Advisory Board
Sherman Uchill, MBA
Sherman Uchill is a serial entrepreneur who started,
built and sold various computer enterprises
including a software development company, a
computer time sharing company, a chain of retail
computer stores and a private label personal
computer company. Mr. Uchill was also a
management consultant regarding
Sherman Uchill is a serial entrepreneur who started,
built and sold various computer enterprises
including a software development company, a
computer time sharing company, a chain of retail
computer stores and a private label personal
computer company. Mr. Uchill was also a
management consultant regarding
Steven J. Davidson, M.D., M.B.A.,
FACEP, FACPE
As the quintessential generalist with an
unquenchable curiosity and a penchant for
expressing an outspoken opinion, Dr. Davidson,
one of the earliest graduates of an
emergency medicine residency, has practiced
FACEP, FACPE
As the quintessential generalist with an
unquenchable curiosity and a penchant for
expressing an outspoken opinion, Dr. Davidson,
one of the earliest graduates of an
emergency medicine residency, has practiced
Andrew Barbash, M.D.
Andrew Barbash is both a practicing Hospital based
Neurologist and a nationally recognized resource in
personal health records, mobile healthcare and
communications. He is the Medical Director for the
Stroke Program at Holy Cross Hospital in Maryland
and the CEO of Apractis, Collaboration Partners.
Andrew Barbash is both a practicing Hospital based
Neurologist and a nationally recognized resource in
personal health records, mobile healthcare and
communications. He is the Medical Director for the
Stroke Program at Holy Cross Hospital in Maryland
and the CEO of Apractis, Collaboration Partners.
Russ Cucina, MD, MS
Russ Cucina is Assistant Professor in the Division
of Hospital Medicine and Center for Clinical and
Translational Informatics, and Associate Medical
Director of Information Technology for UCSF
Medical Center, at the University of California, San
Francisco. Dr. Cucina's research is in clinical
Russ Cucina is Assistant Professor in the Division
of Hospital Medicine and Center for Clinical and
Translational Informatics, and Associate Medical
Director of Information Technology for UCSF
Medical Center, at the University of California, San
Francisco. Dr. Cucina's research is in clinical
Michael J. Rice Ph.D., ARNP. BC
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 Nebraska in 1976.
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 Nebraska in 1976.
William Scott Erdley, DNS, RN
Scott Erdley, DNS, RN, is Clinical Assistant
Professor, School of Nursing, University at Buffalo,
State University of New York. He has been involved
with nursing and health informatics for more than 12
years. Dr. Erdley’s activities include the current
owner of nrsing-l (the first exclusive listserv focused
on nursing informatics) as well as serving on
Scott Erdley, DNS, RN, is Clinical Assistant
Professor, School of Nursing, University at Buffalo,
State University of New York. He has been involved
with nursing and health informatics for more than 12
years. Dr. Erdley’s activities include the current
owner of nrsing-l (the first exclusive listserv focused
on nursing informatics) as well as serving on
Dr. Barbash trained at Northwestern University Medical School and
completed his Neurology Residence at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Dr.
Barbash led the development and deployment of the electronic medical
record for Kaiser Permanente in the Mid-Atlantic States for 7 years
before leaving to form Apractis. He served as the Vice President for
Clinical Information Systems for the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical
Group during that time and was a member of their Board of Directors. He
helped bring the first mobile e-prescribing and web-based e-messaging
to the region as well as overseeing the re-engineering of the specialty
referral and communication process through the EMR.
He worked as an advisor to the Medical Records Institute in 2003-4 on
Mobile Healthcare and has participated in many national and regional
initiatives on privacy, mobile health, communications, consumer
empowerment. Since 2004 he has been the Project Lead on the SOSRx
outpatient medication safety initiative on the Personal Medication Record.
As CEO of Apractis he has developed a core team of experts to leverage
existing Web-centered communications and collaboration tools to help
advance a support model for Personal Health Records and pragmatic
clinical communications.
completed his Neurology Residence at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Dr.
