APPENDIX C

EDITOR BIOGRAPHIES

James E. Tcheng, MD, FACC, FSCAI, is a Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, and Professor of Community and Family Medicine (Informatics), Department of Community and Family Medicine of the Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Tcheng received his MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD) and completed his residency in medicine at Barnes Hospital/Washington University (St. Louis, MO). He completed fellowship training in cardiology at Duke University and joined the faculty of Duke in 1988. Dr. Tcheng is a practicing interventional cardiologist and faculty of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) and the Duke Center for Health Informatics (DCHI). He serves as Director of the Duke Cardiovascular Databank and Director of Performance Improvement for the Duke Heart Center. He previously was the Medical Knowledge Architect responsible for the implementation of clinical decision support across the Duke Health System. He is currently faculty of the Medical Device Epidemiology Network (MDEpiNet) Coordinating Center of the DCRI. In addition, he is Chair of the Informatics and Health IT Task Force of the American College of Cardiology, is a member of the ACC National Cardiovascular Data Registry Management Board, and the ACC/AHA Task Force on Clinical Data Standards. He is an accomplished educator and is the 2015 recipient of the Duke Master Clinician/Teacher award. Dr. Tcheng has led a number of informatics initiatives spanning professional societies, regulatory and other government agencies, industry, and non-governmental organizations to develop clinical data standards and interoperability solutions, and to integrate structured reporting into clinical workflows. His current work focuses on harmonizing the clinical definitions and informatics of cardiovascular clinical data elements across academia, regulatory agencies, the life sciences industry, professional societies, and standards organizations, to improve the capture, communication, interoperability, and analysis of health care information.

Suzanne Bakken, RN, PhD, FAAN, FACMI, is the Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. She directs the Precision in Symptom Self-Management (PriSSM) Center and the Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics (RHeaDI) pre- and postdoctoral training program and also leads a federally funded program of informatics research focused on advancing health equity for Latinos. In 2015-2016, she served as the AAN/ANA/ANF Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence at the National Academy of Medicine where she focused on the intersection of data science and health equity. Dr. Bakken is an elected fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Nursing, and American College of Medical Informatics, and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

David Bates, MD, MSc, is an internationally known expert in medication safety, patient safety, evaluation, and clinical informatics, and has also done extensive work on improving efficiency, quality, and on assessing HIT adoption and issues around interoperability. He has done some of the leading work demonstrating the effects of implementation of CPOE on medication safety. He also has published on the effects of sleep on errors and adverse events. He is a primary care provider and is Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He served as external lead for patient safety research for WHO and has served as PI of many proposals from AHRQ on using HIT to improve safety and quality.

Hugh Bonner, MD, is a graduate of Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed his Family Medicine Residency at Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Delaware. Dr. Bonner was in private practice for many years and during that time, served as a preceptor, regularly teaching residents. In 2006, he joined the faculty at Saint Francis Healthcare. Dr. Bonner has a special interest in evidence-based medicine and geriatrics. In addition to a busy clinical practice, he oversees the nursing home experience for second- and third-year residents, supervises residents conducting home visits, and teaches on the inpatient service. Dr. Bonner is a past president of the Delaware Academy of Family Physicians. He continues to serve on the Board of the DAFP as an alternate delegate from Delaware to the American Academy of Family Physicians Congress of Delegates. Dr. Bonner serves as the Director of Medical Grand Rounds at Saint Francis Healthcare.

Tejal Gandhi, MD, MPH, CPPS, is Chief Clinical and Safety Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), where she leads IHI programs

focusing on improving patient and workforce safety. Dr. Gandhi was President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) from 2013 until 2017, when the Foundation merged with IHI. She continues to serve as President of the Lucian Leape Institute, a think tank founded by NPSF that now operates under the IHI patient safety focus area. She is President of the Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety. Dr. Gandhi was formerly the Executive Director of Quality and Safety at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Chief Quality and Safety Officer at Partners Healthcare. In these roles, she led the efforts to standardize and implement patient safety best practices across hospital and health systems. Throughout her career, Dr. Gandhi has been committed to educating other clinicians on the topic of patient safety. She has been an invited speaker for numerous organizations, has mentored physicians in post-doctoral study, and has frequently served on national and regional committees and boards. She was included in Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare in 2014, 2015, and 2016 and was also one of their 2015 Top 25 Women in Healthcare. She is also a member of the Aurora Health Care Board of Directors. Dr. Gandhi’s research interests focus on patient safety and reducing error using information systems. In 2009, she received the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for her contributions to understanding the epidemiology and possible prevention strategies for medical errors in the outpatient setting. Dr. Gandhi is a board certified internist and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and is a Certified Professional in Patient Safety. She received her MD and MPH from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, and trained at Duke University Medical Center. Her undergraduate training at Cornell University was in biochemistry.

