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The Healthcare CIO Boot Camp is led by a faculty of healthcare CIOs
who have demonstrated continued success, leadership, and organizational
excellence in their careers.
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The Healthcare CIO Boot Camp Faculty Profiles
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Russell P. Branzell, FCHIME, CHCIO (Past: Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010)
Vice President of IS and CIO
Poudre Valley Health System
Russ Branzell is the Vice President of IS/CIO, Poudre Valley Health System (PVHS) and
the President/CEO of Innovation Enterprises (PVHS’ for profit IS entity).
PVHS is an integrated health system with a reputation for excellence and innovative care.
They most recently are the recipients of the 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award,
the highest Presidential honor given to United States businesses and organizations that
demonstrate performance excellence, the Colorado Performance Excellence Peak Award (first
and only organization in the state), Solucient’s 100 Top Hospitals, Health Grades Distinguished
Hospital Award, Magnet Hospital for Nursing Excellence designation, Avatar International 5
Star National Award, and US News and World Report-America’s 50 Best Hospitals. In addition
to these honors and awards, the Information Services Division was recognized with Information
Week Magazine’s Top 500 Award for innovative technology usage and also received the Business
Technology Optimization Excellence Award for IT Governance Best Practices (2004).
Prior to joining PVHS, he was the Regional Deputy CIO and Executive Director of Information
Services for Sisters of Mercy Health System in St. Louis, MO. Before his time in St. Louis,
Mr. Branzell served on active duty in the United States Air Force and continues to serve in
the Air Force Reserves. While on active duty, Mr. Branzell served in numerous healthcare
administration positions including Chief Information Officer for the Air Mobility Command
Surgeon General’s Office. In 1996, he was selected for the Air Force Medical Service Fellowship
program and completed a CIO Internship at the Unity Health System in St. Louis, MO.
Mr. Branzell is a past member of the CHIME Board of Directors (2004-2008), past Chairperson
of the CHIME Education Committee (2004-2008), and past Program Director for CHIME’s Healthcare
CIO Boot Camp (2006 - 2009). He was instrumental in the development and ongoing success of CHIME’s
LEAD Forum and CHIME Foundation Boot Camp education programs, serving both as Program Director and
as a member of faculty for both since their inception. In addition, he has served as Chairperson of
CHIME’s Spring and Fall CIO Forum Planning Committees. Mr. Branzell currently serves on the CHIME
Education Foundation Board.
Mr. Branzell is a Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO), a fellow of CHIME and HIMSS, and board
certified through the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). He was awarded the 2005
ACHE Regent’s Award as the Young Healthcare Administrator of the Year for the State of Colorado.
PVHS has received numerous industry awards in recognition of it’s commitment to the advancement
of healthcare informatics.
Russ serves on numerous editorial, volunteer, community and management boards. Additionally,
he has been a speaker at regional, national, user groups and vendor conferences.
A native of San Antonio, Texas, Russ earned an undergraduate degree in business administration
specializing in human resource management and labor relations from the University of Texas. In
1995, he earned a Master’s degree in Administrative Science from Embry-Riddle University with an
emphasis in management.
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Rodney C. Dykehouse (Past: Fall 2009, Spring 2010 - Current: Fall 2010)
VP of Information Services and CIO
ProHealth Care
Rod Dykehouse is the VP of Information Services and CIO of ProHealth Care, a two
hospital community health system including a large group practice, 16 medical
centers, nursing homes, and hospice, all located in Waukesha, WI.
Most recently Rod served as CIO of UCLA Medical Sciences, including the David Geffen School
of Medicine, UCLA Medical Group, UCLA Medical Center, UCLA – Santa Monica Hospital, Stewart
and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, and Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA.
The UCLA Medical Sciences has approx 950 beds and net revenues of $2 billion. Rod led the IT
Transition into the $1 billion Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and the development of an
Information System strategy for the UCLA Enterprise. Before that, Rod was CIO at Froedtert &
Community Health (F&CH), a two hospital academic and community Health System in metropolitan
Milwaukee where he was responsible for telecommunication and information systems. Prior to
joining Froedtert, Rod was Vice President of Information Systems for St. John Health System
in Detroit, a seven hospital, 1750-plus beds, Integrated Delivery System. Rod’s experience
with St. John Health System began in 1983 after acquiring his Masters in Health Services
Administration from the University of Michigan. He also holds a B.A. in Biology from Kalamazoo
College in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Adrienne Edens, FCHIME (Past: Spring 2010 - Current: Fall 2010)
System Vice President and CIO
St. Luke’s Health System
Adrienne Edens is the Vice President and CIO at St. Luke’s Health System in Boise, ID, where she oversees strategic planning and operations for this regional health system.
