2006 Delegate Testimonials
"The topics are superb and very relevant to what is happening now."
Dr. Herbert Pardes, Vice Chairman, President & CEO, New York Presbyterian Hospital

"A unique ensemble of leaders sharing the most visionary information in a truly collaborative environment."
Maggie Gunter, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lovelace Clinic Foundation, Project Director and Principal Investigator, New Mexico Health Information Collaborative

"This meeting in general is packed, it is a very good meeting. Very good work - excellent!"
David Chellapa, Medical Director, GlaxoSmithKline

"I am impressed. This is very much an ideas conference."
Debbie Theobald, Founder and CEO, Vecna Technologies

"There is a high level of thought leadership present. Something not commonly found in events of this type."
Eric Yablonka, Vice President and CIO, University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System

"I am impressed with the level of attendees present. Some promising connections have been made."
Tobias Knoch, Head Erasmus Computing Grid, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam

"As an entrepreneurial MD, I found this truly excellent. Great applications and end-user focus that goes way beyond theory."
Jeffrey Segal, MD, FACS, CEO and Founder, Medical Justice Services

"Very useful. I was looking for interoperability insights and the conference delivered!"
Aca Gacic, Project Manager, Assisted Living, Robert Bosch GMBH

" This event has been gathering some of the brightest people and was well worth my time."
Mickey McManus, President and CEO, MAYA Design

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2007 Conference Faculty and Advisors
 
John Lester
more commonly known as Pathfinder Linden in the virtual world, Linden Lab (the creators of Second Life)
 
Marc Probst
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Intermountain Healthcare
 
John E. Abele
Founder and Chairman
Boston Scientific Corporation
 
Deepak Ayyagari, PhD
Personal Healthcare Technologies Project
Sharp Laboratories
 
Zoë Baird
President
Markle Foundation
 
Keith F. Batchelder, MD
Founder and CEO
Genomic Healthcare Strategies
 
Karen M. Bell, MD, MMS
Director, Office of Health IT Adoption
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Department of Health and Human Services
 
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web
 
Adam Bosworth
Chief Executive Officer, Keas, Inc.;
Former Vice President, Google, Inc.
 
Célia Boyer
Executive Director, Health On the Net Foundation (HON);
NGO in Special Consultative Status, Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
 
David J. Brailer, MD, PhD
Former and First National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Founder
Health Evolution Partners
 
Anne E. Burdick, MD, MPH
Associate Dean for Telemedicine and Clinical Outreach, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
 
Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD
President, Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future
Associate Dean, Chicago-Kent College of Law
 
  Shelly Carter
Director, Research and Educational Services
Lovelace Clinic Foundation
 
Steve Case
Co-Founder
America Online (AOL)
Chairman & CEO
Revolution Health
 
John Casillas
Founder
Medical Banking Project
 
Homer L. Chin, MD, MS
Medical Director for Clinical Information Systems
Kaiser Permanente Northwest
 
Cindy Christy
President
Alcatel-Lucent North America
 
David T. Cowles
Executive Vice President
Benemax
 
Bill Crounse, MD
Director, Worldwide Health
Microsoft Corporation
 
Michael J. Davis, MD, MBA, FACC
Associate Director for Medical Specialties, Director of Cardiology Services UTMB Electronic Health Network, University of Texas Medical Branch
 
Charles R. Doarn, M.B.A.
Associate Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering Executive Director, Center for Surgical Innovation, University of Cincinnati
 
David Ellis
Corporate Director, Planning & Future Studies, The Detroit Medical Center; Editor & Publisher, DMC Health Futures Digest
 
Leroy Foster
Manger, Network Security and Regulatory Compliance
Advocate Health Care
 
Joe Frassica, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Holtz Children's Hospital
Chief Medical Information Officer, Jackson Memorial Hospital
Associate Chair, Department of Pediatrics
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
 
Sam Gibbs
Senior Vice President
eHealth Inc
 
Dr Joseph Gifford, MD
Senior Medical Director
Regence Blue Shield
 
  Richard Gliklich
CEO
Outcome Sciences
 
Vijay Govindarajan
Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business
Tuck School of Business
 
Jerome H. Grossman, MD
Director, The Health Care Delivery Policy Program
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government
 
Jeffrey Gruen, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer
Revolution Health
 
Maggie Gunter, PhD
President and Executive Director
Lovelace Clinic Foundation
 
John D. Halamka, MD, MS
CIO, Harvard Medical School
CIO, CareGroup Health System
CEO, MA-SHARE
Chair, Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)
 
  Cathyann Harris
Project Specialist in the Clinical Informatics Research & Development
Partners Healthcare
 
Grant Harrison
Vice President, Integrated Consumer Experience
Humana
 
L. Eleanor J. Herriman, MD, MBA
Executive Vice President, Chief Science Officer
IC SCIENCES CORP.
 
David Hom
Chair and Special Advisor, Center for Health Value Innovation
 
  Ryan Howard
CEO
Practice Fusion
 
James J. Hummer
Founder & CEO
Whole Health Management
 
Marcia Guida James, MS, MBA, CPC
Process Manager, Physician Strategies
Humana
 
Greg Judd
Director
Center for Health Value Innovation
 
Vipul Kashyap, PhD
Senior Medical Informatician, Clinical Knowledge Management, Clinical Informatics Research & Development Group, Partners HealthCare System
 
William M. Keane, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Jefferson University Physicians
 
Kevin Kelly
Co-founder & Senior Maverick
Wired Magazine
 
  Luis Kun, Ph.D., FAIMBE, FIEEE
Chair, Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee, IEEE-USA;
Senior Research Professor of Homeland Security
National Defense University / IRMC
 
David Lansky, PhD
Senior Director, Health Program
Executive Director, Personal Health Technology Initiative
Markle Foundation
 
Nancy Leveson, PhD
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, Director, Complex Systems Research Lab (CSRL)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
 
  Xavier Lopez
Director, Semantic Technologies
Oracle Corp.
 
