Governance

Walter Suarez, MD, MPH
Institute of HIPAA/HIT Education & Research
President

Dr. Suarez is President and CEO of the Institute for HIPAA/HIT Education and Research, a Virginia-based health care consulting company that provides project management, technical and policy analysis and project/program evaluation services in the areas of health IT adoption, health information exchange (HIE), public health data standards, health disparities, quality measurement, health information privacy and security standards. The company also provides consulting services regarding HIPAA standards, including Transactions and Code Sets (TCS) and the National Provider Identifier (NPI).  Dr. Suarez is a Founding Member of the Public Health Data Standards Consortium; a member of the Board of Directors of the Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP); a member of the Technical Advisory Panel of the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaborative (HISPC); and a member of the Expert Panel – Privacy Domain of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT). He is also a member of the National Uniform Claims Committee and the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI).

Marjorie S. Greenberg is Chief of the Classifications and Public Health Data Standards Staff (CPHDSS) at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Ms. Greenberg also serves as Executive Secretary to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, which is the external advisory committee to DHHS on health information policy. She has been Head of the WHO Collaborating Center for the Family of International Classifications (FIC) for North America since 1996 and has chaired the WHO-FIC Education Committee since its inception in 1999.  Ms. Greenberg is the 2007-2009 co-chair of the WHO-FIC Network Council and also is an ex-officio member of the Joint Collaboration with the International Federation of Health Records Organizations (IFHRO). Ms. Greenberg is a founding member of the Public Health Data Standards Consortium.

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 H. Arzt, PhD, 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).

With over 20 years of healthcare experience, Ms. Ledbetter serves as the Data Projects Manager in the Data Management Office of the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD). Previously, she served as the Project Manager for the Medical Information Reporting for California (MIRCal) project.  Ms. Ledbetter is also an adjunct instructor for Cosumnes River College’s Health Information Technology program.  Ms. Ledbetter is an active member of the California Health Information Association (CHIA), the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO).  She was the 2006 recipient of CHIA’s Professional Achievement Award.  Ms. Ledbetter has a bachelor’s degree in Health Information Management from The Ohio State University and holds a Masters in Health Services Administration from St. Mary’s College.

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.