Jonathan Teich, MD
Chief Medical Informatics Officer

Dr. Jonathan Teich is chief medical informatics officer for Elsevier, the world's largest multimedia publisher of scientific, technical and health information. He helps lead the development of the vision, strategy, and design to transform Elsevier’s huge content base into interactive clinical decision support and knowledge-based tools to support direct clinical practice and healthcare delivery. Dr. Teich also serves as assistant professor of medicine at Harvard and as an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). He founded the Clinical Informatics R&D department at Partners Healthcare, and was the primary designer of many of BWH's award-winning clinical information applications including CPOE, ambulatory records, clinical decision support systems, emergency medicine systems, and the Handbook electronic information library.

Dr. Teich has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers, books, and editorials in the field of medical informatics and healthcare information systems. He is the senior author of the eHealth Initiative consensus whitepaper, Electronic Prescribing: Toward Maximum Value and Rapid Adoption, and the government-sponsored expert report, Clinical Decision Support in Electronic Prescribing: Recommendations and an Action Plan. He is a co-author of the book, Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer’s Guide. Dr. Teich co-chaired the panel responsible for the HHS-sponsored Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support. He has served on the board of directors of HIMSS, the eHealth Initiative, and AMIA, and as a panel member of the American Health Information Community's Quality Workgroup and Clinical Decision Support ad hoc planning group.

 

David R. Goldmann, MD, FACP 
Vice President, Editor in Chief, First Consult

David R. Goldmann, MD, FACP, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Division of General Internal Medicine of the Department of Medicine. In addition to his clinical and teaching activities, he is a consultant to the Center for Evidence-Based Practice, which develops systematic reviews and guidelines used in quality initiatives within the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Dr. Goldmann has an extensive background in medical editing and publishing. At the American College of Physicians, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Physicians’ Information and Education Resource (PIER), an electronic point-of-care medical decision support tool designed for integration into electronic medical records to provide health providers with rapid access to evidence-based answers to clinical questions.  

Dr. Goldmann has also in various editorial positions at Annals of Internal Medicine where he initiated the Medical Writings section of the journal and developed a format for structured book reviews.  He also served as editorial consultant to the book program at the ACP and has edited several patient education books.  

Dr. Goldmann came to Philadelphia for his residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1973.   After residency and a fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolic Disease, he joined the Department of Medicine.  He has directed the medical consultation service and edited one of the first textbooks in consultative medicine.   

Dr. Goldmann received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University, his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Sussex in England.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.   He and his wife, also a physician, live in suburban Philadelphia and have three children.

Alex Scarlat, MD
Director of Integrated Products, Gold Standard/Elsevier

Dr. Alex Scarlat, MD is a board certified physician specializing in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care with a degree in Computer Sciences. Dr. Scarlat was formerly affiliated with Siemens Medical Solutions, Datex-Ohmeda/GE Health and Cerner focusing on EMR design and implementation of large-scale clinical information technology solutions development with leading hospitals and healthcare organizations. He also worked for Trinity Health, Miami Children’s Hospital and Sheba Medical Center.

Dr. Scarlat earned his MD from Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University and a Bachelor in Computer Sciences from Pace University, NY. He holds two patents: one on closed-loop feedback solutions for Clinical Decision Support and evidence-based medicine at the point of care and the other on a novel user-interface for high-acuity environments such as operating rooms and critical care units.

As the Director of Integrated Products at Gold Standard/Elsevier, Dr. Scarlat is responsible for the development and market readiness of the Alchemy Clinical Decision Support suite of products.

Michelle Troseth, RN, MSN
Executive Vice President & Chief Professional Practice Officer

Michelle Troseth became an Elsevier executive leader in 2001, when she joined its Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC) business unit. When she did, she brought with her more than 20 years of experience creating and sustaining healthy, healing workplaces and integrated healthcare services.Among her experiences are the co-creation and use of an integrated clinical practice framework that strengthens practice at the point-of-care and improves the quality of work environments for leaders and practitioners across the U.S. and Canada. She also led an interdisciplinary point-of-care design process that developed the first computerized, evidence-based, advanced clinical documentation system.Recognized as an authority in her field, Troseth has co-authored several impressive works, including articles on Clinical Documentation and Intentionally Designed Automation (IDA). She is also a highly-sought keynote speaker on the topic of Professional Practice and Healthcare Technology and has addressed crowds at Sigma Theta Tau International, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) and numerous other regional, national and international conferences.Troseth is an original member of the IHE Patient Care Coordination (PCC) Domain and a founding leader of the national Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform (TIGER) Initiative; recently serving as its Summit’s Program Chair and co-leading its Collaborative Workgroup on Usability and Clinical Application Design.

