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Attendee Introduction

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Fall CPC Meeting 2012

Aaronson, Barry, MD, FACP, SFHM

Title: Hospitalist and Associate Medical Director for

Clinical Informatics

Organization: Virginia Mason Medical Center

City, State: Seattle, WA

Specialty/Specialties: Internal Medicine/Hospitalist

Email: [email protected]

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: AMIA/JAMIA

Brief Professional Biography:

Medicine residency, chief resident, Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Hos-

pitalist for 15 years/faculty for medicine residency, section head Hospitalist

service prior to switching to informatics. Completed National Library of Med-

icine fellowship in Biomedical Health Informatics at University of Washing-

ton in 2009 and have been working ½ time as hospitalist and ½ time as

Associate Medical Director for Clinical Informatics at Virginia Mason since.

Focus on use of real time group situational awareness to achieve 100%

compliance with quality and safety measures.

Brief Summary of Cerner Solution Expertise:

Particular interest/experience/expertise with mpages: 1) use of mpages for

custom summary pages, inpatient in particular, that allow for inflow docu-

mentation, ordering, and maintenance of diagnosis/problem list and 2) as

a tool to create a “quality safety dashboard (clinical andon board) in the

inpatient arena.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 10 yrs

Alsip, Jorge A., MD, MBA, CPE

Title: CMIO

Organization: UAB Health System

City, State: Birmingham, AL

Specialty/Specialties: Emergency Medicine

CPC Attendees in alphabetical order by last name...


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: AMIA


Education: BS in Biology (Alabama); MD (UAB); MBA (Alabama); Internal

Medicine Internship (UAB); Emergency Medicine Residency (Richland Me-

morial Hospital – now Palmetto Health).

I practiced emergency medicine full time in Mobile, Alabama for 19 years

and was the physician champion for our ED’s 1993 implementation of

voice recognition for documentation and 2004 implementation of a full

EDIS including CPOE. In 2005 I joined Cerner as a consulting physician

executive and was Medical Director of US Consulting when I left to accept

a position as UAB Health System’s CMIO in October 2011.


During my 6 years as a Cerner associate my focus was on physician adop-

tion, especially PowerChart, FirstNet and PowerChart Ambulatory. While

at Cerner I also formed a FirstNet optimization team and spent a fair

amount of time performing assessments at client sites live with First-

Net. Before becoming their CMIO I worked with UAB Health System as a

Cerner consultant and helped implement PowerChart, CPOE, PowerNote,

PowerChart Maternity, and Meds Rec. We began rolling PowerChart Am-

bulatory (including CPOE, PowerNote and e-prescribing) out to our 150+

clinics in May 2011 and will complete the implementation later this year.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 7

Anderson, Colby, RN

Title: Physician Liaison/Clinical Informaticist

Organization: St. Joseph Mercy Health System

City, State: Ann Arbor, MI


Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 5 years

Ardis, Karen, MD, MA

Title: MIO, Baptist Easley Hospital; Medical Director Wound Care & Hyper-

baric Center

Organization: Baptist Easley Hospital (Palmetto Health)

City, State: Easley, SC

Specialty/Specialties: Fellow, American Board of Family Medicine



After completing my Family Medicine residency at Medical Center of Dela-

ware (now Christiana Care), I opened a rural family medicine office in Liber-

ty, SC. The practice thrived, and in 2005 we became the second practice in

the county to convert to EMR. As the hospital moved forward with steadily

rolling out the Cerner EMR, I decided to leave primary care and work as the

Physician Informatics Liaison, while still using the system clinically while

working as part-time Hospitalist and ED physician. My role has now been

redefined as MIO for Baptist Easley Hospital, and while I continue to work

PRN in ED and inpatient side, most of my current clinical work is in our

Wound Center.


We started in 2003 with laboratory and radiology results and transcription

online, and have steadily added functionality to reach our current paperless

chart, both ED and inpatient. We are currently in the midst of converting all

our outpatient practices to PowerWorks, with expected completion date of

11/2012.


Babitch, Leland A., MD, MBA

Title: Chief Medical Information Officer

Organization: Detroit Medical Center (Vanguard Health System)

City, State: Detroit, MI

Specialty/Specialties: Pediatrics


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: HISTalk


mailto:[email protected]

Leland is a pediatrician by training, having gone to medical school at

Wayne State, and completing his residency at St. Louis Children's Hospi-

tal. He was in private practice for 3 years before returning to Detroit. He

went on to get his MBA from Michigan State, and went through several

positions at the DMC and the Department of Pediatrics at Wayne State,

including Administrative Fellow, Chief Compliance Officer, and Medical

Director for Ambulatory and Information Services. Eventually, he became

the first CMIO for the system of eight hospitals (1600 beds) in 2008 after

assisting in the successful launch of CPOE, nursing documentation,

closed-loop med scanning, etc. in 2006-2007. Leland still practices 1/2

day per week in a resident clinic, and supervises a team 2 weeks per year.

He lives in Birmingham, MI with his wife, a criminal defense attorney, and

two sons, 6 and 7.


Since assuming the position of CMIO in 1998, Leland has overseen the

launch of PowerNotes throughout the system, with over 120,000 created

each month. He is an end user of both PowerChart as well as Power-

Works, and is currently in the midst of a 2012 code upgrade. The DMC is

an early adopter of the St. John Sepsis rules as well as the alpha partner

for eQuality Check.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: DMC has been

a Millennium customer for 14 years, and Leland has been using the sys-

tem for 11 years. As "advanced users" the DMC has been at a HIMSS

Stage 6 since 2010

Banas, Colin, MD, MSHA

Title: CMIO

Organization: VCU Health System

City, State: Richmond, VA

Specialty/Specialties: Internal Medicine Hospitalist


Twitter Name: @VCUHS_ONE_CMIO

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: AMDIS


Colin Banas is an Internal Medicine Hospitalist and the Chief Medical Infor-

mation Officer for VCU Health System in Richmond, VA. He heads the Office

of Clinical Transformation, a unique group of clinicians and support staff

who drive innovation and optimization into the application of information

technology at the point of care. The clinician input architecture focuses on

6 core areas of interest: User experience, Online documentation, Electronic

orders, Clinical decision support, Clinical communication and Data Integrity

and analytics.

Having graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA, Dr.

Banas went to work for Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in

2002. In 2008, while working at MCV as a Hospitalist for the Department

of Internal Medicine and as Medical Director for the Department of Care

Coordination, Dr. Banas received his Master of Science in Health Admin-

istration from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. He regular-

ly leads students in an online course in medical informatics.


Pretty good at CPOE, Discern Expert, Powerplans, Powernotes, mPages –

pretty much everything that is face-up for the docs (and some things that

are face down!)


Barger, Leslie, MD

Title: Physician Medical Director

Organization: Dignity Health, Mercy General Hospital

City, State: Sacramento, CA

Specialty/Specialties: Pulmonary/Critical Care



I attended Medical School at the University of Nevada, graduating in 1982. I

did my residency in Internal Medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University

in Portland, Oregon; Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at the Universi-

ty of Vermont, Burlington, VT. I have been in private practice with Mercy

Medical Group, within Catholic Healthcare West – now Dignity Health –

since 1991, in Sacramento, CA. My hospital affiliation is with Mercy Gen-

eral Hospital in Sacramento.


5 hospitals in the Sacramento region, Sacramento Service Area/SSA,

went live with Cerner Millenium Power Chart on a single domain in March

2009, CPOE in September 2009, the upgrade in 2011 incorporated

mPages, MicroViewer, and electronic Med Reconciliation. We implement-

ed Power Notes starting in August 2011, ED Powernotes September

2012.


Bashir, Muntazar, MD, MBChB, AMC, FRACGP, FRCP(UK), CPHIMS,

MBA (Dist.)

Title: Chairman and Consultant Family Physician

Organization: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (Gen.

Org.) - Jeddah

City, State: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Specialty/Specialties: Family Medicine



Dr. Muntazar Bashir graduated from the University of Aberdeen Medical

School, in Aberdeen, Scotland, in July, 1990. After completing his intern-

ship in Bradford, England, he commenced General Practice training on

the Nottingham Vocational Training Scheme, Nottingham. In 1994 he trav-

elled to Australia, where he worked for two years on hospital rotations at

the Goulburn Valley Base Hospital in Shepparton, Victoria. He then worked

for four years as a full-time General Practitioner with admitting rights to

the local cottage hospital, in Echuca, Victoria. During his time at Echuca,

he passed the Australian Medical Council exam and the Royal Australian

College of General Practitioners fellowship exam, to become a Fellow of

the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

He returned to the United Kingdom in 1999 and passed the Royal College

of Physicians exam in July 2000. In September, 2000, he commenced

research at the University of Manchester and Manchester Royal Infirmary,

England. He moved to Jeddah in 2001, where he was appointed as an

Associate Consultant Family Physician, at King Faisal Specialist Hospital

and Research Centre. Two years later he was promoted to Consultant,

and since July, 2005, has been the Chairman of the Department of Family

Medicine. He has served the hospital as chairman on several important

committees (including the Medical Quality Management Committee and

Information Technology Task Force for the upcoming Mega-expansion of

the hospital) and since 2009 he has been the Chairman of the Cerner

Steering Committee. He passed his CPHIMS exam in July 2011, and com-

pleted his MBA with distinction in September 2011 from the Maastricht

School of Management, Holland.


Dr Bashir has been the Chairman of the Cerner Steering Committee in his

hospital since March, 2009. He has helped with the implementation of

Cerner Phase 2 (including Powerchart, FirstNet, Profile, Pharmnet, Radnet)

and the 2010 code upgrade. The King Faisal Specialist Hospital General

Organisation in Riaydh and Jeddah was awarded HIMSS Stage 6 status in

2012. He is currently working with implementation of Phase 3 (which will

including Helix, Outreach, Webconnect, AP image management, Laboratory

Imaging, Synoptic reporting, Infection Control, CPDI, MPages).

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 3.5

Beams, Terry

Title: Project Manager/Operations

City, State: Fontana, CA


Bhushan, Adrien K., MD

Title: Chief Medical Informatics Officer

Organization: Memorial Hospital, a Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) facility

City, State: Chattanooga, TN

Specialty/Specialties: Hospitalist, Internal Medicine


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: AMIA, JAMIA, http://

dirkmd.blogspot.com


I am a practicing hospitalist with a prior background in Healthcare IT Con-

sulting. I have both implemented, and used, various CPOE and electronic

documentation systems at different points in my career. I completed med-

ical school at the Medical College of Georgia, residency at Emory, and

chief residency at the University of Tennessee. I have been at Memorial

Hospital for 3 years, and am currently assisting in the implementation of

Cerner at our facility, as well as at multiple CHI facilities nationwide.


