Advisory Council

Christopher Ross is the Chief Information Officer at Mayo Clinic. Mr. Ross was formerly the Executive Vice President and General Manager at SureScripts. SureScripts operates an e-prescribing network that connects 60% of doctors, 90%+ of all pharmacies and PBMs, routes 40% of all scripts written in the U.S., provides a medication history for 33% of all patient visits, and manages over 3 billion transactions per year. Prior to that he served as Chief Information Officer for MinuteClinic, the pioneer and largest provider of retail-based healthcare in the U.S. Founded in 2000, and with more than 350 clinics in 24 states, MinuteClinic has seen over 1 million patients with 99% patient satisfaction. At MinuteClinic, Ross is responsible for technology strategy and operations, and clinical and customer service call centers. Prior to joining MinuteClinic, he was CIO for United Behavioral Health, the mental health and substance abuse managed care organization of UnitedHealth Group. Previously he was co-founder and president of an Inc500-listed business technology consulting firm, manager of planning and finance for the State of Minnesota's technology business, financial analyst for an insurance consulting and portfolio management firm, and senior legislative assistant on the U.S. House Budget Committee. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of Minnesota and MBA degree from the Yale School of Management. 

For over twenty years, Jennifer has focused on quality, data and technology solutions for healthcare. Serving as Chief Executive Officer since 2009, Jennifer provides leadership for all the research, education and advocacy components of the eHealth Initiative and its Foundation. Working closely with executives from across the spectrum of healthcare, she helped refine the organization's strategic focus to concentrate on the use of data and analytics; accountable care; data exchange; and technology tools for chronic care conditions. She has played an active role in educating the industry about the impact of healthcare reform on health IT, interoperability concerns and meaningful use regulations. Over the years she has led the development of national surveys and published groundbreaking reports. As part of her work with the eHealth Initiative Foundation, she has led projects for the California Health Care Foundation and Commonwealth Fund.

Jennifer joined eHealth Initiative in 2002 supporting the then emerging electronic prescribing efforts, privacy, and health information exchange. Prior to joining eHealth Initiative, Jennifer headed up the strategic marketing at OpenNetworks, Inc., focusing on security solutions for the healthcare industry. She led healthcare industry relations at MicroStrategy, Inc., focusing on data-mining solutions for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. She spent four years at the National Committee for Quality Assurance as Director of Policy and Product Development, helping develop national quality standards for healthcare organizations. Jennifer began her career at the George Washington University, Medical Center and Health Plan working on quality management initiatives, clinical pathways and healthcare administration. Jennifer earned a master's degree in Human Resource Development, and bachelor's degree in Psychology. She completed coursework in the doctoral program in healthcare administration at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. She resides in Maryland with her husband and two children.

Carl Dvorak is Epic's President. Outside of Epic, he was designated a Chair Emeritus of the Executive Committee of HIMSS Electronic Health Records Association (an organization he helped found), after serving two terms as chair. He also is an active member of the HITPC Interoperability and Health Information Exchange Workgroup.

Jamie Ferguson is a Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy and Vice President of health information technology strategy and policy for Kaiser Permanente, where since 2005 he has managed government and industry relations, health IT policies, and standards for IT. Before this assignment Jamie was responsible for the development and operations of Kaiser Permanente's clinical and administrative data systems, information modeling, and health informatics standards.

Jamie participates in multiple health IT organizations, research projects, and other efforts to help more people gain the benefits of health IT. He serves as Chairman of the Management Board of IHTSDO; Director on the Board of the Sequoia Project, and he chairs the Care Connectivity Consortium (CCC) which is the joint interoperability collaboration of Mayo Clinic, Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, OCHIN, Group Health Cooperative, and Kaiser Permanente.  Recently Jamie led multiple work groups on the US Health IT Standards Committee and served as Vice Chair of the Global Agenda Council for Digital Health at World Economic Forum

Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Jamie was a research investigator at Yale University School of Medicine; an economist in the US Federal Reserve System; senior vice president and divisional chief information officer (CIO) at Bank of America; and an independent consultant.  He studied Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

John is an Executive-in-Residence at the Harvard Medical School Executive Education. He is a former senior vice president of Population Health, at Cerner Corporation. Previously he was chief executive officer of Siemens Heath Services. Prior to Siemens, John was chief information officer at Partners HealthCare.

