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Irene Koch is the Executive Director of Brooklyn Health Information exchange (BHIX) since 2007. Ms Koch oversees the activities of the BHIX regional health information exchange strategic initiatives for it’s expansion and presence in the HIE landscape. Ms Koch has a particular expertise on privacy and governance issues related to electronic exchange of community-wide health information. She is a member of the Policy and Operations Council of the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) and a frequent contributor on issues relating to health information technology transformation. Ms Koch, an attorney, previously served as Associate General Counsel at Maimonides Medical centre, Assistant Counsel with New York State Department of Health and as a Associate at Wilkie Farr & Gallagher.

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Dr Garber is a practicing Internist, the Medical Director for Informatics at Fallon Clinic and Vice Chair of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative. he has coauthored articles in JAMA and JAMIA on Adverse Drug Events in the Ambulatory setting. Dr Garber is also Principle Investigator on a $1.5 million AHRQ Grant which has implemented a patient “Opt-In” consent-enabled Health INformation Exchange (HIE) currently live and self sustaining in central Massachusetts, know as SAFEHealth. Through Garber’s work at Fallon Clinic they are one of eight national recipients of the prestigious 2009 Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) Award.

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Carol Malof is the Acting Regional administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicade Services (CMS) New York and Boston Regions. In this role she is responsible for CMS’s external affairs operations for the New England States, new York and New Jersey. In addition, Carol oversees the management of CMS’s Boston Regional office with over 130 staff. Carol also serves as Deputy Regional Administrator of the CMS Boston Regional Office. Prior to her Deputy Regional Administrator service Carol was the Branch Chief in the Boston Division of Quality Improvement where she oversaw 14 Quality Improvement Organizations and 5 End-stage Renal Disease Networks in 14 states, Puerto Rico and Virgin islands. Carol also served as the New England Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) Education Campaign Manager from 2005 until 2006. Carol is a Senior Fellow with the Council for Excellence in Government.

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Micky Tripathi is the president and chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non profit collaboration of 34 leading Massachusetts organizations. He is also a member of the board of Directors of MA-SHARE a community utility service for state-wide clinical data exchange in massachusetts. Mr Tripathi is also the co-chair of the Health Information Exchange Workgroup, one of three subgroups of the Health IT Policy Committee which is charged with making recommendations about health information exchange to the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Prior to joining MAeHC, Mr Tripathi was a manager in the Boston office of the Boston Consulting Group, a leading strategy and management consulting firm. While at BCG, he served as the founding President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, an Indianapolis-based non profit company partnered with the Regenstrief Institute to create a state-wide health information infrastructure in the state of Indiana. As a manager in BCG’s health care practice, Mr Tripathi also served a variety of US and International clients in the non-profit sector as well as in the bioinformatics, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. He holds a PHD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University and an AB in political science from Vassar College. Prior to receiving his PHD, he was a senior operations research analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington DC for which he received the secretary of Defense Distinguished Civillian Service award.

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Deven McGraw is the Director of the Health Privacy ar CDT. The project is focused on developing an dpromoting workable privacy and security protections for electronic personal health information. Ms McGraw is active in efforts to advance the adoption and implementation of health information technology and electroninc health information exchange to improve healthcare. She was one of three persons appointed by Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human SErvices (HHS), to serve on the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committe, a federal advisory committe established in the American Recovery an Reinvestment Act of 2009.

She also served on two key workgroups of the American Health INformation Community (AHIC), the federal advisory body established by HHS in the Bush Administration to develop recommendations on how to facilitate use of health information technology to improve health. Specifically she co chaired the Confidentiality, Privacy and Security Workgroup and was a member of the Personalized Health Care Workgroup. She also served on the Policy Steering Committee of the ehealth Initiative and now serves on its Leadership Committee. She is also on the Steering Group of the Markle Foundation Connecting for Health multi-stakeholder initiative.
Ms McGraw has a strong background in health care policy. Prior to joining CDT, Ms McGraw was the Chief Operating Officer of the National Partnership for Women & Families, providing strategic direction and oversight for all the organizations core program areas, including the promotion of initiatives to improve healthcare quality. Ms McGraw also was an associate in the public policy group at Patton Boggs, LLP and in the ehealth care group at Ropes & Gray. She also served as Deputy Legal Counsel to the Governor of Massachusetts and taught in the Federal Legislation Clinic at the Georgetown University Law center.

