Adam Clark, Ph.D. is the Director of Scientific and Federal Affairs with FasterCures. Dr. Clark also serves on the Biomarkers Consortium Steering Committee for cancer biomarkers at the Foundation for the NIH. In 2009, he was appointed to the Federal Advisory Committee for Health Information Technology Policy where he helps generate recommendations for a national health IT strategy.

Dr Bates is a renowned expert in using information technology to improve clinical decision making, quality-of-care, cost effectiveness and outcomes assessment. He is Chief, Divisionof General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’sHospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public health and director, clinical and Quality Analysis, Partners Healthcare System. He was elected to the institute of Medicine the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and The American College of Medical Informatics and is Chairman of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association. Dr. Bates is serving on the Federal Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committee.

James Walker, M.D.,FACP, Geisinger Health System’s chief health information officer, a general internist and nationally recognized expert on electronic health records, Walker has served as Geisinger’s chief health information officer since 2001. He is the author of numerous articles on health information technology, innovation and safety focusing on the need to implement and optimize EHRs that support value-added (high-quality, high-efficiency) care processes rather than isolated tasks (Walker, J. and P. Carayon (2009). “From Tasks to Processes: The Case For Changing Health Information Technology To Improve Health Care.” Health Affairs 28(2): 467-477.) Walker also serves as executive director of the Electronic Health Record Safety Institute, a national group of IT leaders focused on identifying and disseminating knowledge and best practice regarding the safe and effective development, implementation and continuing optimization of electronic health information systems. Dr. Walker was appointed in 2009 to The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Health Information Technology Standards Committee.

Joel White director of the HealthIT Now Coalition and is former staff director of the U.S. House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee. Mr. White runs Washington, D.C. based consulting firm, JC White Consulting, and provides clients with strategic, political and policy advice to help navigate the Congressional and Regulatory processes. His focus is primarily on health and tax issues. In addition, he is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Galen Institute, a non-profit research organization devoted to health and tax policy.

John Klimek John Klimek R.Ph. is Senior Vice President, Industry Information Technology with the National Council forPrescription Drug Programs (NCPDP). His main objective in this current position at NCPDP is to work with industry leaders in healthcare to achieve interoperability amongst the healthcare standards, which will ultimately increase healthcare efficiencies and safety. He also is the chair of the SCO (Standards Charter Organization) Summit, who’s mission is to provide an environment that facilitates effective coordination and collaboration on U.S. national healthcare informatics standards development, with recognition of the international and multi-industry stakeholder implications and challenges. John also sits on the HIT Standards Committee created by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). Previously Klimek held several volunteer positions with NCPDP; that being Board of Trustee, Chair of Strategic Planning Committee and Work Group 2 – Product Identification Co-Chair to name a few. Previous to joining NCPD staff, John was manager of pharmacy claims pre and post claims processing at Supervalu pharmacies where he has 30+ years of strong and comprehensive management experience in the pharmacy health care field. He has enjoyed a successful career developing and implementing aggressive growth strategies, utilizing a management style to make significant impacts on pharmacy claims processing, margin control, product quality and service levels. During his employment at Supervalu, he also was instrumental in implementing and rollout of new pharmacy standards (NCPDP Telecom and Script standards) to its 2,000 stores. John holds a B.S. Degree in Pharmacy from the University of Illinois School of Pharmacy.

Judy Murphy is a nurse who is Vice President, Information Services at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she is responsible for all application software supporting patient clinical and business operations within the Aurora acute care venues. She has published and lectured nationally and internationally on system implementation methodologies, automated clinical documentation, and the use of technology to support evidence-based practice. She is on the American Medical Informatics Association Board of Directors, is a Fellow in both the American College of Medical Informatics and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, and was the recipient of the 2006 HIMSS Nursing Informatics Leadership Award. In November 2007, she was named one of the “20 People Who Make Healthcare Better” by HealthLeaders magazine. Judy is a member of the Federal HIT Standards Committee.