John was the founding chair of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the past-president of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He is former Senior Advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

John has received numerous industry awards including the John P. Glaser Innovation Award (established by the School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Sciences Center), William B. Stead Thought Leadership Award (American Medical Informatics Association) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (CHIME).

John received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is on the faculty of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Rob Goodwin is Vice President and Head of the Pfizer Global Product Development Operations Center of Excellence. He is responsible for ensuring foundational components needed to ensure the execution of high-quality clinical studies.

Rob has over 30 years of industry experience in Clinical Operations and Pharmacovigilance and is a biostatistician by training. He is a board member for many industry consortia, all in support of streamlining clinical development to speed medicines to patients. He holds a B.S. in Psychology from Eastern Connecticut State University, a M.S. in Research, Measurement and Evaluation from Southern Connecticut State University and an M.B.A. in Pharmaceutical and Chemical Studies.

Rob lives in East Lyme with his wife and 2 kids. Rob’s hobbies include working out, woodworking, barbeque and yardwork.

Dr. Peter Lee is Corporate Vice President, Research and Incubations, at Microsoft. He leads Microsoft Research across its eight laboratories around the world. He also oversees several incubation teams for new research-powered lines of business, the largest of which today is Microsoft's growing healthcare and life sciences effort. Dr. Lee has extensive experience in managing fundamental research to commercial impact in a range of areas, spanning artificial intelligence, to quantum computing, to biotechnology, and more. Before joining Microsoft in 2010, he was at DARPA, where he established a new technology office that created operational capabilities in machine learning, data science, and computational social science. From 1987 to 2005 he was a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and from 2005 to 2008 the Head of the university's computer science department. Today, in addition to his management responsibilities, Dr. Lee speaks and writes widely on technology trends and policies. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, and the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. In public service, Dr. Lee was a commissioner on President Obama's Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity and led several studies for both PCAST and the National Academies on the impact of federal research investments on economic growth. He has testified before both the US House Science and Technology Committee and the US Senate Commerce Committee.

Dr. Blackford Middleton is the Chief Informatics and Innovation at Apervita, Inc. Dr. Middleton's work is focused on clinical informatics – the applied science surrounding strategy, design, implementation, and evaluation of clinical information systems in complex environments. Currently, he is Chair of the AHRQ-funded Patient-centered Clinical Decision Support Learning Network, and clinical decision support subject matter expert for the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare at MITRE. He is also a Lecturer in the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in the Departments of Health Policy and Management, and Policy Translation and Leadership Development. Previously, he was a professor of Biomedical Informatics, and or of Medicine, at Stanford, Harvard, and Vanderbilt Universities, and he held executive leadership roles at MedicaLogic/ Medscape (CMO), Partners Healthcare System (Corporate Director Clinical Informatics), and at Vanderbilt (CIO).  

From 2013-2014, he was Chief Informatics Officer (CIO) at Vanderbilt, during which time he implemented a comprehensive organizational and process redesign to better achieve world-class software development at scale. During his tenure there, Vanderbilt was recognized as one of the "Most Wired" healthcare systems. Prior to joining Vanderbilt, he was Corporate Director of Clinical Informatics Research & Development (CIRD) at Partners Healthcare System, Boston, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and a Lecturer in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health from 2001-2013. Work at Partners HealthCare focused on building an advanced informatics infrastructure to support translational research, and the development and implementation of knowledge-based tools for cloud-based clinical decision support (provider and patient), knowledge engineering, population management, and provide support for technology assessment and comparative effectiveness research. 

Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Clinical Informatics, and Chief Medical Officer, for MedicaLogic/Medscape, a provider of electronic medical records software (Logician™), professional and patient portals (Medscsape.com, and AboutMyHealth.com) from 1995 to 2001. Prior to that he was Medical Director of Information Management and Technology at Stanford University Medical Center, from 1992 to 1995. At Stanford he was the first to occupy a CMIO type role and lead the implementation of the first clinical data repository at Stanford, and was PI for the Bay Area Communication and Health Education Network (BAYCHEN, 1991).

Dr. Middleton studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received a Master's in Public Health degree from the Yale University School of Public Health with a dual concentration in Epidemiology, and Health Services Administration.  He received an MD from SUNY Buffalo, and was a resident in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Sciences Center. He completed an AHCPR Fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Stanford University, where he received his Master of Science degree in Health Services Research, focusing on clinical informatics.

Sagran Moodley serves as Senior Vice President of Clinical Data Services & Technology for UnitedHealthcare's Clinical Services organization. In this role, he is responsible for clinical data acquisition for all members across UnitedHealthcare's Medicare, Medicaid and Commercial lines of business.

Sagran has more than 20 years leading transformative health care IT and business initiatives in both the public and private sectors. He has held multiple senior leadership roles in the private sector, including positions across UnitedHealthcare and Optum. Most recently, Sagran led teams focused on defining clinical infrastructure capabilities to enable clinical care coordination and complex case management both for Optum and United HealthCare stakeholders. Additionally, Sagran led product initiatives for Optum Government, where his portfolio included large-scale solutions supporting health care operations, data warehousing and analytics, program integrity, quality improvement, provider data management and population health for state Medicaid enterprises.

In the public sector, he has worked closely with state governments to lead the promotion and adoption of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and many other large-scale IT implementations at the state level. Notably, Sagran assumed the technology implementation that contributed to the successful turnaround of the Massachusetts Affordable Health Care (ACA) Exchange, bringing the Commonwealth's ACA transition back on track.

Previously, Sagran served as Chief Delivery Officer at Coventry Healthcare in 2009, where he led Medicaid operations in a number of states. With Coventry, his oversight included Pharmacy Benefit Management and Behavioral Health, in addition to the Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) fiscal agent scope of services. Additionally, he held a senior IT leadership role at Allen Systems group, the largest independent software vendor at the time, where he had worldwide leadership responsibility for software engineering across North America, EMEA, APAC, and Central and South America.
 

Dr. Overhage serves as the inaugural Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Anthem. Before joining Anthem, he served as CMIO for Cerner and Siemens Health Services for a decade. Prior to moving to industry, he was the founding Chief Executive Officer of the Indiana Health Information Exchange and Director of Medical Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute, Inc., and a Sam Regenstrief Professor of Medical Informatics at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

He has spent over 25 years developing and implementing scientific and clinical systems and evaluating their value. With his colleagues from the Regenstrief Institute, he created a community-wide electronic medical record (called the Indiana Network for Patient Care) containing data from many sources, including laboratories, pharmacies, and hospitals throughout Indiana. The system connects nearly all acute care hospitals in the state and includes inpatient and outpatient encounter data, laboratory results, immunization data, and other selected data. To create a sustainable financial model, he helped create the Indiana Health Information Exchange, a not-for-profit corporation. In addition to advancing interoperability, Dr. Overhage has developed and evaluated clinical decision support, including inpatient and outpatient computerized physician order entry and the underlying knowledge bases to support them. He practiced general internal medicine for over 20 years, including ambulatory, inpatient, and emergency care settings.

Dr. Overhage has played a significant regional and national leadership role in advancing the policy, standards, financing, and implementation of health information exchange. He served on the National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics and the Health Information Technology Standards Committee and now serves on the Board of Directors of the National Quality Forum, HIMSS NA, and the National Medical Device Postmarket Surveillance System Planning Board as well as other national healthcare initiatives.

