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Physician Advisory Board
Susan A. Abookire, MD
MPH Mt. Auburn Hospital
Susan Abookire, BSEE, MD, MPH, is the Chair of the Department of Quality and Patient Safety at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Abookire is a former aviation systems engineer who implemented flight management systems in the commercial aviation industry for a decade prior to her medical training. She served as a design engineer for the commercial aviation safety ground proximity warning systems, and as the project leader for the implementation of the Boeing 757-767 flight management systems. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Abookire practiced primary care at the Brigham and Women’s hospital before devoting herself to leading and teaching patient safety and quality initiatives. She served as Associate Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis at Partners Healthcare and Director of Health Care Quality prior to her present role as Department Chair at Mount Auburn Hospital.
James J. Cimino
MD Bethesda, Maryland
Dr. Cimino is an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, where he has long experience in research and development related patient care systems and the linking of on-line knowledge sources to thos systems to support clinicians in patients in making informed medical decisions. He has also contributed to the field of biomedical ontologies, particularly as they related to knowledge resources for patient care. Dr. Cimino is a board-certified, practicing internist and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (and currently its president), the American College of Physicians, the New York Academy of Medicine and the American Clincial and Climatological Society.
MD Bethesda, Maryland
Dr. Cimino is an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, where he has long experience in research and development related patient care systems and the linking of on-line knowledge sources to thos systems to support clinicians in patients in making informed medical decisions. He has also contributed to the field of biomedical ontologies, particularly as they related to knowledge resources for patient care. Dr. Cimino is a board-certified, practicing internist and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (and currently its president), the American College of Physicians, the New York Academy of Medicine and the American Clincial and Climatological Society.
James W. Lederer
MD Novant Health
Jim Lederer graduated the University Of North Carolina School Of Medicine in 1985. He went on to do a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency and subsequent combined Infectious Disease fellowship in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee/LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center/ St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis Tennessee. He is board certified in adult and pediatric Infectious Diseases.
MD Novant Health
Jim Lederer graduated the University Of North Carolina School Of Medicine in 1985. He went on to do a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency and subsequent combined Infectious Disease fellowship in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee/LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center/ St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis Tennessee. He is board certified in adult and pediatric Infectious Diseases.
Jim Lederer is currently Medical Director for Clinical Improvement with Novant Health, a large multi-facility system in the southeast Atlantic region. His areas of expertise and interest include healthcare data analytics, clinical performance improvement, and hospital epidemiology.
Jim Lederer is currently Medical Director for Clinical Improvement with Novant Health, a large multi-facility system in the southeast Atlantic region. His areas of expertise and interest include healthcare data analytics, clinical performance improvement, and hospital epidemiology.
When not engaged in clinical pursuits, he can be found on any whitewater river in North Carolina or climbing any rock face he can find anywhere.
Curtis P. Langlotz
MD, PhD
Curtis P. Langlotz, MD, PhD, (langlotc@uphs.upenn.edu) serves as Professor and Vice Chair for Informatics in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) and as a Medical Director for the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Dr. Langlotz is responsible for the strategic and technical direction of a filmless, paperless radiology department that interprets over 1,000,000 exams annually at 3 busy hospitals and a large community practice. His NIH-funded informatics research program focuses on the development and evaluation of standard medical vocabularies, image reporting systems, and decision support tools to enhance the quality of radiology practice. Dr. Langlotz serves as a member of the Radiology Informatics Committee of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and chairs the RSNA Structured Reporting Committee, a collaborative effort to create a library of best-practice templates for radiology reports based on standard terminology. Dr. Langlotz has published over 100 scientific publications in the fields of imaging informatics and health services research. He is a founder and Past President of the Radiology Alliance for Health Services Research (RAHSR), a former Chair of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of University Radiologists (AUR).
MD, PhD
Curtis P. Langlotz, MD, PhD, (langlotc@uphs.upenn.edu) serves as Professor and Vice Chair for Informatics in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) and as a Medical Director for the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Dr. Langlotz is responsible for the strategic and technical direction of a filmless, paperless radiology department that interprets over 1,000,000 exams annually at 3 busy hospitals and a large community practice. His NIH-funded informatics research program focuses on the development and evaluation of standard medical vocabularies, image reporting systems, and decision support tools to enhance the quality of radiology practice. Dr. Langlotz serves as a member of the Radiology Informatics Committee of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and chairs the RSNA Structured Reporting Committee, a collaborative effort to create a library of best-practice templates for radiology reports based on standard terminology. Dr. Langlotz has published over 100 scientific publications in the fields of imaging informatics and health services research. He is a founder and Past President of the Radiology Alliance for Health Services Research (RAHSR), a former Chair of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of University Radiologists (AUR).
Ronald F. Martin
MD Marshfield Clinic and St. Joseph Hospital
Dr. Ronald Martin is a practicing general surgeon with a focus of interest in pancreatic and foregut disorders. He serves as Director of Surgical Education and Residency Program Director of Marshfield Clinic and St Joseph's Hospital. Dr. Martin is a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin and sits on the Board of Directors of the Marshfield Clinic, a large multi-specialty clinic with 800 physicians and over 6,000 employees. Prior to this, he was a surgical director at the pancreatic obiliary center in Portland Maine as well as co-director of gut services.
