Theme: Innovations in Healthcare

This event will highlight the importance of interdsciplinary approach to innovation, problem solving and execution of ideas.

Texas Health Resources - Dallas
Fogelson Auditorium
8200 Walnut Hill Lane
Dallas, Texas, 75231
United States

Dr. Cameron Powell

Dr. Powell, an obstetrician by training, stopped practicing in 2008 to devote himself full-time to AirStrip Technologies. His real-world medical experience is a key factor in the development of AirStrip’s mobility platform. The development of his company is a classic business success story. With a vision of building a system that oers meaningfully mobile monitoring capabilities for use throughout the healthcare system, Dr. Powell connected with his future partner, Trey Moore, through their local church in San Antonio, Texas. A few short years after this initial brainstorm, they built the platform that has become AirStrip Technologies.

Dr. Ben Levine

BENJAMIN D. LEVINE M.D., is Professor of Internal Medicine/Cardiology and Distinguished Professor of Exercise Sciences at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He directs the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine (IEEM) at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas where he also holds the S. Finley Ewing Chair for Wellness and the Harry S. Moss Heart Chair for Cardiovascular Research. Dr. Levine earned his B.A. magna cum laude in human biology from Brown University and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Stanford University Medical Center followed by a Henry Luce Foundation Scholarship where he studied high altitude physiology in Japan. He came to Dallas in 1987 where he completed a cardiology fellowship at UT Southwestern. Dr. Levine founded the IEEM in 1992 which has become one of the premier laboratories in the world for the study of human integrative physiology. His global research interests center on the adaptive capacity of the circulation in response to exercise training, deconditioning, aging, and environmental stimuli such as spaceflight and high altitude. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and is on the Board of Trustees/Board of Directors of the ACSM (for which he is currently Vice President), the American Autonomic Society, and the International Hypoxia Symposium. A Fulbright Scholar (in Copenhagen, Denmark), he received the Peter van Handel Award from the United States Olympic Committee (for outstanding research), the Research Award from the Wilderness Medical Society, the Honor Award from the Texas Chapter of ACSM, and the Citation Award from the National ACSM. A consummate clinician and teacher as well as a scholar, he was elected to the Association of University Cardiologists, received the Michael J Joyner International Teaching Award from the Danish Cardiovascular Research Academy, and has been selected as one of the “Best Doctors” for cardiovascular medicine in Dallas and America by his peers. Dr. Levine has an extensive background in space medicine, serving as a co-investigator on 4 Spacelab missions (SLS-1, SLS-2, D-2 and Neurolab), the MIR space station, and is currently the PI of a large cardiovascular experiment on the ISS, called the “ICV”. He has completed multiple bed-rest studies with a long, sustained track record of funding by NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI), for which he became Team Leader of the Cardiovascular Section in 2007. He has had multiple other leadership roles for NASA and NSBRI including serving on the first Board of Scientific Counselors for NSBRI, Directing the Cardiovascular Unit of the UT Southwestern NASA SCORT in Integrative Physiology, advising NASA’s flight surgeons on cardiovascular medical issues. He also has an long track record of funding by the National Institutes of Health where he has worked to translate space and Olympic science to optimizing performance of our aging populatoin.

Dr. Dr. Jivish Sharma

Dr Sharma is a Medical Oncologist and Executive with leadership experience in clinical medicine, clinical operations and health care Informatics. He has experience leading large private practice organizations as well as serving as CEO of health care IT companies. He has overseen the deployment of comprehensive IT transformations of many outpatient clinics and hospital clinics to a paperless environment. Dr Sharma worked as part of the alpha team for the first electronic medical record in oncology. He has written industry reports for the Financial Times of London and has spoken at the Ronald Reagan Center as a guest of the Wall Street Journal. He is active in writing, speaking and serving on industry panels nationally on Next Generation Cancer Care. Dr Sharma has been a member of the clinical faculty, practicing at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas since 1993. He is actively involved in teaching and has received multiple teaching awards. Dr Sharma is actively involved in medical informatics research projects and has an interest in developing artificial intelligence tools and systems to accelerate the advent of next generation cancer care. Dr. Sharma is an innovator and an acute businessman who cares deeply about transforming cancer care and improving the lives of cancer patients.

