HP Worldwide Health Symposium - Keynote Biographies

Morten Andresen holds a master of science degree in engineering. Mr. Andresen is the founder and entrepreneur behind CARDIAC AS. The company was founded in 1991 and is today a solid Norwegian company with 22 percent of the shares owned by Norsk Hydro, the largest company in Norway, also
listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NHY).

Dr. David J. Brailer was appointed the first National Health Information Technology Coordinator on
May 6, 2004. Dr. Brailer’s duties as National Coordinator are to execute the actions ordered by
President George W. Bush in the Executive Order that he issued on April 27, 2004, which called for
widespread deployment of health information technology within 10 years to help realize substantial improvements in safety and efficiency. Dr. Brailer is recognized as a leader in the strategy and financing of quality and efficiency in healthcare, with a particular emphasis on health information technology and health systems management.

Prior to his appointment, Dr. Brailer was a Senior Fellow at the Health Technology Center in San Francisco, California, a nonprofit research and education organization that provides strategic information and resources to healthcare organizations about the future impact of technology in healthcare delivery. At the center, he advised a variety of regional and national
data sharing projects.

Dr. Brailer also served for 10 years as Chairman and CEO of CareScience, Inc., a leading provider of care management services and Internet-based solutions that help reduce medical errors and improve physician and hospital-based performance. While at CareScience, Dr. Brailer led the company in developing groundbreaking inventions with major research institutions, establishing the nation’s first healthcare Application Service Provider (ASP) and creating a care management business process outsourcing partnership that allowed hospitals to outsource their care management functions on an
at-risk basis. Dr. Brailer also designed and oversaw the development of one of the first community-based health information exchanges in Santa Barbara County, California.

Dr. Brailer holds doctoral degrees in both medicine and economics. While in medical school, he was a Charles A. Dana Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and was the first recipient of the National Library of Medicine Martin Epstein Award for his work in expert systems. Dr. Brailer was among the first medical students to serve on the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association. He completed his medical residency at the Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania and became board-certified in internal medicine along the clinical investigator pathway. Dr. Brailer was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and, until recently, was active in patient care delivery with an emphasis on immune deficiency. He earned his M.D. degree at West Virginia University and his Ph.D. in managerial economics at The Wharton School.

Currently Luis Miguel Chong is the CIO and CTO of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (Direccion de Innovacion y Desarrollo Tecnologico).

Prior to his current role with IMSS, Luis Miguel Chong was the Coordinador General de Tecnologias de la Informacion, Secretaria de Hacienda y Credito Publico. He also held posts as the Vice President and Director, LOBs Government, Communication, Transportation and Distribution for Unisys Mexico; as Executive Vice President at Garmo; and Finance and Systems Director for Gemex (Pepsi bottling).

Luis Miguel Chong’s educational background includes a B.S. in Informatics from the Instituto Politecnico Nacional and an M.B.A from the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Direccion de Empresa. He also has completed graduate programs in “Delivering Information Systems”
at Harvard Business School and “Strategic Use of Information Technology” at GSB Stanford University.

Tony Dagnone is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario, Canada. Prior to the merger of University and Victoria Hospitals in London in 1995, he was the President and CEO of University Hospital, London, since 1992. Preceding University Hospital, Mr. Dagnone was

President and Chief Executive Officer at Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Mr. Dagnone obtained a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan and completed graduate studies at the University of Toronto, Ontario. He is a Fellow in both the American College of Healthcare Executives and Canadian College of Health Services Executives.

During his career Tony has served in a number of provincial leadership roles, including President,
Saskatchewan Association of Health Services Executives; Chairman, Minister’s Advisory Committee on Nursing Education in Saskatchewan; Regent of the American College of Healthcare Executives; President of the Ontario Council of Teaching Hospitals; Chair of the Ontario Hospital Association (2003–2004); and Chair of The Change Foundation.

Nationally, he has held several positions: Chairman of the Canadian Hospital Association National Convention; National Chairman of the Canadian College of Health Services Executives; Surveyor, Canadian Council on Health Facilities Accreditation; and board member, Canadian Healthcare Association.