Minimal

Blackmer, Gayle M.

Title: Executive Director, Ambulatory Systems

Organization: Adventist Health

City, State: Roseville, CA

Specialty/Specialties: Multi



Cerner Power Chart Office and Power Chart Ambulatory, IQ Health


Bongers, Wendy, MD

Title: Corridor CMIO/Mayo Clinic Health System Physician Champion for

Patient Online Services

Organization: Mayo Clinic Health System

City, State: Faribault, MN

Specialty/Specialties: FP


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: Crucial Conversations


Worked for Allina Medical Clinics for 8 years, and with Mayo Clinic Health

System (MCHS) now for over 1 year. Special interest in improving work-

flows both clinically and within the EMR. Corridor Chief Medical Information

Officer for Owatonna and Faribault sites. Also MCHS Physician Champion

for Patient Online Services and representative from MCHS Clinical Practice

Council on the Mayo E-Health Platform working on implementing online

patient services.

Boyer, R. Michael, DO, MS, FACOA

Title: Associate Professor

Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine

Department of Anesthesiology

Medical Director, Olson Ambulatory Surgical Center

Associate Medical Director, Clinical Information Services

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Chicago, IL



My primary academic/administrative/clinical interest is in quality, infor-

mation systems, patient safety, care-pathways and administrative medicine

relating to; creating/supporting evidence-based approaches to patient care,

establishing standards, developing process/protocols to support the stand-

ards and globally reducing multidisciplinary practice variance. Thoughtfully

constructed and deployed; fully communicating, multidisciplinary-shared

electronic medical records positively impact healthcare outcome. Discrete

electronic medical record structure, via queryable data, and user-friendly

interface promote documentation to drive process.

Regarding anesthesia and electronic medical record documentation: An

AIMS (anesthesia information management system) consists of a complex

array of process and technology assembled to document perioperative pa-

tient care by anesthesia providers. An AIMS, and/or any electronic medical

record technology should be implemented with overall enhancement of

patient safety, care quality, multi-disciplinary healthcare provider communi-

cation, cost capture/containment, research potential and overall process

improvement as primary objectives.

Northwestern deployed Cerner Solutions:

PowerChart – CPOE/Meds Process, Physician Documentation, All

Nursing/Clinical Documentation, BMDI/I-View in (NICU, SICU, CCU), First-

Net, PowerChart Office, PharmNet, SurgiNet, Anatomic Pathology, RadNet,

PowerChart Local Access, Surginet Anesthesia

Bresnan, Paul, MD

Title: Medical Director of Informatics

Organization: Lakeland Regional Medical Center

City, State: Lakeland, FL

Specialty/Specialties: Internal Medicine


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue : John Halamka; http://

geekdoctor.blogspot.com/ ; AMDIS


Education: BS in Premedical Science (Lehigh University); MD (Medical

College of Pennsylvania); Internal Medicine Residency (University of Mi-

ami/Jackson Memorial Hospital)

I have practiced General Internal Medicine for 24 years at the Watson

Clinic, a multi-specialty physician owned partnership in Lakeland, FL. Four

years ago, I started to work at my hospital half time in informatics. I now

work half time in my clinical practice and half time at the hospital where I

assist in EHR system design, clinical process analysis, quality improve-

ment and workflow optimization.


I have assisted in the implementation of FirstNet, PowerNoteED, Surginet,

PowerChart Office, PowerChart Maternity, PowerChart Oncology, Power-

chart CPOE, IMO, PowerNote and Lighthouse. We have created over 400

PowerPlans to aid in our go live in June 2012.


Buchman, Timothy G., PhD., MD, FACS, FCCP, MCCM

Title: Director

Organization: Emory Center for Critical Care

City, State: Atlanta, GA

Specialty/Specialties:Surgery, Critical Care


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: Society of Critical Care Medi-

cine website, www.sccm.org


Dr. Buchman is the founding director of the Emory Center for Critical Care

(ECCC), which is integrating ICUs throughout the Emory Healthcare system

and bringing together clinicians and investigators from diverse disciplines

to conduct research to define best clinical practices and inform public

health policy. The center also houses Emory's training programs in critical

care anesthesiology, surgical critical care, and pulmonary/medical critical

care, including the critical residency for NP/PA providers.

Dr. Buchman is past president of the Shock Society , the Society for Com-

plexity in Acute Illness and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the latter

being the largest organization of critical care professionals worldwide. His

research spans the bench-to-bedside continuum, including studies of physi-

ological dynamics, genetics of predisposition to sepsis and of ICU end-of-life

care. Before joining Emory, he served as professor of surgery and director

of acute and critical care surgery at Washington University School of Medi-

cine in St. Louis. Prior to his 15 years on the faculty at Washington Universi-

ty, Dr. Buchman directed the surgical intensive care unit and the trauma

center at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where he completed his sur-

gical training.”


Dr. Buchman is collaborating with the Emory IS team and Cerner's Innova-

tion Engineers to develop the Body System View, which aims to conform the

displays more closely to the ways clinicians think in the critical care environ-

ment. This new presentation of data provides a body system based organi-

zation to the data. Within each system, the data are organized into the cur-

rent state of the patient, the processes driving that state (medications, de-

vices, other treatments), the goals for that body system and finally a win-

dow into order entry focused on interventions relevant to that body system.


Burwell, David L., MD

Title: CMIO

Organization: Altoona Regional Health System

City, State: Altoona, PA



Twitter Name: @CMIOARHS

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: CMIO.net


Solo Family Medicine physician who is the first CMIO of a mid-sized health

system. IT interests include data analytics, Big Data, and Predictive Ana-

lytics.


None yet.

Butler, Linda, MD

Title: Chief Medical Officer, Vice President of Medical Affairs

Organization: Rex Healthcare

City, State: Raleigh, NC




Dr. Butler received her undergraduate degree from NC State University,

her Masters at the University of Florida and her Doctor of Medicine from

the University of North Carolina. She has worked at Rex Healthcare since

2009.


Castellano, Penny Z., MD, FACOG

Title: Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs,

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medi-

cine; Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer, The Emory Clinic

Organization: The Emory Clinic; Emory Healthcare

City, State: Atlanta Georgia

Specialty/Specialties: Gynecology and Obstetrics




On faculty at Emory since 1990

Multiple leadership roles including student clerkship director for Gyne-

cology and Obstetrics, Medical Director of Emory Clinic North and Chief

Medical Officer for Primary Care

Senior member of the Emory Clinic Executive Administrative Team

since 2001.

Functioned as MD lead for initial ambulatory implementation of Cerner

Millennium in 2005

Continue to function as physician executive lead for use and further

implementation of Cerner in the Ambulatory venues of the Emory Facul-

ty Practice

Serve in lead roles for quality reporting and quality improvement initia-

tives across The Emory Clinic

Current Physician Executive lead for eligible provider Meaningful Use

Initiatives

Current clinical focus is complicated menopausal medicine


All ambulatory functionality


Cauley, Dean, MD, FAAP

Title: Medical Informatics Physician

Organization: Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters

City, State: Norfolk, VA




MD-University of Illinois. Pediatrics Internship & Residency-Eastern Virgin-

ia Medical School/Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters (Norfolk,

VA). I am currently in my 11th year of practice in general pediatrics, and

my 2nd year working part-time as a medical informatics physician for our

health system.


I was a physician participant in build sessions with Cerner architects prior

to our health system's ambulatory Powerchart go-live in the fall of 2010.

My nine-physician practice was the 2nd of our general pediatric practices

to go-live, and I have worked extensively with our IS & IT colleagues in sup-

porting the employees of my practice and of other practices in our system

as they have switched from paper to Powerchart. Our ER has gone live for

physician documentation, our subspecialty clinics are next, and the inpa-

tient services will follow.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: Three.

Chamberlain, Jerry, RN

Title: Director of Information Technology

Organization: Fort HealthCare

City, State: Fort Atkinson, WI



During his tenure at Fort HealthCare, Mr. Chamberlain has overseen a

comprehensive big-bang transition and implementation of the EMR into

every clinic, outpatient treatment venue, and inpatient department at Fort

HealthCare Within months of this transition, Fort HealthCare was able to


attest for Meaningful Use Stage 1, show marked clinical and operational

improvements, and was recognized as a HIMSS Stage 7 award hospital.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 10+

Colorafi, Joseph, MD, FCCP, HCEMBA

Title: VP CMIO

Organization: Dignity Health

City, State: San Francisco, CA


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: JAMIA


Cerner Inpatient, Cerner Ambulatory, Powerinsight


Conant, Reid F., MD, FACEP

Title: CMIO

Organization: Tri-City Emergency Medical Group

City, State: Oceanside, CA




PowerNote, Dynamic Documentation, Dragon Medical, Physician Documen-

tation Adoption, CCL scripting, MPages, CPOE, Process Improvement using

Cerner Solutions.


Dassenko, David, MD

Title: Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Care Unit (Cardiovascular OR,

Cath Lab, CVICU, Periop Center, Diagnostics)

Organization: Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

City, State: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Specialty/Specialties: Pediatric Cardiovascular Anesthesia and Cardiovas-

cular Critical Care



Practicing pediatric anesthesia and critical care for over 25 years. In the

past 5 years have been involved in the creation and management of the

Cardiovascular Center at Children's Hospital. This center was created

from a busy cardiovascular surgery program already in existence. The

purpose of the center was to concentrate all cardiovascular services un-

der one roof with streamline processes and improve quality. This included

the construction of new space to house the new program.


Cerner EMR at Children's for over 10 years. We were one of the first pro-

grams to integrate iAware software into our daily CVICU practice.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 10 years (hospital

wide), 4 years (CVICU - i Aware).

Elek, Ken, MD, FAAFP

Title: CMIO

Organization: Memorial Hospital of South Bend, IN

City, State: South Bend, IN



Twitter Name: @memcmio


12.5 years of private practice, 12.5 years of residency faculty and 2 years

of CMIO experience.

Engel, Michael, MD

President of the Medical Staff @ The Alaska Native Medical Center Acting

CMIO since Oct 2011 Cerner Go Live Attending Physician Pediatric Critical

Care Medicine


Eskridge, Bernard (Bernie), MD, FAAP, NRP Instructor

Title: General Pediatrician, Newborn Nursery Medical Director, Region 7

NEEF Asthma Champion, Orders Management Committee Co-Chair

Organization: University of Missouri Health Care

City, State: Columbia, MO



Twitter Name: @eskridgeb

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: AAP, APA


I obtained my medical degree for the University of Louisville, KY and com-

pleted residency training in Pediatrics at the University of Missouri. I am an

Assistant Professor of Child Health at the University of Missouri where I

function as a general pediatrician who maintains a private clinic, supervises

some resident training, serves as the Newborn Nursery Medical Director,

and participates in medical student education. I also have roles in CPOE

orders management, patient health information records, and oversight of

our Millenium Product. Finally, I serve as a CDC funded NEEF Faculty Asth-

ma Champion in NEEF region 7 and an Academic Pediatric Association Re-

gion 6 Co-Chair.