Dr. Kaveh Safavi

Kaveh Safavi is vice president and global lead for the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group Healthcare Practice. IBSG is the global strategic consulting arm of Cisco. The Healthcare Practice helps leaders in the healthcare and life sciences industries transform the way that their organizations design and deliver health and care to customers. A seasoned healthcare executive, prior to Cisco, Safavi was chief medical officer for the healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, where he established the Center for Healthcare Improvement to create a thought leadership presence. Safavi participates in more than 50 public speaking engagements annually. He has published numerous papers and articles, and has become a popular source for the healthcare media. He is quoted frequently in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Economist. Safavi’s leadership experience spans the healthcare sector—from physician offices and hospitals, to insurers, to the boards of biotech companies. In the early 1990s, Safavi was president and medical director of HealthSpring Medical Group of Illinois. There, he developed a Physician Practice Management business, which was one of the first organizations in the Midwest to run on a fully automated electronic medical record system. Safavi has the unique distinction of possessing both medical and law degrees, from Loyola University and DePaul University, respectively. He is board-certified in internal medicine and pediatrics. His clinical experience includes four years at the University of Michigan Medical Center, Internal Medicine and Pediatric Residency Program.

Dr.. Kazi

Dr. Kazi is the Chief Health Informatics Officer at the VA North Texas Health Care System in Dallas, Texas. He serves as the liaison between clinicians and the office of information and technology and helps design and maintain the VA electronic health record. Dr. Kazi is also the chief architect of the American College of Rheumatology's Clinical Registry (RCR) which is a web based registry which facilitates the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) and is poised to evolve into a full-disease based registry for comparative effectiveness research. Dr. Kazi also helped create the VARA (VA Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry). Dr. Kazi's rheumatology practice was the first ambulatory speciality clinic to adopt and develop Epic Ambulatory Modules and use the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative. Dr. Kazi is interested in the meaningful use of the electronic health record, in the patient centered medical home and in the development of accountable care organizations. Dr. Kazi continues to provide patient care and also teaches students, residents and fellows at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas where he is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in the division of Rheumatology.

Edward Marx

Edward began his career as a physician services coordinator at Poudre Valley Health System, Fort Collins, Colorado. He was then recruited to Parkview Episcopoal Medical Center in Pueblo, Colorado as the CIO for their system’s Management Services Organization and director of the system’s Physicians Information Systems. In 1997, he joined HCA in Nashville where he led a major push into physician information systems and managed care. He functioned as chief technologist for HCA/Physician Services, a $2 billion division serving more than 2200 physicians and more than 900 practices across the country. University Hospitals (Cleveland), a multi-hospital academic health system, recruited Edward in 1999, and by 2002 he served as deputy CIO. While carrying out his responsibilities for managing outsourced IT functions, he was promoted to CIO in 2003 and served for 5 years. During his tenure, University Hospitals received national attention because of their transformational improvements in business and quality outcomes. Edward is very active with professional organizations, advisory boards and higher education. He is a member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), Society of Information Management (SIM), and is a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Fellow. He has served as the president of the Ohio and Tennessee Chapters of HIMSS and Chair of the Membership Services Committee. Edward is a member of the CIO advisory boards for HP, Cisco, AT&T and Microsoft. Edward also serves on advisory boards for Texas Christian University, University of Texas Dallas, and Southern Methodist University. Edward is a frequent speaker for many of the above mentioned organizations. Most recently, Edward was appointed by Governor Rick Perry to serve on the Texas Health Services Authority, providing guideance on leveraging technology to improve the health of Texans. Edwards’s Texas Health team have received numerous accolades including Computer Worlds “100 Best Places to Work”, American Hospitals Association “Most Wired”, Health Leaders “Marketing Awards”, CIO’s “Most Innovative”, Information Week “Top 500”, CHIME and CIO “Innovator”, and the Project Management Institute “Top Projects” . Personally, Edward was recently recognized by both CIO and Computer World as “Top 100 Leaders”, and the Dallas Business Journal “Newcomer of the Year”. Edward is an active communicator. His nationally sponsored blog “CIO Unplugged”, receives thousands of hits monthly while he keeps followers informed via Twitter, Yammer, LinkedIn and FaceBook. With a passion for athletics, Edward has competed in over 100 triathlons, most recently the Ironman and Escape from Alcatraz. Several of these triathlons he has done with his children Brandon and Talitha. His energy is now shifting toward adventure racing, some of them partnered with his wife Julie. Edward and Julie are currently mastering the Argentine Tango and are active in their local church and community.

