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David Aylward
David Aylward is the Director of the ComCARE Alliance. ComCARE Alliance is a seven year old national coalition of 100 organizations that represent nurses, doctors, emergency medical technicians, wireless companies, public safety and health officials, transportation companies, automobile companies and safety groups, and others who are working to educate the public and policymakers and mobilize mayors and county executives - who are ultimately responsible for the 7,000 9-1-1 systems, and the related emergency communications systems nationwide - to provide leadership and make emergency response work better. Mr. Aylward has also held senior management positions with wireless telecommunications companies, including a satellite and a commercial mobile radio company. From 1981 to 1985, Mr. Aylward was Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection and Finance. From 1977 to 1981, he was Legislative Director to U.S. Congressman Timothy E. Wirth (D-CO). In the 1970's, he practiced contracts law with the firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. Mr. Aylward held senior positions in two presidential campaigns, and managed four congressional election campaigns. He received a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1971, and a J.D. with High Honors from The National Law Center of The George Washington University in 1976.
Max Donath
Max Donath is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Donath's major interests are in the integration of sensors, intelligence, and motor control in order to both assist humans with the performance of complex tasks, and to provide machines and other systems with the flexibility and adaptability typically associated with human function. He joined the University of Minnesota in 1978, and has directed the ITS Institute affiliated with the Center for Transportation Studies since 1997. In addition, he was previously director of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Design, and Control (CAMDAC), and has been a visiting associate professor at Stanford University. Dr. Donath received a B. Eng. in mechanical engineering from McGill University, and went on to earn S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Bradley Estochen
Bradley Estochen is a Senior Engineer and Project Manager for the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) section of the Office of Traffic, Security, and Operations. Currently Mr. Estochen is the Program Manager of the Mayday Field Operational Test that includes the involvement of the United States Department of Transportation, OnStar, the Mayo Clinic, two 911 service providers, and several technology consultants. Mr. Estochen is a graduate of Iowa State University with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Civil Engineering. He was involved in a variety of crash analysis research and developed several crash analysis tools for the Iowa Department of Transportation. Mr. Estochen is a paid on call firefighter and EMT for the City of Woodbury, a second ring suburb in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.
Laurie Flaherty
Laurie Flaherty is a Program Analyst with the EMS Division at NHTSA and has worked at NHTSA since 1997, doing outreach for NHTSA’s injury prevention programs and recruiting health care professionals to establish alcohol screening programs as part of standard practice. In her current capacity, her activities include the management of several projects related to the use of technology in prehospital emergency care and the advance of prehospital emergency communications. Ms. Flaherty is an emergency nurse, who has more than 20 years of clinical experience. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing at Marquette University, and has a master’s degree in emergency and trauma nursing from the University of California, San Francisco.
Jane Fountain
Jane Fountain is Associate Professor of Public Policy, Director of the National Center for Digital Government and Co-Chair of the Information, Technology, and Governance Faculty Group. Her research is focused at the intersection of institutions, global information and communication technologies, and governance. Dr. Fountain is the author of Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), which was awarded an Outstanding Academic Title 2002 by Choice, and Women in the Information Age (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). She has published research on information and communication technology and the development of networked forms of organization and governance in Governance, Technology in Society, Science and Public Policy, The Communications of the ACM, and other scholarly journals. Fountain has served in several governing bodies convened to foster research on information and communication technologies and governance. She holds a double PhD from Yale University in organizational behavior and in political science.
Thomas Horan
Thomas Horan is Associate Professor in the School of Information Science and Director of the Claremont Information and Technology Institute (CITI). Dr. Horan's research addresses the planning and assessment of information technology systems, focusing on digital infrastructure and management, community informatics and health care information systems. This research has been reported in a wide variety of journals, including Information Systems Frontiers; Communications of the ACM; Knowledge, Technology and Policy, and Journal of Urban Technology. Dr. Horan has also written two books on the subject of digital technology—Digital Places (2000) and Digital Infrastructures (2004, edited with Rae Zimmerman). He has been a visiting scholar at MIT, Harvard, UCLA and the University of Minnesota. Prior to joining Claremont Graduate University, Dr. Horan spent seven years in the Washington, D.C. area. From 1992-94, Dr. Horan was a Senior Fellow at George Mason University and from 1988-1992, Dr. Horan was a Senior Analyst at the U.S. General Accounting Office (GA0). Dr Horan received his B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Vermont, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate University.
Sheila Madhani
Sheila Madhani is program officer for the Institute of Medicine, National Academies of Sciences. IOM is presently conducting a major study on “The Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System”. Ms. Madhani has been with NAS since August of 2004. Prior to joining the IOM, Ms. Madhani worked on regulatory issues related to physician payment policy at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). She has worked as an analyst for the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (NAPH) conducting managed care research and she has experience in community organizing in the area of domestic and international HIV/AIDS advocacy. Ms. Madhani has a BA from the University of Chicago in Political Science and an MA from the University of Chicago, School of Social Services Administration. She is currently completing a MPH from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
Michael Marich
Michael Marich is currently employed at Boeing in Anaheim, California as a Software Systems Engineer responsible for the architecture of large-scale, software-based systems. Mr. Marich has 28 years of expertise with real-time, embedded and non-real-time software applications, where he has used an extensive array of programming languages, operating systems, and platforms. Mr. Marich has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering Technology, a master’s degree in Computer Science, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Information Science at Claremont Graduate University. Mr. Marich's doctoral research interests include information systems analysis and design, as well as the application of information technology for health care information systems.
