NADIM ASSI
President and Co-Founder
Softmedical, Inc.

Nadim Assi, President of Softmedical, led the company to be a pioneer in the integration of radiology and other imaging departments with the electronic health record (EHR). He established the notoriety of Softmedical in the Radiology PACS/RIS market. Nadim’s vision of optimal healthcare led Softmedical to be among the very few companies that made the first IHE Connect-a-thon. In addition to actively shaping new IHE Integration Profiles, Softmedical is an early implementer of newly defined profiles. Co-founder of Softmedical, he expanded its product portfolio to cover the complete radiology workflow including PACS, RIS and EHR empowered Diagnostic Workstation. Nadim is actively involved in developing new markets and devising growth strategies. Having successfully established a wide distribution network with a strong and growing client base across the United States, he turned his attention to Asia where he has forged new business partnerships and signed contracts in China. Nadim holds an MBA from McGill University.

SHELLEY BOND
Sales Executive
Eclipsys Corporation

Shelly is employed with Eclipsys Corporation and has developed expertise in new business development with over twelve years experience in healthcare information systems as well as integration and project management requirements. Shelly is familiar with healthcare standards and knowledgeable in IHE, and is also a member of the IHE Steering Committee to create IHE Canada.

Shelly brings knowledge and experience from the vendor community with HIS, CIS and PACS and the necessary integration requirements.

DIDI DAVIS
Director, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

Didi Davis is Director of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Chicago, IL reporting to the Informatics Department. Her responsibilities include all execution and direction of the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative, and related projects, activities and committees within HIMSS area of responsibility, and development of additional IHE domains as appropriate. This position assumes financial responsibility, accountability, and project management for the IHE initiative and related activities. Mrs. Davis has over fifteen years experience in the healthcare industry with emphasis on the implementation, development, and management of information technology solutions and a strong background in administration, integration and healthcare workflow requirements.

Prior to joining HIMSS in May 2006, she was employed by Eclipsys Corporation as Director, IT Product Strategies where her responsibilities encompassed the interpretation of various industry integration standards and technology direction with regards to platform architecture and integration. She represented Eclipsys in the Health Level 7 (HL7) organization serving on various committees, member of ASTM, member of the HIMSS Standards Task Force, member of the HIMSS RHIO Task Force, EHRVA Primary Representative, HITSP Panel member, HIMSS/IHE Liaison to Connecting for Health, and is was also a Co-Chair of the IT Infrastructure and Planning Committee within Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative. Mrs. Davis was also co-chair of the 2005 and 2006 HIMSS Interoperability Showcases. She was responsible for not only helping to set and demonstrate healthcare standards direction within these organizations but also interpreted these standards and ensured their adoption within the Eclipsys development process. This included the communication of business requirements to the development teams for newly evolving integration standards and customer requirements for technology changes for various hardware and software components. Mrs. Davis also worked with the Sales and Marketing organization to provide technical sales and marketing support interacting with approximately 1200 of 1500 customers of Eclipsys. She joined Eclipsys in 1997.

Prior to joining Eclipsys, Mrs. Davis served as Senior Project Manager and Interface Developer for MSI Solutions, Inc. based in Atlanta, Georgia, where she managed many healthcare and non-healthcare development projects from 1997 - 1999. From 1994-1997, she was the Vice President of Implementation for Omnicell Technologies for the Southeastern Territory. This position involved understanding all departmental clinical and pharmacy workflows and the management of project managers, implementation specialists, validation managers and field engineers during all phases of implementation of the Omnicell automated material and medicine-dispensing systems for hospitals. From 1991 - 1994 she was a Senior Budget Analyst working in Hospital Administration for the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was responsible for all financial and statistical programs for the departments of Pharmacy, Materials, and Nutrition and other service departments such as the Diabetes Center and Radiology.

Mrs. Davis obtained her Computer Science Degree in 1987.

GLENN DEEN
Project Leader, Healthcare Information Research Division
IBM Almaden Research Centre

Glenn is a Project Leader in IBM's Healthcare Information Research Division in San Jose, California. His research focus is on distributed systems and interoperability in healthcare informatics. Of particular interest to Glenn are privacy solutions for healthcare and open standards and architectures for moving patient data. Glenn has been deeply involved in IBM's IHE and HL7 initiatives, as well as IBM's recent Open Healthcare Foundation contribution regarding IHE.

