Valerie Watzlaf, PhD, MPH, RHIA, FAHIMA Associate Professor Emeritus University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Department of Health Information Management 6030 Forbes Tower, Pittsburgh, PA  15260 Dr. Valerie Watzlaf is an Associate Professor Emeritus and Part-time Faculty within the Health Information Management (HIM) Department in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences…

Tammy Feenstra Banks, MBA, FACMPE Gobles, MI 49055 Tammy Feenstra Banks’ professional experience spans over 25 years in health-oriented organizations including a large nonprofit Medical Association, a large health system, and a Fortune 500 managed healthcare and insurance company. She has devoted her career leading multi-stakeholder collaborations to align incentives to solve healthcare’s administrative and…

Jamie Ferguson VP, Health IT Strategy & Policy Kaiser Permanente Anacortes, WA 98221 Jamie Ferguson is Vice President of Health Information Technology (IT) Strategy and Policy at Kaiser Permanente and a fellow of the Institute for Health Policy. He is responsible for Kaiser Permanente standards, strategies, policies, and external relations related to health IT informatics,…

Wu Xu, PhD Adjunct Faculty, Sociology, Bio-Medical Informatics, and Clinical Epidemiology University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Dr. Xu is a former State Director of Center for Health Data and Informatics in Utah Department of Health (UDOH). She has more than 25 years of experience in innovation, development and administration of interoperable information…