CHIMSS is managed by a volunteer Board of Directors, which is elected each year by CHIMSS Members. The 2009-2010 Board is listed below.
Any CHIMSS Member may attend the CHIMSS Board of Directors meetings, which are held several times during each year. Contact the President or any other Board member to determine the time and location for upcoming Board meetings. Anyone can send an email to a board member by clicking on the email address listed under the Board Title.
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Meet your 2009 - 2010 CHIMSS Board of Directors!!!
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Joe Bajek, CPHIMS, President
Joe Bajek has held the above position since 1999. Prior to that, he was the Manager of Data Networks for the U.S. Surgical Corporation (now part of the Tyco Healthcare Group) and a Lead Senior Network Engineer with G.E. Capital. Joe holds a B.S. in Computer Science/Mathematics from the State University of New York Maritime College. He is a graduate of the G.E. Information Systems Management Program, a licensed Third Officer in the United States Merchant Marines and an honorably discharged Lieutenant from the United States Naval Reserve. He currently serves on the Board for the Colorado chapter of the Health Information Management Systems Society and is the Healthcare Sector Chief in the Denver chapter of InfraGard.
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Tamara Havenhill-Jacobs - President Elect
Tamara Havenhill-Jacobs is the Director of Patient Care Systems for Exempla Healthcare. Tamara is responsible for Clinical Development and Support of Exempla’s many applications, including the Clinical Information Systems in production and Clinical Ancillary Applications. She has a focus on new and emerging areas within healthcare IT and maintains involvement in regional and national initiatives with a focus on improving care for all patients. Tamara has over 15 years of healthcare experience which includes ambulatory nursing, extensive imaging background and over 10 years of focused healthcare informatics work. |
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Jeff Pelot, Past President
Jeff Pelot is the Chief Technology Officer for Denver Health Hospital and Medical Center, Denver’s community hospital. Denver Health has been recognized as a leader in healthcare technology implementations. Jeff provides the leadership, vision, and direction for the use of technology at Denver Health to ensure support of the company's business objectives. He has over 25 years of managerial experience including extensive program management experience in the areas of technology and systems deployment, implementation of business processes and process improvement for technical infrastructure systems. Jeff possesses a Masters degree from the Regis University in Computing Systems Management.
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Tim MacArthur, Treasurer
Tim MacArthur has over twenty-five years of management and consulting experience in the financial services industry, having started in commercial banking with Colorado National Bank in 1980. During his banking career, he managed all aspects of payment systems including treasury management operations, check processing, self service delivery, collections, bookkeeping and statement rendering. In1999, Tim founded MCS International, a payment systems consulting practice, specializing in strategic planning, consolidation trouble shooting, payment systems development and staff augmentation. In 2005, he started FlexiCash, a prepaid card company, providing payroll card services to businesses and to the general un-banked market. In 2006, Tim founded Expedited Payment Systems (XPS), a web based universal payments exchange service for the healthcare industry.
Tim McArthur can be contacted at treasurer@chimss.org
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Laura Cronin - Treasurer Elect
Laura Cronin is an Account Executive with Global Technology Resources, Inc (GTRI). GTRI was founded in 1998, and has quickly become one of the leading high-end solutions providers and technology consulting firms in the U.S. GTRI’s end-to-end consulting solutions address client needs in IT Strategy and Planning, Infrastructure, Convergence, Cyber-Security, Data Storage & Transport, Network Architecture, Systems Management, and Project Management. Our integrated IT solutions help businesses develop their technical architectures, organizations, and core business processes for competitiveness, profitability, and growth. Laura has been with GTRI for 3 years as part of the Healthcare Team working with such customers as Denver Health, Children’s Hospital, Exempla and Boulder Community Hospital. She has been a member of CHIMSS and HIMSS for two years.
Laura Cronin can be contacted at treasurer-elect@chimss.org |
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Gregg Veltri, Sponsorship Chair
Mr. Veltri brings over 25 years of Information Technology leadership and development experience. Mr. Veltri received the Colorado CIO of the Year award in recognition of his leadership in integrating technology solutions in healthcare. Gregg is the past president of the Colorado chapter of HIMSS and is a member of the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME). Prior to Denver Health, Mr. Veltri worked in the banking industry for 17 years where he helped support the paper to electronic revolution of the banking business.