DR. JON ELION, MD, FACC
Co-founder of Heartlab, and Chief Medical Officer, Agfa Healthcare
Associate Professor of Medicine, Brown University

Dr. Elion is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University, co-founder of Heartlab, and Chief Medical Officer for Agfa Healthcare. He has worked on the DICOM standard in cardiology since 1992, and is the co-chair of the DICOM Working Group on Cardiovascular Information. He organized the American College of Cardiology 1995 DICOM demonstration, writing computer software, and providing images and CD-ROMs to the 29 vendors that kicked off the DICOM era in Cardiology.

Dr. Elion is part of the original ACC team to work on the IHE initiative. He was the former co-chair of the Cardiology Technical Committee, and is now the co-chair of the Cardiology Planning Committee. He has been very active in IHE educational workshops and demonstrations.

He is the author of many scientific papers, abstracts, book chapters and patents, and still finds the time to practice clinical cardiology.

ALAIN GAUVIN, M.Sc., MCCPM, DABR
PACS/RIS Manager
McGill University Health Center

Alain Gauvin, M.Sc., is PACS/RIS manager at McGill University Health Center, a large teaching hospital located in Montreal, Canada. He is also a member of an expert group in charge of purchasing and installing a diagnostic image repository solution for western Quebec, an Canada Health Infoway supported initiative covering an annual volume of 6.5 millions studies.

Alain has trained as a medical physicist, and is certified by the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine and by the American Board of Radiology. He has an extensive experience in the purchasing, deployment and maintenance of PACS and image acquisition systems in 2 large teaching institutions. He brings the knowledge of 5 years of terrain experience of interoperability in medical imaging, covering most aspects of PACS, but also of modalities and back-end HL7 infrastructure.

DENNIS GIOKAS
Chief Technology Officer
Canada Health Infoway Inc.

Dennis Giokas is responsible for the overall electronic health record solution architecture, standards, security, privacy, and technology toolkits at Canada Health Infoway and is instrumental in defining the strategy for the EHR solutions. Infoway’s mission is to foster and accelerate the development and adoption of electronic health information solutions in Canada.

Mr. Giokas has over twenty four years of experience in the information management and information technology (IT) field and has previously held executive positions at Sapient Corporation, most recently as Vice-President and Managing Director of its Canadian subsidiary. He has also consulted on IT strategy in a number of industries including healthcare, financial services, insurance and energy services. He has held several senior positions with Digital Equipment Corporation, including those of Consulting Engineer and Group Technical Director. He is on the board of COACH - Canada’s health informatics association. He also holds two patents for software innovations and has one industrial design patent. Mr. Giokas holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Boston University as well as a Master’s of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.

BETH GOODHEW
Managing Consultant
Peninsula Consulting Group

Beth has over twenty years of information technology (IT) and twelve years of combined Clinical and IT experience implementing over fifteen projects with a variety of Hospitals across Canada. Beth has been employed full-time as the Managing Consultant at Peninsula Consulting Group since April 2003.

Beth graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1985 with a B Math, Computer Science Degree. Her early career included roles in systems and application programming, business analysis, project leadership and finally IT management roles. In 1990 Beth began her involvement in the healthcare industry with specific focus on radiology. During this time Beth was involved in several radiology process re-engineering projects and radiology department productivity and workflow improvement projects. In 1999 Beth combined her IT knowledge and clinical and workflow training together to built the IT Professional Services Organization for one of the major Canadian PACS vendors. She was the Manager of Professional Services until early 2003.

With her clinical knowledge and IT background Beth has been working since 2003 as an independent consultant in the strategic planning and implementation of PACS. She has been involved in several Canada Health Infoway sponsored projects including Thames Valley Hospital Planning Partnership (TVHPP), Cooperative for Diagnostic Imaging, South Western Ontario (SWO) DI Network Project, Toronto East Network (T.E.N.) DI PACS Project, and Saskatchewan RIS/PACS Project. Beth was also the Clinical Lead involved with the Canada Health Infoway National PACS Procurement Process.

As Clinical Lead of the TVHPP implementation Beth was responsible for the workflow design and technical implementation of the IHE radiology profiles required as a Canada Health Infoway sponsored project. Beth completed a white paper entitled IHE: From Theory to Reality that is now available as part of the Canada Health Infoway Toolkit. Beth also presented a position paper IHE: Where is the value? at RSNA 2005.

DR. NOGAH HARAMATI
Chief of Radiology, Professor, Clinical Radiology & Surgery
Albert Einstein College of Medicine / Montefiore Medical Centre

Nogah Haramati, MD is the Chief of Radiology at the Jack D. Weiler Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, (a division of Montefiore Medical Centre, Bronx, New York) and Professor of Clinical Radiology & Surgery. Dr. Haramati is a member of the IHE Strategic Development Committee.