Barbash led the development and deployment of the electronic medical
record for Kaiser Permanente in the Mid-Atlantic States for 7 years
before leaving to form Apractis. He served as the Vice President for
Clinical Information Systems for the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical
Group during that time and was a member of their Board of Directors. He
helped bring the first mobile e-prescribing and web-based e-messaging
to the region as well as overseeing the re-engineering of the specialty
referral and communication process through the EMR.
He worked as an advisor to the Medical Records Institute in 2003-4 on
Mobile Healthcare and has participated in many national and regional
initiatives on privacy, mobile health, communications, consumer
empowerment. Since 2004 he has been the Project Lead on the SOSRx
outpatient medication safety initiative on the Personal Medication Record.
As CEO of Apractis he has developed a core team of experts to leverage
existing Web-centered communications and collaboration tools to help
advance a support model for Personal Health Records and pragmatic
clinical communications.
planning boards for nursing informatics and patient safety conferences.
His research interests include patient safety, healthcare and nursing
informatics, patient simulation in nursing education as well as mobile
computing in nursing. Dr. Erdley is currently involved with collaborative
research investigating patient safety in long-term settings as well as
grass-roots efforts towards regional health information organizations. Dr
Erdley was recently appointed as a co-director of the Advanced Studies
Certificate program in Medical/Health Informatics at the School of
Informatics, University at Buffalo.
His research interests include patient safety, healthcare and nursing
informatics, patient simulation in nursing education as well as mobile
computing in nursing. Dr. Erdley is currently involved with collaborative
research investigating patient safety in long-term settings as well as
grass-roots efforts towards regional health information organizations. Dr
Erdley was recently appointed as a co-director of the Advanced Studies
Certificate program in Medical/Health Informatics at the School of
Informatics, University at Buffalo.
human-computer interaction science with an emphasis on human factors
and patient safety, decision support systems, automated clinical
inference, sociotechnical aspects of clinical information systems, and
knowledge representation and management. He was previously the
physician lead for Stanford Hospital & Clinic's computerized provider
order entry and multidisciplinary electronic documentation projects. He is
informaticist to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Qualityʼs
national patient safety resources AHRQ Patient Safety Network (psnet.
ahrq.gov) and AHRQ Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web
(webmm.ahrq.gov) and consults for a variety of clinical software and
technology vendors, community hospitals, and academic centers
regionally and nationally.
Dr. Cucina was resident and chief resident in Internal Medicine at
Stanford University, holds a Master's degree in biomedical informatics
from Stanford University, and an M.D. degree from the University of
California, Davis.
and patient safety, decision support systems, automated clinical
inference, sociotechnical aspects of clinical information systems, and
knowledge representation and management. He was previously the
physician lead for Stanford Hospital & Clinic's computerized provider
order entry and multidisciplinary electronic documentation projects. He is
informaticist to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Qualityʼs
national patient safety resources AHRQ Patient Safety Network (psnet.
ahrq.gov) and AHRQ Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web
(webmm.ahrq.gov) and consults for a variety of clinical software and
technology vendors, community hospitals, and academic centers
regionally and nationally.
Dr. Cucina was resident and chief resident in Internal Medicine at
Stanford University, holds a Master's degree in biomedical informatics
from Stanford University, and an M.D. degree from the University of
California, Davis.
and taught as a specialist in breadth. His often-provocative
commentaries on general emergency medicine and EMS topics
contributed for two decades to the success of the Yearbook of
Emergency Medicine, the annual review volume. He has helped others
implement interdisciplinary teams and taught systems thinking and
system design in the delivery of EMS and the operation of hospital
emergency departments. His monthly column “Leadership Outlook” in
Emergency Medicine News has brought favorable attention to the use of
technology for leveraging operations changes in clinical care. His
column both regularly addresses issues confronting young emergency
physicians in their professional development and those leaders who
mentor their junior colleagues.
Today, he leads an active (80,000+ annual visit) tertiary community
hospital emergency department at Maimonides Medical Center in
Brooklyn, NY, site of an emergency medicine residency and a health-
services research program focused on clinical operations research.
