David
K. Nace, MD, Vice President,
Clinical Development,
McKesson Corporation - MHS
As a top executive of one of the world's
largest health care and HIT companies, Dr. Nace is a
nationally-recognized expert on health information
technology in such contexts as managed care, workplace-oriented
programs, benefit plan design, disease management, health
promotion, and
work-life balance. He is the founding principal of Healthcare
Strategy Solutions and has held key leadership roles in U.S.
health care policy and financing strategies since the early 1990s.
Dr. Nace
will share his global vision of HIT for improving health care,
reducing costs and improving quality of
life for patients across the lifespan.
Keynote Speaker supported by Office of
Local and Rural Health, Kansas Department of Health
and Environment
PANEL SPEAKERS ON JULY 14
David Cook,
PhD (panel moderator), is the Associate
Vice Chancellor, Office of Outreach, at the University
of Kansas Medical Center, where he serves as the
Chief Operating
Officer of the institution’s Outreach
and Institutional Advancement divisions. He is
also an Associate Professor in the
School of Medicine with teaching, research and
service responsibilities.
Michael Atwood, MD, currently serves
as the Chief Medical Officer for Blue Cross and Blue
Shield
of Kansas. Prior
to joining BCBSKS,
he was a practicing family physician and for
14 years served on the senior leadership team at Stormont-Vail
HealthCare in Topeka, KS.
He directed the physician use of the clinic
electronic
medical record at Cotton-O’Neil clinic
from 2004 until joining BCBSKS in 2009.
Jim Hansen is President and CEO
of CareEntrust, the first operational employer-sponsored
health
information
exchange.
CareEntrust is
an independent, non-profit organization based
in Kansas City delivering a secure regional
health record service
for use by health care
providers and consumer/patients to improve
the safety, quality and efficiency of health care.
State Rep. Tom Sloan serves as
Chair, Vision 2020 and is a member of the following
committees:
Energy
and
Utilities, Government
Efficiency and Fiscal Oversight, and Joint
Committee on Energy and Environmental Policy.
He is recognized
in Kansas and nationally as
being an innovative policy-maker on energy,
water, telecommunications, higher education
and other
policy areas.
Chris Tilden, PhD, is the Director of the Office
of Local and Rural Health (OLRH) at the Kansas Department
of Health and Environment
(KDHE) and has been working in the OLRH since 2001.
PLENARY SPEAKER ON JULY 15
Ken Lindsey, MD, MBA, FAAFP, is
a board certified physician executive with more
than eight
years of successful
administrative and
clinical leadership experience in
ambulatory practice, hospitals, IPA’s, Health
Plans and Information Technology. Dr. Lindsey
has demonstrated
strengths in leadership, personnel management,
strategic planning, medical management,
business development,
fiscal planning
and professional recruitment. He is currently
Senior Vice-President & Chief
Medical Officer at Hays Medical
Center, Hays,
KS.
If you have questions, please contact Gordon
Alloway at galloway@kumc.edu or 913-588-2257
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