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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, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; 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, The American College of Medical Informatics and is Chairman of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association.

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Janet Marchibroda is the Chief Healthcare Officer for IBM where she is responsible for driving policy and strategy for improving health and healthcare through the use of information technology and exchange. She joined IBM in April 2009 from ehealth Initiative (eHI), where she served as the founding Chief Executive Officer. eHI is an independent, non profit multi-stakeholder organization whose mission is to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare through information and information technology. eHI engages clinicians, consumers, employers, health plans, health IT companies, hospitals, laboratories, manufacturers, pharmacies and state and community-based organizations to reach agreement on and drive the adoption of common principles, policies, strategies and actions for improving health and healthcare through information technology in a way that is responsible, sustainable, responsive to stakeholder needs – particularly, patients and which builds and maintains the public’s trust.

While at eHI, Marchibroda served as the founding Executive Director of Connecting for Health – a public – private sector initiative funded and led by the Markle Foundation and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation- which is designed to catalyze actions on a national basis to drive electronic connectivity and create an interconnected, electronic health information infrastructure. She co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer for a Bertelsman AG Subsidiary, which focuses on providing electronic health information infrastructure. 
Marchibroda served as the chief Operating Officer of the National Committee for Quality Assurance an organization devoted to evaluating and improving the quality of healthcare for Americans – where she was responsible for accreditation of healthcare organizations, education programs, the national HEDIS database, electronic information products, strategic planning, human resources, information technology and administration. 
She is considered an expert on using health IT to improve health and healthcare, serves on several boards and Steering Groups in Healthcare and was recognized in 2005 as one of the Top 25 women in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare Magazine and in 2006 for the federal Computer week Top 100 Award. She holds a B.S. in commerce from the University of Virginia and an MBA with a concentration in organization development from george Washington University.

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Vish Sankaran was appointed Director of the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program in the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in March 2007. As FHA director, he has driven collaboration among federal agencies to advance the adoption of interoperable health IT in order to allow for the secure exchange of health information within the federal government, and with state, tribal, and local governments and the private sector.  In February, 2009, Mr. Sankaran was named as one of the Federal 100 by the editors of Federal Computer Week.

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Tom Williams serves as Executive Director of the Integrated Healthcare Association promoting quality improvement, accountability and affordability of healthcare in California. He is engaged in management of HIA’s programs and initiatives, including the statewide pay – for – performance program, medical technology value-based purchasing initiative:and healthcare affordability. Mr Williams has extensive executive-level experience in medical group management, managed healthcare and health insurance including 15 years as an executive at Aetna. He has served on numerous private company and non profit boards involved in healthcare and the environment. Mr Williams received a B.S in environmental biology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and earned his Masters in Business Administration and Public Health from the University of Hawaii. He is currently a doctorol candidate at the University of California at Berkeley in public health with a focus on quality improvement in healthcare.

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Gerry Hinkley is a partner in the San Francisco office of the National health care law firm davis Wright Tremaine LLP where he co-chairs the Health Information Technology Practice Group. Gerry’s HIT practice is focussed on ARRA-HITECH implementation community network development and finance, network user participation, system procurement, regulatory compliance and privacy. gerry has been involved with governance, network user an privacy information exchange organizations. he serves as a member of the Steering Group of Markle Connecting for Health, the HIMMS Legal Aspects Task force and the Leadership Council of eHealth Initiative and as a Legal Columnist for HIMSS HIE Lights.