I participated extensively in our Ambulatory Roll-Out over the past year in-

cluding our current oncology roll out. I also Co-chair our Orders Manage-

ment Committee


Esther, James H., MD, MBA

Title: CMIO

Organization: St. Luke's Hospital

City, State: Chesterfield, Missouri

Specialties: Board Certified Internal Medicine, Board Certified Rheumatolo-

gy


Cerner experience: Two years. We completed CPOE roll out in May, 2012

Fisher, Scott R., MD

Title: Chief Medical Information Officer

Organization: Health Quest System

City, State: Poughkeepsie, NY (also Rhinebeck, NY; Fishkill, NY; Carmel,

NY)

Specialty/Specialties: Anesthesiology, Primary Care, Medical Informatics


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: ACPE


Nearly 20 years in clinical medicine, primarily anesthesiology, obstetric

anesthesiology (sub-specialty), and primary care in underserved areas.

Now 14 1/2 years full-time in Medical Informatics. Primary interests in

Change Management, Clinical Transformation, and Physician Adoption.


Interfaced with multiple Cerner Hospitals as Physician Executive with

VISICU; CMIO Mentor, Delano Regional Medical Center, Delano, CA; Asso-

ciate CMIO, Program Director, Ambulatory EMR Project, Children's Hospi-

tal Los Angeles


Fleming, Richard, MD

Title: HCDM Physician Lead


City, State: Mankato, MN

Specialty/Specialties: Family Practice



Forrester, Alan, FACEM

Title: Network Director of Emergency Hastings Mcleay



Organization: Mid North Coast LHD

City, State: Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia

Specialty/Specialties: Emergency



10 years post training and have worked in New Zealand, Ireland and Aus-

tralia. Currently working in community hospital network in rural New South

Wales Australia. Chair the state FirstNet user group for public hospitals in

New South Wales.


Freeman, Davidson L., MD

Title: Assistant Professor, Pediatrics; Medical Co-Director Information Tech-

nology

Organization: Georgia Health Sciences University

City, State: Augusta, Georgia




Practice General Private Pediatrics for 18 years before joining GHSU 10

years ago


Began with IT ~ 6 years ago has we began Cerner. Currently on 2007-19

code set, upgrading early 2013 to 2012. Currently using CPOE in Ambulato-

ry and Inpatient setting. Currently expanding documentation to include all

Ambulatory and Inpatient encounters. Beginning Surgi-Net/Lighthouse.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: ~6 years

Gaughan, Thomas J., MD

Title: Medical Director Physician Relations/Quality

Organization: Flagstaff Medical Center


City, State: Flagstaff, AZ

Specialty/Specialties: Psychiatry



Gelin, John D., MD

Title: Physician Champion

Organization: Citrus Memorial Health System

City, State: Inverness, Florida

Specialty/Specialties: Family Practice Physician and Medical Director-

Hospice of Citrus County



Go Live two weeks with Cerner Power Works at office and pre-conversion

support as physician champion for the physician track at Citrus Memorial

Health System.

Graham, Justin, MD, MS

Title: CMIO

Organization: NorthBay Health System

City, State: Fairfield, CA

Specialty/Specialties: Infectious Disease


Twitter Name: @jvghealthcare

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: HISTalk


Informatics expert since 1998, and in CMIO roles since 2006. First major

job after training was consulting with Deloitte and acting as the lead phy-

sician for clinical content for Kaiser’s inpatient EHR deployment. Led the

CMS Doctor’s Office Quality – IT project that was the pilot program for

today’s RECs. Developed an enterprise architecture and HIT solution as



part of the remediation of California’s prison healthcare system. Provided

CMIO leadership consulting as part of Dearborn Advisors. Currently the

CMIO for NorthBay Healthcare in Fairfield, CA.

Board certified in infectious diseases with a master’s degree in biomedical

informatics. Trained at UC San Francisco, Harvard University and Stanford

University. Continuing to practice medicine as an infectious disease expert

at NorthBay and as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF.


No Cerner expertise prior to coming to NorthBay in 2010, but now I feel I

know enough to be dangerous.


Grassey, Amy, MBA

Title: Director Process Optimization

Organization: Community Physicians Group

City, State: Missoula, MT

Specialty/Specialties: Multi-Specialty and Primary Care



I have over 15 years of integrated practice operations experience and have

led several successful EMR implementations working with various vend-

ers. I have built teams to support provider and staff adoption and devel-

oped training curriculums to enhance the learning experience.

I recently transitioned to Community Physicians Group where my role has

now evolved into developing the optimization plan for EMR utilization and

workflow efficiencies. With that we are becoming a recognized PCMH pro-

gram and expanding our Disease Management and Health Management

opportunities.

Gupta, Hemant, MD, MSc.

Title: CMIO

Organization: Lourdes Hospital, Ascension Healthcare

City, State: Binghamton, NY



Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: AMIA, AMDIS, HIMSS, CMI-

Onet


I have worked in Health IT since 2006. I completed medical school at

UMASS Medical School and Medicine Residency at Rush Medical Center,

Chicago. I have been involved in the patient safety, medical education and

compliance fields. In 2008 I was an MIO at Holyoke Medical Center, Mas-

sachusetts rolling out CPOE and physician documentation in Meditech.

Since 2011 I have been a CMIO at Lourdes rollout out CPOE, Med Rec,

CDS alerts, Physician Documentation in Cerner. We use Allscripts in our

outpatient. We are MU Stage I attested this year. I have worked on devel-

oping > 500 ordersets. Trained over > 500 doctors and support staff. Ex-

tensively involved with Zynx. Currently pursuing my MBA focused on

healthcare with the ACPE. I am actively interested in mobile computing

(EMR, CPOE), and secure text messaging for healthcare entities.


I have been involved with CERNER since 2011 working with Powerchart

and Firstnet applications. As a development and transformational leader

at our hospital.


Heiderscheit, Jon, MD

Title: Regional Medical Information Officer

Organization: Mayo Clinic Health System, Franciscan Healthcare

City, State: Onalaska, Wisconsin




Graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine,

1995. Completed La Crosse-Mayo Family Medicine Residency, 1998.

Worked 7 ½ years practicing family medicine in Henderson, NC for Duke

University Affiliated Physicians. Returned to Franciscan Skemp Healthcare

(now MCHS) near La Crosse in 2007. Currently practicing family medicine

physician in Onalaska and serving as Associate Regional Medical Infor-

mation Officer since 2011.


Leading development of mobility strategy for MCHS. Led ambulatory CPOE

roll-out for Franciscan Healthcare. Active participant in Cerner Ambulatory

Council.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: four

Hill, Peter C., MD, FACP, FACCP

Title: CMIO

Organization: MedStar Washington Hospital Center

City, State: Washington DC

Specialty/Specialties: Pulmonary Medicine



Currently preparing to implement CPOE, iView documentation and First Net

across a 7 hospital system


Hitch, Todd, MT (ASCP)

Title: Sr. Application Analyst


City, State: Fort Atkinson, WI

Specialty/Specialties: Physician Adoption, Pharmacy, Image capture, mobili-

ty, laboratory




mailto:[email protected]%3cmailto:[email protected]

Holland, William W., MD

Title: Senior Director of Physician Informatics

Organization: Banner Health

City, State: Phoenix, AZ



Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: AAFP


Education: BS in Microbiology (Texas A&M); MD (Baylor College of Medi-

cine); Family Medicine Residency (Banner Good Samaritan Family Medi-

cine Residency); Medical Informatics MBL/NLM Course Fellow Certificate.

Banner Health is an integrated care delivery system with 23 hospitals and

80+ clinics over 7 states. I am a practicing Family Physician, who over the

past 3 years has been involved in the implementation and meaningful

adoption of electronic health records in the ambulatory space for Banner

Health. I am now the Senior Director for Physician Informatics focused on

integrating our Informatics strategy across our inpatient, ambulatory, and

ACO populations.


We have been using Cerner solutions since 1993 and are utilizing multiple

Cerner products including PathNet, RadNet, PharmNet, SurgiNet, Power-

Chart, PowerOrders, MPages, PowerNote, and FirstNet across 23 inpatient

facilities. We have achieved HIMSS Analytics Level 7 at 18 of our facilities

and have attested for Stage 1 of MU at all of our eligible hospitals.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: Banner has been

using Cerner solutions for 19 years.

Hoppe, Natalie, RN, CNP

Title: Certified Nurse Practitioner


City, State: Mankato, MN

Specialty/Specialties: Cardiology



Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: Up-To-Date, ACC.


I have been a registered nurse since 1992 and a certified nurse practition-

er since 1998. I worked as a Family Nurse Practitioner at a Health Partners

Clinic (HMO) from 1999 to 2005. EPIC was implemented while I was there,

and I was the site EPIC Provider Champion throughout my employment. We

moved as a family to Mankato in 2005, when I joined the Mayo Clinic

Health System and have been working as an Acute Care Cardiology Nurse

Practitioner since then.


I have always had an interest in the EMR and its integration into patient

care. I have been involved with the EMR committee at Mayo Clinic Health

System for 2 years. We will be going live with inpatient CPOE in less than

one year. As the majority of my care is in the inpatient setting, I am contin-

uing to try to advance my knowledge and skill in that setting. One example

is the Medication Depart Committee that I am involved with to address De-

part Medication concerns and patient safety.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 2 plus.

Hugman, Andrew, MB, BS, FACEM, FCEM

Title: Emergency Physician (Consultant); Pre-Hospital Care and Retrieval

Medicine Specialist (Consultant)

Organization: Prince of Wales Hospital Aeromedical & Medical Retrieval Ser-

vices, Ambulance Service of New South Wales

City, State: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Specialty/Specialties: Emergency Medicine; Pre-Hospital Care and Retrieval

Medicine


Favourite Physician or Industry Online Venue: www.lifeinthefastlane.com


A Brit who has moved to Australia over a decade ago, but still supports the

English rugby & cricket sides. An Emergency Physician who enjoys splitting



http://www.lifeinthefastlane.com

time between a busy metropolitan Sydney Emergency Department & being

a state wide duty consultant for pre-hospital & retrieval for the New South

Wales Ambulance Service. Keen technophile and early adopter & embrac-

es a closer interface of clinical medicine & technology, particularly in the

fields of emergency medicine, tele-medicine & remote & disaster medicine.


Powerchart (since 1999), FirstNet (since approx. 2003). Recently orches-

trated the conversion of a metropolitan ED into a near-paperless environ-

ment with ClinDoc in FirstNet.


