Michael Matthews has over 30 years experience in public health, health information technology, care management, healthcare administration and research and evaluation. Mr Matthews received his B.S. in Mathematics and M.S. in Public Health from the University of North Carolina. Mr Matthews' accomplishments include serving as: Principle Investigator of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded Rural Virginia eHealth Collaborative (RVEC); Principle Investor for CenVaNet's Medicare Care Coordination Demonstration (MCCD) project with CMS; and Project Executive for MedVirginia's participation in the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). MedVirginia was the first HIE to go into production on the NHIN, in partnership with the SSA and Mr Matthews serves as Chair of NHIN Coordinating Committee. Governor Timothy M.Kaine selected Mr. Matthews for the role of Senior Advisor Commission. In January 2010, Mr Matthews received the prestigious "eHealth Advocate of the Year Award" from eHealth Initiative, the nation's leading HIE industry association.

Aaron McKethan PhD currently serves as Program Director for the Beacon Communities Program in the Office of the national Coordinator for Health Technology at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Previously, he served as Research Director at the Brookings Institution's Engleberg Center for Health Care Reform, where he managed research and implementation projects focused on health IT, provider payment, quality improvement and delivery system reform at the state and regional level. He also led several projects related to Medicare and Medicaid payment policy, quality improvement demonstrations and national health reform. McKethan was previously a consultant at the Lewin Group, where he focused primarily on state health reform, Medicaid financing issues and delivery system reform. He is currently a health policy lecturer at the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University Medical Center. He received his PhD in Public Policy Analysis from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Holt Anderson is Executive Director of the North Carolina Healthcare Information & Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA), a private nonprofit consortium of healthcare providers, payers, corporate partners, professional associations and government agencies formed in 1994 with the mission of improving health and healthcare in NC by accelerating the adoption of information technology and enabling policies.

Executive Director Alisa Ray supports the work of CCHITs boards of Commissioners and Trustees and it's volunteer work groups. Ms Ray manages business operations developing resources to carry out the Commissions work. She executed a three year $7.5M federal contract to develop certification programs. She was previously an Assistant VP of Certification and Information Products at the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Ms Ray received her Master's in Health Services Administration from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and BS in Psychology from the University of Michigan.

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David A Stumpf, MD, PhD is a Senior Vice President for Clinical Data Strategy within the Enterprise Services Group of UnitedHealth Group (UHG), a Fortune 25 health and well being company serving 70 million Americans. He works with UHG subsidiary area. This includes external activities with the National Quality Forum (NQF), Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), Physicians' Consortium for Practice Improvement (PCPI), Health Level Seven and professional medical societies and alliances. He is a member of the NQF Board Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC). Previously he was National Director. Dr Stumpf is also Professor Emeritus of Neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine where he served as Chair of Neurology for nine years. He is the author of over 100 medical publications.

Greg Linden is currently the Chief information Officer for Stratis Health. He has been active in Minnesota's ehealth initiative and is currently involved in helping communities move forward with electronic health information exchange. Prior to coming to Stratis Health, Greg was in executive roles with United Health Group, Medtronic and Health Systems Integration. He also worked as IBM for 13 years. He holds a BSEE and an MBA from the University of Minnesota and is a certified Professional in both EHR and HIT (CPEHR and CPHIT). He has spoken nationally on Health Information Exchange (HIE) and has also been a guest lecturer on IT Strategy and eHealth at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

Dr Stasia Kahn has been practicing internal medicine since 1988. She completed her residency at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago after attending the University of Illinois College of Medicine. She currently practices and is co-founder of Fox Prairie Medical Group P.C. in St Charles, Illinois and is lecturer in the Masters Degree program in Medical Informatics at the School of Continuing Studies Northwestern University and volunteer faculty at Rush-Copley Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr Kahn is the Vice President and Chief Medical Information Officer of Northern Illinois Physicians for Connectivity a community based organization of healthcare providers dedicated to applying the benefits of technology to maximize the quality of healthcare. Dr Kahn is founder of EMRSurvival.com a web site dedicated to helping Ambulatory physicians become meaningful users of their EMR.

Pat Becker is responsible for building and managing information systems and services supporting the program needs of UHC an organization of 107 academic medical centers; she provides leadership and advisory services to member CIOs. Previously, she was employed by University of Chicago Hospitals and Health Systems; in 1993 she was appointed VP of Information Systems and CIO. Ms Becker is a HIMSS fellow and a CCHIT commissioner. She is adjunct professor at Northwestern University in the Masters of Medical Informatics program. Ms Becker has a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Illinois and an MBA in management systems from DePaul University.

