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| SPEAKERS' BIOS | | | | | |  | Thomas Beale
CTO, Ocean Informatics
Thomas Beale's early experience was in CMM level 4 engineering of real-time control systems. He has also worked in some of the largest financial enterprises in Australia, in both a strategic advisory capacity and on project implementation. He has worked in e-health since 1994, when he was the technical advisor for the Good European Health Record (GEHR) project. Since 1998, he has been involved in international e-health standards development (OMG, HL7, CEN, IHTSDO), including as an IHTSDO Technical Committee member 2009-2012. He has worked on the openEHR architecture since 2001, and designed the archetype formalism (ADL) and reference compiler, now in use by CEN and ISO. | | |  | Dr. Bill Curtis
Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist of CAST Software, Inc., Director, Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ)
Dr. Curtis is currently a Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist of CAST Software, Inc. He is also the Director of the Consortium for IT Software Quality, a Special Interest Group of OMG. He is best known for leading the development of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) while at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He co-founded TeraQuest Metrics in 1993, which was acquired by Borland Software Corporation in 2005. During 1983-1990 he founded the Human Interface Laboratory and later led Design Process Research at MCC, the American Fifth Generation Computer Research Consortium in Austin, Texas. Previously he developed a global software productivity and quality measurement system at ITT's Programming Technology Center and led research on software development practices in General Electric Space Division (now a division of Lockheed Martin). He started his career as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Washington where he also taught behavioral statistics. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to software process improvement and measurement. | | |  | Bruce Powell Douglass, Ph.D.
Chief Evangelist, IBM Rational
Bruce Douglass, IBM Rational - Embedded Software Methodologist. Ironman triathlete. Systems engineer. Contributor to UML and SysML specifications. Writer. Black Belt. Neuroscientist. Classical guitarist. Bruce Powel Douglass, who has a doctorate in neurocybernetics from the USD Medical School, has over 35 years of experience developing safety-critical real-time applications in a variety of hard real-time environments. He is the author of over 5700 book pages from a number of technical books including Real-Time UML, Real-Time UML Workshop for Embedded Systems, Real-Time Design Patterns, Doing Hard Time, Real-Time Agility, and Design Patterns for Embedded Systems in C. He is the Chief Evangelist at IBM Rational, where he is a thought leader in the systems space and consulting with and mentors IBM customers all over the world. He can be followed on Twitter @IronmanBruce. Papers and presentations are available at his Real-Time UML Yahoo technical group and from his IBM thought leader page. | | |  | Dr. Julian Goldman
Physician, MGH and Medical Director, Partners Biomedical Engineering
Julian M. Goldman, MD is Medical Director of Biomedical Engineering for Partners HealthCare System, a practicing anesthesiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of the Program on Medical Device Interoperability at MGH and CIMIT (Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology). Dr. Goldman founded the federally funded, multi-institutional Medical Device "Plug-and-Play" (MD PnP) Interoperability research program in 2004 to promote innovation in patient safety and clinical care by leading the adoption of patient-centric integrated clinical environments. The MD PnP program team received the 2007 CIMIT Edward M Kennedy award for Healthcare Innovation.
Dr. Goldman completed anesthesiology residency and fellowship training at the University of Colorado. His research fellowship was in medical device informatics, focusing on simulation and artificial intelligence applications for monitoring and real-time decision support. He departed Colorado in 1998 as a tenured associate professor to work as an executive of a medical device company. Dr. Goldman joined Harvard Medical School and the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2002, where he served as a principle anesthesiologist in the MGH "Operating Room of the Future", and continues to practice clinical anesthesia.
Dr. Goldman co-chairs the FCC mHealth Task Force, the HIT Policy Committee FDASIA Workgroup regulatory subgroup, and the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee work group on healthcare. He served on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee, as a Visiting Scholar in the FDA Medical Device Fellowship Program, and as a member of the CDC BSC for the NCPHI. He currently serves in leadership positions in several medical device standardization organizations including Chair of ISO Technical Committee 121, Chair of the Use Case Working Group of the Continua Health Alliance, and User Vice Chair of ASTM Committee F29, and Chair of ISO TC 121 Subcommittee 2 on Airway Devices. Dr. Goldman is the recipient of the International Council on Systems Engineering 2010 Pioneer Award, American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE) 2009 award for Professional Achievement in Technology, the 2009 AAMI Foundation/Institute for Technology in Health Care Clinical Application Award, and the University of Colorado Chancellor's "Bridge to the Future" award. | | |  | Mina Hsiang
US Digital Service in the White House and Senior Advisor to the US CTO on Health Data
Mina Hsiang currently serves as a member of the US Digital Service in the White House and Senior Advisor to the US CTO on Health Data. In that role, she is driving efforts to make health data more useable, coordinating across the VA, MHS, and CMS to help bring value and transparency to healthcare. Prior to her current role, she was the VP of Market Strategy for Optum Analytics, where she drove new product and technology strategy for a $100M data analytics business sitting at the intersection of Providers, Payers, and Pharma.
