About

Click on advisors name for a brief overview of their experience and expertise as leaders in healthcare information technology.

Arlene Anschel

• Consultant, Information Technology Practice, Witt/Kieffer, the largest retained executive search firm dedicated to healthcare and higher education
• Recognized expert in IT physician recruitment
• Executive VP: Hersher Associates, a retained search firm dedicated to healthcare information technology
• Consultant to healthcare delivery systems, software vendors and consulting firms on the physician role in IS and informatics
• Nationally recognized advisor to information systems physicians
• Founder and Director of an insurance medical examining company

Marion J. Ball, Ed.D

• IBM Research / Fellow, Center for Healthcare Management
• Professor Emerita, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
• Affiliate Professor, Information Systems, University of Maryland
  
  International innovator, educator, author, and leader with over twenty-five years of experience in the health care IT community

Bruce Berg, MD, MBA

• Chief Medical Information Officer and Patient Safety Officer, Sarasota Memorial Hospital
• Dean & Clinical Professor, Florida State University Regional Medical School;, Sarasota, FL

Virginia Davis, Ed.D, RN, CPHQ

• Director, Clinical Informatics, Catholic Health Care East
• Former Senior Consultant, ACS Healthcare Solutions
• Managing Consultant, Joint Commission International
• Director, Ambulatory Health Services, Liberty Healthcare Corporation
• Director, Multispecialty Satellites, University of Pennsylvania Health System
• VP Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware
• Consultant Surveyor & Quality Healthcare Resources Consultant, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

James Feldbaum, MD

• Consultant to hospitals, national consulting firms and industry on matters of physician adoption of technology.
• Author of numerous articles on the physician interface with technology
• Host of the Healthcare Informatics blog: M.D. meets IT.

Gary Flashner, MD

• Emergency Medicine Informatics
  Consultant, Trigram Technology
• Medical Consultant, Lancet Technology
• Medical Directorships & Associate Medical
  Directorships in Emergency Medicine

Jonathan Gold, MD MHA MSc

• Physician Analyst, McKesson Provider Technologies
• Regional Director of Medical Quality Assurance Unit and Risk Management, Maccabi Health Services, Israel
• National Library of Medicine Post-Doctoral Fellow in Medical Informatics, Johns Hopkins University
• Board-Certified pediatrician with 15 years hospital and ambulatory care experience
• Physician with a combination of training, experience, and expertise in medical informatics, medical quality assurance, and primary care practice

Kelly McLendon

• ARRA ,HITECH, HIPAA, Meaningful Use, Privacy and Security expertise
• Over 30 years of Medical Records expertise
• Legal Health Records
• Paper, Electronic and Hybrid medical record (HIM) operations
• HIM, EDM and EHR system selections, operational assessments, project management, system designs

Paul C Mendelowitz, MD

• Chief Medical Officer, Holy Name Hospital
• Director Clinical Information Systems, Holy Name Hospital
• Board certified internist, pulmonologist and intensivist
• President, NJ State Board of Medical Examiners
• Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Columbia University College of P&S
• Healthcare information technology evangelist

Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc

• Chairman, Center for IT Leadership
• Director, Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners Healthcare
• Professor, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health
• Experienced physician executive and innovator, EMR and PHR designer and architect, deep market experience

Robert A Reid, MD

• Board Certified Ob-Gyn with 25 years private practice experience
• Hospital Surveyor with the California Medical Association’s Institute for Medical Quality
• 15 years as Director of Medical Affairs for Cottage Health System, Santa Barbara, CA
• Past chair of Center for Medical Executives of the California Hospital Association
• Past president of the California Medical Association
• Physician with expertise in practice issues, medical staff governance and hospital-physician relationships.

Jonathan Teich, MD

• Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Elsevier
• Practicing Physician and Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Co-leader, HHS/AMIA Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support
• Developed some of the foremost examples of EHR/CPOE/CDS for quality improvement and error prevention; 20+ years in academia, provider, industry and policy sector

Melinda Yates Costin

• VP Application Services, Baylor Information Services, Baylor Healthcare Systems
• VP Clinical Solutions, Healthlink, Inc, Healthcare Practice IBM
• Adjunct Professor, John Hopkins School of Nursing
• Former CIO of two 500 bed hospitals
• Over 30 years of healthcare IT experience developing and implementing clinical systems across multiple vendors

Lee Van Voris, MD

• Sr. Managing Consultant, IBM Healthlink
• Chief Medical Officer, St. Peter's Healthcare Services (Albany, NY)
• Sr. VP for Medical Affairs, Hamot Health System (Erie, PA)
• Clinical Professor of Medicine and Dean, MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine
  Practicing Physician Infectious Diseases 1978 - 2001