Interdisciplinary CQI teams are everywhere building a self-managing,
learning organization that eventually will figure out that it no longer has
need for his talents.
Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, MD, 1975
Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, EM Residency, 1978
The Wharton School of the Univ of Penn, Philadelphia, MBA, 1989
commentaries on general emergency medicine and EMS topics
contributed for two decades to the success of the Yearbook of
Emergency Medicine, the annual review volume. He has helped others
implement interdisciplinary teams and taught systems thinking and
system design in the delivery of EMS and the operation of hospital
emergency departments. His monthly column “Leadership Outlook” in
Emergency Medicine News has brought favorable attention to the use of
technology for leveraging operations changes in clinical care. His
column both regularly addresses issues confronting young emergency
physicians in their professional development and those leaders who
mentor their junior colleagues.
Today, he leads an active (80,000+ annual visit) tertiary community
hospital emergency department at Maimonides Medical Center in
Brooklyn, NY, site of an emergency medicine residency and a health-
services research program focused on clinical operations research.
Interdisciplinary CQI teams are everywhere building a self-managing,
learning organization that eventually will figure out that it no longer has
need for his talents.
Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, MD, 1975
Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, EM Residency, 1978
The Wharton School of the Univ of Penn, Philadelphia, MBA, 1989
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the strategic use of technology for competitive advantage, working with
Fortune 500 firms, startups, and early stage ventures. His nonprofit
experience includes service on the boards of trustees of the Goddard
House Nursing Home and Assisted Living, Ten Acre Country Day School,
Wellesley Community Children's Center Daycare, The Minuteman
Foundation and the Alumni Committees at both Harvard and MIT. He
has a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from
Harvard Business School.
Fortune 500 firms, startups, and early stage ventures. His nonprofit
experience includes service on the boards of trustees of the Goddard
House Nursing Home and Assisted Living, Ten Acre Country Day School,
Wellesley Community Children's Center Daycare, The Minuteman
Foundation and the Alumni Committees at both Harvard and MIT. He
has a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from
Harvard Business School.
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.
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.
John Luo, MD
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
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.
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.
John Wade
John Wade is Vice President and the Executive
Director, Kansas City Regional Electronic Exchange
(KC REE) at Saint Luke's Health System (SLHS) of
Kansas City. John has served for the past 13 years
as the VP/CIO for SLHS. Saint Luke’s is a multi-
hospital (11 inpatient facilities) Healthcare provider
servicing eastern Kansas and western Missouri.
John Wade is Vice President and the Executive
Director, Kansas City Regional Electronic Exchange
(KC REE) at Saint Luke's Health System (SLHS) of
Kansas City. John has served for the past 13 years
as the VP/CIO for SLHS. Saint Luke’s is a multi-
hospital (11 inpatient facilities) Healthcare provider
servicing eastern Kansas and western Missouri.
Saint Luke's serves the KS and MO populace within a 150 mile radius of
Kansas City. The Mid-America Heart Institute of Saint Luke's is a
nationally recognized provider for cardiac services and heart
transplants. Saint Luke’s received the Malcolm Baldridge National
Quality Award in 2003, National Healthcare Quality Award in 2000, and
has been awarded the Missouri Quality Award 4 times, the only
organization in MO so recognized.
Prior to joining Saint Luke's, John was a principal and national healthcare
practice director with the consulting firm of Logica North America
headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Previously Mr. Wade has
also served as the Senior Information Executive at the University of
Alabama Health Systems at Birmingham, Northwestern Memorial Health
System - Chicago and Children's Hospital Medical Center - Boston. Mr.
Wade is an honor's graduate of Boston College where he pursued his
Master's in Business Administration and is a Fellow of both HIMSS and
CHIME. He has been a featured speaker at HIMSS, CHIME, HFMA,
NMHCC, WHCC and National VHA conferences and was recently
recognized as one of the top CIO’s in the US by Computerworld
publications. John is currently the Chairman of the national HIMSS Board
of Directors, the premier professional organization for health information
professionals.
