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Save the date! Becker's Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting — May 7-9, 2015 — Chicago. Please call 800-417-2035 to register. 13 Joy Grosser. Vice President and CIO of Uni- tyPoint Health (West Des Moines, Iowa). Ms. Grosser has served as vice president and CIO of UnityPoint since 2009. Under her leadership, Uni- tyPoint has earned a title as one of the nation's "Most Wired Health Systems" by Hospitals & Health Networks multiple times and implemented a new EHR, medical imaging system, analytics system and a patient portal. Ms. Grosser brings eight years of experience from her role as CIO at the University of California Irvine Health Sci- ences System. Prior to that, she served in IT lead- ership roles at Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola Uni- versity Health System and Kansas City, Mo.-based Health Midwest. Ms. Grosser earned a master's degree in health administration from Washington University in St. Louis. John Halamka, MD. Senior Vice President of In- formation Systems and CIO of Beth Israel Dea- coness Medical Center (Boston). Dr. Halamka was named CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medi- cal Center in 1998. In this role, Dr. Halamka led the implementation of an EHR in 1999 and es- tablished one of the first HIEs, called CareWeb. He currently oversees IT for the 649-bed medi- cal center. A former emergency room physician, Dr. Halamka is well-known for his expertise on mushroom and wild plant poisonings as well as his role in both causing and recovering a network- wide crash in four days at Beth Israel Deaconess. Dr. Halamka also serves as chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network, co-chair of the HIT Standards Committee and professor at Harvard Medical School. He previously served as CIO for Harvard Medical School. C. Martin Harris, MD. Chairman of the Informa- tion Technology Division and CIO of Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Harris is board certified in internal medicine and on staff in the Department of Gen- eral Internal Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. He was appointed chairman of the information technolo- gy division at Cleveland Clinic in 1996 and became CIO in 2009. Dr. Harris is a former chairman of HIMSS and former health IT advisor to President Barack Obama. He earned both his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Penn- sylvania in Philadelphia. He also earned an MBA in healthcare management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Susan Heichert, RN. Senior Vice President and CIO of Allina Health System (Minneapolis). Ms. Heichert has served as senior vice president and CIO of Allina Health System for the last six years. She joined the system in 2004 as hospital clinical systems manager, advancing until stepping into her current role as senior vice president and CIO. Prior to becoming a health system executive, Ms. Heichert worked as a nurse in hospitals in Texas and Minnesota. George Hickman. Executive Vice President and CIO of Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center. Mr. Hick- man joined Albany Medical Center in 2003 as se- nior vice president and CIO. Six years later, Mr. Hickman was promoted to executive vice presi- dent. He is an expert in the field of health IT and has been recognized with several awards in his time at Albany Medical Center. In 2008, Mr. Hick- man was recognized with the CHIME-HIMSS John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award. He was named a CHIME fellow in 2010 and was honored with the HIMSS Life Member Award in 2012. Mr. Hickman holds a master's degree in engineering from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Gilbert Hoffman. Vice President and CIO of Mer- cy (Chesterfield, Mo.). Mercy named Mr. Hoffman vice president and CIO in 2012. He leads IT for a health system of 42 hospitals, nearly 700 additional facilities and more than 2,100 physicians. Prior to joining Mercy, Mr. Hoffman won Information- Week's "Most Innovative Use of IT" 12 times. Mr. Hoffman served Maritz, a St. Louis-based travel company, for 39 years, working his way up to CIO. Scott Joslyn. Senior Vice President and CIO of MemorialCare Health System (Fountain Valley, Calif.). Mr. Joslyn's career as senior vice president and CIO of MemorialCare Health System, which is comprised of six hospitals, numerous outpa- tient clinics, imaging centers and surgery facili- ties, dates back to 1996. He manages 400 profes- sionals with an overall budget of $100 million and is responsible for MemorialCare's research func- tion, which includes active studies representing 39 service lines and 28 specialties. Dan Kinsella. Executive Vice President and CIO of Cadence Health (Winfield, Ill.). Mr. Kinsella has been serving Cadence Health as executive vice president and CIO since 2012. Most