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46 Russ Branzell. President and CEO of College of Healthcare Informa- tion Management Executives (Ann Arbor, Mich.). Mr. Branzell was CEO of Loveland-based Colorado Health Medical Group before being named CEO of CHIME in 2013. Prior to joining CHMG, he was vice president of information services and CIO of Fort Collins, Colo.-based Poudre Valley Health System. While serving on active duty in the Air Force, Mr. Branzell was CIO for the Air Mobility Command Surgeon General's Office. Geoffrey Brown. CIO of Piedmont Healthcare (Atlanta). Mr. Brown joined Piedmont Healthcare as CIO in 2014. He has led various tech- nology initiatives at the health system, such as establishing employee standards for security and privacy compliance. Prior to taking on the CIO role at Piedmont Healthcare, Mr. Brown was senior vice president and CIO of Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System. Jonathan Brown. Vice President and CIO of Mission Health System (Asheville, N.C.). In 2016, Mr. Brown took on the CIO role at Mission Health System in addition to the vice president position he has held since 2009. His recent projects include improving data analytics, in- teroperability and practice management solutions. Prior to joining Mis- sion Health System, Mr. Brown was the director of IT security at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. Paul Browne. Senior Vice President of Applied Informatics and CIO of Tenet Healthcare (Dallas). Mr. Browne was appointed CIO of Tenet Healthcare in 2012 aer taking on the role of senior vice president of the applied informatics department earlier that year. Prior to joining Ten- et Healthcare, he served as chief integration officer of Livonia, Mich.- based Trinity Health and provided consulting services for Accenture. Mr. Browne earned a master's degree in health service administration from Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan. Jon Burns. Senior Vice President and CIO of University of Maryland Medical System (Baltimore). Mr. Burns, who has 31 years of healthcare experience, joined University of Maryland Medical System in 2006. In the senior vice president and CIO roles, he is responsible for IT service, supply chain and operations strategies for the health system. Prior to his work with University of Maryland Medical System, Mr. Burns was the senior executive of information technology at Cleveland Clinic. Bobbie Byrne, MD. Executive Vice President of Consumer Driven Health and CIO of Edward-Elmhurst Health (Naperville, Ill.). Dr. Byrne, who has been CIO of Edward-Elmhurst Health since 2009, was appointed executive vice president of consumer driven health in 2016. In these roles, she oversees IT, applications and biomedi- cal engineering services. Dr. Byrne earned her medical degree from Chicago-based Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Med- icine and a MBA from Evanston, Ill.-based Northwestern Universi- ty's Kellogg School of Management. Deborah Cancilla. CIO of PinnacleHealth System (Harrisburg, Pa.). Ms. Cancilla has been CIO of PinnacleHealth since 2014. In this role, she oversees technology initiatives such as a systemwide Epic EHR im- plementation. Prior to joining PinnacleHealth, Ms. Cancilla was senior vice president and CIO of Grady Health System in Atlanta. Mike Canfield. CIO of Augusta Health System (Fishersville, Va.). Mr. Canfield has been CIO of Augusta Health System since January 2016. Prior to joining the health system, he was vice president and CIO at Sandusky, Ohio-based Firelands Regional Medical Center. At the Mid- western medical center, Mr. Canfield led projects like an EHR overhaul and digitizing physician order entries. Kumar Chatani. Executive Vice President and CIO of Mount Sinai Health System (New York City). Mr. Chatani, who has almost 30 years of IT and business management experience, manages a budget of rough- ly $240 million for Mount Sinai Health System. Under his CIO leader- ship, the health system received the HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award for excellence in health IT in 2012. Prior to joining Mount Sinai Health System, Mr. Chatani was CIO of the northwest region of Kaiser Perma- nente in Portland, Ore. Matthew Chambers. CIO of Baylor Scott & White Health (Dallas). Mr. Chambers was named CIO of Baylor Scott & White Health when it formed in 2014. Prior to this appointment, he was CIO of Scott & White Healthcare. He is a CHIME certified healthcare CIO and a HIMSS cer- tified professional in healthcare information and management systems. Marc Chasin, MD. Vice President and CIO and CMIO of St. Luke's Health System (Boise, Idaho). Dr. Chasin, who joined St. Luke's Health System in 2010, was named CIO and CMIO in 2012. In these roles, he has overseen various technology projects, such as a system- wide Epic EHR implementation. Dr. Chasin was previously on the board of the Idaho Health Data Exchange and a member of the Na- tional HIE Governance Steering Committee. Carl Christensen. Senior Vice President and CIO of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare (Chicago) and CIO of Northwestern Univer- sity's Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago). Mr. Christensen joined Northwestern University in 2010 as CIO of the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation. He was appointed to CIO of Northwestern Univer- sity Feinberg School of Medicine in 2012 and senior vice president and CIO of Northwestern Memorial Healthcare in 2015. Prior to his roles at Northwestern, Mr. Christensen was CIO of Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic. George Conklin. Senior Vice President and CIO of Christus Health (Irving, Texas). Mr. Conklin joined Christus Health in 1998 aer serving as CIO of Oklahoma City-based Integris Health for five years. In his role at Christus Health, he is responsible for communication systems, infor- mation management and clinical engineering services across the health system. Since 2009, Mr. Conklin has been board chairman at Greater Houston Healthconnect, a health information exchange in Texas. Andy Crowder. Corporate Senior Vice President and CIO of Scripps Health (San Diego). Mr. Crowder, who joined Scripps Health in 2016, has almost 30 years of IT and healthcare experience. Prior to his work with Scripps Health, he was the senior vice president and CIO of Port- land-based MaineHealth, CIO of Orlando-based Florida Hospital and Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based Adventist Health System. He is a CHIME certified healthcare CIO. Richard (Dick) Daniels. Executive Vice President and CIO of Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.). Mr. Daniels, who was appointed exec- utive vice president and CIO in 2015, first joined Kaiser Permanente in 2008 as information technology senior vice president and business information officer. His has more than 30 years of IT leadership experi- ence including time as senior vice president and divisional CIO of Cap- ital One and senior vice president of JP Morgan Chase. Randy Davis. CIO and Vice President of Support Services at CGH Medical Center (Sterling, Ill.). Mr. Davis joined CGH Medical Center in 1996. roughout his career, he spent more than 30 years as an ad- ministrator for physician multispecialty group practices. Before taking on the CIO role, he was an administrator of Sterling (Ill.) Rock Falls Clinic prior to its integration with CGH Medical Center in 2011. Myra Davis. Senior Vice President of Information Services and CIO of Texas Children's Hospital (Houston). Ms. Davis, who joined Tex- as Children's Hospital more than a decade ago, was named senior vice president of information services and CIO in 2012. Prior to this appoint- ment, she was the hospital's vice president of information systems and director of customer support. She holds a master's degree in soware engineering from St. Paul, Minn.-based University of St. omas.