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12 Consortium Technical Advisory Board and led Steward through a Med- itech enterprise EHR implementation in 2017. Nancy Birschbach. Vice President and CIO of Agnesian HealthCare (Fond du Lac, Wis.). Ms. Birschbach joined Agnesian healthcare in 1998, spending time as information security officer, director of IT and assistant president of IT before being promoted to vice president and CIO. She has experience implementing three population health registries, converting the health system's outpatient practice management system and implementing virtual visits. Under her leadership, Agnesian HealthCare was named one of the American Hospital Association Health Forum's 2017 Most Wired Hos- pitals. e health system now incorporates home telemonitoring, connected devices, mobile apps and text messaging for patients with chronic care and long-term health problems. John Bosco. Senior Vice President and CIO of Northwell Health (Great Neck, N.Y.). As the senior vice president and CIO of Northwell Health, a 23-hospital health system, Mr. Bosco is responsible for aligning the system's technology department and business strategies. He also oversees the depart- ment's budget, technology purchases, and established IT policies, standards and procedures. Mr. Bosco joined Northwell as vice president and chief tech- nology officer in 2004 and has experience developing the system's strategic plan for technology and overseeing the IT department's daily operations. Prior to joining Northwell, Mr. Bosco was the senior IT executive for Cap- gemini Ernst & Young. James Brady, PhD. Area CIO of Kaiser Permanente Orange County (Ca- lif.). Mr. Brady spent time as the chief information security officer and direc- tor of technical services at Hawaii Health Systems Corp. in Honolulu before joining Kaiser Permanente Orange County as area information officer in 2013. While at Hawaii Health Systems Corp., Mr. Brady led a technology and infrastructure transformation. In his current role, Mr. Brady works with Kai- ser Permanente Orange County's management to improve quality, reduce costs and ensure patient health. In 2014, Mr. Brady served as president of the HIMSS Southern California chapter. Russ Branzell. President and CEO of the College of Healthcare Infor- mation Management Executives (Ann Arbor, Mich.). Mr. Branzell is the president and CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and affiliate associations, as well as the executive director of the CHIME Education Foundation and CHIME Foundation. He joined CHIME as the president and CEO in April 2013 aer spending time as CEO of Fort Collins-based Colorado Health Medical Group and CIO of Poudre Valley Health System. A retired U.S. Air Force member, Mr. Branzell has served in several leadership positions within the Air Force, including CIO for the Air Mobility Command Surgeon General's Office. Mr. Branzell earned the 2010 CHIME State Advocacy Award and spent four years on the CHIME board. Geoffrey Brown. Vice President and CIO of Piedmont Healthcare (At- lanta). Mr. Brown has more than 35 years of experience in IT management, consulting and strategic planning. He became CIO of seven-hospital Pied- mont Healthcare in 2014 and led the system's hospitals to receive Hospital & Health Networks' Most Wired designation. He also led an undercover phishing experiment in 2015, which helped establish employee education standards for information security compliance. roughout his career, Mr. Brown has worked for public, for-profit and nonprofit healthcare organiza- tions, developing a reputation for delivering results by improving technology utilization. Jonathan Brown. Vice President and CIO of Mission Health System (Asheville, N.C.). While vice president and CIO of Mission Health, Mr. Brown has implemented a shared EHR across its acute and ambulatory care locations, optimized the EHR for improved caregiver experience and bol- stered the system's security through strategic partnerships. Mr. Brown is also responsible for directing acquisition, budgeting and coordination of IT resources across the health system. Prior to serving in his current role, Mr. Brown spent time as director of IT security at Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and was president of the North Carolina Health Information and Communication Alliance. Paul Browne. Senior Vice President of Applied Informatics and CIO of Tenet Healthcare (Dallas). Tenet appointed Mr. Browne CIO in 2012, mak- ing him responsible for overseeing leadership and strategic direction of the health system's information technology systems. He also oversees efforts to advance Tenet's business through IT applications and operational strategy for the IT department. In addition to his responsibilities with Tenet, Mr. Browne has served on the clinical advisory council for the Leidos Partner- ship for Defense, which advised the company on the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization contract. Prior to joining Tenet, Mr. Browne was CIO and senior vice president for strategic program manage- ment at Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health. Jon Burns. Senior Vice President and CIO of University of Maryland Medical System (Baltimore). Mr. Burns joined University of Maryland Medical System in 2006 and currently serves as senior vice president and CIO. He is responsible for all IT services and strategy for the system's 12 hos- pitals, as well as supply chain strategies and medical system integration and operations. Prior to joining UMMS, Mr. Burns was senior executive of IT for Cleveland Clinic Health System, where he gained experience overseeing IT for Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and the system's emerging technologies initiatives. He also spent time as the chief technology officer of eCleveland Clinic, an internet-based care delivery model, and served in senior leadership positions at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Dan- ville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System. Bobbie Byrne, MD. Senior Vice President of Information Systems and CIO of Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.). Dr. Byrne served as vice president and CIO of Edward-Elmhurst (Ill.) Healthcare before becom- ing the senior vice president of information systems and CIO for Advocate Health Care in September 2017. In her current role, Dr. Byrne oversees the 12-hospital health system's IT strategy and goals. A pediatric physician by training, Dr. Byrne is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is board certified in clinical informatics. She spent her early career as an attending physician at Children's Memorial Medical Center, now Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and Chicago-based North- western Memorial Hospital. Kumar Chatani. Executive Vice President and CIO of Mount Sinai Health System (New York City). As the executive vice president and CIO of Mount Sinai Health System, Mr. Chatani oversees around 1,000 employees and man- ages a budget of $300 million. e health system earned Hospital & Health Networks' Health Care's Most Wired recognition in 2017 and the HIMSS Davies Award for implementing EHR in 2012 under Mr. Chatani's direction. Before joining Mount Sinai, Mr. Chatani served as CIO of the Northwest Region for Kaiser Permanente in Portland, Ore., overseeing IT for more than 1,000 physicians and two major hospitals. He also has experience as inter- im CIO for Cigna-Lovelace Health Systems in Albuquerque, N.M., and as regional vice president for IT at Cigna Healthcare of California in Glendale. Matthew Chambers. CIO of Baylor Scott & White Health (Dallas). In 2014, Baylor Scott & White Health named Mr. Chambers CIO responsible for managing the system's IT infrastructure, programs, security and depart- ment staff. He also oversees the health system's next-generation clinical ar- chitecture, allowing BSWH to meet the Triple Aim. Daily efforts focus on leading initiatives to transform the system's technology department and adapt to customer needs, as well as identifying cost efficiencies. He was pre- viously CIO for Scott & White Healthcare before the system merged with Baylor, and held IT leadership positions at KPMG. Marc Chasin, MD. Vice President and CIO of St. Luke's Health System (Boise, Idaho). As the vice president and CIO of St. Luke's Health System, Dr. Chasin oversees IT for the system's seven hospitals, children's hospitals and outpatient clinic network. He joined the system in 2010 and was named CIO and CMIO in 2012 before being promoted to vice president and CIO. Dr. Chasin oversees technology projects, including systemwide EHR imple- mentation. A physician by training, Dr. Chasin has spent his career advanc- ing medicine and using technology to improve treatment. Zafar Chaudry, MD. Senior Vice President and CIO of Seattle Children's. As senior vice president and CIO of Seattle Children's, Dr. Chaudry leads

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