senior Analyst Programmer in the Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics at Mayo Clinic. Mr. Peterson is a lead developer for the LexEVS project and member of the Mayo Clinic Common Terminology Services Release 2 (CTS 2) submission team to the Object Management Group (OMG).
 

Michael Rossman
Manager, Architecture & Design, Enterprise Integration Services/ SOA,
Kaiser-Permanente IT- Shared Application Services

Ken Rubin
Chief Architect, Federal Healthcare Portfolio,
HP Enterprise Services

Ioana Singureanu
Co-founder and CEO
Eversolve LLC

Ms. Singureanu is a co-founder and CEO of Eversolve LLC, a healthcare interoperability consulting practice. During more than sixteen years of experience with software development, information integration and software architecture development projects, Ms. Singureanu has been consistently involved in healthcare integration standards development and implementation. Her roles have included HL7 Conformance co-chair, HL7 Modeling and Methodology co-chair, and HL7 Technical Steering Committee member. Her involvement has ensured that best industry practices are applied to standards produced by consensus-based bodies while applying healthcare information technology standards to accelerate the adoption of interoperable electronic health record systems and medical devices in healthcare. As a technical consultant, Ms. Singureanu has collaborated with leading healthcare organizations, vendors and consortia, including IHE, HITSP, and MITA, to design, implement, and deploy strategic architectures as well as integration solutions, which automate various healthcare delivery processes and improve the quality of care and patient safety. These solutions and architectures reflect industry best practices and use proven software tools and design methodologies to best meet the clients' needs.

Ms. Singureanu holds an M.S. degree in Computer Science and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

James St. Clair

Senior Director, Interoperability and Standards,

HIMSS

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.

Craig Stancl, B.S.
Lead Analyst Programmer, Clinical Informatics Systems Unit,
Mayo Clinic

Craig Stancl, B.S., is a Lead Analyst Programmer in the Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics at Mayo Clinic. Mr. Stancl is the Technical Lead for the LexEVS project, co-chair of the Health Level Seven (HL7) Service Functional Model for Common Terminology Services Release 2 (CTS 2) draft standard for trial use (DSTU) and member of the Mayo Clinic CTS 2 submission team to the Object Management Group (OMG).
 

Peter Young

General Manager Health & Community Services

Database Consultants Australia (DCA)

Peter Young, General Manager Health & Community Services, Database Consultants Australia (DCA) Peter has  25 years experience in the information technology industry, including 15 years in the health solutions business. The Health & Community services is responsible for delivering e-health applications, including community health, directory services and secure messaging. DCA has been at the forefront of development of solutions that secure sharing of health related information over the internet, linking together private practice, hospitals and the community. Peter has a B.Sc (hons) and MBA qualifications, and is currently completing a Masters in Wine Technology and Viticulture.
 

Dr. Trish Whetzel
Outreach Coordinator, National Center for Biomedical Ontology,
Stanford University