Fifth Annual Netcentricity Conference

Keynote Speakers

Paul E. Misener
Vice President for Global Public Policy
Amazon.com

Both an engineer and lawyer, Paul Misener is Amazon.com’s Vice President for Global Public Policy. In this capacity, Misener is responsible for formulating and representing Amazon.com’s public policy positions worldwide, as well as for managing the company’s policy specialists in Washington, DC, Brussels, and Seattle. He also is immediate past President of the Internet Commerce and Communications Division of the Information Technology Association of America and a former member of the ITAA Board of Directors.

Misener is a former partner and the chairman of the E-commerce and Internet Practice at the law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding. He also served as Senior Legal Advisor and Chief of Staff to a Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to his federal service, Misener was Intel’s Manager of Telecommunications and Computer Technology Policy, and co-founder and leader of the computer industry’s Internet Access Coalition.

Misener was a policy specialist for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the late 1980s, where he was a U.S. delegate to several conferences of the International Telecommunication Union; prior to that, he designed communications systems for the military.

He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University and his law degree from the George Mason University School of Law.

Andrew Barbash
Medical Director
Holy Cross Hospital

Andrew Barbash, MD, is currently Medical Director of the Stroke Program at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD. He is also the Chief Medical and Information Officer of Laxor, LLC , a company recently mentioned in the Washington Post's Health Section with an innovative service model approach to the Personal Health Record. He was a vice president and member of the senior management of the Medical Group for Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States until 2001, where he managed the development and deployment of the electronic medical for their region. He completed his BA at Bowdoin College, his MD at Northwestern University and his Neurology Residency at the Mayo Clinic.

Over the past eight years Barbash has been active in the eHealth industry, advising companies on e-Health services, and giving frequent talks at national and regional conferences on eHealth strategies, e-messaging, mobile health care, practical privacy, collaborative health records and patient information empowerment. He was a member of the Task Force on Information Capture in 2001 and is also leading the Personal Medication Records project in the SOS Rx initiative, sponsored by the National Consumers League. In 2003-4 he was actively engaged with the Medical Records Institute relative to mobile computing and the TEPR awards. He is also very active in Health Tech Net, a Washington area consortium of health technology participants.

Peter Sheridan Dodds
Associate Research Scientist
Institute for Social & Economic Research & Policy
Columbia University

Dr. Peter Dodds is a Research Scientist at Columbia University, where he investigates a range of problems in the social sciences. His research involves theoretical model building, large-scale online experiments, and data analysis. He has a PhD in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has worked on problems in geophysics, biology, complex network theory, pattern formation, and epidemiology.

Raj Lakhanpal, M.D., FRCS, FACEP
President and CEO
HealthAtoZ

Dr. Lakhanpal founded HealthAtoZ ten years ago. As its original founder and CEO, he has grown the company from his original vision of delivering health and wellness information over the Internet to creating the top online disease management and health promotion programs and tools for wellness and population health management.

With the conviction that people are the key element in improving health care through technology,  Lakhanpal has made it his goal to develop an Editorial Advisory Board of the top physicians, nurses and pharmacists in their fields. His focus on clinical excellence and strong in-house
editorial, IT and creative teams positions HealthAtoZ as the eminent E-Health solutions provider, earning both professional awards and user praise.

Lakhanpal is a noted speaker and consultant for helping organizations promote physician and other provider involvement in e-health initiatives and emerging health care technology. Lakhanpal completed his residencies at the Royal College of Physicians in Glasgow, United Kingdom and New York Medical College. He is board certified in surgery in the UK, and in emergency medicine in the United States. Prior to creating HealthAtoZ, Lakhanpal distinguished himself in staff and administrative positions with Team Health and EmCare.

Kalle Lyytinen,
Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University

Kalle Lyytinen is the Iris S. Wolstein Professor of Management Design at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. He also serves as adjunct professor at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. He currently editor-in-chief of AIS journal and serves on the editorial boards of several leading IS journals, including Information Systems Research, JSIS, Information Technology and People, Information & Organization, Requirements Engineering Journal, and Information Systems Journal.