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Sherri Hess, Programs Chair
Sherri Hess is the Nursing Informatics Manager at Longmont United Hospital. She is responsible for leading multiple teams through all phases of the EHR development from implementation to post go-live and leads optimization of current clinical systems. Mrs. Hess’s has been a Registered Nurse for over 20 years and has been in Healthcare IT for 10 years. Sherri holds a Masters of Information Systems from University of Colorado-Denver and a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from Regis University.
Sherri Hess can be contacted at programs@chimss.org |
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Michelle Tschudy - Program Chair - Elect
Michelle Tschudy has a background in Information Technology and Healthcare. Michelle’s experience includes successful rollout of products, services and processes. Most recently at Sun Microsystems she was a Project Manager responsible for gathering requirements from Fortune 500 Healthcare customers for a digital archive product. The product was focused in the Healthcare industry and was able to store and retrieve digital images such as Xrays and medical records in a storage system. Michelle has also provided years of non-clinical patient care services at Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center. She also has special Healthcare related competencies including HIPAA security and privacy training. Michelle has a 20 year proven record in Information Technology, business and held positions with direct responsibility in account management, sales, business development, marketing, partnership management and services. Additionally, she has an MBA and certifications in project management (PMP) and Lean Six Sigma (LSS). |
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Sarah Sample Reif - Membership Chair
Sarah Sample-Reif brings 15 years of healthcare industry experience in the payer, provider and IT sectors. Most recently, she was responsible for the successful launch of the Healthcare Vertical for Kforce Colorado. Sarah’s passion for healthcare, technology, and people creates a natural to working simultaneously with consultants and clients. In addition, she is an active in community service for CHIMSS, CHSM, CMCC, and First Hand Foundation among others.
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Gerry Furlong, Communications Chair
Gerry Furlong currently holds the position of Director of Clinical Informatics at Centura Health. In this position she leads a 12 member team for clinical informatics to ensure that systems enhance workflow for the endusers. Her prior experience includes healthcare informatics management for the electronic medical record at Memorial Health System. She has been a nurse for 27 years with 5 years in healthcare IT. Gerry has been an active member HIMSS – Colorado Chapter since shifting her career focus from nursing to healthcare information systems. She has held the CPHQ certification in healthcare quality and in 2005 earned a Master's degree in Nursing Informatics from the University of Colorado – Denver Health Sciences.
Gerry Furlong can be contacted at info@chimss.org |
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Carolyn Weinig, Advocacy Chair
Carolyn Weinig joined the Innovative Consulting Group Business Development team in January, 2007 as a Director. She has spent the past 4 years focusing on the healthcare industry, including her last position as VP of Client Services for CONNECT. She has been an active member of HIMSS and CHIMSS during those years. Carolyn has over 25 years of business development experience, having worked for IBM for 17 years and smaller software and consulting firms between her IBM years and ICG.
Carolyn Weinig can be contacted at advocacy@chimss.org
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Barbara Drury, Education Chair
Barbara Drury has been the President of Pricare, Inc., a Colorado corporation since 1982. Pricare determines the scope of referral-based consulting services to physicians, malpractice carriers, TPAs, hospitals, and other health care related entities regarding the use of computers in healthcare. Barbara coordinates related service providers as needed by clients. Additionally, she teaches health care workers about automated workflow, electronic medical records, e-prescribing, risk in design or unintended use of computers and HIPAA. She also develops and prepares analysis and presentations of health care data to researchers and managers of health care entities. Barbara hold the status of Fellow as a HIMSS member.
Barbara Drury can be contacted at education@chimss.org |
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David Franzblau, Academic Liaison
David Franzblau is an active HIMSS and CHIMSS member who currently serves the chapter as Academic Liaison, responsible for increasing CHIMSS participation from the academic community of students, faculty, and schools involved in healthcare IT education. In prior years, David has volunteered as a member of the CHIMSS Program Committee. With HIMSS national,, David has volunteered as an Annual Conference presentation evaluator, speaker coach, and session moderator for three conferences and served on the national HIMSS Task Force for Emergency Responder Health IT. David has been a consultant and manager for Colorado healthcare providers including Centura Health, Exempla, and The Children’s Hospital. He is currently employed as a Senior Consultant by Beacon Partners, a healthcare IT consulting firm, where he specializes in Epic implementations and system selections.