DAVID HEANEY
Project Manager, DICOM and IHE Support
McKesson Information Solutions, Medical Imaging Group

Since joining McKesson in 1995, David Heaney has been involved with developing the DICOM Standard and later on, the IHE Technical Framework. He has been involved in several DICOM Working Groups, including acting as the chairperson for the DICOM Ultrasound Working Group (WG12) for several years. In addition, David is a member of both the IHE Radiology and IT Infrastructure Technical Committees. He has served as a Project Manager at McKesson, in charge of developing and supporting McKesson's DICOM software library. Currently, he has the position of DICOM and IHE Subject Matter Expert and is closely involved with the development of support for IHE profiles in McKesson products.

JIM HERREWYNEN
Enterprise Integration Consultant
Agfa HealthCare

Jim Herrewynen is an Enterprise Integration Consultant for Agfa HealthCare. He has been active in healthcare information technology for more than seventeen years during which he specialized in best-of-breed and multi-domain information system integration. His current focus is integrating large regional/provincial diagnostic imaging solutions into existing heterogeneous healthcare environments.

WILLIAM ("BILL") KLAVER
Senior Technical Architect
Initiate Systems, Inc.

William ("Bill") Klaver, a senior technical architect with Initiate Systems Inc., has more than twenty years of experience in the technology industry. Bill's knowledge of the industry comes from his work as a senior sales consultant, senior systems analyst, technical team leader, principal architect, product manager, and director of technology for such firms as Xerox, Interleaf, Verity, Alventive, Oracle and Initiate Systems. Bill's practical skills come from the complete implementation of "cradle to grave" systems in the document management, enterprise application integration, web-based architecture, and customer data integration marketplace. Bill has had affiliations with ISO, W3C, OMG, HIMSS, and IHE.

DAVID KOFF
Staff Radiologist, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

David Koff is currently the Staff Radiologist at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, and an Assistant Professor at University of Toronto. Prior to that, he operated a large private radiology group for eighteen years, and then after two years of clinical fellowship at the University Health Network in Toronto, joined the Montreal Heart Institute.

David has been involved for many years in medical image transmission over the Internet trough a private venture.

David is a Co-founder of IHE-Canada and Co-chair of the radiology workgroup. He's a member of the CAR PACS/Teleradiology Committee. He has initiated numerous research projects in medical imaging informatics with the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto, and the University of Technology Compiegne, France. David has a special interest in compression applied to medical images and is currently leading a nation-wide evaluation on Lossy JPEG and JPEG 2000 compression mandated by CAR/Infoway/Fraser Health Authority. He graduated as a Radiologist in 1981.

DR. JAMES R. MACLEAN
Executive Lead, Primary Health Care Team
Ontario Ministry of Heath and Long Term Care

Dr. MacLean is currently the Executive Lead for the Primary Health Care Team of the Ministry of Heath and Long Term Care in Ontario. As part of that role he is responsible for the development and implementation of 150 Family Heath Teams. He was appointed to his current position in September 2004, as part of the McGuinty government’s Health Results Team.

Dr. MacLean is a 1980 graduate of the University of Western Ontario’s School of Medicine. In 1984 he and his wife, Dr. Susan MacLean, opened a family practice in Markham, Ontario. From 1986 until 1998 he served as the first Chief of Staff of the Markham Stouffville Hospital and in April 1999 was appointed President and CEO.

Jim has served on numerous boards, councils and advisory groups over the last twenty years. He is driven by his passion for primary care reform and health system integration including leveraging the power of information and communications technologies.

Over the last year, Jim returned to part-time primary care practice in a small family health team in the community of Brighton, Ontario. It has been both exciting and challenging to return to practice but made much easier because of the family health team concept.

Sue and Jim have three children and he enjoys keeping fit, home renovations and playing lots of family games (including golf) which of course he loses most of the time now.

BILL MAJURSKI
Computer Scientist
National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)

Bill is a senior staff member of the Information Technology Laboratory's Conformance Testing Division. He is currently a Co-chair of IHE's Information Technology Infrastructure Technical Committee and has been involved with XDS from its inception.

GLEN F. MARSHALL
Health Informatics Architect
Siemens Medical Solutions

Glen F. Marshall is a health informatics architect with specialization in infrastructure standardization. He is employed by Siemens Medical Solutions. In IHE he is a co-chair of the IT Infrastructure Planning Committee, member of the IT Infrastructure Technical Committee and Strategic Development Committee, and Liaison to HL7. Glen is also a co-chair for the HL7 Security Technical Committee and participates in ASTM E31.20, ISO/TC 215 WG4, the US Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology security workgroup, and the HIMSS Privacy & Security Steering Committee.

