SPEAKER BIOS

Unleashing the Power of Health Information Technology for Wounded Warriors: Liberating Data for Research
November 14, 2011 8:30 a.m. 5:10 p.m. (EST) Library of Congress: Madison Building/Mumford Room, 6th Floor
Coinciding with Society for Neuroscience, 12-16 November Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Colonel Joyce Adkins, PhD

Director of Joint Military Operations, National Center for Telehealth & Technology (T2) PANEL Moving Forward: What priorities should we be addressing now! : 4:00pm 5:00pm
Colonel Adkins is an occupational health psychologist with 26 years of Air Force service in mental health, behavioral medicine, organizational and deployment health, community wellness, and human factors. She was instrumental in establishing the Air Force Organizational Health Center, the Military Family Research Institute, Military OneSource, PDHRA, and the Air Force suicide prevention program. Within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, she directed combat and operational stress and quality of life programs, served on three White House working groups and served as primary consultant for the transformation of psychological health and traumatic brain injury services. Before joining T2, she served as Commander for Medical Operations at Langley Air Force Base where she led patient-centered medical home implementation and created a model strategic communications plan to engender trust in the military health system. She completed multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and was awarded the 2011 National Public Service Award for her contributions to the health and quality of life of the military community. Col Adkins received a PhD in psychology from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, completed post-doctoral training at the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, a fellowship in health policy at Harvard School of Medicine and received a Masters of Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health. She has published across broad areas to include occupational stress and health services.

Albert (Al) Bonnema, MD, MPH, FAAFP; Colonel, USAF, MC

Chief Medical Information Officer; AFMS Office of the Chief Information Officer PANEL-Building the Right Platform: Open Source and Technology Partners: 3:00pm 3:55pm PANEL Moving Forward: What priorities should we be addressing now! : 4:00pm 5:00pm
Dr. Bonnema is assigned to the United States Air Force Medical Support Agency as the Chief Medical Information Officer. He is board certified in Family Practice and Preventive Medicine. In his current position, he coordinates Clinical IM/IT programs, policies, and resources for the Air Force Medical Service. Additionally, he is the Chief Informaticists for the Air Force Medical Service Data Warehouse, the Military Healthcare Systems Population Health Portal, the CarePoint Healthcare Application Suite, and Clinical Business Intelligence, Analysis and Reporting. Before this assignment, he was the Deputy CIO for Clinical Operations where he consolidated most of the Air Force Medical Services Informatics programs, consolidated all Data Warehousing activities, and initiated a complete modernization program to include architecture, security,

virtualization, certifications, and a major move to a data center. In 2005, he completed a Preventive Medicine Research Fellowship at the University Of Michigans School Of Public Health with a concentration in applied epidemiology and public health informatics. Prior to his Fellowship, he was the director of the Medical Defense Partnership for Reinvention (MDPR), a laboratory engaged in medical information systems design, development and deployment. At MDPR, he was actively engaged in education, research, product development-including the DODs first Electronic Health Record, and implementation strategies that promote practice-based approaches to disease management and prevention. His innovative health informatics curriculum has been used to train over 400 Tri-service healthcare managers and over 70 doctoral students at two universities. Dr. Bonnema is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1993 from the Medical University of South Carolina. In 1996, he completed a residency in Family Practice with The Toledo Hospital, Toledo, Ohio. He earned his Master in Public Health from the University of Michigan in 2004 and completed his Preventive Medicine Residency in 2005.

Kenneth Buetow, PhD

Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology; National Cancer Institute PANEL Past as Prologue: Lessons Learned from Data Aggregation and Federation Efforts in the Federal and Industry Spaces: 10:25am 11:15am
Dr. Buetows multi-disciplinary scientific career has focused for more than 20 years on understanding the role of genetics in complex human diseases such as cancer, and on applying sophisticated informatics technologies to solve major biomedical challenges. In his current role as Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Information Technology (NCI CBIIT), he initiated and oversees the caBIG(r) (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) program, a initiative built to connect the entire cancer community in a World Wide Web of biomedical research. The caBIG(r) community has pioneered the infrastructure and a portfolio of tools that enable organizations and individual researchers to securely share biomedical data, and its capabilities serve as a demonstration of the connectivity required for Personalized Medicine. He is also the Chief of the Laboratory of Population Genetics (LPG), where his group applies genomics to increase our understanding of the genetics of complex phenotypes. In addition to serving on the governing and advisory boards for numerous government organizations, academic institutions, and scientific and medical societies, Dr. Buetow has published more than 190 scientific papers. His recent honors and awards include The NIH Award of Merit (2009, 2004), The Editor's Choice Award from Bio-IT World (2008), The Federal 100 Award (2005), and the NCI Director's Gold Star Award (2004). Dr. Buetow received a B.A. in biology from Indiana University in 1980 and a Ph.D. in human genetics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1985.

