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16 dent and CIO of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in 2015, responsible for providing innovative corporate IT services to the health system's 12,000 as- sociates and 2,000 physicians. Prior to joining Le Bonheur, Mr. McMath was the CIO and vice president of IT, clinical and support services at Indiana University Health Bloomington with regional responsibilities in the labora- tory, radiology, pharmacy, IT and telecommunications. He is Lean Bronze certified and served as the executive sponsor of IU Health Bloomington's perioperative services value stream. Pamela McNutt. Senior Vice President and CIO of Methodist Health System (Dallas). Ms. McNutt joined Methodist Health System in 1993 and currently serves as the senior vice president and CIO. Since then, the system has grown to comprise seven hospitals. She also serves as a member of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Data Initiative Executive Committee and a member of the State of Texas' Health Care Information Council Hospital Data Collection Work- group. During her 30-plus year career in healthcare, Ms. McNutt has experience working for Medicus/HBOC and Hermann Memorial Hospital in Houston. Michael Mistretta. Vice President and CIO of Virginia Hospital Center (Arlington). Mr. Mistretta has been the vice president and CIO of Virginia Hospital Center since 2015, where he oversees strategy and leadership for the system's IT. roughout his 30-plus year career in the healthcare indus- try, Mr. Mistretta has gained experience in soware development, consult- ing, data center management services, and consulting for both the payer and provider sides of healthcare. He has also worked with major vendors for EHR implementation and has created solutions to increase productivity, improve quality and reduce expenses. Since he arrived at Virginia Hospital Center, Mr. Mistretta has guided the system to become a National Showcase account for healthcare technology and a model organization in automated capture clinical quality measures. Dana Moore. Senior Vice President and CIO of Children's Hospital Col- orado (Aurora). Mr. Moore became senior vice president and CIO of Chil- dren's Hospital Colorado in July 2017 aer spending more than 30 years in the healthcare financial management field. In this capacity, Mr. Moore is playing a significant role in the hospital's Reimagine 2020 strategic plan. Prior to joining Children's Hospital, Mr. Moore was senior vice president and CIO for Centura Health, where he oversaw the development and im- plementation of IT strategy and eventually became managing director of Centura Health's service center, including supply chain, laboratory, system recruiting, central verification and business intelligence. Janice Newell. Executive Vice President and CIO of Providence St. Joseph Health (Renton, Wash.). Ms. Newell joined Providence Health & Services in 2012, serving as senior vice president and CIO when the health system merged with St. Joseph Health in 2016. She currently serves as the executive vice president and CIO of Providence St. Joseph and on the advisory board for Providence Ventures, a platform to target early- and mid-stage invest- ment opportunities aligning with the health system. roughout her more than 20 years in healthcare, Ms. Newell has also served as CIO of Swedish Health Services and CIO of Group Health cooperative. Daniel Nigrin, MD. Senior Vice President for Information Services and CIO of Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Nigrin is responsible for all clini- cal, research and administrative IT systems as the senior vice president for information services and CIO of Boston Children's. He oversees the imple- mentation of technology to maximize safety and efficiency while optimizing workflows for the hospital's clinicians, researchers and administrative staff. Dr. Nigrin also focuses on the strategic use of IT to improve patient- and fami- ly-facing tools as part of the care experience. In addition to his administra- tive role, Dr. Nigrin serves as a senior staff member of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and continues to practice medicine at in the hospital's division of pediatric endocrinology. Jim Noga. Vice President and CIO of Partners HealthCare (Boston). As vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare, Mr. Noga is responsible for the health system's IT. Partners HealthCare and Massachusetts General Hos- pital have undergone significant technology advances under his leadership to support clinical care and research. Prior to stepping into his current role, Mr. Noga was the director of clinical applications for MGH and became CIO of MGH and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization in 1997. Marty Paslick. Senior Vice President and CIO of HCA Healthcare (Nashville, Tenn.). Mr. Paslick has spent more than 30 years building a ca- reer at HCA, currently serving as senior vice president and CIO. He leads the company's IT and services department, which provides IT strategy and support for HCA's more than 250 hospitals and freestanding surgery cen- ters. e IT and services department has more than 4,500 employees across the U.S. in addition to five data centers and 15 division support centers. In 2014, Mr. Paslick was instrumental in HCA's efforts to acquire Patient- Keeper, a healthcare technology company based in Boston. He is currently a member of the KLAS Advisory Board, focusing on improving healthcare technology delivery. Fred Peet. Vice President of IT and CIO of Yuma (Ariz.) Regional Medi- cal Center. Mr. Peet became interim CIO of Yuma Regional Medical Center in April 2015; the hospital brought him on permanently in that capacity a month later. In 2016, Mr. Peet oversaw the implementation of a universal im- age viewer across YRMC's healthcare enterprise to support all practitioners. Under his leadership, YRMC achieved Hospital & Health Networks' Health Care's Most Wired recognition in 2017. He previously served as YRMC's director of IT and has experience as an infrastructure supervisor and infor- mation security officer. Keith Perry. CIO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tenn.). Mr. Perry became CIO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2015, responsible for providing strategic council and IT leadership. He provides leadership for the hospital's IT initiatives and utilization of new technologies to support patient care and experience. His previous experi- ence includes time as associate vice president and deputy CIO at Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he managed the IT division's $290 million annual budget and implemented high-performance computing programs. Audrius Polikaitis, PhD. CIO of University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (Chicago). As the CIO for UI Hospital & Health Sciences System, Mr. Polikaitis is responsible for the system's IT and medical records. He oversees the enterprise's applications, systems, analytics and infrastructure to support patient care, as well as its business and financial operations. Under his leadership, the hospital has achieved Hospitals & Health Networks' Health Care's Most Wired recognition seven times, most recently in 2017. Marc Probst. Vice President and CIO of Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City). Mr. Probst is the vice president and CIO of Intermountain Health- care. With more than 30 years of experience in IT and healthcare services, Mr. Probst has served as the CIO and partner for Ernst & Young as well as partner with Deloitte Consulting. His background spans planning, designing, devel- opment, deployment and operations for the IT department. In addition to his role with Intermountain, Mr. Probst serves on the Federal Health IT Policy Committee, helping develop HIT policy for the U.S. government. Shafiq Rab, MD. CIO of Rush University Medical Center (Chicago). Rush University Medical Center named Dr. Rab senior vice president and CIO in December 2016, and he officially assumed the position on Jan. 9, 2017. Prior to joining Rush, Dr. Rab was senior vice president of IT and CIO of Hackensack (N.J.) University Health Network, using technology to support the hospital's growth from 775 beds into a 3,500-patient-bed health system. During his time at Hackensack, Dr. Rab was also a pioneer in mobile healthcare technology, developing a direct patient access app that allows patients to schedule appoint- ments, view test results and prescription information, and communicate with their physicians from any device. Jayashree Raman. Vice President and CIO of Cooper University Health Care (Camden, N.J.). Ms. Raman provides strategic leadership and planning for Cooper University Health Care's IT infrastructure, aimed at improving patient care, safety and engagement. She also oversees IT solutions to ad- vance the health system's clinical and business mission as well as overseeing the strategic and operational director for Cooper's biomedical engineering department. She joined Cooper in 2012 aer spending several years as the vice president and CIO of Reading (Pa.) Hospital and Medical Center, where she established the health system's core IT infrastructure and led efforts to

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