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MT08 Speakers

 

Confirmed Speakers:

>Heather Briccetti
Vice President, Government Affairs, The Business Council of New York State

>Brent Del Monte
President, Federal Government Relations for the Biotechnology Industry Organization

>Wendy Everett
President, New England Healthcare Institute

>George Ferguson
Research Scientist, Computer Science Department, University of Rochester

>Geri Gay
Kenneth J. Bissett Professor & Chair of Communication, Cornell University
 
>Laurent Giovangrandi
Acting Assistant Professor, Stanford University

>Victoria Hines
President and CEO, Visiting Nurse Service of Rochester and Monroe County, Inc.

>Bruce Kleaveland
COO, Practice Partner

>Christine M. Maroulis
Director of Health Economics and Reimbursement Ethicon, Inc.

>Barbara Mittleman M.D.
Director, Public-Private Partnership Program NIH Office of Science Policy, Office of the Director

>Udaya Patnaik
Principal, Jump Associates

>Joseph L. Ternullo, JD, MPH
Associate Director, Partners Healthcare Center for Connected Health, Vice President, Continua Health Alliance, Associate Director Northeast Telehealth Resource Center

>Simon Tripp
Principal Consultant, Battelle’s Technology Partnership Practice

>John Zogby
President and CEO, Zogby International

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Heather Briccetti
Vice President, Government Affairs, The Business Council of New York State

Briccetti previously served as an assistant counsel to the state Senate majority, working on a range of issues, including economic development, budget reform, and consumer protection. She also worked for the Assembly majority for several years, serving as a legislative aide and Counsel to the committee on Racing and Wagering. She has also served as special counsel in the office of the state Attorney General, where her responsibilities included coordinating activities between the bureaus in the Attorney General's office and the state Legislature and the Governor's office. Briccetti has worked in private practice as a founding partner of the Sweeney & Wollowitz and as chief public defender in Rensselaer County. She grew up in Syracuse, New York. Briccetti received her undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton and her law degree from Albany Law School. Briccetti now lives in Troy, outside of Albany, with her three sons.

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Brent Del Monte
President, Federal Government Relations for the Biotechnology Industry Organization

Brent Del Monte currently serves as Vice President, Federal Government Relations for the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). In this role he serves as the lead lobbyist for a trade association representing more than 1,100 members. Brent began with a career in public policy by joining the staff of Senator John Warner (R-VA). Brent later served on the staff of Representative Tom Bliley (R-VA), where he held various positions, all with responsibility over health care issues. While serving for Representative Bliley, Brent attended Georgetown University Law Center in the evening, graduating with high honors in 1998. After graduating law school and clerking for United States District Judge Claude Hilton, Brent returned to the Hill where he served as a Counsel for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, with primary responsibility over food and drug issues. In this position, he successfully saw enactment of the Medical Device User Fee Act, the Project BioShield Act, and the reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act. Brent agreed to be the lead lobbyist for BIO in April, 2005.

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Wendy Everett
President, New England Healthcare Institute

Wendy Everett is the first President of the New England Healthcare Institute. She has more than 30 years experience in the health care field, holding executive positions at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center and at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. In the 1980s, she directed a national demonstration program for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and subsequently was the Program Director for a national health promotion and disease prevention program for the Kaiser Family Foundation. Everett has served as a consultant to many state and national philanthropic foundations and was the coordinator of a multi-foundation consortium in AIDS prevention and evaluation. She was the co-founder of a medical software company, a director of the Institute for the Future, leading the health and health care research team for six years, and is a Trustee of many health care and philanthropic boards. She currently chairs the boards of the Sierra Health Foundation and the Health Technology Center. She earned her master's and doctoral degrees in health policy and management at Harvard University.