David Cifu, MD

National Director of PM&R, Department of Veterans Affairs PANEL Current VA Landscape: 1:35pm 2:25pm PANEL Moving Forward: What priorities should we be addressing now! : 4:00pm 5:00pm
Dr. Cifu serves as Chairman and the Herman J. Flax, MD Professor of the Department of PM&R at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine in Richmond, Virginia; the Chief of PM&R Services of the VCU Health System; the Executive Director of the VCU-Center for Rehabilitation Sciences and Engineering; and National Director of PM&R Program Office and a member of the Senior Executive Staff for the Department of Veterans Affairs. In his 20 years as an academic physiatrist, he has delivered more than 425 regional, national and international lectures, published more than 165 articles and 65 abstracts, and co-authored 20 books and book

chapters, and is also the Past President of the American Academy of PM&R. Dr. Cifu graduated from the Boston University School of Medicine combined BA/MD 6-Year Medical Program in 1986, completed his Internship and Residency (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) at the Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, TX) in 1990, and then served on faculty at Baylor in the Department of PM&R and as adjunct faculty in the Department of Restorative Neurology until 1991. As Chairman of the VCU/Medical College of Virginia, he oversees a Department of more than 75 faculty, fellows, residents and staff; and as VA National Director he provides leadership to more than 3,000 PM&R professionals across the U.S.

Thomas J. DeGraba, MD

Deputy Director, Chief of Medical Operations, The National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) PANEL - Current DoD Landscape: 11:20am 12:20pm
Dr. DeGraba currently serves as the Deputy Director and Chief of Medical Operations at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), a newly constructed facility dedicated to the care of warriors with traumatic brain injury and psychological health issues. He has worked as a leader in the field of neurology, with a focus in traumatic brain injury and stroke, for greater than twenty years. Before working with the NICoE, he served as the Head of the Clinical Stroke Program at the National Naval Medical Center and was a Staff Neurologist at NNMC. He also served as Senior Staff Fellow and head of the Clinical Stroke Research Unit in the Stroke Branch in the National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). While at the NIH, Dr. DeGraba established the first Intramural Clinical Stroke Program, directing research in the field of pathophysiological mechanisms of cerebrovascular disease related to inflammation and immune-genetic susceptibility. During his time at the Department of the Navy and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), he directed the Stroke Program of the Comprehensive Neuroscience Program and coordinated a collaborative clinical research team with members from DoD, NIH and private academic hospitals. He also directed the Cerebrovascular Laboratory which provided an essential resource of Transcranial Doppler to the brain injury team caring for the severe head injured patients returning from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr. DeGraba has served as a neurological consultant for the Office of the Attending Physicians at the U.S. Capitol and the White House Medical Unit for greater than ten years. He currently holds an appointment as an Associate Professor of Neurology at USUHS. He previously held an academic appointment at University of Texas, Department of Neurology and served as Chief of Service at the Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital of the University of Texas -Houston Medical School. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from the Catholic University of America, his MD from Georgetown University, completed his medical internship at the Washington Hospital Center, Neurology Residency at Georgetown University Hospital, and pursued a post-doctoral fellowship in Cerebrovascular Disease at the University of Texas Medical Center in Houston. As the Deputy Director of the NICoE, Dr. DeGraba helped to co-author the Concept of Operations for the center, which is designed to be a leader in delivery of patient and family centric care to warriors with complex unremitting combat-related TBI and psychological health issues and advance standard of care through engaging in world class research. He is currently developing an Interdisciplinary program with state of the art evaluation techniques and treatment planning in a holistic environment design for maximal provider patient interaction and long term follow-up and training. He is also engaged in establishing a research portfolio to direct pilot studies and innovative diagnostic testing and treatment in PH and TBI. He serves on the steering committee of the Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research (FITBIR) for the development of Common Data Element for the DOD/NIH National Database initiative.

