Raymond F. Rogers is the Chief Executive Officer for the National Center for Health Care Informatics (NCHCI) and The Praxis Center for Innovative Learning located in Butte, Montana. Mr. Rogers serves as the CEO for the NCHCI, a non-profit corporation dedicated to improving the management of health care data, information, and knowledge. His company is leading an effort to develop the Praxis Center for Innovative Learning - a $35 million, 70,000+ ft2 rural healthcare simulation training center.This will be the nation's first independent, non-profit, non-affiliated medical simulation training center dedicated specifically to the needs of rural healthcare practitioners. Mr. Rogers has extensive experience developing simulation training for the USAF Special Operations Forces (Pararescuemen). He has hosted regional conferences and has spoken to audiences nationally on the topics of electronic medical records, personal health records, and health information exchange. He has also worked with Hewlett Packard and CrossFlo System on a syndromic surveillance Health Information Exchange (HIE) demonstration project. He also served as a lead planner for the past three Montana Economic Development Summits hosted by Senator Max Baucus. Mr. Rogers has over 15 years' experience in higher education administration, fundraising, marketing, and business development, 13 years' experience working in the field of health care informatics, and 5 years' as a marketing engineer for a full-service environmental consulting company. In 2001, he led an effort on behalf of the Montana University System to create the nation’s first undergraduate degree in Health Care Informatics. Mr. Rogers is a part-time faculty member at Montana Tech. He holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering and a MS degree in Technical Communications. He has three grown children and enjoys skiing, running, hiking and fly-fishing.