Jonathan T. Lord, MD
SVP & Chief Innovation Officer
Humana Inc.
 
Dennis Melamed, MA
Editor and Publisher
Health Information Privacy/Security Alert
 
Bruce Metz, PhD
CIO
Thomas Jefferson University
 
Parsa Mirhaji, MD
Director, The Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Informatics Research
The School of Health Information Sciences
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
 
Mohan Nair
Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Executive, The Regence Group;
Chairman of the Board, Regence Life and Health
 
Janice R. Nall
Director, eHealth Marketing National Center for Health Marketing
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
 
John Ogunkeye
Executive Director & VP, Jefferson University Physicians;
Chief Operating Officer, Thomas Jefferson Medical College
 
Hon Pak, MD
Director, Advanced Information Technology Group (AITG) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command; Telemedicine & Advanced Research Center (TATRC)
President, American Telemedicine Association (ATA)
 
Daniel Palestrant, MD
Chief Executive Officer
Sermo
 
Ronald A. Paulus, MD, MBA
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer
Geisinger
 
Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, FACP
Chief Medical Officer & Senior Vice-President - Quality, HCA Healthcare; Co-Chair Electronic Health Record Workgroup, American Health Information Community (AHIC), Department of Health and Human Services; Commissioner, Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)
 
Christopher Pierce
Manager of Informatics
Cleveland Clinic
 
Dena Puskin, ScD
Director, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth
US Department of Health and Human Services
 
Jeff Robertson, MD
Chief Medical Officer
The Regence Group
 
Michael Robkin
Principal Enterprise Architect
Kaiser Permanente Information Technology
 
Cris Ross
Chief Information Officer
MinuteClinic
 
Donald W. Rucker, MD
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
 
Warren Sandberg, MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Physician Director for Anesthesia Engineering & Technical Support
Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Co-Leader, Massachusetts General Hospital OR of the Future Project
 
Alberto Sanna, PhD
Director, e-Services for Life & Health, Scientific Institute and University H San Raffaele; Project Manager, Personalized Information Platform for Life and Health Services (PIPS)
 
Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH
Chief Executive Officer
American Well Systems
 
U.S. Congressman<br/> Brad Sherman, (CA-27)
pending final confirmation
 
Andrew M. Slavitt
CEO
Ingenix
 
James S. Slubowski
CIO & VP of Enterprise Operations,
Priority Health
 
Jay Srini
Vice President of Emerging Technologies
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
 
MaryAnn Stump, RN
President, Consumer Aware;
Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
 
  Anad Subra
Co-Founder
PurpleTeal Inc
 
Joe Taylor
Vice President of Enterprise Business Process, Managed Health Care Delivery,
Health Care Services Corporation
 
Joseph L. Ternullo, JD, CPA
Associate Director
Center for Connected Health, A Division of Partners HealthCare
 
John Tooker, MD, MBA, FACP
Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer
American College of Physicians
 
Lynn H. Vogel, PhD
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
 
John C. Wade
Former Chief Information Officer, St. Luke's Health System
Vice President, Executive Director, Kansas City Regional Electronic Exchange (KCREE)
 
James M. Walker, MD, FACP
Chief Medical Information Officer
Geisinger Health System
 
  Robert L. Walsh
Chief, Regulatory Affairs Branch, Division of Pharmacotherapies & Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse
National Institute of Drug Abuse
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
 
David Whitlinger
Chairman, Continua Health Alliance;
Director, Healthcare Device Standards, Intel Digital Health Group
 
Jack Wolf
President and Chief Executive Officer, Emerging Health Information Technology;
VP and CIO, Montefiore Medical Center
 
  Ernest Youngblood
President and CEO
Navigator MD
 
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WHIT 3.0 opens on Sunday December 8th, 2007 to over 400 of healthcare’s elite technorati.
Kevin Kelly sets the stage with a riveting opening keynote detailing where we’ve been and where we are headed…straight for the cloud.
Dr. Bill Crounse illuminates America’s global challenges in Healthcare IT implementation without the aid of Power Point.
Steve Case predicts that “Community” will be the killer app in health care.
Cindy Christy reaches out to the audience to highlight how Mayo Clinic and others are enriching people’s lives by changing the way the world communicates.
Tim Berners Lee opens the final day with a lightening fast history of the web and the application of semantic web technologies to the problems we face in healthcare today.
Adam Bosworth offers the closing keynote and in his enigmatic style questions the very principles of healthcare delivery in the US today and offers one solution – connect the patient and the physician.
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