Becker's Hospital Review

Save the date! Becker's Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting — May 7-9, 2015 — Chicago. Please call 800-417-2035 to register. 14 Pamela McNutt. Senior Vice President and CIO of Methodist Health System (Dallas). Ms. Mc- Nutt has nearly 30 years of healthcare IT experi- ence, the last 18 of which have been in the role of CIO at Methodist Health System. Prior to join- ing the system in 1993, she worked for Hermann Memorial Hospital in Houston. She is a fellow of both HIMSS and CHIME, and currently serves on the CHIME board of trustees and is a former di- rector for the HIMSS national board. Bruce Metz, PhD. Senior Vice President and CIO of Lahey Health (Burlington, Mass.). Dr. Metz has served as senior vice president and CIO of Lahey Health since April 2011. He has more than 20 years of experience in senior manage- ment and executive IT positions for institutions within healthcare as well as higher education. From 2005 to 2011, he served as CIO of Thomas Jefferson University and its affiliated hospital in Philadelphia. Prior to his work as a CIO, Dr. Metz served as a management consultant for Fortune 500 companies in a broad range of industries. Nader Mherabi. Senior Vice President, Vice Dean and CIO of NYU Langone Medical Center (New York City). Mr. Mherabi brings 23 years of IT expe- rience to his role at NYU Langone Medical Center, where he oversees all IT activities for the medical center, which includes 1,069 beds and four hospi- tals. Mr. Mherabi previously served NYU Langone as vice president for IT product solutions and chief technology officer. Among his many accomplish- ments at NYU, Mr. Mherabi successfully developed the operational infrastructure for in-house app development and more than 40 mid-size apps for research, education and clinical care. Dana Moore. Senior Vice President and CIO of Centura Health (Englewood, Colo.). Since 2001, Mr. Moore has served as senior vice president and CIO of Centura Health, which includes 15 hos- pitals, seven senior living communities, 17 health neighborhoods, home care and hospice services. He is responsible for the overall development and implementation of the system's IT strategy across Colorado and Kansas and for numerous Centura hospitals reaching HIMSS Stage 7. Timothy Moore, RN. Senior Vice President and CIO of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (Newport Beach, Calif.). Mr. Moore has 21 years of IT experience in healthcare, currently serving as senior vice president and CIO of Hoag Me- morial Hospital Presbyterian, a role he has held since 2009. Before joining Hoag, he was at Perot Systems, a global provider of IT and business solutions. There, he served as executive director for provider healthcare. Before that, he was vice president and CIO of Carondelet Health System in Kansas City, Mo. He has also held positions as a registered nurse and pharmacy assistant. Pravene Nath, MD. CIO of Stanford (Calif.) Health Care. In 2013, Dr. Nath became CIO of Stanford Health Care, previously Stanford Hospi- tal & Clinics. At the time of his appointment, he had been serving as interim CIO, before which he served as CMIO. Under his leadership, Stanford Health Care implemented its EHR system and earned national recognition for IT adoption. In 2013, Stanford Health Care received the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 award, and in 2014, the hospital was named as one of the "Most Wired" in the na- tion by Hospital & Health Networks. Jim Noga. Vice President and CIO of Partners HealthCare (Boston). Mr. Noga has served Part- ners as vice president and CIO since March 2011. He also currently teaches health informatics at Northeastern University in Boston. Mr. Noga gained nearly 17 years of experience as the CIO of Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital, a Partners HealthCare hospital. Before that, he served as director of clinical applications at Massa- chusetts General. Mr. Noga's expertise is focused in online enterprise clinical reporting systems, CPOE, closed loop electronic medication administration and ambulatory EMRs. He earned a master's de- gree in biomedical computing and information processing and completed a certificate program in healthcare finance, both at Ohio State University. Patrick O'Hare. Senior Vice President and CIO of Spectrum Health (Grand Rapids, Mich.). Mr. O'Hare oversees the information and technology management of Spectrum Health, a $4.2 billion, 19,000 employee health system. He helped found Michigan Health Connect, a health information exchange in the state that recently merged with Great Lakes Health Information Exchange. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the Michigan Health & Hospital Asso- ciation Health Information Strategy Committee, Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services, HIMSS, CHIME and the Cerner Strate- gic Chief Information Officer Council. Michael O'Rourke. Senior Vice President and CIO of Catholic Health Initiatives (Englewood, Colo.). Mr. O'Rourke has 25 years of healthcare technology experience. He served as CIO for Plano, Texas-based Triad Hospitals and as vice president of clinical and regulatory IT strate- gies for San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West, now named Dignity Health, before coming to Catholic Health Initiatives. Mr. O'Rourke was appointed senior vice president and CIO of CHI in 2009 after serving a year and a half as interim CIO. He oversees IT for the system, which includes 105 hospitals. During his tenure, he has overseen the implementation and upgrade of EHRs across the system and led the launch of a three-year HIE project, among other accomplishments. Marty Paslick. Senior Vice President and CIO of Hospital Corporation of America (Nashville, Tenn.). In 2012, Mr. Paslick became the senior vice president and CIO of one of the world's largest for-profit healthcare providers, which in- cludes 165 hospitals and 115 surgery centers. He has served the company's information technology and services department in various capacities for 29 years. Mr. Paslick is a former chairman for the board of the Nashville Technology Council and a former board member for the Nasville Chamber of Commerce. He earned both his undergraduate degree and his MBA from the University of Lou- isville (Ky.). Audrius Polikaitis, PhD. Assistant Vice President of Health IT and CIO of University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System (Chicago). Since 2011, Dr. Polikaitis has served as assistant vice president of health IT and CIO of Univer- sity of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences. The system has received Hospitals & Health Networks' "Most Wired" award every year since he became CIO. Before becoming a CIO, Dr. Polikaitis served in other health IT roles at University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences, including director of information systems planning and assistant di- rector of information services planning. Marc Probst. CIO of Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City). Mr. Probst has 20 years of health IT experience. He has served as CIO of Inter- mountain Healthcare for more than 12 years. Ad- ditionally, he is currently serving on the Federal Healthcare Information Technology Policy Com- mittee, which assists in developing HIT policy for the U.S. government. Prior to joining Intermoun- tain in 2003, Mr. Probst was a partner of Deloitte Consulting Group, a partner at Ernst & Young and a senior manager at First Consulting Group. Shafiq Rab, MD. Vice President and CIO of Hack- ensack (N.J.) University Medical Center. Dr. Rab became CIO of Hackensack UMC in March 2012. Prior to joining the medical center, he served as vice president and CIO of Greater Hudson Valley Health System in Middletown, N.Y., a position he entered in 2008. Before that, Dr. Rab was vice presi- dent and CIO of St. Mary's Hospital in Passaic, N.J. Jayashree Raman. Vice President and CIO of Cooper University Health Care (Camden, N.J.). Ms. Raman was appointed CIO of Cooper Uni- versity Healthcare in 2012. Prior to joining Coo- per, Ms. Raman served as vice president of health- care strategy and CIO for Stanley Healthcare Solutions for two years. She also served as vice president and CIO of The Reading (Pa.) Hospital and Medical Center from 1997 to 2010, where she established the medical center's core information technology infrastructure. Stephanie Reel. CIO and Vice Provost for IT at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore). In addition to her roles at Johns Hopkins University, Ms. Reel has served as vice president of information services for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore since 1994. She is a member of several professional organiza- tions, including the Healthcare Information Systems Executive Association, CHIME, HIMSS and the Healthcare Advisory Council. Additionally, Ms. Reel was appointed to President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in 2009. Linda Reed, RN. Vice President and CIO of At- lantic Health (Morristown, N.J.). Ms. Reed is vice president of behavioral and integrative medicine and CIO of Atlantic Health, a four-hospital health system, where she is responsible for planning, acquiring and implementing information tech- nology and telecommunications. Before joining Atlantic Health, Ms. Reed was with Marlton, N.J.- based Virtua Health, also serving as vice president and CIO. She also holds an MBA from Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania.

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