Iriana, Sarah, MD

Title: Practice site medical director for general pediatrics; Clinical lead team

for ambulatory EMR implementation

Organization: Penn State Hershey Medical Center

City, State: Hershey, PA




I attended medical school at University of Vermont College of Medicine and

have been a practicing pediatrician for 17 years. I started working on the

design and implementation of our ambulatory EMR 1 1/2 years ago. Our

institution is in the process of a rolling outpatient go-live and currently all of

our primary care sites and some of our specialty clinics are live with other

specialty sites currently rolling out.

Izard, Stephen R., MD, PhD

Organization: Palmetto Health

City, State: Columbia, SC

Specialty/Specialties: Internal Medicine with open access, ie no appoint-

ment required



I received MS, Ph.D. and M.D. degrees and am board certified in internal


medicine. I have been inn an open access general medicine practice for

27 years


I have only been with Cerner for 6 months and consider myself to be a ca-

pable user but need to improve my efficiency

Jackson, Rene, BSN, RN

Title: Clinical Informatics Manager

Organization: University of Illinois Hospital and Health Science System

City, State: Chicago, IL

Specialty/Specialties:



PowerChart, PowerNote, Lighthouse CQM, Meaningful Use Objectives, ,

FirstNet, PowerNote ED, iView, Care Aware, Medication Reconciliation, De-

part Process, Message Center, CPOE, M-Pages, BCMA, Autotext


Jarvis, Vincent N., MD, MPH

Title: CMO

Organization: New York Hotel Trades Employee Benefit Funds

City, State: NY NY

Specialty/Specialties: ABIM, AAHIVM, ASAM,



CMO for the NY Hotel Trades Employee Benefit Funds for three years, Over

two decades of Physician Executive Leadership, Focus on Delivery of High

Quality Comprehensive Medical Care


Lead to over 50 PCPs and 150 Specialists to document care. Lead to en-

tire organization (about 1,000 staff) for Cerner Upgrade. Drive Quality.




Jennings, Tripp, MD, FACEP

Title: CMIO

Organization: Palmetto Health Quality Collaborative


Specialty/Specialties: Emergency Medicine, Biomedical Informatics


Twitter Name: @trippjennings

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: social media,

www.trippjennings.com


Jibrin, Ismail Musa, MD, PG Dip., FACP, FSHM

Title: Medical Director of Hospitalist Service and Clinical Assistant Professor

of Medicine

Organization: Verde Valley Medical Center

City, State: Cottonwood, AZ

Specialty/Specialties: Internal Medicine/ Hospitalist




I have been engaged with Hospital Patient Care for 22 years. I provide

comprehensive Internal Medicine care to inpatients. As an administrator, I

oversee and guide operations of the whole hospitalist services. Also, I

serve as a physician lead in introducing, and evaluating cutting edge

healthcare IT solutions.


CPOE, Powerplans, Powerchart, M Pages, Meaningful Use, and Solution

Expert.


http://palmettohealth.org

http://www.trippjennings.com


Johnson, James, MD

Title: Chair, Quality Assurance Committee Chair, Quality Outcomes Commit-

tee

Organization: Tri City Medical Center

City, State: Oceanside, Ca

Specialty/Specialties: Anesthesiology



Johnston, Laura, RN

Title: Clinical Analyst

Organization: Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

City, State: Seattle, Washington

Specialty/Specialties: Oncology



Registered nurse working in nearly all venues and age ranges for 30+

years; Started at Cerner in 2002; returned to client status at SCCA in 2011


PowerNote specialist, CPOE, PowerPlans, Clinical documentation;


Joseph, Craig, MD

Title: CMIO

Organization: Agnesian HealthCare

City, State: Fond du Lac, WI






Twitter Name: @craigjoseph

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: Mr. HISTalk (www.histalk.com)


I received my Bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of

Miami. My medical degree is from Wayne State University, and I completed

my pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. I practiced

primary care pediatrics for eight years in suburban Detroit. I joined Epic

Systems Corp. as a physician informaticist in 2005, helping to develop

their “Model System” content and configuration, as well as working with

their customer physician executives to maximize use of the electronic

health record.

In late 2011, I became the first CMIO at Agnesian HealthCare, a three-

hospital system with a large multispecialty physician group in central Wis-

consin. We’ve been live with multiple Cerner solutions since 2005, but we

are just now implementing CPOM system wide.


PowerChart, CPOM, medication reconciliation

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: One

Klejka, Joseph A., MD

Title: YKHC Corporate Medical Director

Organization: Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation

City, State: Bethel, Alaska




Originally born in Cleveland, Ohio, Joe completed his graduate medical ed-

ucation at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in Root-

stown, Ohio. Prior to coming to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in 1992, he

completed a 3-year Family Practice residency in Canton, Ohio. Since 1992,

Joe has worked for YKHC, first as a staff physician, then as Clinical Direc-

tor, and since 1996 as the Corporate Medical Director. He is Board Certi-

fied in Family Medicine. He also serves as a board member of the Alaska

Primary Care Association, a non-profit agency serving Community Health

Centers throughout Alaska.

In addition, Joe was elected to the Bethel City Council first in October of

2009 and again in 2011 both times he was elected mayor by the members

of council. Joe has lived in Bethel since 1992 with his wife Jackie and sev-

en children. He and his family have a 20-dog kennel and participate in

local and state dogsled races. His oldest daughter, Jessica, won the 2008

Junior Iditarod Sled Dog Race, and his oldest son, Jeremiah, won the 2011

Junior Iditarod Sled Dog Race.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: Going live January

28, 2013

Klevens, Michael, MD, FAAEM

Title: Emergency Physician, Director of Emergency Cardiac Services, Physi-

cian Architect Medical Informatics

Organization: St. Luke's Hospital

City, State: St. Louis, MO



B.A. Economics and History, Emory University; Commercial Banker, Mark

Twain Bank; M.D. MCP Hahnemann; Emergency Medicine Residency: Tem-

ple University; Assistant Professor Washington University School of Medi-

cine 2003-2005; Emergency Physician St. Luke's Hospital 2005-current


FirstNet 2007-current; Physician Architect CPOE and PowerChart for hospi-

tal wide roll out 2011-current


Krenn, Louis, MD

Title: CMIO

Organization: CoxHealth

City, State: Springfield, MO




Twitter Name: @louiskrennmd

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: Up-To-Date


I attended medical school at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,

followed by Family Medicine residency at CoxHealth. I have practiced fami-

ly medicine at CoxHealth Center Willard in Willard, MO for the past 8 years.

I have been involved with our EMR development since joining Cox as a resi-

dent, officially becoming CMIO in 2009.


CoxHealth has been live with Cerner 15+ years including PowerChart,

PowerNote, CPOE, MPages, FirstNet (1 ED), SurgiNet, PathNet, Rad-

Net, Medication Reconciliation (limited), Depart, IView (limited), CareA-

ware, eMAR, POI, and Message Center. Coming soon - complete FirstNet

implementation, PowerChart Maternity, full Ambulatory rollout, and any-

thing else we can get our hands on.


Kricheff, Mark, MD, MPH, FAAEM

Title: Medical Director (MHIN); Attending physician (SJRMC)

Organization: Michiana Health Information Network (MHIN) and St. Joseph

Regional Medical Center (SJRMC)

City, State: South Bend, IN and Mishawaka, IN

Specialty/Specialties: Clinical Informatics and Emergency Medicine


Twitter Name: @TheLazyK

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: UpToDate


Dr. Kricheff has been practicing emergency medicine full-time since

1994. Dr. Kricheff received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film and Tel-

evision from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a minor in

computer science. Before medical school he worked as a page for the

American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and at the ABC owned and operat-



ed station WPLJ-FM in radio promotions; he also worked in TV production

for ABC, MTV, VH-1 and other independent and commercial projects while

completing a post-bachelor’s pre-med program at Hunter College-City Uni-

versity of New York. His M.D. degree was received from Upstate Medical

Center in Syracuse, New York. He completed his residency in emergency

medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia in 1997

and he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine

in 1999. After residency he practiced in the Hollywood-Ft. Lauderdale, Flori-

da area before moving to his wife’s home state of Indiana in 2003. He

received his MPH degree in Public Health Informatics from the University of

Illinois at Chicago in 2007 at which time he joined the clinical advisory

team at the Michiana Health Information Network (MHIN). He was one of

two Medical Directors of Clinical Informatics at St. Joseph Regional Medical

Center (South Bend-Mishawaka, IN) during their enterprise-wide implemen-

tation of CPOE from 2007 to 2009. In 2011 Dr. Kricheff became medical

director for MHIN. In his spare time he enjoys parenting young children,

food strategy, digital photography, and chicken wrangling.


I have used FirstNet and PowerChart clinically in my ED since our go-live 4

years ago and I've been using PowerNoteED exclusively for about one

year. With MHIN I've been using PowerChart view-only clinically for 6

years.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: Six

Krumholz, Alan J., MD, FAAP, DFACMQ

Title: VP Practice Development and Regional CMIO

Organization: Mayo Clinic Health System SW-WI Region

City, State: La Crosse WI

Specialties: Pediatrics, Quality Assurance



Previous roles include: Pediatric Residency and Chief Resi-dent U. Mass

Medical Center; Assoc Prof of Pedi UMMC; Pediatric Practice 15 years; Sen-

ior Medical Director BCBS of Mass; Medical Director UVa Healthplan; Assoc

Prof Health Evaluation Sciences at UVa; Informatics Instructor at the Infor-


matics Institute.

Present roles include: Medical Director Health Tradition Health Plan; CMIO

and physician lead for SE region MCHS; Physician Lead MCHS Quality Out-

comes; Lead Physician on Humedica database project; President American

College of Medical Quality and representative to NQF and PCPI


Kunz, Keary P., MD

Title: CMIO

Organization: Central Washington Hospital

City, State: Wenatchee, WA



My first career was as an electrical engineer for GE. I am currently a GP

who has worked in an orthopedic office for 25 years, assisting in surgery

and seeing patients for musculo-skeletal or sports medicine problems.


I served on the physician advisory group during the build process and then

moved to the CMIO position approximately a year and a half ago.


Kussel, Sara M., MSA, BSN, RN, NE-BC

Title: Director of Clinical Informatics

Organization: Rutland Regional Medical Center

City, State: Rutland, Vermont

Specialty/Specialties: Clinical Informatics



I have been a healthcare professional for 17 years, currently leading an

Informatist team for Rutland Regional Medical Center, an acute care hospi-

tal, outpatient services and clinics.



Previously I practiced in women’s’ health as the Director of Women’s and

Children’s Services.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 2 years.