M. Lynne Markus
M. Lynne Markus is John W. Poduska Sr. Chair of Information Management at Bentley College. Professor Markus's research interests include enterprise and inter-enterprise systems, IT and organizational change, and knowledge management. Dr. Markus was formerly a member of the Faculty of Business at the City University of Hong Kong (as Chair Professor of Electronic Business), the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, the Anderson Graduate School of Management (UCLA) and the Sloan School of Management (MIT). Dr. Markus has received research grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Technology Assessment (US Congress), The Advanced Practices Council of SIM International, the Financial Executives Research Foundation, and Baan Institute. She is the author of three books and numerous articles in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, Communications of the ACM, Sloan Management Review and Management Science. She has served as AIS VP for Education, SIM VP for Academic Community Affairs, and on the editorial boards of several leading journals in the information systems field. Markus holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University.
Kevin McGinnis
Kevin McGinnis began studying EMS systems in 1974, and has been an EMS system builder ever since. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Brown University and Cornell University in health care delivery systems and hospital administration, has held EMT, EMT-Intermediate and Paramedic licenses in New York and Maine, and is or has been a certified instructor in PreHospital Trauma Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and first responder through EMT-I state course instruction/coordination. Mr. McGinnis has been a regional EMS coordinator, a hospital emergency department director, Maine's state EMS director from 1986 through 1996 (he served as interim state E9-1-1 director for a year during that period as well). He has been an EMS system consultant for the past 6 years, evaluating systems and ambulance services, and has served NHTSA as a member of state EMS system technical assistance teams for five statewide evaluations. For the past three years, Mr. McGinnis has been a Program Advisor for the National Association of State EMS Directors. He is also the director of a hospital-based ambulance system in the western mountains of Maine, and serves as the Maine EMS trauma system development coordinator. He continues his active paramedic practice of the past 25 years.
Lee Munnich
Lee Munnich directs the State and Local Policy Program, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota. He focuses on transportation policy, regional economic development, quality strategies for government, and state-local fiscal policy. Munnich has more than twenty-three years of experience with state and local governments. He was a deputy commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic Development, research director for the Minnesota Business Partnership, economic consultant for the Minnesota House of Representatives, manager of Midwest Research Institute's Center of Economic Studies, and executive director of the Minnesota Tax Study Commission. He was elected to the Minneapolis City Council in 1973 and 1975. Mr. Munnich founded and chaired the Minnesota Economic Resource Group in 1985, developed and managed the annual Economic Report to the Governor of Minnesota through 1991, and chaired the National Association of State Development Agencies' research division from 1986 to 1990. Mr. Munnich received a bachelor's degree in economics from Georgetown University in 1967 and has done postgraduate work in economics and computer science at the University of Minnesota.
Barbara Pletz
Barbara Pletz has been the Administrator since 1988. She is a registered nurse with over 30 years California EMS experience and has overall responsibility for the EMS program. Ms. Pletz provides leadership for the EMS staff and for the EMS system in San Mateo County. She is an active participant at the state level on various EMS committees. She is past president of the EMS Administrators’ Association of California and served as its legislative chair for six years.
Benjamin Schooley
Benjamin Schooley is currently a joint MBA and Ph.D. student in the School of Information Science and Peter F. Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, and a research associate at the Claremont Information and Technology Institute (CITI). Mr. Schooley’s research interests include management, organizational, and policy implications of information technology. As a co-author, his research has been reported in academic journals including Information Systems Frontiers and Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Mr. Schooley earned his B.A. from Brigham Young University and Masters degree in Information Systems from Claremont Graduate University.
Joseph Sussman
Joseph Sussman is the JR East Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, where he has served as a faculty member for 35 years. Dr. Sussman specializes in planning, investment analysis, operations, management, design and maintenance of Complex, Large-Scale, Integrated, Open Systems (CLIOS), working in many applications areas. He is the author of Introduction to Transportation Systems, a graduate text in use at a number of universities. Dr. Sussman has worked on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), helping to build the U.S. national program. In 2001, the ITS Massachusetts established the Joseph M. Sussman Leadership Award in recognition of Dr. Sussman's contributions to, and leadership in, ITS. Dr. Sussman received the Roy W. Crum Award from TRB, its highest honor, "for significant contributions to research" in 2001. Dr. Sussman has focused recently on developing a new methodology for regional strategic transportation planning, called ReS/SITE (Regional Strategies for the Sustainable Intermodal Transportation Enterprise), integrating ideas from strategic management, scenario-building, technology architectures and CLIOS analysis, based on cases in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Sussman has his undergraduate degree (B.C.E) from the City College of New York, his master’s degree (M.S.C.E) from the University of New Hampshire and his doctoral degree from MIT.
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