Meredith Josephs, MD, MPH, FAAFP, is a clinical informatician with expertise using health information technology to support clinicians and maximize the quality of patient care. Dr. Josephs is Senior Medical Director and Senior Director, Clinical IT & Training at Privia Health. Dr. Josephs is working to optimize the implementation and use of electronic health records, clinical decision support, and telehealth for Privia practices. Dr. Josephs is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Franklin Square Family Medicine Residency Program. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and is board certified in both Family Medicine and Clinical Informatics. Dr. Josephs received her Master’s in Public Health from the George Washington University and a Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Informatics from the Oregon Health & Science University.

Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD, MHS, is Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Director of Knowledge Management and Mobilization, and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah. Dr. Kawamoto earned his BA in biochemical sciences from Harvard University, and he earned his MD, PhD in biomedical engineering with a focus on biomedical informatics and MHS in clinical research from Duke University. At the University of Utah, Dr. Kawamoto chairs the Clinical Decision Support committee and is a leader of the University’s Interoperable Apps and Services (IAPPS) initiative, which is a multistakeholder effort to enable standards-based, interoperable applications and software services to improve health and health care. Dr. Kawamoto is also engaged in the development and leveraging of predictive models to address important health care needs, and he is a Co-Solution Architect of the Value Driven Outcomes (VDO) framework for analyzing and improving care value. Beyond the University of Utah, Dr. Kawamoto co-chairs the Clinical Decision Support Work Group of Health Level 7 International (HL7), the primary standards development organization in health IT. He also served as Co-Initiative Coordinator for the Clinical Quality Framework initiative (http://www.cqframework.info), which was a public-private partnership sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to develop and validate a harmonized set of interoperability standards for clinical decision support and electronic clinical quality measurement. Dr. Kawamoto also founded and directs OpenCDS (www.opencds.org), which is a multi-institutional initiative to enable advanced, standards-based, and open-source clinical decision support and electronic clinical quality measurement at scale. Dr. Kawamoto is a member of the U.S. Health IT Advisory Committee, which provides guidance to the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on policies, standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria related to health information technology.

Edwin Lomotan, MD, FAAP, serves as Medical Officer and Chief of Clinical Informatics for the Health IT Division in the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). His areas of focus include clinical decision support, child health informatics, and health IT safety. He currently leads AHRQ’s CDS initiative, which aims to accelerate evidence into practice through CDS and to make CDS more shareable, standards-based, and publicly available. Before joining AHRQ, Dr. Lomotan was Health IT Branch Chief in the Office of Quality and Data in the Bureau of Primary Health Care at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). While at HRSA, he led the Health Center-Controlled Network grant program, which was aimed at improving health care quality through health IT

at community health centers across the country. Dr. Lomotan is board-certified in pediatrics and clinical informatics. He received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his pediatrics residency and informatics fellowship at Yale University. He also spent several years in community pediatric practice in Connecticut before joining federal service in 2010.

Erin A. Mackay, MPH, is the Associate Director of Health Information Technology Policy and Programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families. Ms. Mackay manages the Consumer Partnership for eHealth, a coalition of consumer and patient advocacy organizations working to advance health IT in ways that meet the needs of individuals and their families. Ms. Mackay also directs the GetMyHealthData initiative, a national effort which helps patients gain access to their health information in electronic formats, offers educational resources to patients and providers, and advocates for advancements in policy and practice. In these roles, Ms. Mackay advocates for health IT policies and practices that enhance patient access and use of health data, facilitate care coordination and communication, address health disparities, and improve health outcomes.

Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc, FACP, FACMI, FHIMSS, is Chief Informatics and Innovation Officer at Apervita, Inc., and Past-Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), and the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS). He is also Instructor in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the Departments of Health Policy and Management, and Policy Translation and Leadership Development. Previously, he was a Professor of Biomedical Informatics and/or of Medicine at Stanford, Harvard, and Vanderbilt Universities, and he held executive leadership roles at MedicaLogic/Medscape, Partners Healthcare System, and at Vanderbilt. Dr. Middleton’s work is focused on clinical informatics – the applied science surrounding strategy, design, implementation, and evaluation of clinical information systems in complex environments. Currently, he is Co-Chair of the AHRQ-funded PCOR Clinical Decision Support Learning Network. From 2013-2014, he was Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, and Chief Informatics Officer (CIO), at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and responsible for information technology supporting clinical informatics, educational informatics, research informatics, and financial systems. Prior to joining Vanderbilt, he was Corporate Director of Clinical Informatics Research & Development (CIRD) at Partners Healthcare System, Boston, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. His work at Partners HealthCare focused on building an advanced