MD Marshfield Clinic and St. Joseph Hospital
Dr. Ronald Martin is a practicing general surgeon with a focus of interest in pancreatic and foregut disorders. He serves as Director of Surgical Education and Residency Program Director of Marshfield Clinic and St Joseph's Hospital. Dr. Martin is a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin and sits on the Board of Directors of the Marshfield Clinic, a large multi-specialty clinic with 800 physicians and over 6,000 employees. Prior to this, he was a surgical director at the pancreatic obiliary center in Portland Maine as well as co-director of gut services.
Dr. Martin’s practice background also includes serving as Chief of Surgery in three combat support hospitals in theaters of hostility and as Interim Chief of Surgery for a regional medical command for the US Army. He served as Theater consultant for General Surgery for the US Central Command during a recent deployment to Iraq. In civilian administrations, he has served as senior member of the executive committee as Secretary/Treasurer for Maine Medical Center and Maine Health systems and was in leadership for Clinical Strategic Services Planning for Maine Health systems.
Dr. Martin received his undergraduate degree in Zoology from the University of Vermont and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed his General Surgery Residency at Maine Medical Center and was and advanced GI (HPB) Fellow at the Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA.
Saverio M. Maviglia
MD Partners Healthcare
Saverio Maviglia, MD, MSc, is Senior Knowledge Engineer for Clinical Decision Support Knowledge Management at Partners Healthcare. In that role, he participates in the acquisition, representation, maintenance, quality assurance, and deployment of decision support knowledge. He also architected and maintains KnowledgeLink, an infobutton which connects the Partners clinical applications to reference resources in a context-sensitive manner. Finally, he conducts informatics research relating to these and other activities.
Saverio continues to practice medicine as a hospitalist at Brigham & Women's Hospital. He obtained his medical and masters in epidemiology degrees from Harvard University; and completed his internship, residency, and fellowship training at Brigham & Women's Hospital. Before going into medicine, he studied computer science at Princeton University.
MD Partners Healthcare
Saverio Maviglia, MD, MSc, is Senior Knowledge Engineer for Clinical Decision Support Knowledge Management at Partners Healthcare. In that role, he participates in the acquisition, representation, maintenance, quality assurance, and deployment of decision support knowledge. He also architected and maintains KnowledgeLink, an infobutton which connects the Partners clinical applications to reference resources in a context-sensitive manner. Finally, he conducts informatics research relating to these and other activities.
Saverio continues to practice medicine as a hospitalist at Brigham & Women's Hospital. He obtained his medical and masters in epidemiology degrees from Harvard University; and completed his internship, residency, and fellowship training at Brigham & Women's Hospital. Before going into medicine, he studied computer science at Princeton University.
Neil W. Rawlins
MD Kadlec Clinic
Dr. Neil Rawlins is Board certified in obstetrician/gynecologist and advanced Gynecologic Laparoscopy. He is currently the Medical Information Officer for Kadlec clinic. He is a board member of Kadlec health systems and implemented the systems approach to quality at Kadlec Hospital beginning in 2001. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at University of Washington School of Medicine. He implemented an EMR and has directed training and workflow for Kadlec Clinic, a multi-specialty clinic, over the last 7 years. He is integrated just in time information into the electronic records to aid in diagnosis at the point of care. His work on automation with the use of advanced macros and workflow redesign have improved patient safety and efficiency of the providers. He is site coordinator for a study on the effectiveness of alerts in improving care. He recently completed a study on the organizational changes in outpatient EMR implementation. He has been involved in programming for health care since 1983 with projects that included data tracking, data presentation for physicians, EMR development and has a patent on the automation of the E&M coding process. He continues his practice of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
MD Kadlec Clinic
Dr. Neil Rawlins is Board certified in obstetrician/gynecologist and advanced Gynecologic Laparoscopy. He is currently the Medical Information Officer for Kadlec clinic. He is a board member of Kadlec health systems and implemented the systems approach to quality at Kadlec Hospital beginning in 2001. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at University of Washington School of Medicine. He implemented an EMR and has directed training and workflow for Kadlec Clinic, a multi-specialty clinic, over the last 7 years. He is integrated just in time information into the electronic records to aid in diagnosis at the point of care. His work on automation with the use of advanced macros and workflow redesign have improved patient safety and efficiency of the providers. He is site coordinator for a study on the effectiveness of alerts in improving care. He recently completed a study on the organizational changes in outpatient EMR implementation. He has been involved in programming for health care since 1983 with projects that included data tracking, data presentation for physicians, EMR development and has a patent on the automation of the E&M coding process. He continues his practice of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Charles Safran
MD Harvard Medical School
Charles Safran is a primary care internist who has devoted his professional career to improving patient care through the creative use of informatics. He is Chief of the Division of Clinical Computing, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School He is a senior scientist at the National Center for Public Health Informatics at Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He is the immediate past President and Chairman of American Medical Informatics Association was previously Vice-President of the International Medical Informatics Association. He is an elected fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics and the American College of Physicians. Dr. Safran is co-Editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics and on the Health on the Net (HON) Foundation Council. He is a member to the Consumer Empowerment workgroup of the American Health Information Community formed by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services. During his career he has helped develop and deploy large institutional integrated clinical computing systems, ambulatory electronic health records, clinical decision support systems to help clinicians treat patients with HIV/AIDS and most recently personal care support systems for parents with premature infants which he calls collaborative healthware. He founded a company, Clinician Support Technology and as its CEO successfully brought his ideas to a national market. The company’s products and technology were acquired by a major public company. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications and speaks to national and international audiences. He has recently testified for the U.S. Congress on Health IT. He graduated cum laude in Mathematics and hold a Masters degree in mathematical logic and a Doctor of Medicine all from Tufts University.