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George Ferguson
Research Scientist, Computer Science Department, University of Rochester

George Ferguson is a Research Scientist in the Computer Science Department at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. His research asks how people think about, talk about, learn about, and ultimately solve problems, and how can we build intelligent systems that work with them to help them solve those problems? Dr. Ferguson has a B.Sc. degree magna cum laude in Math and Computer Science from McGill University, an M.Sc. Degree from the University of Alberta, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Rochester. He has served on program committees and review panels for numerous conferences, journals, and agencies. He was co-Program Chair of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2004), and was the founding chair of the AAAI Intelligent Systems Demonstrations Program, whose goal was and is to get exciting AI projects out of the lab and into the spotlight. Dr. Ferguson is also a founding member of the University of Rochester’s Center for Future Health, whose mission is to develop novel technologies and systems that empower people to take better care of their health.

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Geri Gay
Kenneth J. Bissett Professor & Chair of Communication, Cornell University

Dr. Geri Gay is the Kenneth J. Bissett Professor and Chair of Communication at Cornell University and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow. She is also a member of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science and the director of the Human Computer Interaction Lab at Cornell University. She is co-directing the Institute of Social Sciences theme project on social networks and networking. Her research focuses on social and technical issues in the design of interactive communication technologies. Specifically, she is interested in social navigation, affective computing, social networking, mobile computing, and design theory. She receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, Microsoft, Google, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

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Laurent Giovangrandi
Acting Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Laurent Giovangrandi is currently an Acting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering. He is teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in analog electronics and MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems), both with a heavy emphasis on biological and biomedical applications. At Stanford, he is also managing Prof. Gregory Kovacs’ Transducers Lab, where he is involved in multiple biomedical projects, from basic stem cell research to physiologic monitoring for heart failure. Mr. Giovangrandi served as technical expert for several biomedical NASA studies, and contributed to the development of wearable physiologic monitoring systems, cell-based biosensors, and planar patch clamp technologies. He is a reviewer for a number of scientific journals. He received his M.S. degree in microengineering and his Ph.D. degree in applied sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL).

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Victoria Hines
President and CEO, Visiting Nurse Service of Rochester and Monroe County, Inc.

In November 2001, Vicky was appointed President and CEO of Visiting Nurse Service of Rochester and Monroe County, Inc. (VNS) and Visiting Nurse Signature Care; as well as vice president for Home Care for Strong Health and associate dean of Community Care of the University of Rochester School of Nursing. Just prior to her appointment with VNS, she directed the Ambulatory Redesign Project for the University of Rochester and Strong Health, standardizing business practices and making significant financial and process improvements. Vicky previously served as associate dean for Administration and Finance at the University of Rochester School of Nursing, where she was chief architect of a strategic plan that has significantly improved the competitive and financial position of the school. She also served as director of Ambulatory Services and Clinical Program Support for The Francis Scott Key Medical Center at Johns Hopkins Health System from 1989 to 1990. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester School of Nursing and teaches in the Masters Program. Currently, she serves on several boards, including the Regional Advisory Board for HSBC, the Home Care Association of New York, the Finger Lakes Visiting Nurse Service in Geneva, New York, and the Alzheimer’s Association.

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Bruce Kleaveland
COO, Practice Partner

Bruce Kleaveland is a leading writer, speaker, and consultant on electronic health records and related technology. He has over 25 years of experience in health care technology. As Chief Operating Officer of Practice Partner (formerly known as Physician Micro Systems), he helped navigate the company to both technology and marketplace leadership; during his tenure the company experienced 600% growth in revenue and staffing. He is currently president of Kleaveland Consulting, Inc., an independent consulting firm specializing in advisory services to provider organizations and the HIT industry. He is a faculty member for the Medical Group Management Association and Pri-Med, a technology columnist for Physicians Practice magazine and a member of the Microsoft Healthcare User Group (MS-HUG) Advisory Board.

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Christine M. Maroulis
Director of Health Economics and Reimbursement for Ethicon, Women’s Health & Urology at Ethicon, Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson

Christine Maroulis is currently the Director of Health Economics and Reimbursement for ETHICON Women’s Health & Urology at ETHICON, Inc, a division of Johnson & Johnson. In her role, she is responsible for developing and implementing global reimbursement and life cycle evidence generation strategies for the company’s existing and pipeline gynecologic and urologic surgical devices. Additionally Christine plays an active role in shaping and influencing the external environment from a Health Policy and Health Technology Assessment standpoint. She is active in leading payor and purchaser engagement in order to assure the evidence, reimbursement and market access requirements are integrated into the R&D and commercial strategies for ETHICON Women’s Health & Urology products.

