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42 Worth Hospital Council Data Initiative Executive Committee. eresa Meadows. Senior Vice President and CIO of Cook Children's Health Care System (Fort Worth, Texas). Ms. Meadows oversees the formulation and implementation of Cook Children's Health Care System's IT strategy and information systems across the system's eight companies. She also spearheads planning, prioritization and negotiation for all major information management technology and services that the health system acquires. In addition to leading the health system's information management strategies, she also oversees data security and advocates for technology use to improve patient care. Ms. Meadows received the 2019 CHIME Federal Public Policy Award. Leah Miller. CIO of Medical City Healthcare (Dallas). Ms. Miller is responsible for Medical City's clinical and facility solutions spanning its hospitals and free-standing surgery centers. She helps the system solve complex organizational challenges. She has previous experience in leadership, organizational transformation and solution-delivery in healthcare, retail soware and other sectors. Over the past five years, Ms. Miller has built a team of more than 200 IT professionals to collaborate on innovations, and the team was able to connect physicians and nurses with mobile technologies to improve patient care and predictive analytics. In 2019, Ms. Miller received the CIO 100 Award and was a D CEO Magazine Excellence in Healthcare Award finalist. Michael Mistretta. Vice President and CIO of Virginia Hospital Center (Arlington). Mr. Mistretta became CIO of Virginia Hospital Center in 2015 aer spending nearly 30 years in the healthcare industry. He has experience with soware development, consulting and implementing EHRs. He has worked with multiple vendors to develop healthcare solutions including biomedical device integration and point- of-care devices. B.J. Moore. CIO of Providence (Renton, Wash.). Mr. Moore joined Providence in January 2019 to drive the health system's digital transformation. Mr. Moore previously spent time at Microso where he was vice president of enterprise commerce and compliance, cloud and artificial intelligence. He also served as the vice president of enterprise commerce, Windows and devices group. Mr. Moore now oversees IT for the health system, which includes 51 hospitals, 829 clinics and 119,000 caregivers. Dana Moore. Senior Vice President and CIO of Children's Hospital Colorado (Aurora). Mr. Moore became the senior vice president and CIO of Children's Hospital Colorado in 2017, bringing more than 30 years of experience in healthcare financial management to the role. He has played an integral part in the system's Reimagine 2020 strategic plan and continues to oversee the IT department for the hospital, which includes 5,000 full time employees. Mr. Moore previously served as the senior vice president and CIO of Centura Health in Centennial, Colo., where he developed and implemented the system's IT strategy. Jamie Nelson. Senior Vice President and CIO of Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City). Ms. Nelson took the helm of Hospital for Special Surgery's IT department in April 2012. Since then, she has revamped the team, growing ranks and creating new leadership positions like CMO, chief technology officer and chief information security officer. Under her leadership, the orthopedic hospital completed an EHR installation in January 2016 and earned HIMSS Stage 7 certification in November 2017. e hospital earned the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence for IT in 2019. Before HSS, Ms. Nelson held IT leadership positions at Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital, where she served as CIO, and NewYork-Presbyterian in New York City, where she served as vice president of IT. Daniel Nigrin, MD. Senior Vice President for Information Services and CIO of Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Nigrin is responsible for the clinical, research, teaching and administrative IT systems for Boston Children's. He also serves as the vice president for information services of the hospital and is a senior member of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program. He was instrumental in the hospital achieving HIMSS Stage 7 designation for EMR adoption in 2010 and he earned the Dolores L. Mitchell Investing in Information award from the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium in 2015. Jim Noga. Vice President and CIO of Partners HealthCare (Boston). Mr. Noga spent time as the CIO of Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital before becoming vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare. He now oversees IT for the health system, which is a partnership between Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, both in Boston. e system now includes 10 hospitals as well as physician organizations. Marty Paslick. Senior Vice President and CIO of HCA Healthcare (Nashville, Tenn.). Mr. Paslick is the senior vice president and CIO of HCA Healthcare, providing IT strategy and support for the 185-hospital health system. He oversees IT for the system's 2,000 sites of care and five data centers. Prior to taking on his current role in 2012, Mr. Paslick was COO of the IT department. He also spent time as chairman of the Nashville Sports Council and Nashville Technology Council. Ben Patel. Executive Vice President and CIO of Cone Health (Greensboro, N.C.). Mr. Patel joined Cone Health in 2018 as senior vice president and CIO and was promoted to executive vice president a year later. He has more than 20 years of experience in health technology leadership and plays an integral role in establishing the health system's IT strategy and culture. Mr. Patel previously served as CIO of Sinai Health System in Chicago. Fred Peet. CIO of Yuma (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center. Mr. Peet oversees the IT department at Yuma Regional Medical Center, which partners with the Arizona Telemedicine Program and was part of Mayo Clinic's telestroke private program. He is responsible for the technology strategy of the 406-bed, nonprofit hospital that includes 2,400 employees and more than 400 medical practitioners. Keith Perry. Senior Vice President and CIO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tenn.). Mr. Perry became the CIO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2015 aer serving as associate vice president and deputy CIO of University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He has experience overseeing the IT budget, implementing high performance computing programs and security. Audrius Polikaitis, PhD. CIO of University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (Chicago). Dr. Polikaitis oversees the IT systems for UI Health, including the EHR. During his tenure, the health system became among the first 10 percent of hospitals to go fully paperless in 2013. He has expertise in computing and hospital IT, supporting the system's 462-bed hospital and 21 outpatient clinics. Marc Probst. Vice President and CIO of Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City). Mr. Probst has spent the past 30-plus years in health IT, serving as partner with Deloitte Consulting before becoming CIO of Intermountain Healthcare. He has a background in IT planning, design and development as well as healthcare payer services. Prior to joining Intermountain, Mr. Probst also served on the Federal Health Information Technology Policy Committee assisting Congress in developing health IT policy for the U.S. government. Shafiq Rab, MD. Senior Vice President and CIO of Rush University Medical Center (Chicago). Dr. Rab became senior vice president and CIO of Rush University Medical Center in January 2017. He previously served as CIO and senior vice president of IT at Hackensack (N.J.)

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