Presenters and Panelists

Barbie S. Bigelow is chief information officer of the Lockheed Martin Electronic Systems Business Area. She was appointed to her current position in August 2002. In this role, she is responsible for information technology strategy and service delivery performance of the companies in Electronic Systems. She has over 20 years of increasing responsibility and experience in program management, software development and systems engineering. Prior assignments have included director for B2B Initiatives, program manager for Undersea Lifetime Support and Performance-based Logistics and manager for Advanced Technology Business Development. She has completed special assignments in strategic planning, emerging market analysis and program management curriculum/certification development. Bigelow started her career in information technology as a statistical researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. In 1985 she joined IBM as a programmer and worked on early parsing and mark-up languages that are the foundation of HTML. Since then, through acquisitions into Lockheed Martin, her responsibilities have included systems engineering and program management supporting the Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human
Services and commercial markets. Bigelow earned her masters degree in computer science from the University of Tennessee. She is recognized as a Certified Program Management Professional and a member of the CIO Executive Council.

Howard Burde is a partner and Health Law Practice Group Leader in the law firm of BlankRome LLP. He represents health information technology companies, health plans, and federal, state and local governments. He routinely counsels in health information technology, health insurance and managed care law issues, licensure, and certification and accreditation matters. His wealth of healthcare knowledge includes seven years of service as deputy general counsel to Governors Tom Ridge and Mark Schweiker of Pennsylvania. In this position, he served as legal counsel for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania responsible for the Departments of Health, Public Welfare, and Aging, as well as for the Health Related Professional Boards, and the Medical Professional Liability Catastrophe Loss Fund. He also advised on all managed care, health insurance, public health, and health and human service issues. From June 1995 until November 1997, Burde was chief counsel to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Prior to his government service, Burde had seven years of private practice experience representing health care providers. He is editor and contributing author of three books: A Guide To Establishing RHIOs (HIMSS, 2007), The Utilization Management Guide (URAC, 2004), The Health Laws of Pennsylvania (PBI Press, 2001) and the forthcoming A Guide to Understanding and Implementing Personal Health Records: The Technology, Economics, Politics and Law (HIMSS, anticipated 1/2008) as well as several articles on health law.

Dr. Joshua M. Epstein is director of the Brookings Institution's Center of Social and Economic Dynamics and is a senior fellow of economic studies. A pioneer in agent-based computational modeling, Epstein has recently done groundbreaking work on epidemics and bioterrorism. He has used computational modeling to study civil violence and smoking behavior. He is currently a member of the external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute and an external research professor for the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Complexity and Princeton University Press Studies in Complexity book series. Epstein leads modeling and simulation efforts for the National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER) and the National Institutes of Health's Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS). He earned his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Jeffrey C. Huskamp is the vice president and chief information officer at the University of Maryland, College Park with responsibility for academic computing, administrative computing, enterprise systems, networking, IT policy and planning, telecommunications, IT security, and user support. He is a member of the President's Cabinet for Campus Governance, is the chair of the university's Information Technology Council, and serves on campus financial and facilities committees. He is also the University of Maryland's executive representative to Internet2, primary representative to EDUCAUSE, member of the governing board for the mid-Atlantic Crossroads GigaPoP, and member of the Coalition for Networked Information. He has more than 30 years of experience in information technology, software development, high-performance computing, and high-performance networking in the private, government, not-for-profit, and research arenas. He earned his doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley with his thesis in computer security.

Dr. Brian R. Jacobs is chief medical information officer and executive director of the Center for Pediatric Informatics at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and is professor of pediatrics at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Children's National Medical Center, he was professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati as well as the director of technology and patient safety at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. While at Cincinnati Children's he oversaw the implementation of their electronic medical record and was the principal author and recipient of the HIMSS Davies Award. He specializes in pediatric critical care medicine and has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, abstracts and scientific presentations. He frequently shares his knowledge in the pediatric space as a guest lecturer at conferences, leadership forums and hospitals. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Critical Care Medicine. He also is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, the Association of Medical Directors of Information Services, and is the current chairman of the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award Selection Committee. Jacobs received his medical degree from Oregon Health and Sciences University. He completed his residency and chief residency in pediatrics at Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego. Prior to completing his fellowship training in critical care medicine at Children's National Medical Center, Jacobs served as a physician in the United States Navy where he was distinguished as a decorated Persian Gulf War veteran.

William D. O'Leary is the executive director of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Microsoft Corporation, U.S. Public Sector. He directs HHS solution sales across state, local and federal markets and is responsible for the subject expertise, strategy development and thought leadership of Microsoft Health and Human Services. He has authored several whitepapers including, "Microsoft Architectural Vision for Health and Human Services" and "Modernization of Medicaid Management Information Systems." As former Secretary of Health and Human Services in Massachusetts, O'Leary was responsible for a $9 billion budget, and oversight of 15 agencies. He also co-chaired the Mass Health Care Task Force. He developed MassCares, a comprehensive technology based initiative to better integrate service delivery to children and families. He implemented the most dramatic expansion of Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance coverage in the country, resulting in less than a five percent uninsured rate for children. As former state commissioner of the Department of Youth Services he developed a comprehensive community based system of services and supervision. He was a principal in the development of sweeping juvenile court reform. An attorney, and graduate of Western New England College School of Law, O'Leary holds a master's degree from the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York in Albany. He is a former court monitor for a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and former deputy director of the Crime and Justice Foundation. He has served as consultant to the United States Justice Department, and numerous states regarding development of health, human service, and criminal justice systems.