MD Harvard Medical School
Charles Safran is a primary care internist who has devoted his professional career to improving patient care through the creative use of informatics. He is Chief of the Division of Clinical Computing, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School He is a senior scientist at the National Center for Public Health Informatics at Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He is the immediate past President and Chairman of American Medical Informatics Association was previously Vice-President of the International Medical Informatics Association. He is an elected fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics and the American College of Physicians. Dr. Safran is co-Editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics and on the Health on the Net (HON) Foundation Council. He is a member to the Consumer Empowerment workgroup of the American Health Information Community formed by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services. During his career he has helped develop and deploy large institutional integrated clinical computing systems, ambulatory electronic health records, clinical decision support systems to help clinicians treat patients with HIV/AIDS and most recently personal care support systems for parents with premature infants which he calls collaborative healthware. He founded a company, Clinician Support Technology and as its CEO successfully brought his ideas to a national market. The company’s products and technology were acquired by a major public company. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications and speaks to national and international audiences. He has recently testified for the U.S. Congress on Health IT. He graduated cum laude in Mathematics and hold a Masters degree in mathematical logic and a Doctor of Medicine all from Tufts University.
Philip A. Smith
MedMorph, LLC
Dr. Philip A. Smith is president of MedMorph, LLC, an IT consulting firm that focuses on successful physician engagement and optimization. Dr. Smith is the author of Making Computerized Provider Order Entry Work (Springer, UK, 2013), the first published book dedicated to CPOE. Dr. Smith is a Board Certified Family Physician who began his interest in the field by first automating his office practice with an electronic medical record (EMR) in 1993 and subsequently chairing the physician implementation committee when his local hospital deployed its clinical information system in 1995.
Dr. Smith served as a Care Transformation consultant for Cerner Corporation from 2001-3 where he helped many hospitals optimize their systems or plan/implement CPOE. He served nine years with the multihospital Adventist Health System through October 2012. While Chief Medical Information Officer, the health system successfully deployed clinical information systems with CPOE, physician documentation, and clinical decision support while HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society) Analytics recognized their hospitals at EMR Level 6 or 7.
He obtained his M.D. and M.S. at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, and his Bachelor of Science from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
MedMorph, LLC
Dr. Philip A. Smith is president of MedMorph, LLC, an IT consulting firm that focuses on successful physician engagement and optimization. Dr. Smith is the author of Making Computerized Provider Order Entry Work (Springer, UK, 2013), the first published book dedicated to CPOE. Dr. Smith is a Board Certified Family Physician who began his interest in the field by first automating his office practice with an electronic medical record (EMR) in 1993 and subsequently chairing the physician implementation committee when his local hospital deployed its clinical information system in 1995.
Dr. Smith served as a Care Transformation consultant for Cerner Corporation from 2001-3 where he helped many hospitals optimize their systems or plan/implement CPOE. He served nine years with the multihospital Adventist Health System through October 2012. While Chief Medical Information Officer, the health system successfully deployed clinical information systems with CPOE, physician documentation, and clinical decision support while HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society) Analytics recognized their hospitals at EMR Level 6 or 7.
He obtained his M.D. and M.S. at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, and his Bachelor of Science from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Robert S. White
MD Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Robert White received his M.D. from the Chicago Medical School, completed an Internship and Residency in Family Medicine at the University of Illinois. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is a senior physician executive in the Clinical IT section at the Cleveland Clinic. He is serving as the physician IT champion for the Cleveland Clinic regional hospitals while also serving as the system-wide operational champion for all Meaningful Use efforts. Over the past 10 years, he has served as the executive leader and champion for many primary and ancillary clinical information system implementations in both the inpatient and ambulatory environments. He has been a leader of change management efforts for widespread physician adoption of clinical information systems.
MD Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Robert White received his M.D. from the Chicago Medical School, completed an Internship and Residency in Family Medicine at the University of Illinois. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is a senior physician executive in the Clinical IT section at the Cleveland Clinic. He is serving as the physician IT champion for the Cleveland Clinic regional hospitals while also serving as the system-wide operational champion for all Meaningful Use efforts. Over the past 10 years, he has served as the executive leader and champion for many primary and ancillary clinical information system implementations in both the inpatient and ambulatory environments. He has been a leader of change management efforts for widespread physician adoption of clinical information systems.
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