informatics infrastructure to support translational research, and the development and implementation of knowledge-based tools for cloud-based clinical decision support, knowledge engineering, population management, and comparative effectiveness research. While at Partners he also was Co-Founder of the Center for Information Technology Leadership (CITL) and led its research in value-based technology assessment until 2010. He serves on the CAHIIM (Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education) Health Informatics Accreditation Council (HIAC), and the HL7 Advisory Council. He also serves on several Editorial Boards. He served as a member of the National Quality Forum Health IT Advisory Council (HITAC) from 2010-2012, and served on the NQF Measure Variation Expert Panel as Co-Chair.

Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, has been deeply involved with clinical decision support (CDS) and EHR design for over twenty years in a variety of academic, industry, government, and provider settings. He is a practicing Emergency Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Harvard, and Clinical Design Leader for Health Information Systems in Developing Countries with the OpenMRS Community. Dr. Teich founded the Clinical Informatics R&D department at Partners Healthcare, developing two generations of innovative electronic health records, CPOE, and CDS systems. He helped found HEALTHvision, a startup that developed some of the first Internet-based health information exchanges, and served as Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Elsevier, where he helped lead the vision, strategy, and design for knowledge-based tools and CDS directly supporting clinical practice and healthcare delivery. Dr. Teich has authored over 100 papers, books, and editorials in medical informatics and health care information systems. He is a co-author of the book Improving Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: An Implementer’s Guide. He co-chaired the HHS-sponsored Roadmap for National Action on Clinical Decision Support, and from 2009-2012 he served as a subject-matter expert on CDS for the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). Dr. Teich serves on a variety of industry and government councils on CDS, knowledge delivery, patient safety, and quality. He has served on the board of directors of AMIA, HIMSS, and the eHealth Initiative.

Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, is Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Cedars-Sinai. He is a Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Health System. Board certified in internal medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Weingarten has published approximately 100 articles and editorials on health care quality improvement, clinical decision

support, and related topics, and has authored numerous chapters on improving the quality of patient care in some of the leading internal medicine textbooks. He has given more than 300 presentations on clinical decision support and related topics throughout the United States and internationally. Dr. Weingarten has held positions on myriad national committees dedicated to improving patient outcomes, including those of the Institute for Medical Quality, the American Heart Association’s “Get With The Guidelines” program, and the quality improvement committee of the board of directors of St. Joseph’s Health System. He is currently a Board Director for the Scottsdale Institute. At Cedars-Sinai, he has been awarded both the President’s Award and the Golden Apple Teaching Award, and was Alumnus of the Year for 2009. Dr. Weingarten was the Co-Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Zynx Health, which is the leader for order sets and care plans for electronic health records. Dr. Weingarten sold Zynx Health to the Cerner Corporation and later to the Hearst Corporation. He is a Co-Inventor of three software patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Scott is also Chairman of the Board of Stanson Health. After graduating from UCLA’s medical school, Dr. Weingarten completed his internship, residency, and fellowship in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai. He later participated in a National Center for Health Services Research Fellowship at the RAND/UCLA Center for Health Policy Study. During the fellowship, he also earned an MPH at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Marianne Hamilton Lopez, PhD, MPA, is Research Director of the Value-Based Payment Reform portfolio at Duke-Margolis. In this role, she manages the center’s activities aimed at identifying barriers and facilitating implementation of new value-based payment models for pharmaceuticals, including gene therapies and medical devices. She oversees the Developing a Path to Value-Based Reimbursement for Medical Products Consortium and partners with Duke University faculty, scholars, and external health experts to advance this work. Prior to joining Duke-Margolis, Dr. Hamilton Lopez was a Senior Program Officer with the National Academy of Medicine’s Leadership Consortium for a Value & Science-Driven Health System and provided strategic direction and oversight of the Consortium’s Science and Technology portfolio and Clinical Effectiveness Research Innovation and Digital Learning Collaboratives. She was a Senior Manager at AcademyHealth; a Public Health Community Advisor for the United States Cochrane Center; and the Federal Women’s Program Manager and American Indian/Alaska Native Employment Program Manager for the National Institutes of Health.

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