Advisors

Howard Landa, MD has been the is Vice President of Clinical Informatics and EHR for Sutter Health since 2017. In this role he oversees Provider Informatics from both an EHR integrity and Technology Change management perspective. Prior to this he held the position of Chief Medical information officer (CMIO) at Alameda Health System (2009-17) after being the CMIO of Kaiser’s Hawaii Region 2001-2009. He began his career as a Pediatric Urologist at Loma Linda University (starting in1990) where he started his informatics career as a Medical Director of Information Systems.

His career has been driven by two ideals. The first is a belief that Healthcare Information Technology can be leveraged to improve the Quality and Efficiency of Healthcare delivery and to support both Patient and Provider satisfaction since before the “Quadruple Aim” was born. And the second that Medicine is the original “open source” profession creating a responsibility to share what we learn in the emerging field of informatics. To this end has been a leader in both AMDIS and HIMSS for over 20 years and was named one of the top 25 Clinical Informaticists in 2010, 2011 and 2012 

  Saroj Misra, DO, FACOFP is a professional clinical and academic physician who has served as a staff physician over the last 23 years with Ascension Health System in SE Michigan and has held numerous positions of leadership, including Program Director, Director of Medical Education and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine. Additionally, he serves as the Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs for A.T. Still University-Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has demonstrated strong commitment to the osteopathic profession, taking on numerous leadership roles with the MAOFP, ACOFP, AOA and the ACGME. These roles align closely with Dr. Misra’s passion for osteopathic graduate and undergraduate medical education. For his efforts, Dr. Misra has been recognized as the 2018 ACOFP Family Physician of the Year and the 2023 State Family Physician of the Year. He also has been awarded the 2019 Master Osteopathic Preceptor Award and been entered into the AOA Mentor Hall of Fame. Dr. Misra has also been heavily involved in speaking locally and nationally on health care technology as it pertains to the field of medicine.

John Lee, MD, is a highly regarded clinical informaticist who is dedicated to leveraging technology to address societal challenges, particularly in the field of healthcare. With a firm belief that technology can revolutionize healthcare delivery, Dr. Lee has a professional mission to address missed opportunities within the healthcare system to provide superior care at reduced costs using advanced technological solutions.

As Chief Medical Information Officer at Edward Elmhurst Healthcare and Allegheny Health Network, Dr. Lee's efforts have consistently yielded exceptional provider satisfaction scores, recognized by KLAS' Arch Collaborative surveys as among the highest in the nation.

In addition to his influential role as a clinical informaticist, Dr. Lee is an active practicing emergency physician, infusing his technological pursuits with a clinician's perspective. His ultimate vision revolves around a healthcare system that is entirely driven by transparent data, information, and knowledge, ensuring efficient and effective care delivery.

Dr. Lee earned his Doctorate of Medicine from Loyola University of Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine in Illinois, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Chemistry from Johns Hopkins University. He further enhanced his expertise by obtaining a Certificate in Medical Informatics from the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Recognized for his outstanding qualifications, Dr. Lee is board certified in Emergency Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and board certified in Clinical Informatics by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. His professional affiliations include membership in esteemed organizations such as the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM).

Dr. Lee's significant contributions to the field were acknowledged in 2019 when he received HIMSS' prestigious Physician Executive of the Year award, further solidifying his reputation as a leading figure in healthcare technology and innovation.

  Dr. Harm Scherpbier is a Health IT Strategy Advisor Scherpbier.health, partnering with Health IT firms on clinical system development, population health solutions, Analytics, and health IT implementation and strategy. 

Dr. Harm Scherpbier is the Chief Medical Information Officer at HealthShare Exchange, the Philadelphia regional Health Information Exchange, focusing on expanding the reach and relevance of the information exchange in clinical care and population health. 

Dr. Scherpbier is Adjunct Faculty at the Jefferson College of Population Health, teaching Health Informatics and Population Health Analytics.  He is a Fellow of the Health Information Management Systems Society, where he is past president of the HIMSS Physician Committee and current member of the Interoperability Committee. He is also a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association, where he is a core team member of the Health Informatics Accreditation program. 

Dr. Scherpbier was previously the Chief Medical Information Officer at Main Line Health, a 5-hospital Integrated Health Network near Philadelphia, PA, where he was responsible for the implementation of healthcare information systems and electronic patient records for physicians, nurses and other clinicians throughout the health system. He held positions in software engineering and product management at Siemens Health Services, CareScience, Aetna US Healthcare and SMS. 

