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Event Details: February 24-25, 2009 BCBS Headquarters |
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Speaker Bio's
Mikael Ohman is senior vice president of Strategy & Business Development for McKesson Technology Solutions (MTS). In this role, Ohman directs strategic growth initiatives and business development activities for McKesson’s technology companies, which include McKesson Provider Technologies, McKesson Health Solutions and RelayHealth. His responsibilities include the evaluation and development of new business opportunities, mergers and acquisitions, strategic affiliations, joint ventures, and business partnerships, as well as evaluation of investment opportunities. With extensive experience in healthcare information technology, Ohman joined McKesson in 2004 as senior vice president for strategic planning after working at Cerner Corporation, where he was responsible for global business operations. Prior to Cerner, he spent six years as a consultant with McKinsey and Company in Stockholm, Sweden and Atlanta. While at McKinsey, Mikael worked with a large number of companies on a variety of strategic and operational issues. Ohman’s career also included tenure at EDS and at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow Ohman received a Master of Science in systems, control and industrial engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and a Master of Science in Engineering Physics from Uppsala Universitet in Uppsala, Sweden.
Paul H. Keckley, Ph.D., is Executive Director for the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions (“the Center”), a part of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. In this role, Dr. Keckley provides strategic guidance on the development of Center research and thought leadership. Dr. Keckley brings to the Center 30 years of experience in academic medicine and the private sector. He is regarded as a primary expert in health care economics, health policy and trend analysis. Prior to joining the Center, Dr. Keckley served in several key roles at Vanderbilt University. He was the Dr. Keckley supported efforts by the Vanderbilt Medical Group to develop, integrate and measure adherence to evidence-based pathways and order sets. He also was instrumental in spearheading Vnaderbilt’s entry into integrative health, with the anticipated opening of the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health scheduled for November 2006. Before joining Vanderbilt, Dr. Keckley served as Chairman of the Board of Interdent, a California dental Dr. Keckley is an active member of several societies and editorial boards, and has authored numerous articles and
three books. He has been profiled by ABC’s 20/20, CBS’s 60 Minutes, Fox News, CNN, The Wall Street Journal,
and has been featured as a keynote speaker at several national industry meetings. Dr. Keckley has also testified for
state Medicaid Review Committees in Utah and Tennessee about the potential impact of evidence-based standards
on benefits for enrollees.
Paula is a Registered Professional Nurse and graduate of Georgia Southwestern University. Before coming to Wellpoint and the Georgia Telemedicine Program, she served 18 years at the Southeast Health Unit, Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Public Health in the capacity’s of Telehealth Director, Coordinator for the Georgia State Cancer Registry, and Director of the Community Care Services Program. Paula Guy has 9 years of leadership experience in building telemedicine networks in the state of Georgia. She has served on the advisory board for Georgia Technology, review boards for grants and has been a frequent telemedicine expert speaker. Her experience in grant writing resulted in over $4 million in federal grants and funding from RUS, Office of Advancement ofTelehealth and Universal Service Funding. The Georgia Partnership for Telehealth, Inc is a result of a spin off from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia Telemedicine Program that began in 2005 through a generous grant from WellPoint, Inc. The goal is to provide all rural Georgians with access to specialty care within 30 miles. The program has grown to include 45 rural presentation sites, 15 specialty sites and 17 teleradiology sites. There are 45 specialties and 83 specialist represented in the program. Prior to the establishment of the Georgia Telemedicine Program, access to specialist in rural Georgia was extremely limited. Much of populated rural Georgia is too distant, too poor and too sparsely populated to attract specialist. Telemedicine is the predominant use of system however, distance learning is available for grand rounds and continuing education for physicians and staff at rural sites. While the application of telemedicine varies based on the specialty consult needed, the sites will be equipped to offer two methods: The network provide an open web of access points established throughout the state, connecting rural areas, where barriers to specialty care typically exist, with advanced tertiary care centers in the larger cities. The open access network offers unprecedented access to specialty care.
