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42 as vice president and CIO in 2015 and has more than three decades of experience in the healthcare industry on both the payer and pro- vider sides. Under the leadership of Mr. Mistretta, who has extensive experience with EHR implementations, software development and data center management, Virginia Hospital Center earned Health- Care's Most Wired distinction in 2016 amd 2017. Deane Morrison. CIO of Concord (N.H.) Hospital. Mr. Morrison serves as CIO of Concord Hospital, a 295-bed facility with 2,705 full time employees that oversaw 20,873 admissions in fiscal year 2018. Mr. Morrison, a healthcare IT veteran with more than 25 years of experience, joined Concord Hospital in 1976 and became CIO of Concord Hospital and Capital Regional Healthcare in 1996. He is a member of HIMSS and CHIME. Deb Muro. CIO of El Camino Hospital (Mountain View, Calif.). Ms. Muro serves as the CIO of El Camino Hospital, a 443-bed, lo- cally governed organization with campuses in Mountain View and Los Gatos, Calif. Ms. Muro, who joined El Camino Hospital in 2014, led the installation and implementation of the hospital's EHR. She has held various healthcare IT management positions at UnityPoint Health in West Des Moines, Iowa, and Allina Health in Minneap- olis. She has more than 25 years of combined nursing, clinical and healthcare technology experience. Under her leadership, the hospi- tal earned the HealthCare's Most Wired distinction in 2018. Brian Myszkowski. Interim Vice President and CIO of Indian River Memorial Hospital (Vero Beach, Fla.). Mr. Myszkowski be- came the CIO of Indian River Memorial Hospital, part of the Cleve- land Clinic health system, in 2018. He has a background in building teams and processes to support business strategies as well as expe- rience bridging the gap between IT and business. Mr. Myszkowski works with his team to develop the hospital's technology strategy and deliver results for top-line and bottom-line improvement. Emmanuel Ndow. CIO of Marion (Ind.) General Hospital. Mr. Ndow serves as CIO at Marion General Hospital, a role he assumed in 2015. Under his leadership, the hospital has successfully imple- mented several technology solutions, including ambulatory EHR systems, telehealth visits with school systems, cloud-hosted solu- tions and business analytics tools, among others. In 2014, Marion General Hospital achieved stage 6 on the HIMSS analytics EMR adoption model. Fredrick Peet. CIO of Yuma (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center. Mr. Peet serves as CIO of Yuma Regional Medical Center, a 406-bed hos- pital with 2,400 employees, including 400 medical practitioners. Mr. Peet became Yuma Regional's CIO in 2015. He previously served as YRMC's director of IT and has experience as an information secu- rity officer. Lee Powe. CIO of Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital (Elkin, N.C.). Mr. Powe is the CIO of Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital, an 84-year-old, nonprofit hospital that employs more than 700 peo- ple, including 70 physicians. Mr. Powe, a retired U.S. Air Force non- commissioned officer, has served in technology roles at HCMH for more than 13 years. Under his leadership, HCMH achieved mean- ingful use status for the past seven years and secured more than $5 million in incentive payments from CMS for EHR excellence. Mr. Powe was also recognized by HIMSS in 2017 and 2018 for achieving EHR adoption model stage 6 Sheila Puffenberger. Director of IT at Hillsdale (Mich.) Hospital. Ms. Puffenberger is the director of IT at Hillsdale Hospital, which has 47 acute care beds, 39 skilled nursing facility beds and a 10- bed unit for psychiatric care. Prior to joining Hillsdale Hospital in 2013, Ms. Puffenberger served as director of IT for Coldwater, Mich.-based Community Health Center of Branch County for more than 11 years and manager of information systems at Three Rivers (Mich.) Health for more than two years. Bill Rieger. CIO of Flagler Hospital (Augustine, Fla.). Mr. Rieger oversees the IT operations for Flagler Hospital, a 335-bed hospital in Florida. The hospital initially implemented an EHR in 2005 and has been on the forefront of using health IT to improve the quality of care and patient experience. The hospital continues to move toward a completely paperless environment. Timothy Roberts. CIO of Yavapai Regional Medical Center (Prescott, Ariz.). Mr. Roberts serves as the CIO of Yavapai Regional Medical Center, a 75-year-old facility that cared for 11,513 inpa- tients in 2018. Mr. Roberts assumed the role of CIO in July 2015. Under Mr. Roberts' leadership, Yavapai Regional Medical Center re- ceived HealthCare's Most Wired designation in 2018. Carol Roosa. Vice President of Ancillary Services and CIO of Heywood Hospital (Gardner, Mass.). Ms. Roosa joined the 134- bed Heywood Hospital as CIO in 2012, after serving as CIO at Mo- nadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, N.H. for several years. Under her leadership, Heywood Hospital is continuing its efforts to expand its EHR system throughout its network of facilities and providers. Ms. Roosa, who has more than 30 years of healthcare IT experience, is also a member of CHIME. Christopher Ryan. CIO of Auburn (N.Y.) Community Hospital. Mr. Ryan serves as CIO of Auburn Community Hospital, a 99-bed facility serving a population of about 80,000 residents. Under his leadership, the community hospital achieved HIMSS Analytics EHR adoption model stage 6, an indicator that an organization delivers high quality patient care with an interoperable EHR. Before joining Auburn Community Hospital as CIO in 2009, Mr. Ryan served as vice president of business development at Pervasive Solutions and IT manager at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, N.Y. Derek Sailors. Director of Information Systems at Community Hospital (McCook, Neb.). Mr. Sailors serves as director of infor- mation systems for Community Hospital. He joined Community Hospital in 2008 as an information systems technical support coor- dinator and advanced in the organization before being promoted to director of information systems in February 2017. Richard Schaeffer. Vice President and CIO of St. Clair Hospital (Pittsburgh). Mr. Schaeffer is CIO of St. Clair Hospital, a 329-bed acute-care medical center with 600 physicians. He is responsible for establishing the hospital's strategic IT direction. Jody Siltzer. Executive Director of IT at Cheyenne (Wyo.) Region- al Medical Center. Mr. Siltzer manages the information technol- ogy, telecommunications and biomedical electronics departments at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, where he guided the imple- mentation of its EHR. Under his leadership, the 222-bed hospital has become a five-time recipient of the HealthCare's Most Wired designation. Carl Smith. CIO of King's Daughters Medical Center (Brookhav- en, Miss.). As CIO of King's Daughters Medical Center, Mr. Smith oversees all processes related to computing, mobility, telecommuni- cations, networking, information security and technology adoption. Since Mr. Smith joined the organization as a data processing manag- er in 1994, the hospital has launched one of the region's first critical care telemedicine programs and overhauled its EHR to achieve stage 6 on the HIMSS EMR adoption model in 2017. LaVonne Smith. Information Systems Director at Tomah (Wis.) Memorial Hospital. Ms. Smith has led several technological ad-