Mr. Dagnone has served on a number of boards in Ontario and Canada, including the Royal University
Hospital Foundation; Life Imaging Systems, Inc.; John P. Robarts Research Institute; London Health
Sciences Centre; Children’s Health Foundation; Canadian Medical Hall of Fame; and Cancer
Care Ontario.

His community volunteer work includes President of City of Saskatoon Centennial Celebrations, Director of Saskatoon Gallery, Founding Board member of Saskatoon’s Ronald McDonald House, Chairman of Folkfest, Honorary Chairman of Terry Fox Run, President of 1989 Jeux Canada Games in Saskatoon, and Chairman of Canada Games Foundation. He served as Saskatchewan’s Coordinator for the Governor General’s 1992 Celebrations.

In London, Ontario, his community volunteer work has included The United Way Cabinet. Mr. Dagnone was Honorary Chair, 2001 Canada Games, and chaired the London Bid Committee for the Canadian Shriners Hospital for Children (2000–2005).

An Order of Canada was granted to Mr. Dagnone in 1991 for his work in the community and his leadership in healthcare. He regularly presides over the Citizenship Court in London, Ontario. In 2003, he was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal and, in 2005, the Canadian College of Health Service Executives Distinguished Service Award.

Dr. Desmond Fitzgerald is the Vice-President for Research and Professor of Molecular Medicine at University College Dublin, Ireland’s leading university. Fitzgerald is a medical graduate, having obtained his degree from UCD in 1977. He subsequently studied cardiology and clinical
pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, returning to Ireland in 1991. In 1994, he became Chairman of
Clinical Pharmacology in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, where he established the Institute of Biopharmaceutical Sciences. The IBS was a multidisciplinary group of researchers combining omics technology with clinical investigation. He established SurGen, a pharmacogenetics company as a joint exercise with Genset, a French genetics company. He also established JAVA Clinical Research, a clinical trials company that manages technology-intensive clinical investigation.

Fitzgerald’s research has focused on the causes of coronary thrombosis. He provided evidence of intermittent thrombosis in patients with unstable angina and showed that this limited the response to thrombolytic therapy, leading to its combination with antithrombotic drugs. He developed a program on pharmacogenetics and showed that variants in drug targets could explain the variance in drug response. More recently, he established a program of proteomics, with the goal of constructing
the platelet proteome and applying this to biomarker and drug target discovery.

Fitzgerald is currently Chairman of the Health Research Board, the leading health research funder in Ireland. He is on the Advisory Committee for Medical Products for the Irish Medicines Board. He sits on several company boards, including the Dublin Molecular Medicine Centre, a unique partnership between the three Dublin medical schools and their training hospitals, providing access to over one million patients for clinical investigation. In 2005, he was appointed to the American Association of
Physicians. One of his current projects is the integration of computational biology and health informatics

Dr. Richard J. Hillestad is a Management Sciences Analyst and Professor of Policy Analysis at the RAND Graduate School. Since joining RAND in 1973, he has directed research on a variety of major projects sponsored by the private sector, the U.S. Department of Defense, civilian agencies, and the government of the Netherlands. As a systems analyst, he has been involved in analyzing complex real-world environments, modeling them, and developing solutions. He is currently the principal investigator of a major RAND Health two-year project to estimate the cost and quality benefits of widespread adoption of healthcare information technology (e.g., electronic medical records) and to
suggest policies that will enhance the likelihood of realizing those benefits. Since the events of 9/11, he has led several terrorism security studies that culminated in policy recommendations to the U.S. Transportation Security Agency and the commercial sector.

Dr. Hillestad recently led a project to develop decision support systems for a major power utility to assist its transition to a deregulated power environment. He structured an analysis of the auctioning of geothermal assets in California. He has also led major systems analysis research projects for the Dutch government through RAND’s European American Center. One project analyzed policy options and developed a planning methodology for the Dutch Ministry of Transportation and Waterworks for multimodal freight transportation. A project he completed in 1993 performed a systems analysis focused on safety at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. This study, prompted by a major aviation
accident at the airport, led to important changes in the way safety is managed at Schiphol.