Dr. Overhage is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the International Academy of Health Science Informatics, and a Master of the American College of Physicians. He received the Davies Recognition Award for Excellence in Computer-Based Patient Recognition for the Regenstrief Medical Record System. Dr. Overhage received his BA, with High Honors, in Physics from Wabash College and his Ph.D. in Biophysics and MD from Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Overhage was a resident in internal medicine, a medical informatics and health services research fellow, and then chief medical resident at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Dave Shaver, HL7F is the Founder of Earth Wind Health where he executes his passion for integrating healthcare applications. He has worked in healthcare integration since 1993 while being an active member of the HL7 community. He architected two market-leading integration platforms (Cloverleaf and Corepoint) during his efforts to empower users to integrate clinical data.

As Founder and CTO of Corepoint Health (previously NeoTool), Dave led the company to envision a dramatically-simplified approach to internal and external clinical data integration. Corepoint's platform was awarded the #1 in KLAS in the Integration Engine category 11 years in a row (2009-2020). In July of 2019 Corepoint merged with Rhapsody Health and rebranded as Lyniate in 2020.

Previously Dave was the Chief Architect and Manager of Development for the Cloverleaf Interface Engine. Back when dirt was an infant, he built air-cooled, vector-processing supercomputers and specialized in UNIX operating systems internals (file system, virtual memory, and related utility design with actual ones and zeros.) He is an Iowa native, Colorado resident, home brewer, and craft beer aficionado.

Ms Slack has over 25 years of experience in technology and informatics in both the public and private sectors. Since joining FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) in 2003, Ms Slack has led a number of initiatives implementing informatics solutions to business problems. She serves as an FDA representative to the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) on several multidisciplinary working groups charged with establishing data exchange standards and structures in support of drug and biologic regulatory review. Ms Slack currently leads the FDA CDER data standards development program and co-Chairs FDA's data standards advisory board.

Dr. James E. Tcheng is a Professor of Medicine and a Professor of Community and Family Medicine (Informatics) at Duke University, Durham, NC. He is an active interventional cardiologist as well as faculty of the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the Duke Center for Health Informatics. He serves as Director of the Duke Cardiovascular Databank and is Director of Performance Improvement for the Duke Heart Center. He is a key investigator of the FDA Medical Device Epidemiology Network (MDEpiNet), a non-regulatory member of the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF), past Chair of the ACC Informatics and Health IT Task Force and the ACC Digital Strategy Committee, and is a member of the ACC NCDR Management Board and the ACC/AHA Task Force on Clinical Data Standards. His current work focuses on harmonizing the clinical and operational definitions and informatics of cardiovascular clinical data elements across academia, regulatory agencies, the life sciences industry, professional societies, and standards organizations, to improve the capture, communication, interoperability, and analysis of healthcare information.

Mariann Yeager serves as Executive Director and CEO for Healtheway, Inc., a public-private collaborative leading efforts to advance implementation of secure, nationwide and interoperable exchange of health information. Yeager facilitated the transition of the eHealth Exchange (formerly NwHIN Exchange) from its start as a federal program initiative to a thriving public-private endeavor. Today, the eHealth Exchange has more than doubled its connectivity, with participants representing more than 30% of US hospitals and 100 million patients. Building upon this extensive growth, Yeager led the launch of a new initiative, called Carequality, which focuses on enabling interoperability between and among HIE networks across the US. Yeager has 20+ years experience in health IT. Prior to Healtheway, she worked for 5 years on ONC nationwide health information network initiatives. She helped launch the first ambulatory and hospital EHR certification program in the US and led the payer operations division for a large national healthcare clearinghouse.

As CEO of Holon Solutions, Jon sets the overall strategic direction for the company and its CollaborNet® platform, which improves operational efficiency, care quality, and the provider experience by delivering relevant patient knowledge when and where providers need it. An industry leader, Jon’s career spans more than 35 years with a majority spent in healthcare engaging and serving providers and payers with companies such as IBM, Siemens, CareFusion, Allscripts, Availity and GE. Prior to joining Holon, Jon served as President of Virence Health, which was acquired from GE by Veritas Capital and is now part of athenahealth. While at GE he led the turnaround of the value-based care solutions portfolio.