Keynote
KEYNOTE & LUNCH PRESENTATIONS
Thursday, May 28, 2009
8:30 am - 10:00 am: Keynote
Peter J. Pronovost
Dr. Pronovost is a practicing anesthesiologist and critical care physician, teacher, researcher, and international patient safety leader. Dr. Pronovost is a Professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Surgery); in the Bloomberg School of Public Health (Department of Health Policy and Management) and in the School of Nursing. He is also Medical Director for the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care, which supports quality and safety efforts at the Johns Hopkins Hospitals. In 2003 Dr. Pronovost established the Quality and Safety Research Group to advance the science of safety. Dr. Pronovost and his research team are dedicated to improving healthcare through methods that are scientifically rigorous, but feasible at the bedside. Dr. Pronovost holds a doctorate in clinical investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
He chairs the JCAHO ICU Advisory Panel for Quality Measures, the ICU Physician Staffing Committee for the Leapfrog Group, and serves on the Quality Measures Work Group of the National Quality Forum. He also serves in an advisory capacity to the World Health Organizations’ World Alliance for Patient Safety, and is leading WHO efforts to improve patient safety measurement, evaluation, and leadership capacity globally. He has won several national awards for his research, including the 2004 John Eisenberg Patient Safety Research Award.
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch Speaker
Charles P. Friedman
Dr. Friedman is the Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In addition to serving as “second in command” for the office, he is specifically responsible for strategic and operational planning, for communications functions, for programs relating to clinical decision support, and for international activities.
Prior to joining ONC, Dr. Friedman was Associate Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. In this capacity, he directed the Center for Research Informatics and Information Technology, and functioned as the Institute's Chief Information Officer. Dr. Friedman first joined NIH in 2003, in the role of Senior Scholar at the National Library of Medicine.
Dr. Friedman obtained bachelors and masters degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also received a PhD in education from the University of North Carolina (UNC).
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Friday, May 29, 2009
8:30 am - 10:00 am: Keynote
Sally Stansfield
Dr. Stansfield is the Executive Secretary of the Health Metrics Network (HMN), a global partnership established to improve the supply and use of information in order to facilitate decision making for health in developing countries. Dr. Stansfield coordinates the technical and financial contributions of HMN’s global network of partners, including its host the World Health Organization, to accelerate the reform of health information systems for improved health outcomes.
Prior to 2006, Dr. Stansfield was the Associate Director for Global Health Strategies of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She draws upon more than 30 years of clinical and public health practice, with experience in research agencies, universities, governments, non-governmental organizations, and multilateral agencies. Dr. Stansfield’s areas of expertise include public health research, policy, strategic planning, program design and development, evaluation, and the development of health information systems. She has designed and managed programs for the US Centers for Disease Control, the US Agency for International Development and Canada’s International Development Research Centre, and has advised governments in Bangladesh, Cambodia, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, and many other countries, primarily in Asia and Africa.
Her accolades include the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honorary, the International College of Surgeons Award for Scholarship, the Public Health Service Distinguished Service Commendation, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Yale Tercentennial Medal.
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch Speaker
Karl Brown
Karl Brown joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 2006. As Associate Director of Applied Technology, Brown is focused on the application of information technology to the programmatic work of the Foundation. Brown is the focal point of the eHealth initiative, and has helped lead the development of the strategy for eHealth investments, including planning and development of the “Making the eHealth Connection” Bellagio conference series. Previously, Brown was a technical team leader with Trilogy, where he developed and deployed enterprise systems and consumer-facing Web sites for Fortune 500 companies such as Ford and Nissan. Brown received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.
Scientific Program Committee
Program Chair
Patricia Abbott
Johns Hopkins University
Track Chairs
Clinical Research Informatics:
Philip Payne, Ohio State University
Douglas Fridsma, Arizona State University
Global e-Health:
Andrew Kanter, Intelligent Medical Objects
Edward Bunker, Jhpiego- an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University
Informatics Practice-Based Research:
Peter Embi, University of Cincinnati
Christoph Lehmann, Johns Hopkins University
Public Health Informatics:
William Lober, University of Washington
John W. Loonsk, ONC, Department of Health and Human Services