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Barbara Mittleman M.D.
Director, Public-Private Partnership Program NIH Office of Science Policy, Office of the Director

Dr. Mittleman earned an M.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in1986, followed by residency training in Internal Medicine, fellowship training in Rheumatology, and post-doctoral training in cellular immunology. She has been at NIH since 1991, conducting both basic and clinical research. She has directed the Program on Public-Private Partnerships since its establishment in 2005. At various times in her career, she has focused on lupus in mice; cytokines in human rheumatic disease; and postinfectious autoimmunity in children. The former program director for the immunobiology of aging in the Biology of Aging Program at the National Institute on Aging, she has a faculty appointment at Georgetown University Medical School. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology.

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Udaya Patnaik
Principle, JUMP Associates

Udaya Patnaik offers expertise in participative strategy formulation and organizational transformation. His knowledge of telecommunications, IT, physical space and utilities has made him a valuable advisor in both the public and private sector. Patnaik uses experience in research, process analysis, development roadmapping and training to assist clients in solving long-term strategy issues. He has lectured in Stanford University’s Technical Communications Program, and has co-authored several guidebooks on local project management and planning. Previously, Patnaik provided close consultation to Fortune 500 executives in the creation and launch of innovative new business units. He has a degree in civil engineering from Stanford University.

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Joseph L. Ternullo, JD, MPH
Associate Director, Partners Healthcare Center for Connected Health
Vice President, Continua Health Alliance
Associate Director Northeast Telehealth Resource Center

Joseph L. Ternullo, JD, MPH is Associate Director of the Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare and focuses on policy, contracting, enterprise relationships and corporate-sponsored research. The founder and organizing chair of an annual symposium at the Conference Center of Harvard Medical focusing on critical issues associated with connected health, Mr. Ternullo also serves on the board of directors and as Vice President of Continua Health Alliance, on the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital institutional review boards, and on the American Telemedicine Association's policy committee. In 2007, Mr. Ternullo was appointed to serve on the American Health Information Community Chronic Care Workgroup, a federal advisory body chartered to make recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on accelerating the development and adoption of health information technology. He also serves as Associate Director of the Northeast Telehealth Resource Center, a consortium operating through a grant from the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth. Mr. Ternullo has earned degrees from Boston College, Bentley College, Boston University and Harvard and is Adjunct Associate Professor at Northeastern University where he teaches a Health Care Informatics Law course to NU graduate students.

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Simon Tripp
Principal consultant, Battelle’s Technology Partnership Practice

Mr. Simon Tripp is a principal consultant to Battelle's Technology Partnership Practice and has worked primarily for Battelle over the past five years. From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Tripp was President and CEO of the Pittsburgh-based research and planning corporation Tripp, Umbach & Associates, Inc. Mr. Tripp has also held positions as a Director of Operations for the British Government’s West Midlands Development Agency and as Vice President of North American Business Development for the Welsh Development Agency. Prior to founding Tripp Umbach, Mr. Tripp was a Senior Consultant for a business research and development consulting organization. His recent work in economic impact analysis includes projects for the Mayo Clinic, UPMC Health System and the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center. Mr. Tripp has also been actively engaged in biosciences development research, including Pittsburgh’s Biomedical Centers of Excellence assessment, Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho’s biodevelopment strategy, post-genomic sciences planning for the Mayo Clinic and core competency analysis for Battelle’s bioscience development projects in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.

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John Zogby
President and CEO, Zogby International

John Zogby is the president and CEO of Zogby International, whose many media and business clients include Reuters, NBC News, MSNBC, the New York Post, C-SPAN, Gannett News Service, IBM, MetLife, and Microsoft. He is a regular contributor to network television news broadcasts and has been a frequent guest on Today, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His writing has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Utica, New York.

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