Donna is a successful Information Technology Executive with over 20 years experience in hospitals. Donna has held various senior positions at NYU Medical Center and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Most recently, in her role as a Director in Strategic Projects in Information Technology at Mount Sinai Hospital, Donna has been responsible for the deployment of the GE/Agility RTLS Hospital Optimization Project. Her responsibilities included a in depth research and proof of concept for the RTLS vendor selection, physical inventory of 30,000 assets, RTLS infrastructure design and build, RFID tagging of 15,000 assets and the AgileTrac equipment module application design and build. Reconciliation efforts with the Clinical Engineering department are currently underway. Donna has extensive Leadership, Project Management and Business Analysis experience in the design and implementation of critical hospital applications including Cerner ADT, Scheduling and Registration, McKesson PeriOperative Scheduling and Materials Management, Eclipsys Clinicals, and SMS/Eagle Patient Billing. Donna's years of varied hospital experience ensures an effective integration of Hospital Operations and technology. Donna earned her Master of Hospital Administration and Bachelor of Science from New York University.
Dr. Gisele Bennett
Dr. Gisele Bennett is the director of the Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory, founder of the Logistics and Maintenance Applied Research Center (LandMARC) with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, and a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. As a member of the scientific cadré with Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Laboratoire Optique (CNRS), she collaborated between researchers at CNRS and Georgia Tech Lorraine in the area of optical encryption. Her research interests include coherence theory applications to optical imaging systems, atmospheric turbulence and propagation, and RFID. She is a topical editor for Applied Optics and associate editor for International Journal of RF Technologies: Research and Applications. She holds a Patent on Integrated Sensor Radio Frequency Identification (ISRFID) with Location, has numerous patents pending, and a Copyright on a computer model for Wave Propagation through the atmosphere. She has numerous patents pending on Container Security and led the development of the Advanced Container Security Device, a key cargo R&D initiative sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate. She has served as a reviewer for the National Institute of Health and National Science Foundation proposals and a reviewer for numerous referred journals. She is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), SPIE (International Society for Optics And Photonics), Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta kappa Nu and is currently on the Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM) RFID Experts Advisory Group (REG). She is one of ten fellows chosen for Georgia Tech’s University Leadership program. She has over 85 publications in books or book chapters, refereed journals, technical reports, and workshops. She has a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a certificate in Management of Technology from Georgia Tech.
Dr. Keley Booth
Dr. Keley John Booth’s focus is on the passionate pursuit of innovation and enhancement of perioperative healthcare delivery. In association with the RFID in Healthcare Consortium, Dr. Booth is concentrating his efforts on the advancement of the perioperative environment within the Intelligent Hospital at HIMSS 2012. The promotion of education and awareness among the life sciences industry and the development of technologies for the improvement of healthcare delivery are goals he shares with fellow Intelligent Hospital Advisory Committee members. Keley Booth was inspired to pursue a medical career after suffering a serious football injury that left his left arm temporarily paralyzed while in his early teens. This first-hand experience served to set him on a path of deep appreciation of the medical field that continues to inspire him in the care of his patients today. Early in his training, Dr. Booth applied his technology integration talents in promoting the adoption of clinical handheld computing as Co-Founder of Handheldmed while still a medical student. Providing independent consultant support, Booth subsequently worked with firms in the continued development of clinical mobile computing applications as well as web based clinical medical applications. Dr. Booth is a board certified diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology and completed his medical training and residency with the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Oklahoma City. Following the formation of the anesthesia practice management firm Advanced Perioperative Services in 2006; Booth has served as Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology with Integris Health Southwest Medical Center. Now in his sixth year in this role, his leadership has resulted in the perioperative department achieving national recognition from the VHA, Inc. as a “Leading Practice” performer in perioperative efficiency. Most recently, Dr. Booth has been directly involved in the successful coordination and opening of a brand new, state of the art, full service Integris Health hospital and perioperative department in Edmond, OK. He is also Chief Medical Consultant of the Surgery Logistics firm, focused on the integration of technology enhancement of perioperative care delivery logistics.