He was born and raised in the Netherlands, where he completed his medical training at the University of Groningen, and his MS in Medical Informatics from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

John Luo, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, where he is the Director of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychiatric Emergency Services.  Dr. Luo is nationally recognized as an expert on mobile technology in medicine, and he presents yearly at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting.  His courses on how to use a personal digital assistant have been a staple of the APA scientific program for over ten years.  He has been the past-president of the American Association for Technology in Psychiatry, and now serves as its Gores Chair of Informatics Advocacy.  He currently serves as the Use of Technology in Education work group chair for the Association for Academic Psychiatry.  In addition, he writes a bi-monthly column called 'Tech Advisor' for Primary Psychiatry, and serves on the editorial advisory board of 'Medicine on the Net'.  He has worked as a consultant for several healthcare technology firms, and he has been interviewed by numerous publications on his use of various technologies in medicine.

Dr. Luo completed his medical informatics fellowship at UC Davis Department of Psychiatry, where he implemented an electronic sign-out process using the Palm PDA.  He was chief resident and resident at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Psychiatry, and received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.  During his residency, he was a recipient of fellowships including the Laughlin Fellowship of The American College of Psychiatrists and the APA/Center for Mental Health Services Minority Fellowship for his pioneering use of technology in medicine.

Benjamin Kanter MD FCCP is the former Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for Palomar Pomerado Health (PPH) in San Diego, as well as a partner with Escondido Pulmonary Medical Group.  Dr. Kanter is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Disease, and received special certification in Critical Care. Dr. Kanter graduated from the University of Michigan with Distinction and Honors, after which he received his Medical degree and Internal Medicine training at Northwestern University in Chicago. He completed his post-doctoral studies in both Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine at the U.C.S.D. Medical center. 

Dr. Kanter has chaired the departments of Medicine at Palomar Medical Center and Pomerado Hospital and is the past-Chief of Staff at Pomerado Hospital. He became the CMIO for PPH in 2006 and is a member of the executive management team. In this role, he is responsible for the development of clinical information systems. He remains clinically active, caring for patients in the critical care unit.

Current interests include: the development of a novel clinical workstation for the inpatient environment (Cerner Corp.), asynchronous communication strategies in healthcare (as CMO for Conversepoint Inc.), developing the use of mobile devices for healthcare (Android platform), and implementing noninvasive monitoring strategies in the inpatient environment. Recent presentations include: “CPOE Governance” (Cerner Health Conference 2010), “Computing environment and clinical workflow in the ICU” (Cerner Health Conference 2010),  “Information Management and the EHR” (co-keynote speaker, AHIMA National Summit on the Legal EHR 2010), and “A Novel Android Platform for Mobile Health Exchange” (Cisco Community for Connected Health Summit, HIMSS, 2011). 

Ron Ribitzky is a Physician with C-level global experience in healthcare IT and life sciences informatics. He is the Founder/CEO of R&D Ribitzky, a boutique healthcare IT & life science informatics consulting and creative solutions firm. His engagementsincluded all regions of the US, and 23 developed and emerging-economy countries. Ron published, presented, and led workshops around the world in industry, public sector, and academia. Prior to making the transition to IT, Ron was a Flight Surgeon, Primary Care Physician in solo private practice, and Senior Resident in Pediatrics. to Director of Applications at Boston Children’s Hospital; CIO at UMass Medical Center; Senior Director, Medical Sales Support, VP Prototype Development, and VP Advanced Research at Eclipsys; Senior Healthcare Strategist, and World Wide Marketing Campaign Manager - Mobile Point of Care at Intel. He holds a US patent on component-based object-relational database infrastructure and user interface. Ron’s academic appointments included IBM Science Center, Weizmann Institute – Applied Mathematics, Harvard Medical School, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Emory University School of Public Health, Rockefeller Center for eHealth at Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), and Kigali Health Institute (KHI) in Rwanda. Ron earned his MD degree from the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University in Israel.

  Dr. Gracie works as a Senior Clinical Analyst Team Leader at the Medical University of South Carolina in the Office of the Chief Information Officer. Dr. Gracie is a member of the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) and a past Board Member of the American Nursing Informatics Association. Dr. Gracie’s nursing experience includes pediatric intensive care, pediatric cardiothoracic intensive care, electronic medical record implementations, workflow analysis, analytics, and informatics education. He received his MSN and DNP from the Medical University of South Carolina. 

