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37 of the Information Technology Division since 2009. roughout his career, Dr. Harris has served on many government and private sector commissions to address healthcare interoperability issues, including the Congressional Commission on Systemic Interoper- ability and the HIMSS National Health Information Infrastruc- ture Task Force. Dr. Harris received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Steve Hess. CIO of University of Colorado Health (Aurora). Mr. Hess became CIO of University of Colorado Hospital in 2009. He served in that role until 2012, when the organization merged with Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colo.; Med- ical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, Colo.; and Memorial Health System in Colorado Springs, Colo., to form UCHealth. As CIO of UCHealth, Mr. Hess manages the information sys- tems across the system's five Colorado hospitals and more than 100 clinic locations. Prior to joining UCHealth, Mr. Hess was the CIO of Wilmington, Del.-based Christiana Care Health System. Kyle Johnson. Vice President and CIO of Eastern Maine Health Systems (Brewer). Ms. Johnson, a healthcare leader with more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, was appointed to her current role in 2014. She was previously the vice president and chief analytics and integration officer of Trinity Health in Li- vonia, Mich. Ms. Johnson earned a master's degree in medi- cal informatics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Liz Johnson, BSN, RN. CIO of Acute Care Hospitals & Ap- plied Clinical Informatics for Tenet Healthcare (Dallas). As CIO of acute care hospitals and applied clinical informatics, Ms. Johnson oversees the health IT at 84 Tenet hospitals across the nation. In 2015, Tenet Healthcare recognized Ms. John- son with a special leadership award to honor her team's suc- cessful completion of the original scope of the IMPACT pro- gram, Tenet's EHR initiative, on time and under budget. e award acknowledges just one of many significant contributions she has made during her 13-year tenure. Outside of Tenet, Ms. Johnson is a current member of the CHIME board of trustees. Beverly Jordan, MSN, RN. Vice President and Chief Informa- tion and Transformation Officer of Baptist Memorial Health Care (Memphis, Tenn.). Baptist Memorial Health Care appoint- ed Ms. Jordan to vice president and chief information and tech- nology officer to lead the organization's transition to EHR vendor Epic in December 2015. Before the promotion, Ms. Jordan was the chief clinical transformation officer for roughly 3.5 years. She was the CNO of the system and of Baptist Memorial Hospital-Mem- phis for nearly a decade before that. is nursing veteran of near- ly 30 years received her MSN from the University of Phoenix. Mark Kilborn. CIO of Springhill Medical Center (Mobile, Ala.). For nearly 30 years, Mr. Kilborn served as the opera- tions manager of Mobile (Ala.) Infirmary Medical Center. In 2000, Mr. Kilborn became area vice president of Allscripts Professional Services and CIO of Springhill Medical Cen- ter. Springhill made headlines in early 2015 when it became the first hospital in Alabama to achieve HIMSS Stage 7 Am- bulatory Award, one of many advancements the facility has made in EHR implementation during Mr. Kilborn's tenure. Suresh Krishnan. Vice President and CIO of Loretto Hospital (Chicago). Mr. Krishnan has been vice president and CIO of Lo- retto Hospital for nearly three years. Previously, he served as chief technology officer and information security officer for Northwest Community Healthcare in Arlington Heights, Ill., for more than a decade. Mr. Krishnan earned his bachelor's in mechanical en- gineering from Anna University — a technical university in In- dia — in 1982. Today, his specialties include HIPAA security, en- terprise architecture, EMR implementation and meaningful use. Mary Anne Leach. Senior Vice President and CIO of Children's Hospital Colorado (Aurora). Ms. Leach became senior vice pres- ident and CIO in 2007. Since then, she has helped the hospital reap strategic, clinical, business and research value from technol- ogy enablers and investments. Under her leadership, Hospitals & Health Networks magazine named Children's Hospital Colorado a "Most Wired" hospital in 2015 for the third consecutive year. Prior to joining Children's, Ms. Leach was vice president of clini- cal applications for Englewood-based Catholic Health Initiatives. Philip Lous, PhD. Senior Vice President and CIO of SSM Health (St. Louis). Dr. Lous joined SSM Health as senior vice president and CIO in January 2015, where he oversees the IT and clinical engineering services for the health system's acute care hospitals, physician practices and nursing homes. Prior, he was CIO of Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care, where he led the system's Epic EHR implementation. Dr. Lous earned his doctorate in computer-based modeling and simula- tion from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Jonathan Manis. Senior Vice President and CIO of Sutter Health (Sacramento). As CIO of Sutter Health for nearly a decade, Mr. Manis oversees the health system's more than $1 billion investment in health technologies to improve patient care, including medi- cation bar coding, the tele-ICU and the EHR. Mr. Manis joined Sutter in September 2006, prior to which he held leadership posi- tions in two Illinois-based systems. Mr. Manis holds a master's de- gree in information science from the Naval Postgraduate School. Ed McCallister. Senior Vice President and CIO of UPMC (Pittsburgh). Mr. McCallister assumed his current position in 2014. Previously, Mr. McCallister spent 15 years with UPMC's Insurance Services Division, first as director and then as vice president and CIO. He also held various business and IT man-

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