Harvey Seifter is the founder and director of Creativity Connection, a program of the Arts & Business Council of Americans for the Arts that helps corporations surface creativity and enhance organizational learning. Widely regarded as one of the world's leading authorities in the field of arts-based learning for business, he is frequently invited to design programs for global corporations such as AstraZeneca, AT&T, Honeywell, Morgan Stanley, and Siemens. Harvey's book, LEADERSHIP ENSEMBLE: Lessons in Collaborative Management (Holt/Times Books) has been published in seven languages, and he lectures on the senior executive faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is also a classically trained musician who has enjoyed a 25-year career at the helm of distinguished arts organizations including Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco's Magic Theater, and New York's Theater for the New City. He has also served as executive and artistic director of Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, a Smithsonian-affiliated center for the visual and performing arts located in the most diverse neighborhood in America. Seifter currently serves as principal artistic advisor to the National Music Center and Museum in Washington, D.C.

Robert H. Spicer, II serves as executive vice president and chief information officer for Chevy Chase Bank. Prior to joining Chevy Chase in 1984, Spicer had over 18 years of experience in information technology. He has served as vice president/CIO for Honolulu Federal Savings and Loan, Hawaii branch manager for Systems Consultants, Inc., senior systems engineer for McDonnell Douglas, system programmer for the Univac/Apollo Telemetry System (NASA, Greenbelt), and a member of the Senior Advisory Group for Computer Data Systems.

Ray Wulff is the chief information officer and director of information services for the British Defence Staff – United States. He was appointed to this role in June of 2006. In this role, he manages the long term and day-to-day information management and IT strategy for the British Defence Staff in the United States. He co-chairs NAMCIS (North American Computer Information Systems Group), a UK Ministry of Defence IT collaborative body focusing on interoperability between UK networks. Prior to his position with the Ministry of Defence, he was a member of the Business Improvement Team and Senior Internet Systems Specialist for the U.S. House of Representatives. He has an MBA from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Howard Frank has been dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business since 1997. Previously, he was director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Information Technology Office, where he was responsible for DARPA's research in advanced computing, communications, software, language systems, and human-computer interaction. Before joining DARPA, Frank was founder, chairman, and CEO of Network Management, Inc.; president and CEO of Contel Information Systems (a subsidiary of Contel); president, CEO, and founder of Network Analysis Corporation; a visiting consultant within the Executive Office of the President of the United States in charge of network analysis activities; and an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Frank is a former senior fellow and current board member of the Wharton School's SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management. ►Read more about Dean Howard Frank.

Ritu Agarwal is the Robert H. Smith Dean's Chair in Information Systems and founder and director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. She has published more than 75 papers on information technology in journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Sciences, IEEE Transactions, and Decision Support Systems. Her research focuses on how the role and impacts of information technology healthcare practice and delivery, how organizations derive value from information technology through adoption, diffusion and creative use, and the design and structuring of IT activities to maximize business innovation. She received her PhD from Syracuse University.

Joe Bailey is a research associate professor of decision and information technologies and the director of the Center for Electronic Markets and Enterprises (CEME) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. His research and teaching interest span issues in telecommunications, economics, and public policy with an emphasis on the economics of the Internet, particularly technologies and market opportunities that promote the benefits of interoperability. He is currently studying issues related to the economics of electronic commerce and how the Internet changes competition and supply chain management. He earned his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Anand Anandalingam is the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science and senior associate dean at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. His research focuses on telecommunication networks, and electronic markets' design, economics, industry analysis, strategy, and policy. He also works on global information systems strategy. Anandalingam has published more than 75 papers in refereed journals, and has guest-edited volumes on electronic markets for Management Science, and on hierarchical optimization for Annals of Operations Research. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science). Anandalingam serves on the editorial board of Telecommunications Systems, and Networks and Spatial Economics, and as the associate editor of Operations Research. His PhD in operations research is from Harvard University.

Vinod Jain is director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. He is also the academic director for the School's Executive MBA program in Shanghai, China, and senior director of professional programs. Prior to joining the Smith School in 2005, he taught for some 12 years at universities in the United States, U.K., and Bahrain. And, in spring 2005, he taught on the executive MBA program at the Polish-American Management Center, University of Lodz, Poland, as a Fulbright Scholar. Jain has a PhD in strategy and international management from the University of Maryland at College Park and master's degrees in management (UCLA) and statistics (Indian Statistical Institute). He is a member of Academy of International Business, Academy of Management, Maryland-Washington D.C. District Export Council, Mensa, Strategic Management Society, and the World Affairs Council. He is president emeritus of the board of directors of the Toledo Area International Trade Association and was on the boards of governors of Ohio's Information Technology Alliance and the IT Alliance for Northwest Ohio.

Galit Shmueli is an associate professor of management science and statistics in the decision and information technologies department at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. Her research is devoted to developing and adapting statistical methods to non-standard data. These include advanced statistical and data mining methods for data visualization, representation and modeling. Shmueli's two main application areas are electronic commerce and biosurveillance. She collaborates with researchers in information systems, computer science, marketing, public health, epidemiology, and statistics/data mining. Her work appears in top journals and books. She received her PhD from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.