William Barnett, PhD is Senior Manager of Life Sciences for Research Technologies at Indiana University, where he oversees the Center for Computational Cytomics and IU’s efforts to support basic and applied life sciences research. He is also the Director of Information Infrastructures for the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, where he oversees the development of the Indiana CTSI HUB (www.indianactsi.org), the web portal and virtual organization environment that supports health care research and accelerates the translation of research discoveries to improved health outcomes. As Director of the Advanced IT Core at the IU School of Medicine, he supports health care research programs, particularly those that have advanced technology needs, and as Associate Director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, he oversees HIPAA alignment for research systems and participates in applied healthcare IT security research. He earned his PhD in Archaeology from Boston University and has spent 20 years developing research IT solutions for natural history museums and life sciences research.

Susan Blair is Chief Privacy Officer for the University of Florida. She worked in clinical health care and corporate environments for more than 25 years before moving to academia. Over the years, she completed graduate degrees in law, finance, and management; she also holds professional certifications for information privacy, corporate compliance and ethics, internal audit, and community mediation. In addition to her professional responsibilities, she volunteers as a Guardian Ad Litem for Florida’s Eighth District Court. 

Debbie Bucci is Manager of the Integration Services Center (ISC), Division of Enterprise and Custom Applications, Center for Information Technology, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The ISC is responsible for designing and implementing single sign-on and federated authentication across the agency. She was instrumental in designing and launching the NIH Login and NIH Federated Login services. Her team also leads NIH’s efforts in regard to the use of service oriented architecture at NIH. She has received a number of awards for her team’s ground-breaking efforts in regard to SSO and federated authentication. The NIH Federated Login service was selected in 2009 as one of the Top 10 Government Innovators by InformationWeek 500. 

Sharon Budman, MS ED is currently Director of HIPAA Privacy and Security serving as Interim Chief Privacy Officer for the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Uhealth System. She has worked at the University for over 20 years in various capacities in central administration. She has been involved with HIPAA since its inception and was instrumental in the establishment, development and implementation of the University's Office of HIPAA Privacy and Security. Prior to HIPAA, she held management positions at the Medical School in the Offices of Business Information Management Systems and Clinical Financial Services. She holds the following degrees from the University of Miami: MS ED in  University Administration/Higher Education Leadership, BBA in Accounting, and a Certificate in Health Care Administration.  She also is a Certified Information Privacy Professional.

Michael Conlon, PhD is Associate CIO for IT Architecture, Interim Director of Biomedical Informatics in the University of Florida College of Medicine, Associate Director of the university’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and Principal Investigator for VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists. His responsibilities include development of academic biomedical informatics, expansion and integration of research and clinical information resources as well as strategic planning for university information resources.  He earned his PhD in Statistics from the University of Florida, undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Bucknell University, and is the author of over 150 scholarly publications and presentations.  His current interests include enterprise change and organizational issues in the adoption of information technology, large scale data systems integration and enterprise architecture.

Leonard D’Avolio, PhD is an informatics researcher and the Associate Center Director for Biomedical Informatics for the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC).  MAVERIC is a 100+ person scientific organization within the VA specializing in the conduct of multi-site clinical trials, epidemiology, biospecimen storage, and biomedical informatics. He is also faculty at the Harvard School of Medicine and affiliated with the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research involves the use of information technologies such as natural language processing, data mining, and machine learning to enable secondary uses of clinical data. 

Leslie Derr, PhD is Director of Community Alliances and Support for the National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (NCI CBIIT), and program manager for the NCI Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid® (caBIG®).  caBIG, a major initiative of the NCI, is creating a virtual web of interconnected data, services, individuals, and organizations; that is redefining how research is conducted, care is provided, and patients and participants interact with the biomedical research enterprise. She received her PhD in Genetics from Duke University and spent a number of years as Principal Investigator in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.