Kimberly Brayley
Kimberly Brayley assumed the position as the Director of the Real Time Location System Project Management Office for the Department of Veteran Affairs in January, 2011 after a one year detail into the position. Prior to that, she was the Chief Clinical Engineer at the VA Western New York Healthcare System since February, 2004. Ms. Brayley came to the VA with 10 years experience in Healthcare Technology Management. Since coming to the VA, Ms. Brayley has championed and developed the Capital Asset Tracking System for VISN 2, chaired the Performance Improvement Activities in WNY (Six Sigma and Lean Healthcare), completed an interim assignment as the Acting Business Manager for Behavioral Health, Acting Administrative Officer for Research and Development, and also chaired the national development of a Benchmarking Tool for VA Clinical Engineering. In 2008, Ms. Brayley received her VHA coach certification at the fellowship level. She is a graduate of the Northeast Healthcare Leadership Institute and from the VHA Executive Career Field Candidate Development Program and also a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt.
Linda Castro
Linda R. Castro is a research associate at ePoly Research Centre of Polytechnic School of Montreal, as well a member of the project management team at Genivar; a consulting engineering firm; leading, in consortium, the construction of a mega hospital in Montreal. Linda holds B.Eng. and M.Eng. in industrial engineering. Currently, she is finalizing her doctorate degree in industrial engineering with orientation in technology management. For the past few years, her work has been oriented towards the optimization of inter-intra enterprise business processes through the integration of emergent technologies such as RFID, particularly within the healthcare industry. Linda specializes in assessing how intelligent products could help hospitals to develop more efficient asset management activities and she had led a project with European and Canadian stakeholders in the field. Linda has written and co-authored RFID related scientific articles, as well as has been speaker on international conferences and invited lecturer in the area of technology management. Linda is an associate editor of the Journal of Technology Management & Innovation.
Dr. Daniel W. Engels
Dr. Daniel W. Engels is Chief Technology Officer at Revere Security, a data security firm specializing in security for small, resource-constrained devices. Dr. Engels is a Visiting Fellow at Southern Methodist University, and he is the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on RFID for 2011-2012. Dr. Engels is the former Director of Research of the Auto-ID Labs at MIT and is an original member of the research team started in 1998 that founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT. Dr. Engels is one of the principal architects of the Networked Physical World EPC System, the foundation of the Internet of Things, developed under the Auto-ID Center and licensed to the Uniform Codes Council, now GS1. Dr. Engels received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has over 80 peer reviewed publications in RFID, RFID applications, security, embedded computing, and computer-aided design. Dr. Engels is a member of AIDC 100 and a Senior Member of IEEE.
Dr. Paul Frisch
Paul Frisch is currently an Assistant Attending and Clinical Member in the Department of Medical Physics and Chief of Biomedical Physics & Engineering at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In this role, he is responsible for the investigation of new and evolving technologies and their potential application within the medical center. These investigations focus on the integration of a variety of technologies to enhance clinical care, treatment and patient safety. Additionally he manages existing technology and equipment, providing repair, calibration and preventive maintenance services to ensure regulatory compliance, as well as supporting basic research programs. His specific areas of research include electromagnetic field induced gene expression, robotic surgery, and clinical applications of wireless technology. Dr. Frisch’s previous research experiences include research in human biodynamics investigating human response to transitory acceleration, such as crash-impact and aircraft ejection and robotic applications in pharmaceutical development. Paul Frisch has a Doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering from the State University of New York at Binghamton and Masters and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He currently serves on the technical advisory boards of CISCO, Philips Medical Systems, Health Systems Solutions and acts as the Chief Technical Officer for the RFID Consortium. He has published more than thirty-five reviewed publications and several book chapters.