Dr. Stachura is the Director of the Medical College of Georgia Telemedicine Center. He joined the Center in 1995 after 14 years at the MCG Hospital and Clinics and at the Augusta VA Medical Center as Chief of the Section of Metabolic and Endocrine Disease in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Stachura came to MCG in 1981 after eight years on the faculty of the University of Chicago. He obtained his MD in 1965 from Harvard Medical School. His background includes 15 years of NIH and or VA Merit Review funded basic research, directorship of endocine disease-related outreach programs for patient care and education as well as health professional development. Dr. Stachura is the author or co-author of numerous research publications, abstracts, book chapters and texts. His clinical practice involves general endocrinology with special interests in pituitary disease and diabetes mellitus. His current academic focus is health services delivery and barriers to access. Dr. Stachura obtained his MD in 1965 from the Harvard Medical School and his clinical training at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was the recipient of an NIH Research Career Development Award. After eight years on the faculty of the University of Chicago, he came to the Medical College of Georgia in 1981.
Dr. Braunstein teaches health informatics and is involved in research aimed at wider and deeper adoption of health information technology to improve the quality and efficiency of care delivery. He received his BS degree from MIT in 1969 and his MD degree from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in 1974. After an internship at Washington University he joined the faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy at MUSC until he left in 1978 to co-found PROHECA, an early developer of clinical pharmacy systems. PROHECA was acquired by National Data Corporation (NDC) in 1981 and was the seed for NDCHealth. At NDC he ran what was then the NDC Healthcare Division for five years and was the company’s President and COO for three years until he left in 1990 to co-found PtCT. He is the author of over fifty papers; articles and book chapters devoted to various aspects of clinical automation. His most recent publication is “Searching for the Holy Grail: Integrated Electronic Medical Records and Beyond”, a chapter he co-authored for the book “e-Healthcare: Harness the Power of Internet e-Commerce and e-Care”, edited by Douglas E. Goldstein and published by Aspen. He is Senior Adviser for health information technology to Focus, LLC, an investment banking firm that provides a range of services tailored to the needs of emerging growth and middle market businesses from offices across the country. He is the immediate past Chairman of the Board of the Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures (GATV) -- a corporation that supports the Advanced Technology Development Center, a technology incubator operated by the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also a past Chairman of the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Southeast Region and of the Atlanta Chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum. He won a 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Southeast Region, received a 1995 Innovation in Medical Management Award from the American Society of Physician Executives and received the 2006 Founder’s Award from the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Southeast Region. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, a family physician and co-author of the book "Your Body, Your Health."
Newt Gingrich is well-known as the architect of the “Contract with America” that led the Republican Party to victory in 1994 by capturing the majority in the U.S. House for the first time in forty years. After he was elected Speaker, he disrupted the status quo by moving power out of Washington and back to the American people. Under his leadership, Congress passed welfare reform, passed the first balanced budget in a generation, and passed the first tax cut in sixteen years. In addition, the Congress restored funding to strengthen our defense and intelligence capabilities, an action later lauded by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission. But there is a lot more to Newt Gingrich than these remarkable achievements. As an author, Newt has published eighteen books including 10 fiction and non-fiction New York Times best-sellers. Non-fiction books include his latest, Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less, in addition to others such asReal Change, A Contract with the Earth, Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America, To Renew America, Lessons Learned the Hard Way, Saving Lives & Saving Money, Window of Opportunity, The Art of Transformation, and Rediscovering God in America. He is also the author of these fiction books: Gettysburg, Grant Comes East, Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant the Final Victory,1945, Pearl Harbor, A Novel of December the 8, and his latest, Days of Infamy. All of these novels are active history studies in the lessons of warfare based on fictional accounts of historical wartime battles and their aftermaths. Newt and his wife, Callista, host and produce documentaries. Recent films include Rediscovering God in America and We Have the Power. A third documentary, Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny, is currently in production. In his post-Speaker role, Newt has become one of the most highly sought-after public speakers, accepting invitations to speak before some of the most prestigious organizations in the world. Because of his own unquenchable thirst for knowledge, Newt is able to share unique and unparalleled insights on a wide