Kutz, Stacy

Title: Education Specialist / Physician Concierge


City, State: Fort Atkinson, WI 53538



Stacy Kutz, Education Specialist, Started with participation in the build and

implementation for CareNet solution for Fort HealthCare’s endeavor to the

Cerner EMR. She has since grown into a full-time educator for staff and

providers on the EMR implementation and ongoing utilization. Her current

focus includes performing in the capacity of a “physician concierge educa-

tor” to assist with troubleshooting and long term provider adoption.


I have experience in multiple Cerner Solutions including but not limited to;

PowerChart, CPOE, Physician Documentation, ePrescribing, Powernote,

PowerOrders, PowerPlans, and Message Center.


Lehman, Anna, MPAS, PA-C

Title: Physician Assistant


City, State: Menomonie, WI

Specialty/Specialties: Family Medicine, Emergency/Urgent Care, Healthcare

Informatics


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: AAPA (American Academy of

Physician Assistants)



I received my bachelors degree in Biology from University of Wisconsin-La

Crosse in December of 2003. I received my masters degree in Physician

Assistant Studies from University of Wisconsin-La Crosse/Gundersen Lu-

theran Medical Center/Mayo Clinic of Health Sciences in May of 2006. I

began working at Mayo Clinic Health System-Red Cedar in Menomonie, WI

in August of 2006. Initially, I worked full time in patient care, splitting my

time between Family Medicine and Emergency/Urgent Care. In prepara-

tion for our EMR go live in March 2010, I started to provide support for

providers in relation to the EMR. Since 2010, I have been working ½ time

in patient care and ½ time in Healthcare Informatics.


I work both in Powerchart and FirstNet as both a provider giving patient

care, as well as giving provider support with our EMR. I attend many meet-

ings, conference calls, etc with the Mayo Clinic Health System helping to

improve our Cerner product(s).

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 2-3 years (our go live

was March 2010)

Logue, Amanda C., MD

Title: Hospitalist / CMIO

Organization: Lafayette General Medical Center

City, State: Lafayette, LA




I attended medical school at LSU-Shreveport and subsequently did my In-

ternal Medicine residency at University of Tennessee in Memphis. I stayed

for a fourth year as a chief resident and then took a position at Lafayette

General Medical Center as a full-time hospitalist in 2009.

Since taking this position I have become the Hospitalist Medical Director.

After Lafayette General decided to continue the EMR project with Cerner,

we went live in January 2012. Soon after, I took a position with the hospital

as CMIO. I currently work half-time as a rounding hospitalist and the direc-

tor and half-time as the CMIO.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 7 years using Cerner

for viewing data only and less than 1 year using full CPOE and documenta-

tion.

Lundeen, Peter, MD

Title: Physician Solutions Architect

Organization: Spectrum Health

City, State: Grand Rapids, Michigan




30 years of primary care in Family Medicine

Multiple leadership roles at Spectrum Health, former medical staff

president, past VPMA, past member of Spectrum Health Board ,Priority

Health board, and past family practice department chairman

10 years experience in variety of roles within IT department supporting

deployment of Cerner functionality for the medical staff

Past 4 years focused on implementation, deployment and support of

CPOE, electronic meds rec, Depart Process at all Spectrum Health hos-

pitals

Focused effort on optimization of electronic workflow for inpt clinicians

(particular focus on hospitalists) within Cerner and related inpt applica-

tions at Spectrum Health

Continue to practice part-time as a hospitalist


Deep level knowledge of CPOE/Meds Rec/Depart Process/Powerchart

functionality

Extensive experience with Mpage functionality both standard Cerner

content, in addition to building/deployment/support of a variety of cus-

tom Mpages within Spectrum Health


Majoor, Jennifer, MBBS, MHA, PhD, FRACMA, FAFPHM, FRANZCP

Title: Clinical Director ehcare, Consultant Psychiatrist

Organization: Eastern Health

City, State: Melbourne, Australia

Specialty/Specialties: Psychiatry, Public Health, Medical Administration


Major, Alexis, MD

Title: ACH Hospitalist and CPOE, PowerNote and IT Physician Support

Organization: All Children’s Hospital

City, State: St. Petersburg, Florida

Speciality/Specialties: Pediatrics



I am a Pediatric Hospitalist and IT physician support liaison who has been

practicing medicine for 8 years and providing IT support for 6 years at my

current employer, All Children’s Hospital. In my time working with IT I have

been involved in CPOE implementation, Power Note Development, voice

recognition implementation in the EC and participating in ongoing teaching

of the medical staff in several of the Cerner Products that we are currently

utilizing.


As above. I would consider myself a super end user of Power Chart, CPOE,

Power Notes and First Net with emphasis on Power Notes in both helping

to create them and in educating the medical staff in how to efficiently use

them.


Malnar, Gerry, MD, MBA

Title: Medical Director, Women’s Care Clinics at Truman Medical Center

Organization: University Physician Associates

City, State: Kansas City, MO



Specialty/Specialties: Gynecology and Obstetrics


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: asq.org


After completing residency at Emory University, founded The Women’s Cen-

ter of Metro East, a private Ob/Gyn practice in greater St. Louis, MO. After

practicing 11 years, I transitioned to academic practice at University of Mis-

souri – Kansas City. I currently serve as medical director for Women’s Care

Services at Truman Medical Center and we are in the process of re-

engineering our office practice.


We are currently adapting the OB Tracker to facilitate clinic operations.


Manakas, Christopher, MD

Title: Urologist

Organization: Fort Healthcare, Urology Associates

City, State: Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin

Specialty/Specialties: Urology



Born and raised in the Chicago area, I pursued a degree in Chemistry and

Liberal Arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I attended

the Indiana University School of Medicine where I earned my MD and de-

cided to pursue a career in the 'best' surgical speciality, Urology.

I completed my training in Urologic Surgery at the University of Wisconsin

Madison Department of Urology in 2010 and joined Fort Healthcare Urolo-

gy Associate shortly thereafter. In an effort to maintain and academic con-

nection to the University of Wisconsin, I have maintained a fully privileged

Clinical Professor appointment that allows me to full advantage of the state

-of-the-art facilities there while maintaining a thriving rural Urologic practice

at home. My wife Catherine and I live in Fort Atkinson with our two young

boys, Frank and Michael.

mailto:[email protected]%3cmailto:[email protected]


My organization was already committed to Cerner when I began my career.

With a little over one year under our belts, our Urology practice has become

an example of efficient EMR use for our organization. We have made sig-

nificant changes to our own office staff and personnel to fully leverage the

capability of the EMR and improve efficiencies as much as possible.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: One year

Margolis, Steve, MD, M.MED. FCS, BS.IS, MBA

Title: AVP, CMIO



Specialty/Specialties: Head and neck surgery


Twitter Name: @SteveMargolis1


Steve Margolis, MD joined Adventist Health in November, 2010 as the

CMIO. Prior to working at Adventist Health, Dr. Margolis was the CMIO of

Orlando Health for six years, worked in the Clinical Transformation

Healthcare Division for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and consulted in the

Strategy and Life Sciences Division at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

A Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Dr. Margolis earned his medical de-

gree at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a master’s degree in

Medicine (Otology and Laryngology) from the University of Natal in Durban,

South Africa. He completed his Fellowship in Surgery from the College of

Medicine in Cape Town, South Africa, and holds a graduate honors degree

in Information Systems and an MBA.


PowerChart


Margolskee, Howard R., MD

Title: EMHS eQuest Medical Director


Organization: Eastern Maine HealthCare Systems

City, State:Brewer, Maine

Specialty/Specialties: Internal Medicine/Informatics

Email:[email protected]


Howard Margolskee, MD began sharing his time between Eastern Maine

Medical Center as the interim CMIO and Eastern Maine Health Care Sys-

tems as the eQuest Medical Director. Dr. Margolskee is very interested in

the benefits of the EMR in practice for standardization, Meaningful Use

and clinical decision support for evidence based practices. Prior to joining

EMMC/EMHS, Dr. Margolskee served as the Medical Director of Outpatient

Services at Sebasticook Valley Hospital (SVH) as well as CMO. He has been

using EMR in his practice since 1995.

Dr. Margolskee completed his Internal Medical training in 1981 at

Westchester County Medical Center after graduating cum laude from the

Catholic University of Louvain in Louvain, Belgium. His early career includ-

ed Assistant Director of Clinical Research for Revlon Health Care Group,

Associate Director of Clinical Research for Lederle Laboratories, Chief of

Staff at SVH, Chair of Quality Assurance Committee, and Lead Physician for

the eQuest Project. He has had presentations at ASCO and Michigan State

University and had had work published from this research on DDAVP.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 1-5 years

McGinnis, Patrick, MD, MS, MBA

Title: Director of Medical Informatics

Organization: Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center

City, State: Houston, TX

Specialty/Specialties: Aerospace Medicine / Internal Medicine


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: HISTalk http://histalk2.com/


BS from Xavier University, Cincinnati OH. MD from University of Ken-

tucky. Aerospace Medicine at Wright State University, Dayton OH. Internal


http://histalk2.com/

Medicine at UTMB, Galveston TX. MS in Health Informatics from UT Hou-

ston Health Sciences Center. MBA from Georgetown. Ten years of experi-

ence with NASA Johnson Space Center as a Flight Surgeon. Over 25 years

experience with the US Air Force, mostly as a Flight Surgeon. Twelve years

experience in Healthcare IT, beginning with the implementation of an EMR

for NASA; followed by 5 years with Cerner and nearly 3 years with Memorial

Hermann.


I have been involved with implementation and use of several different

Cerner solutions, but my work at Memorial Hermann is on the inpatient

side, primarily with the use of PowerChart and FirstNet.


McKenna, Sean, MD

Title: Assistant Professor of General Pediatrics

Organization: Children's Hospital of Richmond (VCU)


Specialty/Specialties: General Pediatrics, Medical Informatics



Undergrad at University of Notre Dame- 1995; Med School at University of

Illinois- 1999; Residency at University of Chicago- 2002; First and only clini-

cal appointment at Children's Hospital of Richmond where I work primarily

in the outpatient clinics but also cover the nursery and wards; Medical In-

formatics since 2006. Focus on Physician Documentation.


Powerchart since 2005; Currently 2012 code; 100% inpatient CPOE; Near

100% Provider Documentation online


Mellin, D.T. (Tom), MD

Title: CMIO

Organization: Beacon Health System, Elkhart General Hospital


City, State: Elkhart, IN




Undergraduate: DePauw University, 1972. Medical School: Indiana Univer-

sity School of Medicine, 1976. Residency: University of New Mexico, 1976

- 1979. ABIM, 1979. Elkhart Clinic 1979 - 2010 General IM and Hospital-

ist practice. Our hospital just affiliated with South Bend Memorial Hospital

to form Beacon Health System. Memorial has been a Cerner client for

many years, we are moving from McKesson to Cerner in 2013.


