Members and Officers of the New York eHealth Collaborative Board
- Pamela Brier [0], CEO, Maimonides Medical Center (Treasurer)
- Neil Calman [0], MD, President and CEO, Institute for Urban Family Health (Secretary)
- Andrew S. Doniger [0], MD, Director, Monroe County Department of Public Health
- Eugene Heslin [0], MD, President/Co-owner, Bridge Street Medical Arts LLC
- David H. Klein [0], President and CEO, The Lifetime Healthcare Companies
- Arthur A. Levin [0], Center for Medical Consumers
- Fiona McLennan [0], Director for Global Benefits, Arrow Electronics, Inc.
- Ann F. Monroe [0], President, Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York
- Herbert Pardes, MD [0], President and CEO, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System
- Amanda Parsons, MD, [0] Assistant Commissioner, Primary Care Information Project, NYC DOHMH
- Richard M. Peer, MD [0], Past President, Medical Society of the State of New York
- Thomas P. Quinn [0], President and CEO, Community General Hospital (Vice Chair)
- Carol Raphael [0], President and CEO, Visiting Nurse Service of NY (Chair)
- Lonny Reisman [0], MD, Chief Medical Officer, Aetna
- Nancy H. Smith [0], Executive Director, Health Advancement Collaborative of Central New York
- Susan Stuard [0], Executive Director, THINC RHIO [0]
- James R. Tallon, Jr. [0], President, United Hospital Fund
- Lew Titterton [0], President, NYMED
electronic medical records [0] within the Institute’s community health center settings. His leadership in HIT [0] policy and implementation was recently recognized by HIMSS which awarded its Physician HIT Leadership Award to Dr. Calman in 2006. Since 1983 Dr. Calman has led the Institute in developing family health centers in the Bronx and Manhattan and in establishing health professional training in medicine, nursing, administration and mental health. Dr. Calman is currently Chair of the Health Reform and Finance Subcommittee of the New York State Council on Graduate Medical education, and he also chairs the Clinical Committee of the Community Health Care Association of New York State.
Interoperability [0]. Dr. Pardes also chaired the Intramural Research Program Planning Committee of the NIH from 1996 to 1997. He is the former chairman of the Greater New York Hospital Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges and the New York Association of Medical Schools. He is chairman emeritus of the eHealth Initiative and a serves on the board of the Markle Foundation, organizations dedicated to improving quality, safety and efficiency of health care with information technologies.
EMR [0] Consulting teams deployed to PCIP’s small physician practices. Prior to joining PCIP, Dr. Parsons spent 4 years at McKinsey & Company, ultimately as an Engagement Manager serving clients in the Pharmaceutical & Medical Products and Global Public Health sectors. She has her M.D. and M.B.A from Columbia University and did medical post-graduate training at Beth Israel Medical Center in Internal Medicine. She did her undergraduate studies at Boston College where she was a Presidential Scholar. Dr. Parsons is a frequent presenter and panelist, focusing on Quality Improvement, Electronic Medical Record [0] adoption, Patient-Centered Medical Home, and Extension Center activities. She serves on the Board of Directors of VIP Community Service and the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC). She is on the Advisory Board of the Touch Foundation.
health IT [0] and health information exchange efforts in the Hudson Valley. Ms. Stuard also serves as the primary liaison with THINC’s constituent organizations and its Board of Directors. Prior to THINC, Susan Stuard was the Director for Technology Policy Development at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH). Ms. Stuard managed NYPH’s health information exchange projects and developed the hospital’s position relative to legislation and regulation of health information technology. Ms. Stuard was also the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) where she led GNYHA’s efforts with respect to clinical information technology and the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. She has also held regulatory affairs and hospital operation roles at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She holds an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management and a B.A. from Hamilton College.
James R. Tallon, Jr., President, United Hospital Fund
James R. Tallon, Jr., a nationally recognized health care policy leader, is president of the United Hospital Fund of New York. Mr. Tallon also serves as a member of the New York State Board of Regents, the constitutionally established supervisory body of all education and education-related activities in New York. Mr. Tallon received a B.A., cum laude, in political science from Syracuse University and an M.A. in international relations from Boston University. He has done additional graduate work at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Jim has also received honorary doctorates of humane letters from the College of Medicine and School of Graduate Studies of the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, and from New York Medical College.
Lew Titterton, President, NYMED
Lewis Titterton is currently President of Nymed Inc. which owns and operates health care facilities in New York. He was Executive Vice President of the Hospital Association of New York State, and he founded MedE America (now part of WebMD) which provided enrollment and eligibility services to health care providers throughout the country. Lew is a graduate of Cornell University and State University of New York.