Diana Hage
Diana Hage, CEO of RFID Global Solution, Inc., runs one of the leading software and services firms specialized in the application of RFID and sensor technologies for enterprise asset management. She is an expert on the use of wireless and information technologies in Healthcare. Since 2002, Diana has spearheaded the development of RFID industry solutions for IBM, ODIN and RFID Global. For IBM, Ms. Hage led the strategy and growth of their enterprise mobility and wireless services business. As Director, Corporate Strategy, she helped launch new business units in Healthcare and Information Based Medicine. Ms. Hage's team deployed some of the earliest RFID asset tracking pilots in hospitals such as Westchester Medical Center. Since taking the helm at RFID Global in 2008, Ms. Hage has led the largest RFID asset tracking projects in the industry - for St. Luke's Hospital, Cisco Systems, Boeing and Bank of America, among others. Diana's firm has successfully deployed and has over one million assets under management. Visi-Trac, the firm's software platform, integrates data inputs from a wide variety of passive, RTLS and sensor technologies. Her engineering team has designed automated inventory systems integrated with medical carts for hands-free, efficient asset inventory. RFID Global's healthcare expertise spans tracking medical supplies such as cardiac stents and lead shields to pharma initiatives for Abbott Labs, H.D. Smith and Purdue. Her team served as technical experts on Accenture's Jumpstart program, which included Abbott, Barr, Cardinal Health, CVS, J&J, McKesson, Pfizer, P&G, Rite Aid, MDMA, the FDA and MIT. Diana was named in 'Top 10 Tech CEOs to Watch' by SmartCEO and has been featured in Forbes, the New York Times and San Jose Mercury News. Ms. Hage holds an MBA from the Darden School of Business and a BA from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Neil Halpern
Neil A Halpern MD graduated Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 1981 and trained in Internal Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and Critical Care Medicine (CCM) at Presbyterian University Medical Center, Pittsburgh. Since 1999, he is Chief of CCM and Medical Director of Respiratory Therapy at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY and Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College, NY. He has a strong interest in ICU design and the implementation of innovative approaches to addressing ICU problems involving patient care, connectivity, data flow and management, infection control, privacy and safety, point of care testing, and family comfort. His 20 bed adult medical-surgical ICU which opened in 2007 was awarded the national ICU design citation for 2009. He is a Fellow of the American Colleges of Physicians, Chest Physicians and CCM. He is a member of the Editorial board of Critical Care Medicine and is a prolific author and speaker specializing in cost and use of critical care in America, technology introduction in critical care, innovations in ICU design, wireless connectivity in critical care, use of nurse practitioners in critical care, and point of care testing. He is also a member of the advisory boards of ICU informatics and point of care testing companies. He is President of Critical Care Designs, a New York based company focusing on ICU design.
Dr. Suraj Kapa
Suraj Kapa has a background in mathematics and physics, and has incorporated these interests into ongoing research in cardiovascular diseases. He earned his Medical Doctor (MD) from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - New Jersey Medical School, and has since finished his training in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic. He has performed research in electromagnetic interference related to existing wireless and other technologies in the healthcare environment, and is concentrating on the interplay between resource utilization, cost efficiencies, and patient safety, and how these may be improved using existing technologies. He has published several articles and book chapters in cardiovascular disease, and lectures on the use of innovative technologies in cardiology. The University of Pennsylvania currently employs Dr. Kapa.
Dr. Mohammad Maghazil
Dr. Maghazil is the head of application services in the Information Technology Affairs of King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center (Saudi Arabia). He worked as the clinical computing manager and the project executive for the integrated clinical information system. He has M.Sc. and D.Sc in Engineering Management & Systems Engineering from George Washington University. He is now the project director for the "Building a Smart Hospital using Smart Technology" project as it is one of the strategic projects for the hospital that is using RFID and similar technologies.
Troy T. Reiff
Mr. Reiff brings to RHCC more than 20 years of healthcare experience in, coronary intensive care nursing, cardiac medical nursing and long-term acute care nursing, who has built and operated hospitals and understands the value of technology and its impact on healthcare quality, cost and efficiencies. Mr. Reiff is a reviewer of new healthcare innovation for companies with a strong emphasis on finding technology for improving quality and efficient outcomes. He has spoken on a national level to healthcare leaders and developers of RFID/RTLS technology. Mr. Reiff has led the direction of the use of RFID/RTLS technology at St Vincent Seton Specialty Hospital by establishing a Living Lab to evaluate benefits of the technology.
Dr. William Maisel
Dr. Maisel is Director of the Medical Device Safety Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, MA where he has an active cardiology practice. Dr. Maisel received his undergraduate degree from MIT, his medical degree from Cornell Medical College, and a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is an FDA consultant and past chairperson of the FDA’s Circulatory System Medical Device Advisory Panel. Dr. Maisel’s research interests involve the safe and effective use of medical devices. His research has received national attention – most recently for investigations concerning the security and privacy of wireless transmissions from implantable medical devices, and electromagnetic interference affecting pacemakers and implanted defibrillators.
