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. 21 Mr. Sripada oversees most of the IT staff of the three organizations. His first project is to lead the implementation of the Epic EHR at Botsford. Mr. Sripada first joined Beaumont in November 2008 and served in multiple leadership roles, including CIO of William Beaufort Hospital. Rob Sumter, PhD. Executive Vice President and COO of Regional One Health (Memphis, Tenn.). In his current positions, Dr. Sumter is responsible for both clinical and professional operations at the hospital as well as information technology. During the 20 years Dr. Sumter served with the U.S. Navy, he served as the CIO of numerous na- val hospitals as well as for the U.S. Commander in Chief Atlantic Fleet. He also served as CIO for a Fortune 500 company, where he provided in- formation management and technology support operations for healthcare organizations. Rebecca Sykes. Senior Vice President, Resource Management and CIO of Mercy Health (Cincin- nati). Ms. Sykes has served as senior vice president and CIO of Mercy Health, formerly known as Cath- olic Health Partners, since 1999. Under her leader- ship, Mercy Health consolidated the IT function across its seven regional markets in 2011, launched a $400 million Epic EHR project and started using data for population health management. She pre- viously served as director of information systems for TriHealth/Medicus in Cincinnati and corporate manager of health information/medical records at Bethesda Hospital in Cincinnati. Phyllis Teater. Associate Vice President of Health Sciences and CIO of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus). After serv- ing as the hospital's interim CEO, Ms. Teater was named CIO of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in October 2010. Under her lead- ership, Wexner achieved HIMSS Analytics Stage 7. In 2011, she led a team to train 14,000 people on the Epic Enterprise Intelligence platform. After training, Wexner was able to go live with a new, system-wide conversion and installation in one day. Ms. Teater first joined the hospital in 1991. She earned an MBA in management of informa- tion systems from Ohio State University. Karen Thomas. Senior Vice President and CIO of Main Line Health (Bryn Mawr, Pa.). As senior vice president and CIO, Ms. Thomas is responsi- ble for the planning, implementation and support for information services of Main Line Health, including telecommunications and audiovisual support for the system. Prior to joining Main Line Health, Ms. Thomas served as director of patient and physician systems for Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia. Tim Thompson. Senior Vice President and CIO of BayCare Health System (Clearwater, Fla.). Mr. Thompson assumed his duties as CIO of BayCare Health in 2010, where his responsibilities include leading the technology planning and operations for the system-wide information services opera- tion. Previously, Mr. Thompson served as senior vice president and CIO of Methodist Hospital System in Houston and senior vice president and CIO of Adventist Health System in Winter Park, Fla., and Palmetto Health in Columbia, S.C. Lac Tran. Senior Vice President, Associate Dean and CIO of Rush University Medical Center (Chi- cago). Mr. Tran has served more than 12 years in his current role at Rush University Medical Cen- ter. Before joining Rush, Mr. Tran gained nearly 20 years of CIO experience through his roles at Meth- odist Hospital System in Houston, Boston Chil- dren's Hospital, Stony Brook (N.Y.) Medical Cen- ter and Wilford Hall Medical Center, now called Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, located on the Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. His work emphasizes networking image processing and de- veloping healthcare data warehouse packages. John Ulett. Vice President and CIO of Cen- traState Health System (Freehold, N.J.). Mr. Ulett was appointed vice president and CIO of CentraState in August 2014. Prior to this appoint- ment, Mr. Ulett was vice president of financial and information management systems at Community Health Systems in Franklin, Tenn. All total, he has worked in health IT for more than 16 years. Joel Vengco. Vice President and CIO of Baystate Health (Springfield, Mass.). As vice president of information services and CIO of Baystate Health, Mr. Vengco oversees the technology strategy and operations across the system. Some of his accom- plishments include opening the Baystate Tech In- novation Center, driving the partnerships with Cerner, IBM, and Intersystems and leading the Pioneer Valley Information Exchange. Jerry Vuchak. Vice President of Information Systems of Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis). Mr. Vuchak started in 2007 at Barnes-Jewish Hos- pital as vice president of information systems. One year later, he was promoted into the new position of vice president of information services, academic hospitals and the Washington Univer- sity School of Medicine integration. In this role, Mr. Vuchak manages IT alignment across Barnes- Jewish Hospital, Barnes-Jewish West County Hos- pital and St. Louis Children's Hospital, in part- nership with Washington University School of Medicine. He has overseen IT initiatives including clinical documentation implemenation, CPOE, a perioperative information system and a radiology information system. He earned a master's degree in human services from Capella University. David Weiss. Senior Vice President and CIO of BJC Healthcare (St. Louis). Mr. Weiss has a 25- year career at BJC HealthCare. In his current role as CIO of a $4 billion nonprofit health system, Mr. Weiss manages planning, developing and support- ing information technology and telecommunica- tions initiatives at facilities throughout the system. He is chairman of the Telecommunication Facili- ties Corporation, which provides voice communi- cation services to the Washington University Medi- cal Center campus. He also currently serves on the board of directors of the Missouri Health Infor- mation Organization, an information exchange organization, and is a member of the Healthcare Information Systems Executives Association and the American Medical Informatics Association. Wes Wright. Senior Vice President and CIO of Seattle Children's. Mr. Wright has served as se- nior vice president and CIO of Seattle Children's Hospital since August 2012. As CIO, he is respon- sible for developing and implementing multiple information systems at the organization, as well as applications, project management and medical records. Prior to joining Seattle Children's, Mr. Wright was the executive director of informa- tion services for San Diego-based Scripps Health, prior to which he served 20 years in the U.S. Air Force as a health services administrator and a cryptologic linguist, specializing in Korean. He retired as a major. Eric Yablonka. Vice President and CIO of The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Services. Mr. Yablonka became the vice president and CIO of University of Chicago Medicine in August 2001. His responsibilities as CIO include overseeing all information technology functions, biomedical engineering and the call center. Mr. Yablonka has a staff of over 300 people and man- ages capital and an operating budget in excess of $60 million annually. He has also served as the di- rector of the TeraMedica Healthcare Technology board of directors since 2006. Mark Zielazinski. Chief Information & Tech- nology Integration Officer of Marin Healthcare District and Marin General Hospital (Green- brae, Calif.). Mr. Zielazinski joined Marin Gener- al in September 2012 as CITIO after nearly three years as CIO at Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, Calif. He has also served as CIO at Children's Hospital Central California in Fresno and El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif. Under Mr. Zielazinski's leadership, Marin General Hospital was granted a CIO Impact Best-in-Class Award by consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. n Leidos Health is a leading healthcare IT consulting firm with deep clinical and technical expertise to support our customers in selecting, implementing, and optimizing information technology investments. 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