Powerful, provocative and sometimes controversial... The World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT Congress), co-sponsored by The Wall Street Journal is a global forum presenting innovative technological advances and thought leadership in the use of technology to transform healthcare practice and enable better access, quality, safety, and greater cost effectiveness in the delivery of healthcare. As the independent voice in transforming healthcare through technology – the congress maintains accurate and balanced content by providing diverse perspectives based on the first-hand experience of leading payers, providers, and policy makers -- providing you with the objective information and the leading case studies needed to make sound management, purchasing and investment decisions.

Featured Speakers Confirmed to Date Include: ˆ Top
NT Cheung, MD Executive Manager, Health Informatics Division Hospital Authority of Hong Kong	Asif Ahmad Vice President and Chief Information Officer Duke University Health System and Duke University Medical Center
Dr. Joseph F. Coughlin Director, AgeLab Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Patricia Alafaireet, MHA Director of Applied Health Informatics Lindberg Center - University of Missouri
Laura L. Adams President and CEO Rhode Island Quality Institute	Adam Darkins, MD, MPH, FRCS Chief Consultant for Care Coordination Department of Veterans Affairs
Tom Ague Executive Vice President and COO St. Clair Hospital	Suzanne Delbanco, PhD CEO Leapfrog Group
Stephen J. Downs Senior Program Officer The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	Dan Drawbaugh CIO University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Jeff Frieling Chief Information Officer West Tennessee Healthcare, Inc	Richard Granger Director General of Information Technology National Health Service United Kingdom
Francois de Brantes National Coordinator Bridges To Excellence	Mark Clare, MA, MS VP, Knowledge and Information Management Parkview Health
Sue Ehinger, PhD Senior Vice President Chief Quality and Information Officer Parkview Health	Maggie Gunter, PhD President and Chief Executive Officer Lovelace Clinic Foundation Project Director and Principal Investigator New Mexico Health Information Collaborative
Lori L. Hack Interim CEO CalRHIO	John D. Halamka, MD, MS CIO, CareGroup Health System CIO and Associate Dean for Educational Technology Harvard Medical School CEO, Massachusetts RHIO Chair, HITSP
Tonya Hongsermeier, MD, MBA Corporate Manager for Clinical Knowledge Management and Decision Support Partners HealthCare	Wayne Jenkins, MD, MPH Medical Director and VP for Medical Affairs MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando
Vipul Kashyap, PhD Knowledge Management Informatics Research & Development Group Partners HealthCare System	David Lansky, PhD Senior Director, Health Program Markle Foundation
Jack Mahoney, PhD Corporate Medical Director Pitney Bowes	David Lee, MD Vice President Indiana HSA Indiana Health Care Management Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Janet Marchibroda Chief Executive Officer eHealth Initiative	Steve Margolis, MD, M.Med, FCS, BSIS, MBA Chief Medical Informatics Officer Orlando Regional Healthcare
Neil A. Martin, MD Chief, Division of Neurosurgery UCLA School of Medicine	Bruce Metz, PhD CIO Thomas Jefferson University
Farzad Mostashari, MD, MSPH Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Epidemiology Services New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene	J. Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D. Senior Investigator, Regenstrief Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Vice-Chairman, Data Standards Working Group, Connecting for Health CEO, Indiana Health Information Exchange
Charles Parker Chief Technology Officer DOQ-IT Vice President Masspro	Victor Plavner, MD Chairman Maryland/D.C. Collaborative for Healthcare Information Technology
Stephanie L. Reel Chief Information Officer Vice Provost for Information Technologies Asst. Professor, Div. of Health Science Informatics The Johns Hopkins University Vice President for Information Services Johns Hopkins Medicine	Bill Poppy Senior Vice President in Finance Virginia Mason Medical Center
David A. Ross, ScD Director Public Health Informatics Institute	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
Dean F. Sittig, PhD Director, Applied Research in Medical Informatics Northwest Permanente, PC Kaiser Permanente - Permanente Medical Groups Adjunct Associate Professor of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology Oregon Health & Science University	Alberto Sanna, PhD e-services for life and health Scientific Institute H San Raffaele Milano, Italy
Steven J. Spear Assistant Professor Department of Technology and Operations Management Harvard Business School	Sue Schade CIO Brigham & Women's Hospital
Jay Srini Vice President of Emerging Technologies University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	Richard Schaeffer Vice President and CIO St Clair Hospital
Joseph L. Ternullo, CPA, JD Associate Director Partners Telemedicine	Catherine M. Szenczy SVP and CIO MedStar Health System
Ronald S. Weinstein, MD Director Arizona Telemedicine Program	John C. Wade Vice President and CIO St. Luke's Health System
Peter Walgemoed Carelliance BV The Netherlands	Richard J. Zall Partner Proskauer Rose