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We have a great schedule of featured speakers for this symposium that will complement technical and research presentations. For a brief background on our speakers please read their biographies below.

	Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc Blackford Middleton, Director of Clinical Informatics Research and Development, Chairman, Center for Information Technology Leadership, Partners Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School. He received an MD from SUNY-Buffalo, and trained in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut. He earned an MPH in Epidemiology, and Health Services Administration, from Yale University School of Medicine, and an MSc in Health Services Research, focusing on medical informatics, from Stanford University.
	Helga Rippen, MD, PhD, MPH Helga Rippen is Senior Advisor, Health Informatics, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation, DHHS and has expertise in health informatics, public and international health, environmental health, online quality and online ethics. Dr.Rippen previously worked as the Director of the RAND Science and Technology Policy Institute.
	Mary Jo Deering, PhD Mary Jo Deering, Ph.D, is Director for Informatics Dissemination in the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB), in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She is responsible for ensuring the coordination of NCICB’s biomedical informatics activities with national health information technology (HIT) activities and with other Federal agencies. She is responsible for communication and outreach for NCICB’s cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG), which is creating a world wide web of cancer research that is a model for other HIT projects.
	Robert Jenders, MD, MS, FACP Robert A. Jenders, MD, MS, FACP is associate professor in the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a member of the Enterprise Information Services group at CSMC, where his work focuses on clinical decision support systems, electronic health records and vocabularies. A general internist, he provides clinical care and teaches in the clinical programs of the Department of Medicine. Outside of his home institutions, Dr Jenders serves as co-chair of the clinical decision support technical committee of Health Level Seven.
	Stephen Demeter, MD, MPH Stephen Demeter, MD, MPH, FACP, FCCP, FAADEP, FACOEM specializes in Internal Medicine and is the author of Disability Evaluation (2003). Dr.Demeter's subspecialties include pulmonary medicine, occupational medicine, disability evaluation, sleep disorders and critical care medicine. Dr. Demeter previously worked as the director of Disability Evaluations and IMEs in the Department of Occupational Health Services at Kaiser Permanente of Honolulu, Hawaii.
	Steeve Kay, QTC Founder / Symposium Sponsor Steeve Kay's management experience and background in information technology helped him develop the innovative core business and operations models that make QTC the No. 1 national provider of disability evaluations. Steeve developed his expertise as a leader and innovator working in the high-tech industry for companies such as Siliconix, Fairchild Semiconductor and Hughes Aircraft. He designed the world’s first solid-state MOS power transistor and spearheaded the development of a new power MOS transistor research project funded by NASA. In 2003, Steeve was named Ernst &Young Entrepreneur of the Year for technology in Orange County and the Inland Empire, California.
	Thomas Horan , PhD / Symposium Chair Dr. Horan serves as Executive Director of the Claremont Information and Technology Institute (CITI) and Associate Professor in the School of Information Systems and Technology. As director of CITI, he is responsible for directing a wide range of applied technology research projects. His own area of specialization is in the development and deployment of advanced information technologies and policies, including intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and advanced telecommunications systems. He is widely recognized as a national authority on this subject, and has led a number of studies and consultations on the design and deployment of digital and sustainable communities.