JOSÉ M. MUSSI
Partner
JRS Partners Inc.

José Mussi brings to JRS Partners over twenty-five years of experience in designing and delivering innovative information technology (IT) solutions in both the public and private sectors. As a Group Director for Architecture at Canada Health Infoway from 2003 to 2006, he lead the creation and dissemination of the architectural vision for the diagnostic imaging, drugs and laboratory investment programs and was a key contributor to the Infoway EHRS Blueprint.

A strong supporter of EHR standards collaboration forums, Mr. Mussi was directly involved in the creation of IHE Canada and has represented Canada on the International IHE Strategic Development Committee.

Before joining Infoway, Mr. Mussi was founder and president of Aegis Financial Systems Corporation which provided application systems to insurance companies in Canada and the United States of America. Within the financial community, he was also engaged in consulting services with several large financial corporations, including CIBC, Fairfax Financial Holdings and Spectrum Mutual Funds. In prior involvements in the public sector, Mr. Mussi was responsible for architecting several systems for the Brazilian government, including a national solution for the procurement and distribution of primary care drugs to the over 4,000 health care centers located across the country.

José holds a Master of Applied Sciences degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

DR. RITA NOUMEIR
Professor, École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS)
Université du Québec

Rita Noumeir is a professor at the Electrical Engineering Department at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), Université du Québec. She has been actively involved with IHE since its inception.

As a member of the radiology IHE Planning Committee, Dr. Noumeir has been involved in establishing the broad direction and scope for the IHE demonstrations and in planning IHE workshops and other activities. She presented IHE at various international conferences and workshops.As a member of the radiology IHE Technical Committee, Dr. Noumeir has participated in developing the IHE Integration Profiles that are detailed in the actual IHE Technical Framework.

Dr. Noumeir holds a Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from École Polytechnique, University of Montréal. She has written numerous articles on biomedical informatics. She has published and lectured extensively in software analysis and image processing and participated in launching the new software engineering program at ETS. Dr Noumeir has provided consulting services including architecture analysis, workflow analysis, technology assessment and image processing for several software and medical companies. She can be contacted at E-mail: rita.noumeir@etsmtl.ca

KEVIN O'DONNELL
Senior. Manager, System Solutions
Toshiba Medical Systems R&D Center, South San Francisco, California

Kevin O'Donnell has over fifteen years experience in medical imaging with Toshiba, first in engineering in Japan for five years and then in R&D in California for the last ten. Previously, Kevin has worked for Elscint, IBM and the Canadian DoC Communications Research Center.

Kevin has been involved with standards-based integration since the late 1990's. He has edited several IHE profiles and sections of the IHE Technical Framework and is currently Co-chair of the IHE Radiology Planning Committee and a member of the IHE Radiology and Cardiology Technical Committees. He also participates in several DICOM Committees and Working Groups.

Kevin holds a Bachelor's degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia and is a member of the ACM.

CHARLES R. PARISOT
Manager, Architecture and Standards
GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. & Buc, France

Charles Parisot is with the Integrated IT Solutions business of GE Healthcare. He is in charge of standardization and IT architecture in the Enterprise Systems group where he coordinates overall GE Healthcare products implementation of health information exchange standards. He represents GE Healthcare in the EHR Vendor Association (EHRVA) where he chairs the Interoperability and Standards Working Group.

Charles has fifteen years of experience in healthcare, being one of the primary contributors to the definition of DICOM in the early 1990’s and is actively engaged in HL7, especially with the EHR Technical Committee.

Charles has applied his extensive experience at ensuring successful standards implementation in large and complex multi-stakeholder industries through the launching of the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise initiative in the United States of America and later in Europe, Canada and Asia. IHE has overcome the barriers to an effective implementation and use of interoperability standards in a number of healthcare domains to which he has significantly contributed.

Charles is currently the Co-chair of the IT Infrastructure Planning Committee and previously, for three years, was the Co-chair of the IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Committee. His major focus his been the development of cross-enterprise interoperability for EHRs and other IT systems with regional and national health information networks. He is also an active member of the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase Planning Committee and has been active in the national healthcare field for the past fifteen years and has gained respect from several physicians and IT professional associations.

