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39 Daniel Nigrin, MD. Senior Vice President for Information Services and CIO of Boston Children's Hospital. As CIO of Boston Children's, Dr. Nigrin — who is board certified in pedi- atric endocrinology and clinical informatics — oversees all of the hospital's clinical, research, teaching and administrative IT sys- tems. Dr. Nigrin also serves as an assistant professor of pediat- rics at Harvard Medical School, is a senior staff member of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and is a practicing phy- sician in Boston Children's division of pediatric endocrinology. Jim Noga. Vice President and CIO of Partners HealthCare (Boston). Mr. Noga joined Massachusetts General Hospi- tal as director of clinical applications in 1990 before assum- ing the role of CIO of the hospital in 1997. He was appointed vice president and CIO of the entire Partners system in 2011. He has a wide range of expertise, including a focus on online enterprise clinical reporting systems and closed loop medi- cation administration. Additionally, Mr. Noga is a professor of health informatics at Northeastern University in Boston. Joe Norris. CIO of New Hanover Regional Medical Center (Wilmington, N.C.). Prior to arriving at New Hanover Region- al Medical Center, Mr. Norris was the associate vice chancel- lor and CIO of East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. He has more than 25 years of experience in IT leadership and be- gan his career at BB&T Corporation, where he led the systems and operations departments, and was also a senior analyst for Glaxo Wellcome pharmaceuticals. Mr. Norris was chief technol- ogy officer for NHRMC before being appointed CIO in 2014. Laureen O'Brien. Vice President and CIO of Providence Health & Services (Renton, Wash.). With nearly 30 years of health IT experience, Ms. O'Brien joined Providence Health & Services in 1997 as director of information services in Oregon. Prior to join- ing the system, she was divisional director of information services at Columbia Healthcare Systems in Denver and spent time in the EHR vendor sector. Under her leadership, the system was named one of the 2015 "Most Wired" hospitals by Hospitals & Health Networks. Additionally, Ms. O'Brien is a member of the Health In- formation Technology Oversight Council for the state of Oregon. Michael O'Rourke. Senior Vice President and CIO of Catholic Health Initiatives (Englewood, Colo.). Before being appointed CIO of Catholic Health Initiatives in 2009, Mr. O'Rourke was a private consultant with the health system for two years. With his oversight, the system consolidated more than 40 disparate IT operations into a single national infrastructure and reduced its overall operating IT budget by more than $30 in under three years. Mr. O'Rourke has more than 25 years of healthcare tech- nology experience and previously held positions with Plano, Tex- as-based Triad Hospitals and San Francisco-based Dignity Health. Jaime Parent. Vice President of IT Operations and Associate CIO of Rush University (Chicago). In addition to overseeing day-to-day technical operations and IT infrastructure for Rush University, Mr. Parent is also responsible for all of the school's IT research, support for its three graduate schools and school of med- icine and is the graduate course director for health systems man- agement. A retired lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, he founded the En-Abled Veteran program at Rush University in 2013, which provides IT training for military veterans and offers hands-on experience applicable for sought-aer IT services and positions. Marty Paslick. Senior Vice President and CIO of Hospital Cor- poration of America (Nashville, Tenn.). In his nearly 30-year career with HCA, Mr. Paslick served as vice president and COO of the system before being appointed to senior vice president and CIO in 2012. In his current position, he oversees the system's in- formation technology and services department, which provides strategies for 165 hospitals and comprises more than 4,500 em- ployees. Mr. Paslick is a member of the KLAS Advisory Board, past chairman of the board of the Nashville Technology Council and past board member of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. Doris Peek, PhD. Senior Vice President of IT and CIO of Broward Health (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.). Since 2006, Dr. Peek has served as senior vice president of IT and CIO of Broward Health. During her tenure at Broward Health, the system's IT department has grown from 125 employees to 200. Among the other milestones during her tenure is a 95 percent adoption of computerized physician order processing entry and EHR. Dr. Peek holds a doctorate degree in organizational management. Keith Perry. CIO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospi- tal (Memphis, Tenn.). Mr. Perry is still fairly new to his po- sition, as he was named CIO of St. Jude in 2015. Prior to St. Jude, he was associate vice president and deputy CIO of Uni- versity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Mr. Perry earned an MBA from the University of Houston. Cindy Peterson. Vice President and CIO of Henry Mayo Ne- whall Memorial Hospital (Valencia, Calif.). Ms. Peterson has more than 25 years of health IT experience. During her tenure at Henry Mayo Newhall, the hospital has implemented numerous applications from the organization's core clinical vendor, Medi- tech. Before joining Henry Mayo Newhall, Ms. Peterson was re- gional CIO of Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health, oversee- ing the IT departments of five hospitals in southern California. Audrius Polikaitis, PhD. Assistant Vice President of Health Information Technology and CIO of University of Illinois Hospital Health Sciences System (Chicago). Dr. Polikaitis is responsible for all applications, systems and infrastructure that support the patient care, business and financial operations of UI Health. Under his tenure, the system achieved HIMSS Stage 6 designation. Before joining UI Health, Dr. Polikai- tis worked in the corporate research labs of a Fortune 50 tech- nology corporation, and for a major healthcare information