Dr Overhage is President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, Director of Medical Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute, Inc., and a professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
He has spent over 25 years developing and implementing scientific and clinical systems and evaluating their value. Working with Dr. Clement McDonald, one of the pioneers of medical informatics, he has created an electronic patient record (called the Indiana Network for Patient Care) containing data from many sources including laboratories, pharmacies and hospitals in central Indiana. The system currently connects nearly all acute care hospitals in central Indiana and includes inpatient and outpatient encounter data, laboratory results, immunization data and other selected data. In order to create a sustainable financial model, he helped create the Indiana Health Information Exchange, a non for profit corporation. Over the last five years, he has played a significant regional and national leadership role in advancing the policy, standards, financing and implementation of health information exchange.
Dr Overhage is a fellow of the American College of Informatics and the American College of Physicians. He received the Davis Recognition Award for Excellence in Computer Based Patient Recognition for the Regenstief Medical Record System.

Tom Fritz is chief executive officer of Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS). INHS is a unique company that administers a 102 bed, freestanding physical rehabilitation and medicine hospital; a multi-state critical care air ambulance service; a wide-spread telemedicine hospital; a multi-state critical care air ambulance service; a wide spread telemedicine network throughout the Inland Northwest; and a nationally recognized model of integrated health information technology. Twenty-one of the hospitals on the INHS health information exchange network habe been recognized in 2009 as teh "100 Most Wired" in teh nation by Hospitals and Health Networks magazine.
Nationally, Tom is appointed to serve on the board of directors for the National eHealth Collaborative. He is also a member of the eHealth Initiative's Leadership Council and the Policy Steering Committee. Tom previously served on the board of trustees for the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) and as a chairperson of the American Hospital Association Governing Council Section for Rehabilitation, Long-Term Care & Long-Term Acute Hospitals.
On a regional level, Tom is a member of the board of directors of the Washington State health Care Forum; co-chair of the Washington Life Sciences Discovery Fund Coalition; a member of the board of directors for the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association; and a past member of the WA State Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board. Tom is involved locally and has served on a number of community Boards including chairperson of the Spokane Workforce Development Council; chairperson of the Economic Development Council and vice-chair/board member of the Greater Spokane Incorporated. He serves in advisory capacities to Washington State University and Whitworth University and is on the board of trustees for the Spokane Society of Young Professionals and the Institute for Systems Medicine.

David Liebovitz is the Chief Medical Information Officer for the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, the full-time academic medical practice of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. In this role he works to advance development of the outpatient medical records system and optimize information exchange with Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he serves as Medical Director for Clinical Information displays with integrated anticipatory diagnostic and therapeutic decision support. Dr Liebovitz is also the program director for the Northwestern School of Consulting Studies Masters Degree Program in Medical Informatics and Director of Clinical Informatics for the Chicago Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center.

Mary McGinnis is the Program Director for the Governor's Office of Health Information Technology at the State of Illinois. She is responsible for managing the State HIE planning grant program for the health information exchange. Mary is responsible for working with a broad group of stakeholders to achieve maximum engagement in health information exchange, addressing privacy and security issues and promoting the Meaningful use of electronic health records to improve the delivery of health care. Prior to working for the State of Illinois, mary worked for a hospital system negotiating hospital and physician contracts with major payers and managed care entities. Previous experience includes management positions with health insurance companies, negotiating managed care contracts and developing state-wide networks for Medicare, Medicaid and commercial managed care products.

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Monica Arrowsmith is the Director of the Indiana Health Information Technology Extension center, funded by a $12 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant awarded to Purdue University. Prior to this appointment, Ms Arrowsmith served for more than 15 years in executive healthcare leadership positions that included experience in developing and implementing a variety of initiatives involving quality, safety, joint ventures and electronic health records. Ms Arrowsmith earned her B.S. in nursing from Ball Sate University of South Carolina; and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Cincinnati.

Glenn has worked in health care for 25 years and was the first employee hired at Axolotl in early 1995 as a systems architect and engineer. Prior to his role as President, Glenn was Executive Vice President over Sales and Marketing, responsible for all health Information Exchange (HIE) sales - to states, RHIOs and hospitals, Glenn previously held the role of VP of Business Development and served as Elysium Services, managing HIE implementation and Support, Medical Transcription Operations and HIM Consulting divisions. Glenn was the company's Product Manager until 2001.