In 2007, Troseth was inducted into the National Academy of Practice in Nursing due to her significant contributions to advancing nursing practice with evidence and informatics.

Tracy Christopherson, RRT
Practice Director, Interdisciplinary Integration – Clinical Practice Model Resource Center

In addition to her role as the Director of Interdisciplinary Integration for Elsevier’s Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC) business unit, Tracy Christopherson also serves as a Practice Director; co-leading practice transformation services for a region of clients utilizing CPMRC content products and implementation services. In that position, she provides direction and leadership to grow the vision and understanding of interdisciplinary integration, while developing a strong voice for Allied Health Professionals in their professional practice advancement.

For more than 15 years, Christopherson has been an active leader in the creation of interdisciplinary practice environments. Her experience has been enhanced by the coaching and mentoring she’s provided – to numerous organizations across the U.S. and Canada – on how to strengthen practice at the point-of-care by advancing interdisciplinary integration and implementing an integrated clinical practice framework. Additionally, her wide-ranging specialties include advancing scope of practice delineation and evidence-based interdisciplinary clinical documentation.

Not only does Christopherson provide individuals and groups authorship assistance on Clinical Practice Guidelines, she’s also filled a lead role in the support of a series of Community Learning Collaboratives (CLCs) – including Pediatrics and Respiratory Care – for focused development and content advancement for members of the CPMRC Consortium.

Christopherson frequently speaks internationally about the significance of having a professional practice framework in order to properly support interdisciplinary integration at the point-of-care. Recent speaking engagements include: Sigma Theta Tau International Conference (Global Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Create Evidence-Based Practice Environments); Association of Schools for Allied Health Professionals; American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA); and the American Association of Respiratory Care International Congress

Bonnie Wesorick, RN, MSN
Founder & Chairman Emeritus – Clinical Practice Model Resource Center

Bonnie Wesorick is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC) – a business unit of Elsevier – and the Founder of the CPMRC International Consortium.

Over the past two decades, Wesorick has partnered with thousands of interdisciplinary practitioners – from rural, community and university settings – who have formed an international consortium to help create healthy, healing practice cultures and a patient-centered, integrated healthcare system. She has helped revolutionize practice and automation through her leadership efforts toward the development and implementation of an interdisciplinary professional practice framework with evidence-based tools and resources.

Wesorick led the first Practice/Technology Partnerships by working closely with healthcare technology companies. These unprecedented and entrepreneur partnerships gave the healthcare field its first automated, preconfigured, evidence-based interdisciplinary documentation systems; driven by a professional practice framework designed to serve caregivers and patients. These systems, which provide real-time clinical decision support, have forged a path to an increase in sustainable, positive patient outcomes.

Wesorick is well-known and respected within her wide-ranging fields of expertise and is an internationally recognized healthcare futurist and author of many books, articles, videos, CDs and DVDs. She consistently accepts unstopping requests to serve as the keynote or featured speaker for numerous local, state, national and international conferences.

Kathleen Vieson, PharmD, BCOP
Vice President & Director – Clinical Drug References (Gold Standard)

Dr. Kathleen Vieson is responsible for managing Gold Standard’s (an Elsevier company) Clinical Pharmacology and ToxED reference tools. She joined Gold Standard in 1998 and previously served as the company’s Vice President of Drug Product Data, Managing Editor of Product Information and Specialty Editor for Oncology, Pain Management and Biotechnology Products.

Before joining Gold Standard, Dr. Vieson was a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist with the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center (Tampa, Fla.), where she also served as Director of the Oncology Pharmacy Specialty Residency and Oncology Team Leader.

Dr. Vieson is a leading expert on regulatory issues governing MedGuides and Patient Drug Information; in particular how those issues affect the pharmacy and drug information industry. She is also well-versed on issues relating to drug information compendia, such as trends and the requirements for drug information at the point-of-care.

Karl A. Matuszewski, MS, PharmD
Vice President, Editor-in-Chief Clinical Pharmacology & Alchemy Gold Standard / ELSEVIER

As Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, Karl Matuszewski is the senior clinical drug informatics content officer at Gold Standard (GS), overseeing a clinical editorial team of nineteen professionals and serving as the internal and external representative of clinical content in various GS knowledge-bases intended for use by healthcare providers, managed care companies and consumers. His position ensures that the clinical content evolves to meet the vision for innovative client solutions by collaborating with other GS team members to develop, produce, and maintain products such as Clinical Pharmacology (CP), Alchemy, CP OnHand, the Medication Alternative Database (MAD), ToxED, and other medication solution/management services.