Kansas City. The Mid-America Heart Institute of Saint Luke's is a
nationally recognized provider for cardiac services and heart
transplants. Saint Luke’s received the Malcolm Baldridge National
Quality Award in 2003, National Healthcare Quality Award in 2000, and
has been awarded the Missouri Quality Award 4 times, the only
organization in MO so recognized.
Prior to joining Saint Luke's, John was a principal and national healthcare
practice director with the consulting firm of Logica North America
headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Previously Mr. Wade has
also served as the Senior Information Executive at the University of
Alabama Health Systems at Birmingham, Northwestern Memorial Health
System - Chicago and Children's Hospital Medical Center - Boston. Mr.
Wade is an honor's graduate of Boston College where he pursued his
Master's in Business Administration and is a Fellow of both HIMSS and
CHIME. He has been a featured speaker at HIMSS, CHIME, HFMA,
NMHCC, WHCC and National VHA conferences and was recently
recognized as one of the top CIO’s in the US by Computerworld
publications. John is currently the Chairman of the national HIMSS Board
of Directors, the premier professional organization for health information
professionals.
Sameer Bade MD, MSc
Dr. Sameer Bade, Chief Medical Technology
Officer (CMTO) for MedStar Health, Inc, is a board
certified internist who holds a Masters of Science in
Biomedical Informatics from the Health Sciences
Technology division of MIT and Harvard Medical
School. As CMTO for MedStar, a seven hospital
Dr. Sameer Bade, Chief Medical Technology
Officer (CMTO) for MedStar Health, Inc, is a board
certified internist who holds a Masters of Science in
Biomedical Informatics from the Health Sciences
Technology division of MIT and Harvard Medical
School. As CMTO for MedStar, a seven hospital
system in Maryland and Washington DC and one of the largest
integrated delivery networks in the mid-Atlantic area, Dr. Bade shares
responsibility with other key Information Service executives for the
selection, implementation, and support of a wide variety of technology,
systems and software used by clinicians in the care of hospitalized and
ambulatory patients. Additionally, Dr. Bade is deeply committed to the
development of mobile and wireless technologies as an enabling tool
for physicians and nurses.
integrated delivery networks in the mid-Atlantic area, Dr. Bade shares
responsibility with other key Information Service executives for the
selection, implementation, and support of a wide variety of technology,
systems and software used by clinicians in the care of hospitalized and
ambulatory patients. Additionally, Dr. Bade is deeply committed to the
development of mobile and wireless technologies as an enabling tool
for physicians and nurses.
Brenda Hage, DNS, RN
Dr. Brenda Hage is an Associate Professor of
Nursing at Misericordia University where she
teaches in the graduate FNP and undergraduate
nursing programs. She is the Coordinator of the
Health Care Informatics Certificate Program at
Misericordia University. Dr. Hage received her Ph.D.
in Health Related Sciences with a concentration in
Dr. Brenda Hage is an Associate Professor of
Nursing at Misericordia University where she
teaches in the graduate FNP and undergraduate
nursing programs. She is the Coordinator of the
Health Care Informatics Certificate Program at
Misericordia University. Dr. Hage received her Ph.D.
in Health Related Sciences with a concentration in
Gerontology from Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of
Virginia campus. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Virginia
Commonwealth University, School of Allied Health, Ph.D. program where
she teaches Health Informatics.
Dr. Hage is a nurse practitioner and is board certified in family practice,
adult health, and nursing informatics. She completed a Biomedical
Informatics course fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory
sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. Her research interests
include health literacy, health communication and health care
informatics with a focus on aging in place.
Virginia campus. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Virginia
Commonwealth University, School of Allied Health, Ph.D. program where
she teaches Health Informatics.
Dr. Hage is a nurse practitioner and is board certified in family practice,
adult health, and nursing informatics. She completed a Biomedical
Informatics course fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory
sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. Her research interests
include health literacy, health communication and health care
informatics with a focus on aging in place.