  Troy Seagondollar MSN-I, RN-BC, has over 35 years of experience in nursing in emergency, telemetry, medical, surgical, intermediate, intensive, and ambulatory care. He worked for over 8 years as a clinical educator in ADN programs teaching clinical care and leadership as well as 2 years in BSN programs teaching informatics nursing. He is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) in Nursing Informatics and holds a Master of Nursing in Nursing Informatics from Excelsior University of New York. He has presented at numerous venues about informatics focusing on its benefits, pitfalls, and impact on clinical staff. From 2011 through 2016, Troy was a invited member of the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee in Washington, D.C. focusing on developing and implementing the EHR Meaningful Use program. He was the co-chair for the third revision of the American Nursing Association's Scope and Standards of Practice for Nurse Informatics from 2019 through 2022. Troy began his journey in informatics in 2003 when he was assigned to be the Regional Emergency Nursing Subject Matter Expert representative from Kaiser Permanente’s southern California region at their national develop, build, and validation sessions in the initial work around KP HealthConnect (an Epic product). Troy continued in an Informatics Nurse role as the KP HealthConnect Regional Coordinator during the deployment of Kaiser Permanente’s electronic health record in southern California for over 200 ambulatory and 14 inpatient environments. Currently he is a Clinical Informatics Specialist in southern California where he deals directly with end-users, builds portions of the systems, and navigates enhancement requests to completion. Personally, he believes that the most important responsibility of his roles, through the years, has been, and continues to be, bridging the gap between operations, information technology, and the clinical staff.

Dr Rice is a Professor at the Washington State University College of Nursing, Spokane Washington where he teaches in the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Program. He received his Master's Degree in Psychiatric Nursing from the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha Nebraskain 1976. He received his PH.D in Clinical Nursing Research from the University of Arizona College of Nursing in 1988 where he was a NRSA funded individual predoctoral instrumentation fellow. He also has a small private practice at the Suncrest Wellness Center which is located in Steven's County Washington, a federally designated medically underserved rural community. He holds a National Board Certification in Psychiatric Mental Health and is licensed as a Advanced Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in Washington. He is the P.I of 34 funded studies with funding sources ranging from NIH to private Foundations totaling over one million dollars and has 67 refereed publications, He has directed distance education projects on videoconferencing for clinical supervision, Web casts for rural mental health care education, Video streaming of nursing courses to rural communities, and is presently directing a project funded by Suffolk Community College\Symbol Technologies on the use of PDA's to enhance rural health care education in medially underserved areas.  He has and continues to serve as a consultant to numerous national and international technology projects.  He is a recipient of multiple national research awards ranging from: Outstanding Paper presented by a graduate student from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Delta Chi :Sigma Theta Tau Excellence in Research, Outstanding Clinical Research and Honorable mention Clinical Research for the Association of Women’s Health and Neonatal Nurses in 2001 & 2002, Grand Rounds Research Poster from the American Nurses Association and Winner of the 2002 EDUCAUSE Award for Excellence in Technology and the award for the Best Paper in Industrial and Corporate Training at the ). Education and information Systems Technologies and Applications (EISTA): International Institute of Informatics in 2003. 

 Dr. Brenda Hage is a gerontologist and a nurse practitioner with clinical expertise in gerontology, rehabilitation, geriatric case management and family practice. She has 25 years of experience in higher education teaching and administration.

Dr. Hage served as the president of the board of directors of the Community Care Health Centers, a local organization with two federally qualified health center look-alike (FQHC-LA) clinics in Wilkes-Barre and Hazelton, PA. PA. She was appointed to the Pennsylvania Council of Aging by Governor Tom Corbett and served two terms. The Pennsylvania Council on Aging acts in an advisor capacity to the Governor and the Secretary of Aging on the planning,
coordination and delivery of services to older adults. She also served as the Associate Medical Director of the Hope Center, a pro-bono community health clinic.

She is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, and the American Association of College of Nursing.  

Dr Cheryl Parker has over 35 years experience in the healthcare industry including clinical nursing, management, nursing informatics, and education both corporate and academic. Experienced in clinical system selection and implementation from both a facility and vendor perspective and have assisted at all levels of nursing within a facility to ensure successful outcomes for the clinician and the organization. Responsible for design and completion of multiple clinician usability studies. Is a member of the American Nurses Association (ANA), American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA), Sigma Theta Tau, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and is a past governing director of the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI). Actively contributes to body of knowledge in clinical informatics as both author and presenter.