He has published over 150 scientific articles and conference papers and edited or written eight books on topics related to system design, method engineering, implementation, software risk assessment, computer supported cooperative work, standardization, and ubiquitous computing. He is currently involved in research projects that explores IT induced innovation in software development, architecture and construction industry, design and use of ubiquitous applications, and is developing a high level requirements model for large scale systems. He is also studying in a global scale the development and adoption of broadband wireless standards and services, where his recent studies have focused on South Korea and the U.S. He teaches e-business, mobile business and digital law classes.

His research interests include information system theories, computer aided system design and method engineering, system failures and risk assessment, computer supported cooperative work, nomadic computing, and the innovation and diffusion of complex technologies and the role of institutions in such processes. He was the recipient of AIS Fellowship in 2004

Marshall "Tip" Slater
Deputy Director of Strategic Architecture
Boeing

Marshall “Tip” Slater is deputy director of Strategic Architecture, an organization that is chartered to develop and integrate Network Centric Architectures and Operations for the Boeing Integrated Defense Systems business. He was named to this position in July 2001, and oversees the day-to-day operations of Strategic Architecture. Strategic Architecture provides the vision for Network Centric Operations (NCO) and the technology and processes that enable NCO, and demonstrates future possibilities within the Boeing Integration Center (BIC) for current and future customers and markets.

Prior to this position, Slater served as director of Business Development for Government Information & Communications Systems, a former Boeing business segment that leveraged systems of systems technologies to integrate airborne sensor systems such as Airborne Warning and Control System and Airborne Early Warning and Control with communications and navigation systems. In this position he led the strategy that changed the stand-alone platform philosophy to one where platforms become integrated into a new environment proving greater capability to the platform owners at significantly lower costs. In addition, he has also worked within the Phantom Works business supporting wide band communications programs for Connexion by Boeing.

Before joining Boeing, Slater served 27 years in the U.S. Air Force managing information communications and command and control systems. He also had a number of assignments in flying units. During this time he developed and integrated Air Force communication and computer systems to support combat operations; implemented command, control, communications, computers (C4) systems and air traffic control projects; and developed an operational command and control airborne package.

Slater received his bachelor of science degree in Business Administration from Lowell Technological University and a master’s degree in Aeronautical Science from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.

Ken Yale
Vice President of Business Strategies
EduNeering, Inc.

Ken Yale is Vice President Business Strategies at EduNeering, Inc, an online training solutions company, and Principal of Health Solutions Network (HSN), a business consulting network. Yale has twenty years experience in health care operations, regulations, and technology, and has run several companies. He assists health companies to understand and adapt to the changing business and regulatory environment.

At EduNeering, Yale oversees operations and business development for the Healthcare division. With HSN, Yale advises corporations on business process and government programs, such as implementation of new Medicare disease management (e.g. Chronic Care Improvement Program). Prior to EduNeering, he was President and CEO of Advanced Health Solutions (AHS), where he was responsible for all aspects of internal operations, client services delivery, market development, and sales. He and a team of consultants created the first Provider Sponsored Organization, and set up the first Medicare Subvention demonstration, which became the TRICARE for Life Program - an entirely new healthcare delivery system. Previously, he was President of Jefferson Healthcare Compliance Solutions, a subsidiary of The Jefferson Group. He has numerous innovations to his credit, including the first implementation of DITSCAP and HIPAA information security regulations together in a health organization.

Before building the consulting business, Yale held leadership positions in the federal government. He was responsible for running the White House Office of Science and Technology as its Chief of Staff, while developing federal government policy and regulations dealing with leading edge technologies. As Special Assistant to the President and Executive Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council Dr. Yale worked with many government agencies and Congress to develop health and technology legislation and regulations. Prior to his White House duties Dr. Yale served as Legislative Counsel in the U.S. Senate. Before working in the U.S. Senate he was a commissioned officer in the United States Public Health Service and an instructor at Georgetown University. He received a dental doctorate from the University of Maryland, and a J.D. from Georgetown University. He is a frequent speaker, and author of numerous books and articles on health and technology.

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