MICHEL PAWLICZ
Global Solutions Manager
Agfa Healthcare

Michel has over fifteen years research and development (R&D) experience in image visualization, PACS, RIS and Healthcare standards working for leading Healthcare vendors like Philips Medical Systems, Mitra Imaging and currently Agfa Healthcare. He held leading international positions in product management and marketing of integration products, PACS and RIS. Currently Michel is Agfa's global solution manager for large scale regional projects.

GILA PYKE
Senior Risk Analyst
Ontario Smart Systems for Health Agency

Gila Pyke has been working in Privacy and Security since 1997, when she and a group of ex-hacker friends started an ‘ethical hacker’ consulting firm together. Gila got her start in healthcare informatics in the Pays du Limousin, France, leading a cutting edge demo project leveraging PKI and national smartcards for secure email for healthcare practitioners in 2001. More recently, Gila has been a senior risk analyst for the Ontario Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA), managing the Agency’s ground-breaking Certification and Accreditation program, which ensures accountability for the mitigation of privacy, security, business and operational risks and provides a vehicle for the successful planning and execution of mitigation projects.

For the last two years, Gila has had the opportunity to work with the IHE IT Infrastructure technical committee on the security focus of several profiles, including the Digital Signatures profile and is crafting the Risk Management whitepaper to promote better risk identification, prioritization, resolution and documentation both within IHE profiles as well as within the health informatics vendor and client communities.

LORI REED-FOURQUET
Principal
e-HealthSign, LLC

Ms Fourquet is a principal at e-HealthSign consulting in health informatics. She holds a Master’s of Computer Science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Ms Fourquet is the Co-Chair of the ASTM E31.20: Data and System Security for Health Information, and Vice-Convener for ISO TC215, WG 4 on Health Informatics Security. She is also a member of the IHE Patient Care Coordination and IT Infrastructure Planning and Technical committees. Lori is part of the contracting team to both the Office of the National Coordinator Standards Harmonization and the Security and Privacy initiatives as part of the US efforts to Advance Nationwide Interoperable Health Information Technology. Lori is also involved in the technical planning for RHIO activities in Connecticut.

JULIE RICHARDS
Group Director, Standard
Canada Health Infoway

Julie Richards is the Group Director, Standards at Canada Health Infoway. In this role she leads the new Infoway Standards Collaborative function and will have responsibility to set and deliver on the strategy for standards development, standards liaison, standards collaboration process, and the new standards implementation support, conformance and maintenance functions. Prior to this, Julie was a Director of Standards at Infoway with responsibilities for terminology standards.

Julie has over twenty years of experience in health care including bio-mineralization research, laboratory information systems and health information standards. Julie was the manager of Standards Development Co-ordination at the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and was the project manager for the implementation of ICD-10-CA and CCI across Canada. She was also the Data Quality Manager for CIHI’s data holdings. As former Systems and Patient Services Manager at Mount Sinai Hospital, Julie managed the selection and implementation of the Laboratory Information System.

Julie obtained her Master of Health Administration at the University of Toronto as well as her BSc in Geology and Computer Science. She also has a Diploma in Electron Microscopy from the Canadian Society of Laboratory Technologists.

Julie is co-Chair of the EHR Standards Advisory Committee and is on the Executive Committee of the CAC/Z295 ISO TC215 committees. She is also a member of the Partnership for Health Information Standards Program Committee and is a past Manager of the Partnership and HL7 Canada.

DANIEL C. RUSSLER, M.D.
Oracle Corporation

Daniel C. Russler, M.D., is co-chair of the IHE Patient Care Coordination Technical Committee sponsored by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, and American College of Cardiology. This committee has developed the first HL7 CDA-based IHE Integration Profiles. He is also a member of the HL7 Board of Directors, co-chair of the HL7 Patient Care Technical Committee, and vice president of clinical informatics for Oracle. Dr. Russler has developed ambulatory and hospital information systems for physicians and other healthcare providers since the 1980’s and practiced primary care from 1982 to 1995.

PAUL SEIFERT
Global Technical Application Manager, Connectivity Product Line
Agfa Healthcare

Paul Seifert has been in the medical imaging and healthcare IT field for over 19 years. For the past 8 years Paul has been working for Mitra Imaging/Agfa Healthcare in various product development and product management roles, with a focus on healthcare standards implementation. Prior to that Paul worked for GE Medical Systems in their CT modality and PACS businesses in a variety of engineering roles.

Paul has been involved in IHE since 2002, with his primary involvement being a member of the IHE Radiology Technical Committee. He was Co-chair of that Committee from 2002 to 2005 and continues to act as editor of one of the Radiology Technical Framework volumes as well as contributing to various IHE Profiles and white papers.