In that role she was also a key player in the rescue of healthcare.gov.
Prior to that she was a venture capitalist and startup launcher at General Catalyst Partners, where she sat on the board of 6 companies and helped start two, in fields from medical devices to enterprise software. She has previously been a robotics engineer building novel prosthetic arms for amputees while at Deka R&D, and has led projects in rural healthcare, water, and sanitation for the Clinton Foundation in Malawi. Ms. Hsiang holds an MEng and BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. | | |  | Paul Jones
Senior Systems/Software Engineer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, OSEL
Paul L. Jones works at the U. S. Food and Drug Administration. He is a Senior Systems/Software Engineer in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories (OSEL) where he serves as an in-house consultant on regulatory matters involving medical device software system safety, software engineering, risk management, and safety/security assurance cases. He divides his time between transitioning high confidence software and systems research work into FDA's regulatory science process and national and international standards development, and managing OSEL's software lab. Prior to joining FDA, Mr. Jones worked in industry for 20 years gaining extensive experience in systems/software engineering developing business systems, operating systems, configuration management systems, and quality assurance systems. Mr. Jones earned a MS degree in Computer Engineering from Loyola College in 1999 and BSE degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1974. | | |  | Philip Newcomb
Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, CEO, TSRI
Philip Newcomb, recipient of the 2012 Stevens Award, is an internationally recognized expert in the application of artificial intelligence and formal methods of software engineering. He is considered the Thought Leader in Architecture-Driven Reengineering, Modernization, Research, Development & Commercialization of Automated Renovation and Tools. (2012 Stevens Award) Mr. Newcomb formulated the conceptual product framework to develop the software transformation technology and products offered by TSRI. He led a team of software engineers to develop TSRI's acclaimed architecture-driven modernization services and toolset JANUS Studio®. Mr. Newcomb is the author of numerous papers and books, such as the Information System Transformation: Architecture-Driven Modernization, Morgan-Kaufman, 2010 with William Ulrich. Philip Newcomb has over 30 years of information technology and 10 years of executive management experience. | | |  | Dr. Matthew Paden
Associate Professor of Pediatric Critical Care, Emory University, Director of Pediatric ECMO and Advanced Technologies, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Matthew L. Paden, MD is an Associate Professor of Pediatric Critical Care at Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. In addition to being a practicing pediatric intensivist, Dr. Paden is director of the Pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and Advanced Technologies program, is clinical director of the largest pediatric apheresis program in the United States, and is the Director of Medicine for the medical staff of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Paden is the co-chair of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization's ~70,000 patient Registry and serves on the steering committee as well. His overall research focus is advanced technologies use and artificial organ replacement, including ECMO, plasma exchange, and continuous renal replacement therapies (CRRT) in critically ill children. His translational research focus is KIDSCRRT - an FDA/NIH funded, novel neonatal and pediatric CRRT device he has invented. His clinical research includes CRRT accuracy, improving outcomes and the safety of extracorporeal therapies, and the management and outcomes of severe influenza. | | |  | L. Drew Pihera
Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Head of the System Engineering Software Applications Branch
L. Drew Pihera is a Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and is the Head of the System Engineering Software Applications Branch. His professional experience encompasses over thirteen years' of developing software and leading software efforts including in-flight training applications, decision support systems and systems engineering tools. Mr. Pihera's current focus is on web-based, collaborative applications for systems engineering purposes, decision support and education. In addition, he teaches in GTRI short courses and advises students during their capstone projects in the Professional Master's of Applied Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Pihera earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Georgia State University and his Professional Master's in Applied Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. | | |  | Alan Ravitz
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Alan Ravitz, Johns Hopkins University - Principal Professional Staff member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), is the Program Area Manager Healthcare. In this capacity, Mr. Ravitz manages a range of programs spanning biomedical and healthcare topics including advanced neural prosthetics, personalized medicine, functional biology, biomaterials, patient safety, and systems engineering. He is the Lead Systems Engineer for joint APL-Hopkins Medicine projects focused on applying a systems approach to eliminate preventable harm. Mr. Ravitz is a Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) by the Internal Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE). He is also a licensed Professional Engineer (Maryland). George Washington University (in progress), PhD Engineering Management and Systems Engineering. Johns Hopkins University (2004), MS Technical Management. University of Miami (1989), MS Electrical Engineering. Johns Hopkins University (1987), BS Biomedical Engineering | | | | | Tracy Rausch
Founder and CTO, DocBox, Inc.