Eric Rock

Eric Rock is a serial entrepreneur and pioneer with innovative touchscreen user experiences applied to improving operational efficiencies in vertical markets. Rock was the Founder and CTO of MEDHOST, a healthcare software company serving over 7 million patients annually. With MEDHOST, Rock introduced the first-ever touchscreen EMR for the healthcare industry. The solution includes a rich user experience with geographical visualization and it resolves the severe operational deficiencies in Emergency Departments. At MEDHOST, Rock also introduced other new healthcare innovations including patient self-service kiosks, multi-touch data visualization (via Microsoft Surface) and an enterprise operational visibility engine (via Microsoft Silverlight). The MEDHOST solutions are CCHIT-certified and leading in their category, providing the company with a steady and rapid growth of over 40% CAGR. MEDHOST was strategically acquired, in February 2010, for $40M. Prior to MEDHOST, Rock launched his first company and invented the first-ever Table Management System, ProHost, for the hospitality industry. The solution utilized geographical visualization of restaurant status to help staff solve the surprisingly complex problem of balancing restaurant resources, improving workflows and accurately forecasting wait times. Today, ProHost has many competitors, but it is still leading in the space and is in over 5,000 restaurants world-wide. ProHost was sold to a pre-IPO .COM, for $30M in stock. Both of Rock’s companies were recognized by the Dallas Business Journal among Dallas’ 100 fastest growing privately held companies. Rock’s entrepreneurial interests began at the age of 15 when he sold his first production software product, an inventory control system, to a nation-wide service organization. Rock went on to complete his Electrical and Computer Engineering degrees at Oklahoma State University, where he was responsible for the formation of new 3D Computer Graphics curriculum. Today, Rock continues to focus on emerging technologies and business strategies for healthcare. He is a frequent speaker and presenter at events such as HIMSS, isEDIS and MS-HUG Tech Forum. Rock also maintains an Advisory role in various technology firms, including Microsoft.

Julie Gross

With a multi-faceted background that led Julie circuitously from Journalism, Fitness, Advocating for People with Disabilities, Disease Management all the way through EMR’s to capital equipment, Julie has worked with some of the leading organizations and thought leaders in healthcare over the past 18 years. This diversity has lent itself well as Julie looks to share historical relevance on how things eventually come together and sometimes it’s the simplest ideas that have the biggest impact. She is also the foremost expert on all things health related in her household and is regularly consulted by her husband and 4 year old son on this very topic. Yes, Band-Aids are a cure for the common boo boo.

Dr. Katharine Frase

Katharine Frase [NAE] is Vice President, Industry Solutions and Emerging Business, IBM Research. Her team is responsible for working across IBM Research on behalf of IBM clients, to create innovative industry-focused solutions. Prior to this role, she was VP, Technical and Business Strategy, IBM Software Group, where she was responsible for technical strategy, business strategy, business development, standards, competitive analysis and the application of advanced technologies across SWG. Past roles in IBM include corporate assignments on technology assessment and strategy, and roles in IBM Microelectronics in the management of process development, design/modeling methodology and production of chip carriers, assemblies and test. In 2006, she was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Dr. Frase received an A.B. in chemistry from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Frase is a member of the assessment committee for the Army Research Laboratory, and a participant in a number of NAE-sponsored activities.

Robert Miller

Bob Miller currently heads the Communications Technology Research Department at AT&T Labs Research in Florham Park, N.J. His department develops new concepts and technologies for next-generation AT&T wired and wireless broadband packet access systems and services.

Steve High

Stephen High is an executive partner with Gartner Executive Programs, serving public and private sector clients in Texas and other areas of the southwestern United States. High possesses more than two decades of experience helping commercial and government organizations leverage information technology to achieve results in the areas of IT strategy and leadership, business solutions, PMO and project management, ERP implementations, architecture, data warehousing, infrastructure, budget and cost control, and vendor management. Prior to joining Gartner, High served as CIO and vice president of IT core services at Argonaut Group, an international specialty commercial insurance company. He also served as chief security officer for Argonaut Group and CIO of Argonaut Insurance Company. Earlier in his career, he was the interim CIO of a financial services firm. During his IT career and in his consulting positions, High has worked with Procter & Gamble, Cardinal Health, BASF, Aim Mutual Funds, Van Kampen/American Capital, the Texas Department of Human Services, the Texas Department of Information Resources, Keane, Oberthur Gaming Technologies and others. High has shared his ideas and leadership through consulting and public speaking engagements around the United States in commercial and government information technology forums. His presentations have included topics such as project management, security, business continuity planning, ITIL, technology and people, e-learning and leveraging the Web for organizational advantage. In addition to his IT career, High has also served on the boards of organizations such as the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Special Olympics Texas and Mensa. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and management information systems from the University of Texas at Austin.