Prior to joining St. Luke’s, she was the Vice President and Information Officer for the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan in Oakland, CA and held multiple executive positions in that organization. Previous positions include Executive IT positions with Catholic Healthcare West in Northern California and Vice President, Information Systems with Mercy Healthcare in Sacramento, CA. She also served as Practice Director for First Consulting Group in San Francisco, where she developed and managed the Pacific Northwest healthcare system’s consulting practice.
She holds an M.A. in Applied Psychology from the University of Santa Monica and received her B.A. from the University of California, Davis. She is a CHIME Fellow and is an active member of HIMSS.
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Mary Finlay, CHCIO (Past: Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010 - Current: Fall 2010)
Deputy Chief Information Officer
Partners HealthCare System, Inc.
Mary Finlay is the deputy Chief Information officer of Partners HealthCare System,
Inc. In this role, Ms. Finlay is responsible for the daily management of an organization
of 1,400 information systems and telecommunications staff. Previously, she was the Chief
Information Officer of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is also a member of the faculty
for the Simmons School of Management.
Ms. Finlay is the former Chair of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership
Council, an association of 500 members. She currently serves on the board
of YearUp and is a member of the Governor’s Technical Advisory group. She
is an active member of the College of Healthcare Information Management
Executives (CHIME) and a member of the faculty for the CHIME Healthcare
CIO Boot Camp. She has been recognized with leadership awards from the
Simmons School of Management, CIO, the New England Business and Technology
Association, and Babson College. She received her BA from Allegheny
College and her MBA from the Simmons School of Management.
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Michael W. Smith, FCHIME, CHCIO (Past: Spring 2009, Fall 2009)
Chief Information Officer
Lee Memorial Health System
Mike serves as Chief Information Officer for Lee Memorial Health System (LMHS), an integrated healthcare system including 5 acute care hospitals, a Children's Hospital, a Rehab Hospital, nursing home, home health services, outpatient services and multiple multispecialty physician group practices. As Chief Information Officer, Mr. Smith is charged with overall leadership of the System's efforts to utilize information systems, technologies and methods for the achievement of Lee Memorial's mission. He has operational responsibility for Information Systems/Information Technology, Tele-communications, Health Information Management (Medical Records), and Biomedical Engineering.
Mike joined LMHS in 1997, following 10 years in various Information technology leadership capacities at Baylor Healthcare System in Dallas, TX. Prior to that he served as the Vice President of Operations for NADACOM, a healthcare information systems company also in Dallas, where he was responsible for software and hardware development and implementation. In total, Mr. Smith has more than 25 years experience in the healthcare information systems business.
Mike is a past Board Member and is a Fellow of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), is a HIMSS Fellow and is a past member of the HIMSS Advocacy and Public Policy Steering Committee. He is also a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), and is on the Board of AHA Solutions. He is on the Advisory Board of KLAS, and is a faculty member of the CHIME Healthcare CIO Boot Camp. He earned his Bachelors degree in Information Management, and also has a degree in Electronic Engineering.
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Timothy Stettheimer, Ph.D., FCHIME, CHCIO (Past: Spring 2009, Fall 2009 - Current: Fall 2010)
Senior Vice President & Regional CIO
St. Vincent’s Health System/ Ascension Health
Timothy Stettheimer, Ph.D. serves as senior vice-president and chief information officer for St. Vincent's Health System in Birmingham, Alabama. St. Vincent’s Health System includes four acute care hospitals and one ambulatory facility and is part of St. Louis based Ascension Health. In addition to his CIO duties at St. Vincent’s Health System, Dr. Stettheimer also holds the title of Regional Chief Information Officer for Ascension Health. His regional leadership includes responsibility for hospitals in Birmingham (AL), Mobile (AL), Pensacola (FL), Destin (FL) and Jacksonville (FL). Also, Dr. Stettheimer provides executive leadership as a co-lead for all of Ascension Health’s national clinical information system initiatives.