Tracy Rausch is the founder and CTO of DocBox Inc., a medical device company addressing point of care device integration, workflow management, closed loop control and safety interlocks. Tracy is a Certified Clinical Engineer and has a Master's degree in engineering. DocBox systems are designed to improve patient safety and the efficacy of patient care. Tracy's area of expertise is in how to improve clinical workflow utilizing technology and understanding and translating clinical requirements into engineering systems requirements. | | |  | Ken Rubin
Chief Architect, Federal Healthcare Portfolio, HP Enterprise and Healthcare Domain Task Force Chair, OMG Ken Rubin is the Chief Architect for HP Enterprise Services' Federal Healthcare Portfolio. His areas of expertise are health informatics, enterprise architecture, and healthcare integration architecture, where he has done work for the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the Military Health System (now known as the Defense Health Agency), the UK National Health Service, and several other major health programs worldwide. In addition to the OMG, Mr. Rubin is active in Health Level Seven, Open Health Tools, the Open Source EHR Custodial Agent (OSEHRA), and HIMSS communities. | | |  | Richard Soley
CEO, Object Management Group
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of OMG, Executive Director of the Cloud Standards Customer Council, and Executive Director of the Industrial Internet Consortium, Dr. Soley also serves on numerous industrial, technical and academic conference program committees, and speaks all over the world on issues relevant to standards, the adoption of new technology and creating successful companies. | | |  | Dr. Paul Tibbits
Deputy Chief Information Officer for Architecture, Strategy, and Design, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Dr. Tibbits was inducted into Senior Executive Service in February 2004, appointed Deputy Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Development for Department of Veterans Affairs on 7 December 2006 - July 2010. He is currently the Deputy Chief Information Officer for Architecture, Strategy, and Design. Dr. Tibbits served in DoD as Director of the Business Management and Modernization Program and Transformation Support Office until September 2005, then served as Deputy Director of Military Health System Office of Transformation, representing Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs). While at VA, Dr. Tibbits led the Transformation-21 Work Group to set in place the IT organization, processes, projects, and knowledge management tools necessary to prepare VA to operate in the 21st century.
Dr. Tibbits is an experienced executive in change management, organizational development, global health IT systems, planning, problem-solving, metrics, outsourcing, contracts, finance, employee effectiveness, and customer satisfaction.
Dr. Tibbits served as Program Executive Officer of $400M Defense IT enterprise, with 18 yrs leading change management, process re-engineering, and IT initiatives supporting health care of 8.5M people, 50M visits, 1M admissions annually in Military Health System.
Dr. Tibbits led IT operations for approximately 100 hospitals, 500 clinics, 100 data centers, networks, and 125,000 desktops; and implemented controls to manage total ownership costs. | | |  | Chris Unger
Chief Systems Engineer, GE Healthcare
Chris Unger graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics and B.S. in Philosophy from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. in Physics from Boston University. He has worked as a systems engineer in the defense and medical fields for 28 years, and is an expert in systems engineering and medical imaging. Chris is currently the GE Healthcare Chief Systems Engineer. Previously, Chris served as the GE Healthcare lead system designer for programs in Computed Tomography (CT) and Interventional Systems, and has been Chief Engineer for the CT, X-ray, and Imaging Subsystems businesses. Chris is a certified Master Black Belt and has fifteen issued patents. He is the chair of the INCOSE Healthcare Working Group. | | |  | Yi Zhang
Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories (OSEL), Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA
Yi Zhang is a computer scientist at Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories (OSEL), Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He received his PhD degree in computer science from North Carolina State University in 2008, and has worked for FDA since. He is a principle investigator of OSEL on software and computer science research to tackle regulatory challenges facing medical devices. His research interests include formal methods (particularly model based engineering, software formal verification and static analysis), software testing, software comprehension, software engineering, and cyber security, with an emphasis on transitioning research advances in these areas to promote the safety and effectiveness of medical devices and to improve the regulatory science of the Agency. | | |  Last updated on 03/24/2015 |