John “Sean” Doyle, JD, MAPP is Senior Counsel for Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings where he focuses on data and connectivity agreements. He has prosecuted cases for the Army, advised the Speaker of a state legislature, secured asylum for torture victims, negotiated thousands of disputes, lobbied for stronger child protection laws, and litigated matters in a large firm. He is also a consulting psychologist (www.RainStickConsulting.com), having published and done his specific research in the areas of attorney engagement, organizational thriving and individual well-being. He has a chapter in the new book Resilience: How to Navigate Life's Curve.  He earned his law degree from Loyola School of Law in New Orleans, and his Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.

David Fenstermacher, PhD is Chair and Executive Director of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute. During his tenure in biomedical informatics, he has designed and directed the implementation of several bioinformatics distributed computing systems to support basic and clinical research, including multiple institution research projects. Data management systems designed by him have included: collection and integration of subject clinical data; data quality methodologies, development of web-based forms for input, storage and retrieval of all clinical and research data, customized data representations, and data sharing using data warehouse and Grid technologies. Current research focuses on developing informatics resources specifically for comparative effectiveness research. He received his doctoral degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and has held several faculty positions at UNC, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of South Florida.

Zachariah (Zach) Johnson is Director of the Department of Application Services at the Moffitt Cancer Center. His responsibilities include the acquisition, development, implementation and support of all enterprise systems at the Center. He previously managed the Clinical Information Systems at Moffitt and directed the Lab Information Systems for the NSLIJ Health System in Long Island. Over the years he has designed, developed and implemented systems for over 80 health systems across the United States, Canada and Europe with an emphasis on process optimization and development or alignment of technologies with the business needs of consumers.

David Kirby, MS provides consulting in information security and privacy and emerging IT as part of Kirby Information Management Consulting LLC. He has spent over 30 years in various roles developing innovative uses of health information technology with a variety of public, private, state, national and international organizations. These roles have included being an academic medical center (AMC) information security officer, a director of an AMC-based telehealth program, director of an IT innovation center in an AMC, a manager of technology support for an AMC, commercial IT product developer and manager, and a juror for the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology. He has authored a commercial security toolkit for small medical practices and presents regularly at healthcare and IT industry conferences.

Trish Markus, JD is a partner with Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP, where she handles health care regulatory compliance and patient care matters for physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers.  She advises North Carolina’s oldest regional health information organization on HIPAA privacy and security issues, and she served as the co-chair of the Legal Work Group for the North Carolina Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC) Project. She currently serves as the Treasurer of the NC Bar Association's Health Law Section and, since 2008, she has served as a Vice Chair of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Health Information and Technology Practice Group. She graduated from Haverford College with honors in English and from Boston College Law School.

Susan McAndrew, JD is the Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy (HIP), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  As Deputy Director, she has responsibility for implementing and enforcing the HIPAA Privacy Rule. In July 2009, the Secretary delegated to OCR authority for the HIPAA Security Rule, thereby consolidating in HIP Division responsibility for policy and enforcement of both the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules.  In addition, the HIP Division leads enforcement of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act. Her work experience includes over 20 years with the federal government and 15 years practicing law. She received her JD from Georgetown University Law Center.

Marie Moseley, BSN, NNP-C, MPH, JD is Regulatory Affairs Specialist/Privacy Officer for University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina. As an accomplished health lawyer and certified nurse practitioner, she has more than 25 years of professional experience in the health care setting. Having concentrated her practice in the areas of hospital and health law she is particularly well-known for her expertise in the regulatory aspects of health law, including HIPAA and corporate compliance. She previously served as in-house counsel after having spent five years in private practice defending physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers in medical malpractice claims and other health law related issues.

Morgan Passiment is Director of Information Resources Outreach for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), where she develops resources and cultivates opportunities for information leaders to improve and enhance the academic healthcare environment through strategic use of information tools. Her primary emphasis has been on the management of information, strategic planning, health policy and organizational effectiveness. She has directed a wide variety of successful leadership programs and work groups that provide academic health centers with resources to meet the challenges of a diverse healthcare environment and sometimes conflicting needs of medical education, research, patient care and administration. 