Mr. Miscoe has a bachelors of science degree from the United States Military Academy, a juris doctorate degree from Concord Law School, is a Certified Professional Coder, possesses specialty certifications in ASC, Urology, and Chiropractic, is a Certified Healthcare Compliance Consultant, and is the President of Practice Masters, Inc., He is also the founding partner of Miscoe Health Law, LLC. He is a past member of the National Advisory Board of the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC), currently serves on the legal advisory board of the AAPC and is admitted to the Bar in the state of California. Mr. Miscoe has nearly twenty years of experience in healthcare coding and over ten years as a compliance expert testifying in civil and criminal cases. He has an extensive national speaking background and has been published in numerous national publications on a variety of coding and compliance topics.

President and CEO of e-MDs Dr. Stearns is a board certified neurologist and one of the more experienced physician health care informaticists in the nation. e-MDs Solution is a Texas-based electronic health record and practice management software company. Dr. Stearns is a member of the ASHIM’s Health IT Industry Advisory Panel, the Health Information Technology Standards Panel, and the AAPC’s Family Practice Steering Committee.

Frederick H. (Rick) Blake, Principal and Chief Health Strategist, Strategic Health ResourcesRick Blake is a founding member of the National Collaborative, a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS) and has served other legislative Members in the U.S. House of Representatives for about a decade. He served as the senior health policy adviser to Congressman Ed Towns, (10th New York) for work related to the Subcommittee on Health, the Energy and Commerce Committee. In that capacity, he developed legislation and worked for passage of bills related to Health Information Technology, the National Institutes of Health, Medicare, payment reform, SCHIP, reauthorization of Healthy Start, Community Health Centers and National Trauma Care Centers and the Food and Drug Administration and many other health-related issues. He has also served as senior health staffer on the Government Management, Operations and Procurement Subcommittee on the Committee on Oversight and held a variety of hearings on health information technology, 911 health and other health issues; and in senior capacities in the Executive Offices of the Mayor of D.C. and as a policy analyst for the Health Insurance Association of America. In 2007, he founded Strategic Health Resources LLC, a health consulting firm after two decades of work on national health policy and disease prevention issues.

Stephanie L. Jones Cecchini, CPC, CEMC, CHISP is SVP at the American Society of Health Informatics Managers, Inc. where she continues a longtime commitment to best serve the needs of the Health IT community and physicians who are using and adopting health IT. Stephanie is an executive level healthcare consultant with significant and broad ambulatory healthcare business experience including: ROI decision support for EHR adoption or alternate planning, payer matrix strategies and negotiations, billing and collections with Medicare, Medicaid and all lines of commercial payer business, revenue cycle and cash flow management, work-flow analysis, change management, physician record granularity training (Evaluation & Management and 1CD-10), and development of “train the trainer” education models. As the author of ASHIM’s Health IT Professional Training Program, she provides hands on support in national, regional and distance learning training programs for the company. Stephanie brings to her position more than fifteen years’ involvement in healthcare regulations including: overpayment recovery demand response, STARK compliance, OIG risk assessment with audit and plan (CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-9 coding and billing), HIPAA privacy, security, and transactions, and Final Rule HITECH stimulus eligibility and “meaningful use” compliance.

With an educational background in both Computer Science (B.S.) and Business Management (M.S), his specialty is bridging the sometimes large gap between technical resources, business managers, and CXO’s. Mr. Shah has over 10 years of Executive Management expertise (as a CEO, CTO) with strong leadership, entrepreneurial and managerial skills including proven success in identifying and securing new business opportunities and converting potential customers into long-term business clients.
Mr. Shah attracted, motivated, and retained teams of first-class technical and executive staff in large scale and regulated (FDA, DOD) environments as well as several startups. This included managing outsourcing contractors and overseas/remote development teams. Although he is well versed in many domains, his most significant domain-specific experience is in healthcare and medical informatics where HE have spent almost 10 years in the architecture, design, and development of complex healthcare systems. His technology skills include proficiency in C/C++, Java, .NET, C#, J2EE. Mr Shah runs and some of the most popular Health IT Blogs on the web, including The Healthcare IT Guy Blog, and the Federal Architect Blog.

Mr. Ghosh is the CEO of Bloomsbury Consultant and also serves as CIO of Strategic Health Partners, a management consulting and government affairs firm in Arlington VA specializing in Health IT and Biotechnology.