Dr. Hillestad has developed and applied major simulation models used by RAND for logistics
assessments, force employment analyses, and conventional arms control analyses. He developed
the model for dynamic multiechelon supply and repair systems called DynaMetric, which currently forms the basis for Air Force supply planning.

Dr. Hillestad has a Ph.D. from UCLA in operations research and applied mathematics. In addition to
RAND publications, he has published articles on basic mathematical programming theory in a number of scientific journals.

Alejandro (Alex) Jadad, M.D., D. Phil., FRCPC, has a mission to help improve health for all through information and communication technologies (ICTs).

Born and educated in Colombia, Dr. Jadad obtained his medical degree in 1986, specializing in anesthesiology. By the time he was 20 years old and still a medical student, he became a leading medical expert on cocaine in Colombia and an internationally sought-after speaker.
In 1990, he joined the University of Oxford (Balliol College and the Oxford Pain Unit), where he obtained a doctorate in pain management, becoming one of the first physicians in the world with a doctorate in knowledge synthesis and meta-analysis of clinical trials.

In 1995, he moved to Canada and joined McMaster University, where he was Chief of the Health Information Research Unit; Director of the McMaster Evidence-based Practice Centre; Co-Director of the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre; Associate Medical Director of the Program in Evidence-based Care for Cancer Care Ontario and Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

In 2000, Dr. Jadad moved to Toronto, where he created the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, a setting designed as a simulator of the future, to study and optimize the use of ICTs before their widespread introduction into the health system. He is also spearheading the creation of a minimodel of the world, a network of people, tools, and settings working together to assess the impact of ICTs in health and healthcare globally. He is developing virtual clinical tools to transform the encounter between patients and health professionals, interactive tools to promote knowledge translation and education of health professionals and the public, and a platform to respond to major public health crises (e.g., pandemics) and to enable young people to shape the health system.

Dr. Jadad has received numerous awards, including a National Health Research Scholars Award from Health Canada (1997), one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 awards (1998), a Premier’s Research Excellence Award (1999), and the New Pioneers Award in Science and Technology (2002). In 2001 and 2002, he was featured in Time magazine as one of the new Canadians who will shape the country in the 21st century and as one of the leading medical researchers in the country. In 2004, he received the Canadian Latin Achievement Award as one of the people who have made important contributions to the relationship between Canada and the Hispanic world. In 2005, he was selected by his fellow Top 40 Under 40 award recipients as one of “The Best of the Best” for achievements in Health and Science and by his peers in Colombia as the scientist who probably has had the greatest impact in the country’s history.

Baldur Johnsen has over 20 years of Information Technology experience including systems development, network implementation, IT operations, and computer systems marketing and sales. During the last 10 years he has managed IT hospital operations, first as head of IT for Reykjavik Hospital in Iceland and later became Director of IT for Landspitali–University Hospital after the two hospitals merged. He has been on the Icelandic Healthcare Data Network project board since its
conception in 2000.

Baldur has recently stepped down as Director of IT for Landspitali to pursue consulting opportunities in the International Healthcare IT domain and is currently on assignment with Hewlett-Packard International.

Baldur Johnsen holds a B.S. degree in computer science and a master’s degree in business administration, both from the University of Iceland. He is a frequent speaker on the strategic application of Information Technology in Healthcare, having recently presented at HIMSS 2005
and the 2004 CHIME Fall Forum.

Erik Johnson is the Managing Director for the True North program, the Advisory Board Company’s service for Chief Information Officers. True North seeks to facilitate effective decision-making and accelerate the implementation and efficacy of new information technologies across hospitals and health systems. As Managing Director, Mr. Johnson oversaw the initial launch of the program and is responsible for the design, direction, and delivery of services that prove most useful to health system executive teams.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Johnson was Vice President, Global Technical Account Management
Services, at MicroStrategy, a business intelligence software company in McLean, Virginia, where he
directed a complete redesign of the way MicroStrategy delivered consulting and implementation services to clients around the world. He began his career as a budget analyst in the Executive Office of the President, with responsibility for the Medicare Part A program and providing analytical support for the Health Care Reform Task Force in 1993–1994.