Dr. David Parry
Dave Parry is a Senior Lecturer and director of the AUT Radio frequency Identification (RFID) laboratory (AURA) in the AUT School of Computer and Information Sciences. He was awarded a degree in Physics from Imperial College London, followed by a Masters in Medical Physics from St. Bartholomew’s Medical College. He gained a research MSc. in Computer Science from the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research interests include Health Informatics, Ontology based information retrieval , and RFID applications for pervasive computing. Current research projects include the use of of RFID in healthcare, fuzzy ontology development and implementation and information systems to support health care in developing nations. He has has published over 50 refereed articles and conference papers. In the RFID area Dave’s main interests are in deriving activity information from logs of RFID tag detection, and use of RFID to support the disabled. and elderly in their homes. The major projects he is currently involved include the use of RFID to reduce adverse drug events and other areas in operating theatres. This involves both drug-tracking and integration of RFID into a clinical information systems as well as deriving activity from passive and active tag information. In the home care arena, Dave is working with the New Zealand Foundation of the Blind to examine the use of RFID as an assistive technology, along with work to support compliance with drug regimes and support for people with memory loss. As part of his academic work Dave has supervised a number of graduate students and teaches papers in health informatics and ubiquitous computing. Dave is currently the editor of Healthcare Informatics Review Online, the journal of Health informatics New Zealand. Dave is also a member of numerous editoral boards and programme committees.
Jeff Paynter
Mr. Paynter is responsible for Duke University Health System’s wireless network which covers ~7 million square feet across multiple buildings, campuses and WAN sites. Mr. Paynter designs, implements, and maintains cost effective information technology solutions based on critical analysis of business functions and risk assessments. Mr. Paynter designs wireless networks for various healthcare applications such as: barcode for lab specimen collection, barcode for medicine administration, computerized physician order entry (CPOE), echocardiograms (EKG), guest access, intravenous (IV) pumps, location services with passive and active radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, picture archiving system (PACS), etc. Mr. Paynter developed the “Wireless 101” technical support documentation used for staff training. Prior to Duke Mr. Paynter was responsible for the University of Rochester Medical Center’s wireless network which covered ~5.5 million square feet across multiple buildings, campuses and WAN sites.
Derrick W. VanKampen
A Biomedical Device Integration analyst employed by Tampa General Hospital who is focused on the integration of medical devices, healthcare systems, RTLS, and alarms. Striving for a converged platform, which is accessible and functional by mobile communication devices. Drawing on 13 years of experience with biomedical devices, networks,support systems, and clinical alarms, 10 of which were spent as a Biomedical Engineering Technician in the United States Air Force. Derrick has his AAS in Biomedical Engineering, he is also Network +, RFID +, CWNA certified. He has also attended numerous vendor schools (Capsuletech, GE, Philips etc.) and is currently studying Unified Communications, which he believes will greatly expand healthcare system integration.
John Wass
With over 20 years of experience in supply chain innovation, John combines a deep understanding of supply chain management and product life-cycle to envision and create groundbreaking solutions for seemingly intractable problems. John, along with Patrick Littlefield, WaveMark’s Chairman, recognized a tremendous opportunity for companies to improve healthcare supply chains through RFID. Applying the same pragmatism and insight gained from years of supply chain experience in the retail segment, John has brought this learning to the healthcare industry. As CEO of WaveMark, John has been instrumental in creating solutions that deliver a more efficient healthcare supply chain through RFID. WaveMark’s solutions eliminate manual processes, reduce costs, simplify workflows and improve patient safety. Prior to WaveMark, John co-founded and served as CEO of Swift Rivers, a venture-funded, reverse logistics software company. John also served as Senior Vice President of Logistics at Staples. John joined Staples in 1987 when there were only 3 stores and during his tenure led the effort to build a logistics infrastructure to support over 1,000 stores nationwide. At Staples, John played an influential role in laying the foundation for development of an optimized retail supply chain, establishing the logistics strategy department and building the Staples transportation department from the ground up. Previous to Staples, John held positions in brand management and marketing at Fidelity Investments, M&M/Mars and Procter & Gamble. John earned his Masters degree from MIT in Logistics and a B.S.E. from Princeton. He has co-authored articles on RFID and is a frequent speaker on new methods for healthcare inventory management and the powerful impact of RFID on supply chains at industry events and conferences around the country.
