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Kalamazoo, MI, US

Kalamazoo, Michigan, US

Albuquerque, New Mexico, US

• Took a floundering HIE to a sustainable Health Data Utility with millions of messages being exchanged daily and serving integrated data up to a wide variety of customers.
• Developed relationships with the State of NM. Aggregated and delivered public health reporting for NM DOH. Successfully partnered with NM HSD to complete a $20M HITECH project to update and expand the HIE and to build.
• Integration and management of multiple vendor partners to deliver a seamless solution.
• Established IT service management based on ITIL best practices.
• Implementation project management based on PMI best practices.
• Successfully led organization through SOC 2 Type 1 certification

• Information technology leader for the Lake Erie Regional Health System of New York that included Brooks Hospital, Lakeshore Hospital and affiliated urgent care centers and clinics.
• Unified IT departments across the system
• Supported Meditech EHR growth
• The health system was acquired by UPMC in November 2013.

Evanston, IL, US

• Leadership in analyzing and improving the Epic EHR experience of clinical researchers and applying electronic tools for clinical research.
• Created a user friendly web based front end to the Epic Data Warehouse using Business Objects/

Anchorage, AK, US

• IT Leadership for the Medical Center as well as Artic Engineering and Construction, and Community health divisions. Managed contracted IT services for five other rural tribal health hospitals and clinics. The service.
• Successful implementation of the Siemens Med Series 4 system for registration, hospital management and all billing.
• Management and support for Indian Health Service RPMS (VA Vista EHR), Picis perioperative suite, Soft Computer Corporation lab system, Eclipsys EPSI, Kronos and Oracle.
• Led the needs assessment for a future EHR, managed the RFP, worked with stakeholders to review proposals and select Cerner. Cerner is now implemented throughout Alaska Native medical organizations.
• IT service management best practices (ITIL) implemented.

Murray, UT, US

• Leadership for medical informatics at two hospitals in the Urban Central Region.
• Development and implementation of clinical decision support systems for critical care and its efficacy/effectiveness evaluated in a multicenter clinical trial with sites throughout the country.
• Implementation of a new information broker service
• Implementation of a new computerized patient kiosk

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

• Various academic appointments in Anesthesiology, Bioengineering and Medical Informatics. Teaching and research in applications of computers and technology to healthcare
• Medical Devices- Innovative research and new product development in critical care, anesthesiology, pulmonary and respiratory care. Mechanical ventilation, closed loop control of drug and fluid delivery, development of.
• Clinical decision support- critical care, pulmonary and respiratory care.
• Multicenter national clinical trial with 10 hospitals throughout the US to deploy critical care clinical decision support tools and do an efficacy and effectiveness outcomes study. This project included a variety of.
• Collaboration with international groups in Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and Australia to implement critical care decision support tools and lung simulator systems.
• Work with DOD and Army medical and Ranger groups in the development and testing of decision support systems for their personnel status monitor.Publications:80 peer reviewed publications,6 Book Chapters, 28.

Phd, Bioengineering

Mebe, Bioengineering

Bs, Physics

Education record