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DFW HIMSS Board of Directors 2010 -2011

Nayan D. Patel, PMP, CPHIMS
President
nayan.dinesh.patel@gmail.com
(214) 316-8666

Nayan Patel currently serves as the IT Portfolio Manager for Baylor Health Care System, Information Services. Patel is responsible for the project management and reporting tools, time reporting, and project governance. He also serves as a consultant for strategic business processes solutions for the healthcare system, which includes value model realization for the electronic health record (EHR), the executive portfolio management, and developed departmental logical-physical work flows of all system interfaces for the Baylor clinical infrastructure.



Cheryl Mason
Past President
cmason226@aol.com
(214) 563-7355

Cheryl Mason is an Associate Partner with IBM for the Healthcare Industry. She has over 25 years of experience in the development, support and operations of health services, holding executive positions ranging from Divisional President and Vice President of Client Services to Director of state agencies. Besides direct care services and software implementation, her experience includes telemedicine, software development and telecommunications, all focused on increasing access to healthcare personnel and services.



Tim Study, MA, CPHIMS
President Elect
ktstudy@verizon.net
(817) 296-5401

Tim Study is Business Development Manager for US Public Healthcare with Hewlett-Packard’s Technology Solutions Group. Tim has over twenty five years of experience in the Healthcare Industry, he has worked with IBM as a healthcare executive, Microsoft as the US BDM for Health and Human Services, with VHA as an IT Consultant, and Digital Equipment Corporation. He has a clinical background in Diagnostic Radiology from University of New Mexico and University of Kansas Medical Centers.



David Walker
VP Finance
David.Walker@BaylorHealth.edu
214-820-4231

David Walker is a project manager for Baylor Health Care System, Information Services. He has over 15 years of Information Technology, programming, data analysis and business development. David has worked for Baylor Health Care Systems since 2005 and has been involved in product selections, application implementations, portfolio governance process and software development. His experiences include Interface and software development, data management, consulting and project management.



Erica Olenski
VP Communications
erica.olenski@corepointhealth.com
(214) 618-7032

Erica Olenski currently serves as the marketing communications specialist at Corepoint Health and is the managing editor of HL7 Standards, a healthcare IT thought leadership blog. She is passionate about healthcare integration and how social media can positively influence the interoperability objectives of the health IT industry. Erica is a leader in the health IT social media community as the founder of the #HITsm (health IT social media) tweet chat held each Monday on Twitter and is an active blogger on healthcare IT communications, branding and social media.



Dave Kozusko
VP Membership
dfwhimssmembership@gmail.com
(214) 820-4293

Dave Kozusko is the Project Leader for the Master Data Management team at Baylor Health Care System. He has eighteen years of comprehensive consulting and project management experience in the healthcare and telecom industries. Dave has worked with Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Independence Blue Cross of Philadelphia, Provider Networks of America, CableVision-LightPath, and Verizon as an IT Solutions Consultant. His experience includes master data management, project management, and account management, all focused towards to software development for successful process improvement.



Pawan Goyal, MD, MHA, PMP, CPHIMS, FHIMSS
VP Professional Development
Pawan.Goyal@va.gov
(972) 796-6157

Dr. Goyal is currently the Director of Health Informatics at HP Enterprise Services. As the director of healthcare informatics for HP's U.S. Veterans Affairs portfolio he is responsible for establishing the strategic direction in areas of health informatics, electronic health record global strategy, best practice sharing, industry expertise, and enterprise business transformation. As a recognized leader and subject matter expert on process re-engineering for healthcare and electronic health records interoperability, Goyal often serves as an author, panelist and public speaker in areas such as patient medical records and effective EHR institutionalization and utilization.



Joe Jackson
VP Programs
jjackson@lonestarcom.com

Joe is responsible for healthcare business development at Lone Star Communications. Joe has over 25 years of experience in IT, telecommunications and enterprise software sales and marketing. Lone Star Communications is a integrity driven DFW based company that specializes in serving north Texas healthcare service providers. The company’s primary value to healthcare providers is to maximize their reimbursements by automating clinical workflow processes to ensure best practice adherence. Lone Star has been a premier Rauland Borg Nurse Call system partner since the company was founded over 20 years ago. Lone Star also specializes in infant abduction prevention, audio / visual, RTLS asset and staff tracking, mass notification, and smart phone (iPhone / iPad / Blackberry, Droid) / VOIP phone integration.





Shana Berger
VP Sponsorships
dfwhimsssponsorship@gmail.com
(214) 632-8782

Shana Berger is the Information Technology Business Services Manager for Children's Medical Center of Dallas. She has over twenty years of healthcare financial operations experience ranging from a non-profit Hospice, Healthcare Asset Management and Healthcare Technology Management. Shana has been with Children’s, a 557 bed, multi-location pediatric hospital, for more than eight years. Her responsibilities include budgeting (multi-million dollars), contract review and compliance, staffing and contract labor engagement for the Information Services Department, which includes Health Information Management and Biomedical Engineering. Shana works closely with Human Resources, Finance, Legal and clinical operations to help set direction and business processes, while reducing and controlling associated costs for services.



Peter Vale
Advocacy Liaison
peter.vale@gmail.com
(469) 365-7179
Peter Vale is the Data Exchange Program Manager and Relationship Manager to the International Oncology Network for AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group (ABSG) based in Frisco Texas. He also sits on the Corporate Healthcare Reform Task Force and the Tools and Technologies Steering Committee for AmerisourceBergen. Having been an Enterprise Java developer for ten years he acts as a technical conduit between the business unit and technical departments of ABSG facilitating HIT solution offerings. As a subject matter expert on HIT he is often called on for leadership and guidance to meet the unique needs and requirements of physicians and practices in the oncology market space.



Thomas F. Shubnell, Ph.D., FHIMSS
Board Member Pro Tem, Webmaster
tom@shubnell.com
(214) 507-0783

Dr. Shubnell is a Principal with CCG, a leading information services firm that delivers senior level and strategic consulting solutions to healthcare providers. He has over thirty years of experience in information technology projects, has written numerous articles, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. His work experience spans roles from Programmer to Chief Information Officer and Chief Executive Officer. He has published a project management book, “The Art of Installation and The Science of Implementation” and numerous other books.



Laura Pyle
Board Member Pro Tem
lauraapyle@verizon.net
(214) 957-7285

Laura Pyle is President of Valiant Health Services, a healthcare IT consulting company she started in 2009. She has over 16 years of healthcare technology, business operation and organizational leadership. Prior to Valiant Health Services, Laura was an Associate Partner for IBM where she was responsible for selling and delivering IBM Global Business Services in the DFW market. Her experiences include areas in healthcare from software development, data management, large scale project management, strategic planning and account management.


 

 

 

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