Governance

Donald T. Mon, PhD
RTI International
President

As a Senior Director, Don leads the Standards and Interoperability practice in the Center for the Advancement of Health Information Technology at RTI International. He has 30+ years of experience in the areas of health information management/technology (HIM/HIT) and informatics practice, research, and advocacy. He is a national and international leader in the development of health/HIT policy and functional, data, and interoperability standards for electronic health records (EHRs), personal health records (PHRs) and health information exchange (HIE).

Prior to joining RTI, Don led the American Health Information Management Association's (AHIMA) professional practice initiatives. There, he was instrumental in transitioning the Secretariat and Administrator functions of ISO Technical Committee 215-Health Informatics (ISO/TC 215) and the US Technical Advisory Group (US TAG) over to AHIMA, helped establish the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), and worked on a number of federal HIT projects. As chief information officer and assistant dean in the Biological Sciences Division/Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, he implemented HIPAA initiatives and enhanced its computing capacity through a $1.6 million Center of Excellence award. He has also developed IT strategic and business process re-engineering plans, and helped design, develop, and maintain large scale databases and information systems for Catholic Healthcare West; University of Illinois at Chicago; Premier, Inc.; the Oracle Corporation; Rush University Medical Center, and Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital.

He is currently Chair of Health Level Seven (HL7) International, a co-chair of the HL7 EHR Work Group, President of the Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC), Vice Convener of Work Group 1-Data Standards in ISO/TC 215, a Subject Matter Expert in the US TAG, and has served on numerous EHR, PHR, quality measurement, and secondary data use, and healthcare transformation expert panels.

Eileen Storey
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, CDC
Vice-President for Federal Agencies (Federal Agency Liaison)

Eileen Storey, MD, MPH is Chief of the Surveillance Branch, Division of Respiratory Disease Studies at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Storey is leading an effort across NIOSH to ensure the integration of information regarding the work history of patients in the electronic clinical record to improve patient care and to support public health surveillance efforts. Prior to joining NIOSH, Dr. Storey was on the faculty at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine where she was Chief of the Division of Public Health and Population Sciences in the Department of Medicine and co-Director of the Center for Public Health and Health Policy of the University of Connecticut. She practiced occupational medicine, taught students and public health students, and conducted research focused on indoor environments and respiratory disease. She completed her Medical Degree and an MPH at Harvard University in 1978, Internal Medicine training at West Virginia University in 1981, and is board certified in Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine.

Kathleen Cook
Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department
Interim Vice-President for State and Local Agencies

Kathleen Cook is the manager of Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department's Information & Fiscal Management Division.  She develops, coordinates, and administers department budget and fiscal services, information management and technology, and general business activities. She has 18 years of experience as the department’s CIO and CFO, 26 years of local public health experience, and 23 years of informatics-related experience. 2007 and 2008 priorities include evaluating the effectiveness of key departmental programs and efforts and developing a business plan. She has been active on NACCHO's Informatics Workgroup and their representative to PHDSC as well as a member of NAPHIT.

Noam Arzt, PhD
HLN Consulting, LLC
Treasurer

Noam H. Arzt, PhD, FHIMSS is president of HLN Consulting, LLC, which brings innovative technical solutions to public health agencies. With more than fifteen years of progressive management experience at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Arzt has served as principal investigator and senior investigator on Federal, state and foundation grants and contracts. Dr. Arzt is a member of AMIA, HIMSS, APHA, and NAPHIT. He is actively involved in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) initiatives through his participation in Health Level 7 (HL7) and the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP).

Susan Salkowitz
American Immunization Registry Association
Secretary

Susan M. Salkowitz has a long career in public service and consulting: 32 years with the City of Philadelphia in various information technology roles, ending as Director of Health Information Systems, Department of Public Health; and since 1993, a consulting practice, Salkowitz Associates, LLC, which has specialized in Immunization Information Systems (IIS) in many jurisdictions, maternal and child case management, public health surveillance, chronic disease management, data quality and data management and health information exchange. In connection with national HIT initiatives, she has consulted on public-private collaborations and the deployment of systems in public health and private provider settings, defining roles and responsibilities of various stakeholder groups including health departments, health insurance plans, hospitals, various non-profit organizations, professional societies, coalitions and consumers and for standards-based data exchange of immunization and chronic disease information with Electronic Health Records. More recent physician-based projects, focused on assessing workflow and quality reporting and quality improvement, include the Alpha Project at The Institute of Medicine & Public Health of New Jersey, Medical Society of New Jersey, and the Patient Centered Medical Home Pilot Project for the New Jersey Academy of Family Practice. Sue is an Adjunct Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, and Population Health Associate at Thomas Jefferson University; a member of APHA, PPHA, AMIA, and HIMSS, of the PA eHealth Initiative, and Board Member of the American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) from 2002-2009. As a consultant to AIRA she has facilitated regional forums in the NE, Mid-West, SE and Plains-West and is co-facilitator of the AIRA IIS Performance Improvement Project. She has represented AIRA on the Public Health Data Standards Consortium Board since 2005.

Anna Orlova, PhD
Executive Director

Dr. Anna Orlova is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (SOM) and an Associate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also a Clinical Associate Professor at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  Dr. Orlova is a member of the Johns Hopkins SOM’s Executive Committee for the National Library of Medicine’s Training Program on Health Sciences Informatics and the NLM/Robert Woods Johnson Foundation Public Health Informatics program.  She started her informatics career at the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information in Moscow, Russia where she led the development of large-scale information systems on industrial wastes. Her informatics interests are in the areas of the Electronic Health Record Systems (EHRS) applications for public health and health information technology standards.