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34 Christ Belmont. Vice President and CIO of University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston). Mr. Bel- mont has been vice president and CIO of University of Tex- as MD Anderson Cancer Center since 2013. He is leading MD Anderson through a systemwide Epic EHR implementation. Previously, he served as the system vice president and CIO of Ochsner Health System in New Orleans. He has more than 30 years of experience in health IT, holding various leadership po- sitions at companies including IBM, Siemens and Healthlink. Julie Berry. CIO of Steward Health Care System (Boston). Ms. Berry has more than 20 years of experience in healthcare technol- ogy. Before becoming Steward's CIO, she was vice president and chief technology officer of the for-profit system. She also gained experience on the IT executive team of Boston-based Partners HealthCare and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Ms. Berry serves on the boards of several organizations, including the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium technical advisory board. John Bosco. Senior Vice President and CIO of Northwell Health (Great Neck, N.Y.). Mr. Bosco heads up IT func- tions at Northwell Health, formerly North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. He joined the system in 2004 as vice president and chief technology officer and has more than 25 years of experience in IT management. Before joining North- well, Mr. Bosco was associate vice president of information technology for Continuum Health Partners in New York. Robert Brandner. CIO of Spectrum Health Systems (Worces- ter, Mass.). Mr. Brandner has years of experience at Dell Com- puters in IT enterprise architecture. He joined Spectrum Health Systems as CIO in November 2015 as its first CIO. Ad- ditionally, he serves as the organization's HIPAA security of- ficer. At Spectrum, Mr. Brandner is responsible for provid- ing leadership and vision for the health system's IT programs. Geoffrey Brown. CIO of Piedmont Healthcare (Atlanta). Mr. Brown was appointed CIO of Piedmont Healthcare in 2014. Un- der his leadership, all six of the system's hospitals received Hospi- tals & Health Networks' "Most Wired" designation. Additionally, Mr. Brown led his team in the health system's first undercover phishing experiment in 2015, which helped establish employee education standards for information security compliance. Pri- or to joining Piedmont, Mr. Brown was senior vice president and CIO at Inova Health System, based in Falls Church, Va. Paul Browne. Senior Vice President of Applied Informat- ics and CIO of Tenet Healthcare (Dallas). Tenet appointed Mr. Browne senior vice president and CIO in 2012. In addi- tion to his leadership roles at Tenet, he sits on the clinical ad- visory council for the Leidos Partnership for Defense, which will advise Leidos on the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract. Mr. Browne has previous ex- perience serving as CIO and senior vice president for strate- gic program management at Trinity Health in Livonia, Mich. Jon Burns. Senior Vice President and CIO of Universi- ty of Maryland Medical System (Baltimore). Mr. Burns has more than 30 years of experience in nonprofit healthcare. He joined e University of Maryland Medical System in 2006. Previously, he was senior executive of information technolo- gy services at Cleveland Clinic. Mr. Burns also led technolo- gy services at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Bobbie Byrne, MD. Vice President and CIO of Edward-Elm- hurst (Ill.) Healthcare. Dr. Byrne was named CIO of Edward-El- mhurst Healthcare in 2013, shortly aer the organization was formed by the merger of Edward Hospital and Health Services in Naperville, Ill., and Elmhurst Memorial Hospital. She is re- sponsible for all IT, applications and biomedical engineering for the health system. Dr. Byrne completed her medical degree at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and a pediatrics residency at Children's Memorial Medical Center in Chicago. Deborah Cancilla. CIO of PinnacleHealth System (Harris- burg, Pa.). Ms. Cancilla, CIO of PinnacleHealth since 2014, is leading an enterprisewide Epic EHR installation, which will span three hospitals and more than 74 ambulatory and special- ty sites. She is also in the process of consolidating a fragmented staff to a centralized location with an open concept floor plan. Ms. Cancilla's previous experience includes six years as senior vice president and CIO of Grady Health System in Atlanta. Mike Canfield. CIO of Augusta Health System (Fishersville, Va.). Mr. Canfield stepped into his role at Augusta Health System in January. Previously, he was vice president and CIO of Firelands Regional Medical Center in Sandusky, Ohio. During his time at Firelands Regional, he led a number of initiatives such as bed- side medication verification, EHR replacement and computerized physician order entry. Mr. Canfield also actively participated in his local HIMSS chapter and Ohio's health information exchange. Kumar Chatani. Executive Vice President and CIO of Mount Sinai Health System (New York). Mr. Chatani served as vice president and regional CIO of Kaiser Permanente, Northwest Re- gion in Portland, Ore., for nearly nine years before joining Mount Sinai as executive vice president and CIO in 2011. At Mount Si- nai, he is responsible for a team of 800 employees and a budget of approximately $240 million. Under his leadership, the health system received the HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award in 2012. Matthew Chambers. CIO of Baylor Scott & White Health (Dal- las). Mr. Chambers served as CIO of Scott & White Healthcare until 2013, when it merged with Baylor Health Care System. Soon aer, he became CIO of the newly formed system, where he has helped created a connected network of providers through a health