Amy S. Leopard is a partner in Technology, Health Care and Bioscience practices and a member of the Management Committee. She practices business law and advises a diverse array of clients in health care and technology industries. Amy is a valued business advisor in corporate maters involving healthcare and information technology law. She provides trusted counsel to health care providers, entrepreneurs and service providers on licensing, payment, regulatory compliance, privacy and technology issues. As a former hospital executive, Amy has in depth knowledge from over 20 years in the health care industry as vice president in both academic medical center and community hospital settings and an internship in the U.S Department of Justice Antitrust Division. She also teaches advanced courses on transactions for health care organizations as an Adjunct Professor at the case Western Reserve Law School, where she was editor-in chief of "Health Matrix": Journal of Law-Medicine" and worked on NIH grant projects. Amy has been selected by her peers for inclusion in the "Best Lawyers in America."

Director of Strategic Initiatives, Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. Rich has spent nearly two decade in the forefront of the grwoth of ambulatory healthcare information technology. An early college internship at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services as his awakening to the promise and challenges of healthcare. After graduating from Auburn University as a business and psychology student, Walsh embarked on entrepreneurial ventures in the dot.com arena before settling in with the life sciences division of IBM. He then moved directly into HIT by leading ambulatory EHR sales in Florida all while assisting the marketing and business development of A4 Health Systems and was significant in its successful growth through acquisition by Allscripts and through the subsequent merger with Misys before joining Greewnway Medical earlier this year as Director of Strategic Initiatives. For the Carrollton, GA- based EHR vendor, Walsh is leading the company's ventures with national consultancies into the stimulus-backed realms of grant stewardship, HIE, REC, FQHC and related national public policy projects, responsibilities that have again caused him to cross paths with HHS.

Dr. Edward Barthell is Director of Business Development for Microsoft's Health and Health Information Exchange market development. Dr. Barthell is a board certified emergency physician with over 20 years of clinical practice experience, who has long been an advocate for improving health information sharing across institutional boundries. He is a founder and previous president of the non-profit National Institute for Medical Informatics, the sponsor of the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange (WHIE). He also served as lead consultant for the District of Columbia Regional health Information Organization and was co-founder and chief Medical Officer of EMSystem.

Dr Mark Shields holds the position of Senior Medical Director for Adovcate Physician Partners and Vice President of Medical Management for Advocate Health Care. In this role Mark oversees all clinical functions related to 3400 physicians aligned with the nine Advocate hospitals. Mark has over 25 years experience in management roles with medical groups, insurance companies, hospitals and integrated delivery systems. Prior to joining advocate Physician Partners, mark held the position Chief Medical Officer for Kaleida Health in New York, was the Chief Medical Officer at Dryer Medical Clinic, Consulting Medical Director of HMOI and president and Co- founder of a primary care group. In addition to his impressive medical background, Dr Shields has extensive experience in operations, strategic planning, market analysis and finance. He is currently serving on the boards of directors of the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers (AIAMC) and professions of the American Hospital Association. He is board certified in Internal Medicine a Fellow of the American College of Physician and a graduate of Harvard Medical School and the University of Chicago Business School.

Deborah Bass, President, CEO of Bass & Associates, Inc. has served as the driving force of Bass & Associates, Inc. since its incorporation in February 1993. She has directed marketing, sales and recruiting for this information technology consulting business. A graduate of Graceland College in Lamoni, IA majoring in health care administration, Deb spent 20 years in healthcare and educational settings as a RN before making the transition to business management. She and Jon Bass, founded Bass & Associates in response to the demand for business and information technology consulting services. Bass & Associates currently employs over ninety five consultants offering IT services in an eleven-state region. She was named the Interim Executive Director of NeHII, Inc. in May 2007 and has played a leadership role in the development of the statewide HIE since that time

Mr Duryee is the Chief Information Officer at EMH Regional Healthcare System located in Elyria, Ohio; a western suburb of Cleveland. The system includes two hospitals, a free standing ER/Fitness Center? Imaging Center and other facilities. The system has recently rapidly installed a number of clinical information systems and is now poised to move into a HIE. As CIO he is responsible for IT, biomedical engineering, network/telecommunications and Health Information