Newly appointed physician champion/CMIO as we move to adopt Cerner as

our CIS and roll out CPOE.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: I am a real newbie.

Mells, Cary, MD

Title: Medical Director

Organization: Tri-City Emergency Medical Group

City, State: Oceanside, CA




Metcalfe, Tracee, MD

Title: CMIO and Medical Director Adult Hospitalist Program

Organization: Vail Valley Medical Center

City, State: Vail, CO







Miller, Katrina, MD

Title: CIS- Medical Director

Organization: Adventist Health West




Twitter Name: @drgroovy

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: Connect.ah.org


Katrina Miller, M.D. is a Family Physician who currently serves as Clinical

Information Systems Medical Director for Adventist Health, West. She

trained in Quality Management through American College of Physician Ex-

ecutives, and has chaired multiple inpatient and ambulatory quality and

peer review committees. She is Diplomate of the American Board of Family

Medicine and Assistant Professor through USC’s Keck School of Medicine,

having served as faculty in Residency programs, Medical and Physician

Assistant Schools. She is Fellow of the National Institute for Program Di-

rector’s Development (NIPDD) and Pre-Doctoral Director’s Institute (PDDI).

Her BA is from Reed College in Portland, OR, MD from EVMS in Norfolk,

Virginia and residency was at UCLA-Westwood. In 2011 Dr. Miller was hon-

ored to receive the Glendale, CA “Women in Business Award for Science

and Technology”.


Powerchart - User, Designer, Tester. PowerNote, CPOE, PowerPlans, CDS.

Knowledgable on FirstNet, PharmNet, SurgiNet, RadNet, PathNet, BCMA,

PPID, Powerchart Maternity, Powerchart Oncology.


Minior, Devin N., MD, MBA, FACEP

Title: Physician Advisor – Applied Clinical Informatics for EM

Organization: Banner Health

City, State: Phoenix, AZ




Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: ACEP, AMDIS


BS in Molecular Biology (UPenn); MD (Tufts University); MBA (Brandeis

Univ./Northeastern Univ.); Emergency Medicine Residency (Albany Medical

Center). I currently practice emergency medicine full time for three years in

Phoenix, AZ, and help staff three Banner Health EDs. Vice-chief of staff

and credentialing director at Banner Ironwood Medical Center.


System wide lead Banner Health ED Clinical Consensus subgroup on First-

Net EMR issues, as well as lead Banner Health Vision Team on ED IT for

risk management purposes. Recent issues addressed include ED *2G PN

conversion project, CPOE, physician documentation, update and creation of

new order sets, customized discharge instructions, meaningful use, clinical

decision support.


Misulis, Karl E., MD, PhD

Title: CMIO West Tennessee Healthcare & Clinical Professor at Vanderbilt

University School of Medicine

Organization: West Tennessee Healthcare

City, State: Jackson TN

Specialty/Specialties: Neurology, Hospital medicine


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: Facebook


My first foray into IT was as an undergraduate Physics major writing in

FORTRAN and WATFOR, eventually transition to MASM and C long before

most Cerner associates were born. Over the years, I moved from Physics to

Physiology and Pharmacology, studying ways to improve the sequelae of

spinal cord and peripheral nerve trauma and to protect against neurotox-

ins, still with computer-intensive tasks and writing my own interfaces and


analytic applications. While the clinical side of my practice has always

been hospital-based, I transitioned my nonclinical efforts from medical

research to IT about 15 years ago. I was first involved in some of the

groundwork of Vanderbilt’s primordial EMR and PACS efforts and now am

CMIO at West Tennessee Healthcare where we have completed the conver-

sion to CPOE and physician documentation, meeting MU and HIMSS level 6

standards.

Outside of medical practice and teaching, I have published 17 books

(number 18 coming out this January from Oxford University Press), raised

two great boys with my biochemist-wife, play keyboards with a local rock

band, and do comedy and lectures on cruise ships. Life is good. Carpe di-

em!


West Tennessee Healthcare uses Powerchart, Firstnet, Powerchart mater-

nity, Pharmnet, among others. I was integrally involved in design,build,

training, and rollout of these applications. My band even played for the

post-launch celebration for Powerchart/Firstnet.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: Discussions with

Cerner since 2004, using daily since 2008.

Morris, William Arthur (Art), MD

Title: Assistant Medical Director for Family Medicine, CANOPY Electronic

Medical Records

Organization: Carolinas HealthCare System

City, State: Charlotte, NC



Twitter Name: @doctorartmorris

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: uCern


Received medical degree from LSUMC, Shreveport, Louisiana and complet-

ed residency under direction of former AAFP President, Jack Stelmach, MD

at Goppert Family Care Center, Baptist Medical Center, Kansas City, Mis-

souri. Full time physician with Barnett Family Practice, Indian Land, South

Carolina, a part of Carolinas HealthCare System, since 1992 and the prac-

tice medical director since 2005. Additionally, served Springs Memorial

Hospital, Lancaster, SC as Physician Advisor and Chief of Staff as well as

focused projects in utilization review and credentialing.

Since 2010 have represented ~150 family physicians as part of Carolina’s

CANOPY EMR team. Our Ambulatory Health Information Team integrates

physician, practice management and Information Systems members to

provide testing, advice, and oversight re: configuration, pilots, implementa-

tion and training for ~1100 ambulatory physicians (over 200 practices) in

the CHS system.


Have been fully live with PowerChart in our office since 2008, including

eRx, except for CPOE for orders/charges. Our office will be one of the Am-

bulatory Pilots for CPOE beginning October 30th before rolling out to all CHS

ambulatory providers in 2013. Participating in the design of Med Rec and

Dynamic Doc projects.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: Four

Nutinsky, Charles, DO, FACOS, MMM

Title: VICE PRESIDENT OF MEDICAL AFFAIRS/CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER

Organization: CITRUS MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM

City, State: INVERNESS, FLORIDA

Specialty/Specialties: ADMINISTRATION, GENERAL SURGERY, VASCULAR

SURGERY



Graduated COMS and completed a rotating internship, general surgery resi-

dency at UMDNJ. Practice privately for 4 years then became full time clini-

cal faculty at UMDNJ/SOM for 8 years. Returned to private Surgical Prac-

tice in Pinellas County, Florida transitioning to full time Administrative Med-

icine following completion and obtaining a Masters Degree in Medical Man-

agement from Tulane University.

Penrod, Louis E., MD

Title: CMIO

Organization: Baptist Health

City, State: Jacksonville, FL

Specialty/Specialties: Physician Medicine & Rehabilitation; Spinal Cord

Medicine



Clinical experience is primarily in inpatient rehabilitation of multiple condi-

tions, with a focus on neurological disorders and trauma, within an aca-

demic setting. This includes participation in two NIDRR-funded Model Cen-

ters for Spinal Cord Injury and PM&R Residency Program Director. Lead

the establishment of an independent academic Department of PM&R at

the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Publication in the field of

PM&R include several book chapters as well as peer-reviewed research

articles.

Informatics experience started in an outpatient setting (with a non-Cerner

product) but then transitioned to inpatient clinical decision support using

Cerner technology. In addition to practical experience, holds a MS in

Healthcare Informatics from the University of Missouri, has published peer-

reviewed research articles, and served as an Associate Editor for the

HIMSS-sponsored book Improving Medication Use and Outcomes with Clin-

ical Decision Support: A Step-by-Step Guide.


Experience has primarily been focused on PowerChart. Of this, ten years

was focused on deploying clinical decision support using the Discern Ex-

pert rule engine. During that time, hands-on experience as a physician end

user as well as providing physician leadership on deployment of Power-

Chart at four tertiary academic hospitals. Over the last two years, have led

the deployment of PowerChart and associated functionality throughout

Baptist Health, including big bang implementations at a pediatric and an

adult tertiary hospital.


Perkins, Randa, MD

Title: Executive Director of Medical Informatics, Hospitalist

Organization: Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare


City, State: Tallahassee, FL

Specialty/Specialties: Family Medicine, Hospitalist


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: Reddit


Reformed programmer (C++, Pascal). Relocated from Kentucky to Florida;

Tallahassee resident for 12 years. Florida State University graduate, go

Noles! Currently coordinating CPOE rollout, pending February 2013, of our

770 bed acute care hospital.

Menachemi, N., Perkins, R., Van Durme, D., Brooks, R. (2006). Examining

the Adoption of EHR and PDA use by Family Physicians in Florida. Informat-

ics in Primary Care, 14(1). 1‐9.


Experience with PowerChart, PowerNote, PowerPlans.


Pilot, Mitchell, MD, CAP, ASCP, AMIA

Title: Information Systems Applications Analyst

Organization: Memorial Hermann Healthcare System


Specialty/Specialties: Pathology (retired), Information Systems (active)


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: AMIA, LinkedIn, uCern


Mitchell Pilot, M.D., received his medical degree from Duke University and

completed residencies in Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh and

Johns Hopkins Department of Laboratory Medicine. While a senior resi-

dent, and later Instructor in Pathology at Johns Hopkins, he helped develop

one of the first in-house MUMPS laboratory information systems, which

remained in use for over 30 years in the Johns Hopkins laboratories.

As Assistant Professor of Pathology at Emory University he managed a new-

ly installed Community Health Computing (CHC) Laboratory Information


System at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Mitchell later

joined CHC in Houston, TX, where he co-authored their Anatomic Pathology

system and contributed significantly to the development and support of

their laboratory information system. CHC was acquired by ADAC Laborato-

ries, and later by Cerner Corporation, at which time Mitchell became asso-

ciated with Classic Solutions and wrote CCL for Cerner's Classic-to-

Millennium migration team. After 22 years in the medical software vendor

community, Mitchell joined Memorial Hermann Health Care System where

he is currently involved with data analysis and reporting within their Cerner

Millennium system.


Deep understanding of Millennium's internal Oracle tables and the use of

CCL to produce on-screen and printed reports for patient care and physi-

cian rounds. Conversant with various Millennium build tools for Power-

Forms, XR reporting (including Clinical View Manager and Report Request),

CCL (Discern Visual Developer), and Business Objects.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 6 years (including

time as a Cerner associate)

Reid, Dale, MD

Organization: Mayo Clinic Health System - Eau Claire

City, State: Eau Claire, WI


Rusnak, Ron, MD

Title: CMIO:

Organization: Aultman Hospital

City, State: Canton, Ohio




Graduate of Medical College of Ohio, Toledo Ohio 6/1987. Emergency

Medicine residency 1987-1990. Miami Valley hospital emergency physi-

cian 7/90-9-91. Emergency physician Aultman Hospital Canton Ohio 9/91-

12/2009. Board Certified Emergency Medicine 2011 – 2021. CMIO Ault-

man Hospital 1/2010 – present.