range of topics. His audiences find him to be not only an educational but also an inspirational speaker. Widely recognized for his commitment to a better system of health for all Americans, his leadership helped save Medicare from bankruptcy, prompted FDA reform to help the seriously ill and initiated a new focus on research, prevention, and wellness. His contributions have been so great that the American Diabetes Association awarded him their highest non-medical award and the March of Dimes named him their 1995 Citizen of the Year. Today he serves as a Board Member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. In his book, Saving Lives and Saving Money, Newt describes his vision of a 21st Century System of Health and Healthcare that is centered on the individual, prevention focused, knowledge intense, and innovation rich. Moreover, he makes the case for a market-mediated system that will improve choice and quality while driving down costs. To foster such a modern health system that provides better outcomes at lower cost, Newt launched the Center for Health Transformation (www.healthtransformation.net). Newt also serves with former Senator Bob Kerrey as Co-chairman of the National Commission for Quality Long-term Care. The commission will make recommendations to policymakers and the public on how to transform healthcare services for the frail elderly and disabled in order to maximize independence and achieve a high quality of life and quality of care for our aging population. In 1999, Gingrich was appointed to the United States Commission on National Security/21st Century, the Hart/Rudman Commission to examine our national security challenges as far out as 2025. The Commission's report is the most profound rethinking of defense strategy since 1947. The report concluded that the number one threat to the United States was the likelihood over the next 25 years of a weapon of mass destruction -- nuclear, chemical, and/or biological being used against one or more major cities unless our defense and intelligence structures underwent a massive transformation. That report was published six months before September 11. Because of his work on the Commission, Newt Gingrich is credited with the idea contained in the report of a Homeland Security Agency with a Secretary to serve on the Cabinet level. President George W. Bush has since created the Department of Homeland Security. Newt Gingrich is Chairman of the Gingrich Group, a communications and consulting firm that specializes in transformational change, with offices in Atlanta and Washington, DC . He serves as General Chairman of American Solutions for Winning the Future (www.americansolutions.com), is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California and is an Honorary Chairman of the NanoBusiness Alliance. Newt is also a news and political analyst for the Fox News Channel. A strong advocate of volunteerism, Gingrich has long championed the positive impact every individual can have on society. He has raised millions of dollars for charity, donating both time and money to a wide array of causes, including Habitat for Humanity, United Cerebral Palsy, the American Cancer Society, and ZooAtlanta. A former environmental studies professor, he is widely recognized for his commitment to the environment and to the advancement of a new, common-sense environmentalism. In 1998, the Georgia Wildlife Federation named him Legislative Conservationist of the Year. Newt was first elected to Congress in 1978 where he served the Sixth District of Georgia for twenty years. In 1995, he was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives where he served until 1999. The Washington Times has called him “the indispensable leader” and Time magazine, in naming him Man of the Year for 1995, said, “Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional.” His experiences as the son of a career soldier convinced him at an early age to dedicate his life to his country and to the protection of freedom. Realizing the importance of understanding the past in order to protect the future, he immersed himself in the study of history, receiving his Bachelor’s degree from Emory University and Master’s and Doctorate in Modern European History from Tulane University . Before his election to Congress, he taught History and Environmental Studies at West Georgia College for eight years. He resides in Virginia with his wife, Callista. The Gingrich family includes two daughters, two sons-in-law and two grandchildren.
Rhonda Chetney, MS, RN is the Director of Clinical Support Services for Intel Corporation’s Digital Health Group. In this role she and her team of experts help customers implement technology solutions to improve health care globally. She has 13 years experience in implementing telehealth programs in a home care setting. Prior to joining Intel in 2007, Rhonda has been managing home care and hospice agencies for the past 20 years. In 1995, she pioneered the development of one of the first home telehealth programs that was successful in decreasing hospital readmissions for patients suffering with heart failure. Her passion for home telehealth continued through the years as she developed and implemented several successful home telehealth programs. She has published numerous manuscripts about telehealth and technology and is recognized internationally as an expert on home telehealth. She received the American Society of Health Care Publishing Editor’s Gold and Silver Awards for articles written about the telehealth and technology. She is an active reviewer for Telemedicine and E Health Journals. She currently serves as Chair for the American Telemedicine Association’s Home Telehealth special interest group.
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