David Franzblau can be contacted at academic@chimss.org
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Donna Dulong, Nursing Informatics Chair
Donna Dulong is the Executive Program Director of the TIGER Initiative, a program that is working to integrate enabling technologies transparently into nursing practice and education, making information technology the stethoscope for the 21st. Donna is responsible for the strategic plan and accountable for the delivery of the program outcomes, including outreach, communication, and follow up with all participating organizations, affiliates, sponsors, and advisors. Donna has over 18 years of experience in the healthcare information technology field. She has held positions with direct responsibility for business development, new markets, product development, product management, marketing, compliance, quality assurance, implementation and customer service with numerous healthcare information technology companies including Thomson Healthcare, Medvantx, Bridge Medical and Multum Information Services (now Cerner), Pyxis Corporation (now Cardinal Healthcare) and HBOC (now McKesson). Donna holds a bachelors degree in nursing from Michigan State University, graduate work at University of San Diego, and has several years of critical care nursing experience.
Donna Dulong can be reached at nursinginformatics@chimss.org |
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Jean McKoy, RN - Nursing Informatics - Elect
Jean McKoy has been a Registered Nurse for over twenty years and has both clinical and healthcare IT experience. She currently works as a Clinical Project Manager for HealthONE/HCA. Jean has a special interest in human factors engineering as it applies to electronic nursing documentation, as well as integrating evidence-based nursing into point-of-care practice. |
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Todd Panella, Secretary
Todd Panella is the IT Manager for Desktop Services and The Network of Care for The Children’s Hospital in Denver, CO. Todd has held this position since 2007, prior to that he was a Senior Network Engineer with the hospital who helped to architect, engineer and deliver a world class converged voice and data network for the new hospital location on the Anshutz Medical Campus. Todd holds a B.S. in Business Administration in Finance & International Business and a M.S. in Computer Information Systems. |
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Carrie Book - RHIO Liaison
Carrie Book is the Chief Technology Officer for CORHIO, the state designated organization for enabling interoperable healthcare systems for Colorado. Over the last ten years, she has coordinated technology solutions in positions with increasing responsibility for project management, vendor selection, contract negotiation and strategic planning in healthcare IT. Most recently, she led the technical implementation of CORHIO’s Point of Care services, implementing a federated architecture with standard healthcare messaging among four large organizations, each with a different enterprise electronic medical record system. Carrie participates in the Colorado Telehealth Network IT Council. She holds the PMP certification and a B.B.A. in Business Management with a concentration in Computer Information Systems. |
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Frank Bondilillo, Board Member at Large
Frank Biondolillo is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Centura Health. Frank and his teams support 12 hospitals, 7 senior living, and long-term care communities, or a total of over 60 healthcare facilities in Colorado. With 27 years in Healthcare Information Technology, Frank and his team have built a single data center facility in Denver and mirrored the data center at a site in Colorado Springs. Frank applies his extensive experience and vision in leveraging technology across all clinical and non-clinical aspects of patient care. He and his teams are infrastructure focused and responsible for two data centers, data and voice networks, servers, database administration, interfaces, digital imaging, storage networks, the low-voltage infrastructure in new construction, web-based software development and desktop software deployment. His partnership with the Chief Information Officer creates a merger between business and technology. Frank is in the final stage of obtaining a masters degree in IT Management and is PMP certified. |
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Judy McCarthy, Board Member at Large
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Dr. Jonathan Gold, Board Member at Large
Dr. Gold is a board-certified pediatrician with 15 years hospital and ambulatory care experience. He serves as a physician development analyst at QuadraMed Corporation, contributing subject matter expertise and assisting in medical application development, adding decision support and content to QuadraMed’s electronic patient record and computerized physician order entry application, and meeting CCHIT requirements.
In 2006, Dr. Gold completed a National Library of Medicine post-doctoral fellowship in Health Sciences Informatics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. At Hopkins, he received both an MSc in Health Sciences Informatics and a Post-Master’s Certificate in Information Technology and Telecommunications.
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