Involved in initial FirstNet build 5/2006. Became CMIO 2009. Implemented

SurgiNet 2010 and went live with house wide CPOE 3/19/2012

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: six

Sarkarati, David, DO, FACEP, CPE

Title: Vice CMIO Florida Emergency Physicians

Organization: Florida Emergency Physicians

City, State: Orlando, FL



Saxe, Michael, MD

Title: CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Organization: MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL

City, State: MIDDLETOWN, CT

Specialty/Specialties: EMERGENCY MEDICINE



I HAVE BEEN AN EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN AT MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL FOR 27

YEARS, AND HAVE BEEN THE CHAIR OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE FOR 18

YEARS. OUR ED SYSTEM HAS ONE TRADITIONAL HOSPITAL ED, AND TWO

FREESTANDING ED'S, WITH A TOTAL VOLUME OF 92,000 PATIENTS PER

YEAR. I ALSO AM THE CO-CHAIR OF OUR HOSPITAL'S CLINICAL OPERA-

TIONS COMMITTEE, WHICH IS VERY FOCUSED ON IMPROVING ED FLOW

AND LOS, INPATIENT FLOW AND LOS, AND REDUCING ED BOARDING.


FIVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITH CERNER'S FIRSTNET ED PROD-

UCT. STARTED WITH TRACKING FIVE YEARS AGO, CPOE FOUR YEARS AGO,

AND NURSING DOCUMENTION AND DEPART ONE YEAR AGO. WE STILL


DOCUMENT WITH A COMBINATION OF PAPER T-SHEETS AND DICTATION,

AND HAVE PLANS TO EVENTUALLY DOCUMENT ON FIRSTNET, BUT NO

DEFINTE DATE TO BEGIN THAT LAST STEP.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: FIVE

Schuster, Anthony (Tony), MD, MBA, CPE

Title: Chief Medical Information Officer, Associate Service Chief, Anesthesi-

ology

Organization: Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

City, State: Tampa, Florida

Specialty/Specialties: Anesthesiology, Medical Management



Tony Schuster is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) and Associ-

ate Service Chief of Anesthesiology at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Flor-

ida. Since 2010 his role as CMIO has evolved beyond that of the liaison

between clinicians and IT. More recently his involvement has expanded

into operational and strategic functions in IT. He also served as the Medi-

cal Director of Perioperative Services at Moffitt, providing leadership for a

major perioperative process improvement project which produced measur-

able and sustainable results.

Dr. Schuster completed his undergraduate studies at The Ohio State Uni-

versity, and received his medical degree from Northeastern Ohio Universi-

ties College of Medicine. In 2005 Dr. Schuster graduated with honors from

the University of South Florida Executive M.B.A. Program while working at

Shriners Hospital for Children. In 2011 Dr. Schuster was awarded the In-

augural Scholarship for the Cleveland Clinic Samson Global Leadership

Academy Training for Healthcare Executives. He has thirteen years of clini-

cal experience, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology,

and is Board Certified in Medical Management. Dr. Schuster works tire-

lessly in a wide variety of roles in an effort to improve healthcare delivery at

Moffitt Cancer Center and beyond.


I have thirteen years of clinical experience as an Anesthesiologist at

Shriners Hospital for Children and Moffitt Cancer Center and Research

Institute. I have used Cerner Solutions at both institutions, and served for

the last two years as the CMIO at Moffitt with expanding responsibility in

how the organization utilizes Cerner Solutions as a tool for patient care.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: Thirteen.

Schutzengel, Roy Ephraim, MD, MBA

Title: CIS Medical Director, Ambulatory Services



Specialty/Specialties: Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrinology, Pediatric Hema-

tology/Oncology


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: LinkedIn, HIMSS


Licensed physician (21 years in clinical practice) and accomplished busi-

ness leader (owning and managing multi-site medical practice, 3 years as

CMO at EMR software company, 11 years as clinical department chairman,

2 years as HIT consultant), recognized as one of America’s top doctors and

as a pioneer in transforming health care through the implementation and

use of leading-edge technology. Author of multiple publications in various

journals.


New to Cerner on the solution side, many years of Cerner experience as a

clinician.


Shafer, Timothy, MD

Title: Physician staffing Grace Cottage Family Health Outpatient Clinic;

Grace Cottage Hospital inpatient acute and level I care; Grace Cottage

Emergency Department; Medical Director: Grace Cottage Hospi-

tal

Organization: Grace Cottage Hospital

City, State: Townsend, Vermont

Specialty/Specialties: Family practice




Dartmouth Medical School graduate 1981; Lancaster General Hospital

Family Practice Residency Program (Lancaster Pennsylvania) 1984; Na-

tional Health Corps physician Townsend Vermont 1984–1987; private

practice of family medicine, Townsend Vermont 19 87–2004; employee of

Grace Cottage Hospital 2004–present.

Associate clinical instructor University of Vermont Medical School and Alba-

ny Medical College 1984–present


Went live in June 2, 2012. Two months of mind-glazing exhaustion, blood

on the keyboard and intermittent frothing at the mouth frustration has

gradually given way to reasonable functional competence and grudging

détente.


Sing, Weylin, DO, FACEP, CPE

Title: Vice Chairman, Florida Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine;

CMIO, Florida Emergency Physicians

Organization: Florida Emergency Physicians

City, State: Orlando, Florida


Smith, Amanda M., MT (ASCP)

Organization: University of Missouri Health Care

City, State: Columbia, MO

Specialty/Specialties: Laboratory Information Support



I worked as a Med Tech for many years, first as a generalist, then as Lead

Tech in Hematology. When University of Missouri Health Care started

building PathNet, I was part of the build team. After the PathNet build, I

became a part of the Laboratory Information Support team.




PathNet General Laboratory build, and rules associated with PathNet.


Smith, Philip A., MD, MS, FAAFP

Title: Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer

Organization: Adventist Health System

City, State: Altamonte Springs, FL



Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: AMDIS Listserv


Phil has been CMIO at AHS for over 9 years and has led physician strategy

for CPOE and physician automation as well as clinical decision sup-

port. Phil coined the term and methodology of a “commoditized approach

to CPOE” which enabled AHS to do 26 hospitals “big bang” CPOE activa-

tions across 9 states in 27 months including physician electronic documen-

tation, problem list adoption and clinical decision support. He is the au-

thor of “Making Computerized Provider Order Entry Work” Springer, Lon-

don, UK Oct 2012. Phil is a member of the Health Management Academy,

AMDIS and serves on the Physician Advisory Council for Elsevier.


Phil helped Cerner develop their first generation NHIQM tools as well as the

mCDS platform and the new eRx mPage. He served as physician executive

at Cerner Corporation on the Care Transformation team 2001-3. He has

spoken at annually at CHC since 2002.


Stair, Stephen W., MD, FACP

Title: Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine; Medical Compliance Officer,

UAB Medicine; Physician Executive Sponsor, IMPACT Ambulatory

Organization: UAB Medicine

City, State: Birmingham, Alabama


Specialty: Internal Medicine



I am originally from Knoxville, Tennessee, and went to UT-Memphis to med-

ical school. My residency training was at UAB and I stayed to practice in

Birmingham at a community hospital for 9 years, then came back to UAB

for the past 9 years. I work as a faculty internist part-time, and I serve as

the Medical Compliance Officer for the health system where we do exten-

sive Compliance education in billing, coding, EMR, etc., for our faculty and

residents. In 2010 I was asked to serve as the Physician Executive Spon-

sor for our Cerner Ambulatory project, in which we have brought 135 clin-

ics live with full functionality over the past 18 months. Fun!


My primary Cerner expertise is in clinical optimization of the system over

the past 2 years, which has been the extent of my experience with Cerner

solutions.

Stambaugh, Eric, RN, PHRN

Title: Sr Application Analyst

Organization: Wellspan Health

City, State: York, PA

Specialty/Specialties: FirstNet, PowerNote, Lighthouse

Email:[email protected]


Currently covering point analyst for Firstnet, PowerNote, Depart, and Meds

Rec. Also Prehosptial RN for EMS agency providing ALS care for emergen-

cy calls and interfaculty transports. Assistant Manager for Emergency De-

partment that is Level 1 trauma center with average census of 76,000

patients per year.


Design, build, and maintaining FirstNet, PowerChart applications.



Steen, Christian C., MD

Title: Physician

Organization: Palmetto Health Senior Primary Care Practice


Specialty/Specialties: Family Medicine, Geriatrics


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: blog


i am a Family Medicine Residency and Geriatrics Fellowship trained physi-

cian in practice since 2003. I am experienced with numerous clinical infor-

matics solutions having used three different solutions in practice. I have

pursued extra training in clinical workflow evaluation/design and clinical

informatics implementation. I have served as Medical Director and Direc-

tor of IT for the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Department

of Family Medicine prior to my transition to practicing purely Geriatric medi-

cine. In my role of Medical Director I developed custom evidence

based clinical content for our EMR solution and then trained both physi-

cians and clinical staff in the use of the developed content.


i am a physician user of the inpatient and outpatient Cerner solutions. I

serve as our practice physician application expert/super user. It is my role

as the practice expert in clinical informatics to re-evaluate our clinical work-

flows and determine how best to implement the informatics solution for our

practice. I organize and provide training for my physician colleagues in the

efficient use of the solution in clinical practice.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 7 years using inpa-

tient solution, <1 year using outpatient solution.

Steen, Jamee H., MD, FAAFP

Title: Director ACCES Clinic, Physician Senior Primary Care

Organization: Palmetto Health





20 plus years experience at Palmetto Health organization, with last 15

working with EMR. Worked initially in academic affiliation with University of

South Carolina Dept of Family and Preventive Medicine as Pre-Doc director,

Program Director and Vice- Chair. Recently moved into a private practice

setting and run a Duke Endowment funded ambulatory center for medical-

ly fragile discharges on the side. Currently using Cerner inpt prod-

uct, outpt product and GE Centricity product.


Sullivan, D. Matthew, MD

Title: Director – Medical Informatics

Organization: Carolinas Healthcare System

City, State: Charlotte, NC



Twitter Name: @DrSullivanEM

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: Greg Weidner, MD


I am a practicing Emergency Physician that also works in Informatics.


I am a member of the Cerner ED Strategic Council.


Svetly, Andrew B., MD, MBA

Title: CMIO and Senior Medical Director

Organization: Florida Hospital

City, State: Orlando, Florida



Tarrago, Rod, MD

Title: Chief Medical Information Officer / Pediatric Intensivist

Organization: Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

City, State: Minneapolis, MN

Specialty/Specialties: Pediatric Critical Care

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: AMDIS


I am a pediatric intensivist and Chief Medical Information Officer Children's

Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. I have helped lead multi-level EMR

implementations at two children's hospitals over the last ten years. I am

particularly interested in using the EMR to improve patient safety and quali-

ty, especially in the pediatric ICU.