Phyllis Patrick, MBA, FACHE, CHC is Co-Founder and Managing Director of the AP Health Care Compliance Group, a consulting group that provides compliance advisory services to health care organizations. She has worked in compliance, privacy, and information security at two academic medical centers in New York. Most recently, she was Compliance and Privacy Officer for Greenwich Hospital, an affiliate of the Yale New Haven Health System. She is Board certified in health care administration and compliance. She is a member of the Board of Examiners for the Baldrige National Quality Award Program and a member of the HCCA Editorial Board on compliance auditing and monitoring. She received her MBA from Cornell University.

Fabian Perez, MS, CISA, CISSP is an Information Security Analyst at the University of Florida (UF) Health Science Center. He leads the implementation of an Information Security Risk Management Program for High-Risk Data Operations. The main goal of the program is to embrace heterogeneous technology operations (research, clinical operations, academia, contractual services, etc.) under the custody of the UF and mitigate the most tangible risks. Previously, he worked as an Information Security Consultant in Ecuador for government and private companies, was professor at his home country university, and has experience with the oil field business. He earned a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University.

Eugene Rich, MD, FACP is a Senior Fellow at Mathematica Policy Research, where he is establishing a new center related to the policy and practical implementation of "Comparative Effectiveness Research." His research explores the influence of the training and practice environment on health professional decision-making with a particular focus on practice variation in general medical care. He is the author of over 100 publications in this area. He has substantive experience with administration and finance of research and clinical programs, including ten years as Chair of Medicine at Creighton University. In 2009 he was a Scholar in Residence at the Association of American Medical Colleges where he focused on science and science policy issues relevant to health care reform, including comparative effectiveness research. He remains a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine.

Dennis Schmidt, MS, CISSP is Director of the Office of Information Systems at the UNC School of Medicine. He also serves as the school's HIPAA Security Officer. Prior to joining UNC in 1997, he worked for SAIC as the Technical Director for a systems support team at Fort Bragg, NC. He also served as the ADP chief for Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg.  He is a retired naval officer with 24 years of service as a pilot of the P-3C Orion antisubmarine warfare aircraft. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Ganesh Shankar, MS is the Manager of the Advanced IT Core at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In this role, he aligns the efforts of the Research Technologies Division with the increasingly advanced computational needs of researchers at the IU School of Medicine.  In addition, he is also the caBIG Deployment Lead for the Indiana University Simon Cancer Center and has helped to promote the utilization of standards-based, interoperable computing infrastructure such that data integration and collaborative research can occur in meaningful ways. He earned his first Master’s degree in Biological Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University, and the second in Bioinformatics from SUNY, Buffalo. He has designed and implemented scientific and bioinformatics software for over ten years.

Raymond Shelton is the Information Security Officer at Continuum Health Partners, Inc. His responsibilities include the IT security, audit and compliance programs for Beth Israel Medical Center’s Petrie, Kings Highway Divisions, St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital, Long Island College Hospital and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He also held the position of Manager of IT Security at Continuum.  Prior to this position, he was with University of Missouri Health Care, beginning in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and ultimately concluding his tenure as a Network Engineer with a focus on security.

Michael Slack, MS, CISSP, GCIA, CNDA is the Enterprise Storage Manager in the Information Technology Department of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, where he is responsible for all storage-related architecture and operations. Hel also serves as an officer with the US Army Reserve where he is a Major and Team Chief with the National Capital Region Information Operations Center in Washington, DC. He holds an MS in Information Assurance, as well as security and privacy professional certifications, including: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), and Certified Network Defense Architect (CNDA).

John Speakman is Associate Director for Clinical Products and Programs within the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI), where he leads informatics initiatives in support of clinical research within the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid program. Before joining NCI, he worked for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and St. Thomas’s Hospital in London. He also chairs the Regulated Clinical Research Information Management workgroup of the Health Level Seven standards development organization, charged with developing international data standards for biomedical research. His personal focus area is maximizing the contribution of information technology to the reengineering of the biomedical research process, especially through exploring the seamless incorporation of sources of clinical and biological data.