recently, he was senior vice president at Optum Insight, a division of UnitedHealthcare, where he led tech- nology consulting with the accountable care ser- vices practice. Before that, he served as national practice leader for healthcare consulting at The Revere Group. Mr. Kinsella fulfilled other prior leadership roles with Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young and Anderson Consulting. He is also a member of CHIME, HIMSS and the American Council of Healthcare Executives. Mark Kilborn. CIO of Springhill Medical Center (Mobile, Ala.). Mr. Kilborn, area vice president of Allscripts Professional Services, joined Springhill Medical Center as CIO in 2000. Previously, Mr. Kilborn spent 28 years with Infirmary Health Systems at the Mobile Infirmary Medical center serving the Gulf Coast Region. During his tenure at Springhill, the hospital has made great strides in its EHR implementation in 2003, and in 2014, Springhill declared itself 100 percent CPOE com- pliant and paperless. In January, the hospital be- came the first in Alabama to reach HIMSS Stage 7. Mary Anne Leach. Senior Vice President and CIO of Children's Hospital Colorado (Aurora). Ms. Leach has led Children's Hospital Colorado's IT department since 2007. She has nearly three decades of health IT experience, most recently serving as vice president of clinical applications of Catholic Health Initiatives in Englewood, Colo. She also held director roles at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Superior Consultant Compa- ny and IHC Affiliated Services (a prior division of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health Care). For seven years, Ms. Leach led her own consulting organization, M.A. Leach & Company. Rose Ann Laureto. CIO of ProMedica (Toledo, Ohio). Ms. Laureto has served as CIO of ProMed- ica since February 2013. As CIO, she has overseen the system's adoption of an integrated approach to IT products and services as well as led the de- ployment of Epic as the system's new EHR plat- form. Ms. Laureto is responsible for a team of 460 people and an operating budget of $150 million. Philip Loftus, PhD. Senior Vice President and CIO of SSM Health (St. Louis). Dr. Loftus stepped into his current role as senior vice presi- dent and CIO of SSM Health on Jan. 19. He comes to the 19-hospital system from his post CIO of Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care, which he held since 2006. Dr. Loftus is credited with im- plementing the Epic EHR and developing an IT strategy for integration after rapid system growth at Aurora. Dr. Loftus previously served as senior vice president and CIO of Caremark and has 25 years of IT experience from various positions in the pharmaceutical industry. He earned a PhD in computer-based modeling and simulation from the University of Liverpool in the U.K. Edward Marx. Senior Vice President and CIO of Texas Health Resources (Arlington, Texas). Mr. Marx became senior vice president and CIO of Texas Health Resources in October 2007. He also currently serves as the chair for Texas Health Ser- vices Authority in Austin. In 2013, he was named the recipient of the John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award, selected by HIMSS and CHIME. Previ- ously, he served as CIO of Cleveland-based Uni- versity Hospitals, director of physician services of Nashville-based Hospital Corporation of Amer- ica, CIO of Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo, Colo., and physician services coordinator of Fort Collins, Colo.-based Poudre Valley Health System. Randy McCleese. Vice President-Information Services and CIO of St. Claire Regional Medi- cal Center (Morehead, Ky.). Mr. McCleese got his start as a geologist and information resources manager. He spent more than 14 years with Eq- uitable Resources in Prestonsburg, Ky., and King- sport, Tenn., before joining the 159-bed rural St. Claire Regional Medical Center. In 2012, ONC invited Mr. McCleese and 81 other leading IT providers to the White House to recognize their outstanding work in implementing health IT and discuss the state of EHRs with government offi- cials. Mr. McCleese has 23 years of information management experience. He currently serves on the CHIME board of trustees. Virginia A. McFerran. CIO of UCLA Health Sys- tem and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (Los Angeles). Appointed as CIO in 2009, Ms. McFerran leads IT development and the dis- tribution of IT-related resources across the David Geffen School of Medicine, the UCLA Faculty Practice Group and the UCLA Hospital System. Ms. McFerran previously served as CIO and de- partment head at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. She has leadership experience from The Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., The University of Washington in Seattle and Microsoft.

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