I have helped Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota implement sev-

eral Cerner solutions including nursing and respiratory therapy clinical doc-

umentation, CPOE, and recently device integration and bedside barcode

medication administration.


Tashjian, Christopher H., MD, FAAFP

Title: President

Organization: River Falls/Ellsworth/Spring Valley Medical Clinics

City, State: River Falls, WI



Twitter Name: @CTashjianMD


Dr Tashjian has a passion for practicing quality care at an affordable

price. His clinic improved its “ideally controlled” diabetic population from

27% to 43%, ranking this practice in the top 5% of all clinics in Ameri-

ca. After implementing a full functioning EMR in 2010, Cerner Ambulatory

ASP, his clinic’s ideally controlled diabetic population improved to

57%. Having direct access to patient data on regular basis has allowed Dr.

Tashjian to change his practice of chronic disease management to one of

being proactive instead of reactive. In September of 2012 the CDC and

Million Hearts program recognized Dr. Tashjian's group as one of only two

groups in the nation to be named Hypertension Control Champions for inte-

grating quality hypertension care with the electronic medical record.

Tashjian is active in setting policy for the medical community. He serves

on the Board of Directors of HealthPartners Inc. where he is Co-Chair of the

Medical Board of Governors and Chair of the Health Transformation Com-

mittee. In addition he serves on the Board of Directors for the MMIC

Group, the State of Wisconsin EMS Physician Advisory Committee and

Western Wisconsin Medical Associates. He is the Chief Medical Advisor for

WHITEC, Wisconsin’s Regional Extension Center for Health IT, as well as

being an advisor to WISHIN (Wisconsin’s Health Information Exchange) and

Doctors Helping Doctors Transform Healthcare.


I use the Cerner Ambulatory, ASP on a daily basis.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: Two

Tierney, Steve, MD

Title: Medical Director/CMIO

Organization: Southcentral Foundation

City, State: Anchorage Alaska


Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Twitter Name: @stevetierneyak

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue (Media, Association, Blog, So-

cial Media, etc.): IHI and LinkedIn


Steve is the current CMIO and Medical Director for Quality Improvement at

Southcentral Foundation and has been with SCF since 1995, the last 10

years as the QI Director. He is trained as a Family Physician and completed

his residency training at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore

city. After serving 5 years in the US Coast Guard he received a BS in Micro-



biology from the University of Maryland in 1986 and spent two years work-

ing as a staff microbiologist in Bethesda at the National Institute of Allergy

and Infectious Disease. He attended medical school at the Uniformed Ser-

vices University, also in Bethesda and received an MD degree in 1992 and

still maintains an active practice in the Primary Care clinic at the Southcen-

tral Foundation Primary Care Center. He has spoken nationally and interna-

tionally on clinical quality program design, data management strategies.

SCF was rewarded for their efforts in improvement with the National Mal-

colm Baldrige Award for Health Care in 2011.


Powerchart office, Pharmnet, and IQ health

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 1 year

Tomasi, Mark R., MD

Title: Vice-Chief Medical Information Officer


City, State: Rochester, MN



Trujillo, Monica, MBBS, MPH, FRACMA

Title: CMIO & Regional Director Medical Services

Organization: UnitingCare Health

City, State: Queensland, AUSTRALIA

Specialty/Specialties: Medical Administration



I obtained my degree in Medicine and Surgery, Universidad del Valle, Co-

lombia 1998.I then migrated to Australia and now hold an AMC Certificate

2000, MPH JCU 2005, and have been a Fellow of the Royal Australasian

College of Medical Administrators since 2009. I have been 12 years in

Queensland Public Hospitals, nine of those years focussed in Medical Ad-


ministration with a strong voice for IT benefits in healthcare. I have been

recently appointed as UnitingCare Health's CMIO, a brand new role in Aus-

tralia, and will be leading the clinical side of a project that will see the first

HIMMS level 6 facility in Australia.


Nil yet, brand new to Cerner

Villavicenco, Carlos, MD, MMI, FAAP

Title: Regional Hospitalist Program Medical Director

Organization: Seattle Children’s Hospital

City, State: Seattle, WA

Specialty/Specialties: Pediatrics, Medical Informatics


Twitter Name: @matlatzinca


Worked as a Navy pediatrician following graduation from residency, then

moved to Seattle to lead a hospitalist team at an affiliated community hos-

pital. Since then I have expanded the program to now include 4 different

sites and 2 affiliate sites. I finished my Masters in Medical Informatics this

past spring and am now working part-time in the informatics department at

Seattle Children’s Hospital.


Vita, Eleanor, MD

Title: Assistant CMIO


City, State: Owatonna, Minnesota


Email: [email protected], [email protected]


BS in Chemical Engineering, Cal Poly, Pomona, California 1980; Chemical

Process Engineer (design and construction) for almost 10 years, Fluor Cor-




poration, Irvine, California; MD, University of Southern California Keck

School of Medicine, California 1994; Family Medicine Residency, Chief

Resident, Kaiser Permanente, Orange County, California 1997; Family

Medicine physician with OB for almost 9 years, St. Mary’s/Dean Venture,

Baraboo, Wisconsin; Family Medicine physician currently at Mayo Clinic

Health System in Owatonna, MN since 2006; Assistant CMIO since June

2012.


I don’t claim to be an expert

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: Around 2 years

Voran, David, MD

Title: Medical Director Innovation Clinic

Organization: Heartland Health

City, State: St. Joseph, MO



Twitter Name: @dvoran

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: MedScape.org


Prior to joining Heartland Health, Dr. Voran was a physician executive for

Cerner Corporation (2003-2006), the CMIO for Health Midwest (1997-

2003) and the Executive Director of Information Technology at the Universi-

ty of Kansas Medical Center (1994-1997).

Dr. Voran received his bachelor's degree in anthropology from the Wichita

State University in 1974. He earned his medical degree from the University

of Kansas School of Medicine in 1998 and post graduate degree from the

University of Kansas - Family Practice in 1991. He maintains his Board

Certification in Family Medicine and is an active member of the American

Academy of Family Practice and was a member of the Academy's ad hoc

Committee on Electric Medical Records. Dr. Voran is active in a number of

professional organizations and is past president for the Heart of America

Chapter of HIMSS and is a Medical Director for CVS Minute Clinics in the

Kansas City area.



PowerChart, Ambulatory. CAMM.


Wetzel, James L., MD

Title: Vice President Physician Services

Organization:Olathe Medical Services, Inc.

City, State: Olathe, KS



Wilhelmsen, Adrian, PMP

Title: Solutions Manager, Clinical IT

Organization: Memorial Hermann


Specialty/Specialties: Emergency and Perioperative Services


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: ModernHealthcare; LinkedIn

Healthcare, IT and Cerner groups; Healthcare IT News; CIO Forum


Healthcare IT professional for 16-years with 18-years in the healthcare are-

na relative to revenue cycle, ambulatory operations and EMR, project man-

agement (PMP certification), systems implementation. Current focus is in

clinical IT product development (Emergency & Periop) and management

specializing in business analysis, requirements development, systems im-

plementation and support. Key focus on strategic growth related to indus-

try and regulatory direction with a basis on the voice of the customer.


Cerner Millennium architecture, revenue cycle and clinical Net knowledge

including Ambulatory, SurgiNet, FirstNet, Scheduling, bedside device inte-

gration.

Approximate number of years using Cerner Solutions: 15-years working



with Cerner solutions

Wilkerson, Suzanne, MD

Title: Hospital EHR Medical Director

Organization: Columbia-St. Mary's

City, State: Milwaukee, WI

Specialty/Specialties: Hospitalist, Family Medicine


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: UpToDate


I received my BA in Political Science from Northwestern University in 1991

and graduated from University of Illinois - Chicago Medical School in

1995. I completed my Family Medicine residency through the Medical Col-

lege of Wisconsin at St. Mary's Milwaukee. I worked as a primary care phy-

sician for Columbia-St. Mary's from 1999-2009. Since 2009 I have been a

hospitalist at Columbia-St. Mary''s.


I have been using PowerChart at Columbia-St. Mary's since fall 2006. I was

involved in the initial development and rollout of PowerChart in our commu-

nity clinics at that time. The clinics have been "paperless" and us-

ing PowerChart since then. Since 2010, five other hospital medical staff

physicians and I have been working at Columbia-St. Mary's as Physician

Design Consultants. We have been intimately involved in both the design

and implementation of PowerNote and CPOE at both our hospital campus-

es. Most recently I advanced my informatics involvement and was appoint-

ed the Hospital EHR Medical Director. I work closely with Mitch Carneol,

MD our new Clinic EHR Medical Director.


Wolver, Sue, MD

Title: Assistant CMIO, Assistant Professor in General Internal Medicine

Organization: Virginia Commonwealth University Health System



Specialty/Specialties: General Internal Medicine


Twitter Name: @swolver

Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: KevinMD


I spent 10 years as an Air Force flight surgeon before going to VCUHS to do

a residency in Internal Medicine in the Women's Health track. I stayed on

as faculty and spend half of my time in patient-care and teaching and half

of my time in informatics with a focus in the ambulatory setting.


I have been working with the Cerner application since 2004. We got the

2012 code earlier this year and are upgrading to the new look and feel mid

-October. We have had inpatient CPOE since prior to our Cerner instillation,

but do not have CPOE in the outpatient space. I am piloting the Patient

Portal and hope to move toward electronic renewals in the next few

months. I enjoy creating custom Powernotes, but am looking forward to

dynamic documentation. I also designed the clinical aspects of Health

Maintenance and have expertise in all things Message Center.


Yen, Tony, MD

Title: CMIO

Organization: Evergreen Health

City, State: Kirkland, WA

Specialty/Specialties: Hospitalist/Internal Medicine


Favorite Physician or Industry Online Venue: http://blogs.wsj.com/health/


Started Evergreen Health’s Hospitalist Team in 2000 which has grown

from 1 to 24 MD FTE. Optimized coding and physician documentation and

reduced 30 day readmissions as Evergreen Health’s Medical Director of

Care Management. Former Chair of Medical Specialties. Clinical Instructor

at University of Washington Medical School. Actively practicing hospitalist.



http://blogs.wsj.com/health/


Implemented bar code medication administration with CareAware in

2009. Implemented inpatient CPOE in May 2011 with sustained 85-89%

of all orders entered via CPOE. Implemented complete Cerner suite within

Evergreen’s Specialty Clinics in July 2012. Targeting March 2013 for con-

verting Evergreen Primary Clinics to Cerner from existing EMR.


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