Prior to joining GS in 2009, he directed the University HealthSystem Consortium’s (UHC) Clinical Knowledge Service, where he was responsible for the development and direction of all UHC technology assessment efforts; including topic selection, quality of documents, and communications with a national network of drug information specialists and technology assessment contacts. Additionally, he oversaw evaluative efforts of the UHC/Novation Drug Monograph Series.

He has also been a consultant for Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association's Technology Evaluation and Coverage Program; involved in the assessment of medical technologies for national coverage and payment guidelines development. He practiced as a pharmacist at the University of Illinois Hospital.

Dr. Matuszewski received his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the University of Illinois, where he is currently an assistant clinical professor, and a Master of Science degree in Health Systems Management from Rush University, where he holds a faculty appointment as an associate professor. He is also an affiliate clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice at Midwestern University. He has published numerous articles related to the appropriate and efficient use of drugs and devices.

Chris Dillon
Managing Director

Chris Dillon serves as Managing Director for the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) group including overall vision to further the CDS mission to help healthcare organizations improve outcomes, streamline workflow and enhance care. He is responsible for all CDS operations and strategy, including product development, marketing and sales.

Chris brings more than 30 years of experience in marketing, management and sales of healthcare products and services to Elsevier’s CDS unit. Mostly recently, Dillon was Senior Vice President of Marketing at Misys Healthcare Systems, a leading physician practice EMR provider, where he implemented “go-to-market” strategies. He also served as the Vice President/General Manager of McKesson’s specialty business, which provides physicians with distribution, technology, clinical and educational solutions. Before his tenure at McKesson, Dillon headed strategic product support at Biogen, a company involved in the discovery, development, manufacturing, and commercialization of innovative therapies. Dillon started his career at Johnson & Johnson, where he spent 16 years in varied sales and management positions. He received a BS in Business Administration from Ohio State University.

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.

William F. Bria, II, MD
Shriners Hospitals for Children

Dr. William F. Bria is a Pulmonary/Critical Care physician and currently the Chief Medical Information Officer for the 22 hospital Shriners Hospitals for Children System, headquartered in Tampa, Florida. He is an  Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan and University of South Florida. Dr. Bria has been a leader in Applied Medical Informatics for over 25 years. He has authored numerous articles and books on informatics and most recently, The Physician Computer Conundrum.   

Dr. Bria is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, past president of the Medical Information Systems Physicians Association,  and the review board of the Journal of Healthcare Information Management Healthcare Informatics and Healthcare Informatics.

Over the past 16 years he was Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems at the University of Michigan and Medical Director of the Critical Care Medical Unit.  Dr. Bria is a Fellow in the American College of Chest Physicians.

Dr. Bria has been a consultant for the Institute of Medicine on the Computerized Patient Record and to the United States Congress on matters of the application of information technology to the practice of medicine. He has lectured on medical informatics throughout the U.S. and around the world.

He is currently engaged in research in applied medical informatics and completing a book on Personal Health Records.

James J. Cimino
MD NIH Clinical Center

Dr. Cimino is the Chief of the Laboratory for Informatics Development at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, where he is responsible for the creation of the NIH's Biomedical Translational Research Information System and practices internal medicine. He is also a senior scientist at the National Library of Medicine's Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, where he carries out research on anticipating and resoliving clinicians' information needs through the linkage of clinical information systems to online knowledge resources.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Philip Smith
MD Adventist

Philip A. Smith, MD, FAAFP, is Corporate VP and Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) for the Adventist Health System as well as for AHS-Information Services He served as Vice President, Chief Medical Officer at Florida Hospital Zephyrhills for four years. Prior to his current roles, he served as a physician executive in consulting at Cerner Corporation. he helped numerous hospitals and large healthcare networks implement clinical information systems including CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry).

Dr. Smith is a Board Certified Family Physician and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Robert S. White
MD OSF Healthcare System

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, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. White has been instrumental in changing and shaping many physician activities since joining the OSF Healthcare System. He founded the hospitalist program and played an instrumental role in the development of the palliative care and rapid response teams at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, Illinois. Subsequently serving as their Chief Medical Officer, he was instrumental in co-leading the hospital deployment of their electronic medical record in 2004. He has been trained as a patient safety officer through the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Since July 2005, he has held the position of Chief Medical Officer of Clinical Informatics for OSF Healthcare System in Peoria, Illinois.