Among Dr. Stettheimer’s hospitals is St. Vincent’s – Birmingham, the Flagship Digital Hospital for Ascension Health and a multi-year “Most Wired” winner. St. Vincent’s leads Ascension Health as well as the industry in the use of innovative and enabling technology such as robotic surgery, pervasive mobile and context aware computing, integrated clinical repositories and electronic patient records. At St. Vincent’s Health System, Dr. Stettheimer has responsibility for strategic and tactical information technology initiatives, as well as alliances and partnerships with external companies to support information initiatives. His participation with hospital executive teams and his involvement in board level activities supports health system level initiatives to fulfill Ascension Health’s Call to Action for Healthcare that is Safe and Healthcare that Works.
Dr. Stettheimer is a Fellow with both the College for Healthcare Information Management Executes (CHIME) and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). He is also certified as a professional in healthcare information management systems (CPHIMS) as a member of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS). In 2005, Dr. Stettheimer was named the John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year by CHIME and HIMSS. He was also recognized as a Medical Informatics Fellow under a National Institute of Health Grant (1993-1995) during his doctoral studies. He holds faculty positions with the University of North Texas and the University of Phoenix where he teaches Master’s and Doctoral classes in information systems and medical informatics. Dr. Stettheimer previously served as a regional information services executive in Fort Worth, Texas for Florida-based Adventist Health System. His Ph.D. was earned from the University of North Texas, focused in the field of medical informatics.
Dr. Stettheimer serves as a member of the McKesson Strategic Advisory Council, Adobe Corporation’s CIO Council and the Editorial Advisory Board for Advance for Healthcare Information Executives. He has previously served on the HP Healthcare Executive Council and on the Advisory Board for The Emerging Technologies and Healthcare Innovations Conference. Dr. Stettheimer has delivered presentations on diverse healthcare technology topics and is frequently quoted and published in national trade publications.
He is the 2010 Board Chair of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and serves as Chairperson, Education Committee.
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Lynn Harold Vogel, Ph. D., FHIMSS, FCHIME, CHCIO (Past: Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010 - Current: Fall 2010)
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Associate Professor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Lynn Harold Vogel, Ph.D., is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (UT-MDACC) in Houston, Texas, a $4B+ clinical, research and teaching institution that is the world’s largest and consistently one of the highest rated facilities devoted to the care and cure of cancer. In 2006, M. D. Anderson was named to the CIO100 list of the most innovative IT organizations, to the top 100 of InformationWeek’s Top 500, has been honored twice as one of the top 25 connected healthcare facilities by Health Imaging and IT, and named as the inaugural recipient of the Transformation Leadership Award, jointly by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Center for Healthcare Transformation. In 2007, Dr. Vogel was named as one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders, and was awarded one of ten “Best in Class” designations for his work in bridging clinical care and research through information technology (IT). This year, MDACC was again honored by Computerworld as a leader in the healthcare industry by designation as a Laurate, and also awarding the institution its prestigious 21st Century Achievement Award in Healthcare.
Dr. Vogel is also Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at UT-MDACC, and Adjunct Professor of Management at The University of Texas School of Public Health. During his almost thirty year career, Dr. Vogel has previously held faculty appointments at The University of Chicago, The City University of New York and Columbia University. He has led IT organizations at The University of Chicago Hospitals, and at Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Healthcare in New York City. At UT-MDACC, Dr. Vogel serves as the senior IT executive managing a 700+ person IT division, and is leading the in-house development of UT-MDACC’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) with a major focus on the integration of research and clinical data. He also serves as a faculty member for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) CIO Boot Camp experience.
Dr. Vogel is a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences, and has authored numerous articles on topics such as identifying returns from healthcare information technology investments, implications of personalized medicine for information technology, governance strategies for IT investment decisions, and information technology strategy and management.
Dr. Vogel’s education at the bachelor’s, masters and doctoral level was completed at The University of Chicago. He is a Fellow, Charter Member and a current Trustee of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), a member and Fellow of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
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Timothy R. Zoph (Past: Fall 2009, Spring 2010 - Current: Fall 2010)
Senior Vice President, Administration and CIO
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Tim serves as the Senior Vice President, Administration and CIO for Northwestern Memorial Hospital. This year marks his 16th anniversary at Northwestern Memorial and 22 years as a CIO in the health care industry. Tim has earned graduate business degrees from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Utah.
Through Tim’s leadership, Northwestern Memorial has been awarded one of the 100 Most Wired Hospitals for 8 years. He was recently named the 2008 CIO of the Year by the Executives’ Club of Chicago along with The Association of Information Technology Professionals. Tim is also a faculty member of the CHIME Healthcare CIO Boot Camp that is dedicated to training current and future information technology leaders in the healthcare industry.
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