Mr. Johnson holds an M.B.A from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a B.A. with honors and distinction from Stanford University

Dr. Kenneth W. Kizer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Quality Forum (NQF),
a Washington, D.C.–based private, nonprofit, voluntary consensus standards–setting organization whose mission is to improve American healthcare through endorsement of consensus-based national standards for measurement and public reporting of healthcare performance data that provide meaningful information about whether care is safe, timely, patient-centered, beneficial, equitable, and efficient. Established in 1999, pursuant to a presidential commission, the NQF is a unique public-private partnership having broad participation from all parts of the healthcare industry.

Dr. Kizer also currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Medsphere Systems Corporation, a healthcare information technology company based is Aliso Viejo, California; as a Director of Trinity Health of Novi, Michigan; as a member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force; and as a consultant or advisor to various other entities. Dr. Kizer’s previous professional experience includes a variety of positions in both the public and private sectors. Prior to taking his current
position, he served for five years as the Undersecretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In this capacity, he was the highest ranking physician in the federal government and the CEO of the veterans’ healthcare system, the largest integrated healthcare system in the nation with a budget of over $20 billion, approximately 200,000 staff, and over 1,100 sites of care delivery. Dr. Kizer is widely credited as being the chief architect and driving force behind the greatest transformation of VA healthcare since the system was created in 1946.

Among his state government positions, Dr. Kizer was Director of the California Department of Health Services and California’s top health official for over six years, setting a record for both achievement and longevity. Prior to that, he was Chief of Public Health for California and, before that, Director of California’s Emergency Medical Services Authority.


Dr. Kizer has served on the corporate boards of two managed care companies, and he was the Chairman of the Board of The California Wellness Foundation, a healthcare conversion foundation having assets of over $1 billion. He has held senior academic positions at the University of California, Davis; the University of Southern California; and the Uniformed Services University of the
Health Sciences. He was in both private and academic practice of emergency medicine for over fifteen years and was a private consultant in medical toxicology for much of that time. He has been a visiting consultant to several foreign countries and routinely provides advice on healthcare matters to a number of other countries.

Kizer is an honors graduate of Stanford University and UCLA. He is board-certified in six medical specialties and/or subspecialties and has authored over 400 original articles, book chapters, and other reports in the medical literature. He is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society, the Delta Omega National Honorary Public Health Society, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.Dr. Kizer is a Certified Health Care Executive
and a Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Physician Executives as well as a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the American College of Medical Toxicology, the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology, the American Academy of Medical Administrators, the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, and the Royal Society of Medicine. He is also a Fellow National of the International Explorer’s Club, a founding member of the International Wilderness Medical Society, a former U.S. Navy diver, and a nationally recognized expert on diving and
aquatic sports medicine as well as other outdoor sports and wilderness medicine..

Dr. Raju Kucherlapati came to the U.S. in 1967 after completing undergraduate and graduate degrees
in India. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana and did his postdoctoral work in the lab of Frank Ruddle at Yale University. After working at both Princeton and the University of Illinois, in 1989 he became Professor and Chairman of the Department of Molecular Genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a position he held for eleven
years. In 2001, Dr. Kucherlapati became Professor of Medicine and the Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and the first scientific director of the Harvard–Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics. He was a member of the National Advisory Council for the National Human Genomics Research Institute, is on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine, and was editor-in-chief of the journal Genomics. He currently serves on the boards
of Millennium and Abgenix and was a founder of Cell Genesys.

The Kucherlapati laboratory has four major areas of interest. These include mammalian genetics, where his laboratory participated in the mapping and sequencing of the mouse and human genomes; the etiology of velo-cardio-facial syndrome; generation of mouse models
for human cancer; and the etiology of Noonan Syndrome.

St. Joseph’s Health Care President and Chief Executive Officer Cliff Nordal earned a master’s degree in business administration at York University and a bachelor of science degree in physics at the University of North Dakota. A past Chair and Fellow of the Canadian College of Health Service Executives, Cliff is also active in a number of provincial and national associations. He currently serves on the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care–Ontario Hospital Association Hospital Report Strategic Advisory Committee and on the Boards of the Lawson Health Research Institute and the New St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation. Cliff is also a member of the boards of the Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario and the Catholic Health Association of Ontario.