Yang Fann, PhD

Director, Intramural IT and Bioinformatics Program NIH/NINDS PANEL-Building the Right Platform: Open Source and Technology Partners: 3:00pm 3:55pm
Dr. Fann currently serves as the Director of the Intramural IT and Bioinformatics Program at NIH/NINDS. He currently leads the development of an integrated information management system, Clinical Informatics and Management System (CIMS), for clinical and bioinformatics research as well as an intramural bioinformatics facility. The system, which includes the Protocol Tracking and Management System (PTMS), has been adopted by the NIH Institutional Review Board (IRB) to electronically manage the protocol submission, review and approval process and significantly improves the efficiency of clinical research management. In 2010, Dr. Fanns creation of a Purchasing On-line Tracking System (POTS) to streamline and transform scientific procurement administration was quickly adopted by the NIH community, and won him the firstever HHS Innovates Award presented by the Secretary of HHS. Dr. Fann holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Tamkang University in Taiwan and PhD in Physical and Computational Chemistry in 1992 from Temple University. He completed postdoctoral research in metalloprotein structures at Northwestern Universitys Chemistry Department following his NIH neuropharmacology training fellowship in molecular modeling and structure of G-Protein Coupled Receptors at the Institute of Biomedical Computing (currently Center for Computational Biology) of Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. Dr. Fann also serves on a number of NIH advisory committees, including the Medical Executive Committee IT subcommittee, and the Biomedical Translational Research Information System (BTRIS) Steering Committee. He is currently a principle investigator on the Informatics Core of Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (CNRM) working on building the informatics infrastructure for the National Traumatic Brian Injury (TBI) Study, a collaborative project of the DoD and NIH.

Matthew J. Friedman, PhD, MD Executive Director, VA National Center for PTSD; Professor of Psychiatry and of Pharmacology, Dartmouth Medical School PANEL Current VA Landscape: 1:35pm 2:25pm
Dr. Friedman is Executive Director of the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Professor of Psychiatry and of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Dartmouth Medical School. He has worked with PTSD patients as a clinician and researcher for thirty-five years and has published extensively on stress and PTSD, biological psychiatry, psychopharmacology, and clinical outcome studies on depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and chemical dependency. He has over 200 publications, including 23 books and monographs. Listed in The Best Doctors in America, he is a Distinguished Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, past-president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), past chair of the scientific advisory board of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, a member of APAs DSM-5 Anxiety Disorders Work Group, (and chair of the Trauma and Dissociative Disorders SubWork Group). He has served on many VA, DoD and NIMH research, education and policy committees. He has received many honors including the ISTSS Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999 and the ISTSS Public Advocacy Award in 2009. He was a finalist for the 2011 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal in the Career Achievement Division.

Colonel Jamie B. Grimes, MD

National Director, DVBIC PANEL - Current DoD Landscape: 11:20pm 12:20pm

Colonel Grimes serves as the National Director of DVBIC, and as such she is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the organizations mission: to serve active-duty military and veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) through state-of-the-art medical care and care coordination, and innovative clinical research initiatives and educational programs. Board certified in Vascular Neurology, Neurology, and Psychiatry; Colonel Grimes has held multiple appointments and academic posts, including neurology consultant for the Army Office of The Surgeon General (OTSG) and the Great Plains Regional Medical Command, and assistant professor of Neurology at USUHS and at the University of Texas Health Sciences-San Antonio, TX. She received her MD, with honors, from USUHS in 1990, at which time she was commissioned as an Army Captain. Following two years as a general medical officer in Vilseck, Germany, Colonel Grimes continued her training at NNMC and at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) where she completed residencies in both Psychiatry and in Neurology. Colonel Grimes served a nine-month tour of duty in 2004 as a member of 359th Neurosurgical Team in Baghdad, Iraq during the period of highest neurotrauma patients in the past 7 years, including both major battles in Fallujah. Colonel Grimes just returned from six-month deployment to Afghanistan where she served as Theater Neurology Consultant at Task Force in Bagram.

Magali Haas, PhD, MD, MSE

Scientific Advisor for One Mind For Research One Mind for Research Presentation: 2:25pm 2:50pm PANEL Moving Forward: What priorities should we be addressing now! : 4:00pm 5:00pm
Dr. Haas has over 11 years' experience as a pharmaceutical executive at Johnson & Johnson. She has a broad based background from drug discovery, biomarkers and clinical development to marketing, regulatory and reimbursement of pharmaceutical products. As an intrapreneur at J&J she established the first NS Integrative Solutions department, and co-founded the first Companion Diagnostics COE as well as the first Healthcare Innovation team. She is currently leading an R&D Innovations effort to develop insilico causal-predictive disease models through a non-profit public-private alliance as part of the One Mind Campaign. Dr. Haas earned her Bachelors and Masters of Engineering degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University, respectively and her MD/PhD degrees at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Colonel Dallas Hack

Director of the U.S. Army Combat Casualty Care Research Program and joint chairperson for the Defense Health Program PANEL - Current DoD Landscape: 11:20am 12:20pm
Colonel Hack currently serves as the Director of the U.S. Army Combat Casualty Care Research Program (CCRP), and the Chair of the Joint Technology Coordinating Group 6. He is Level III certified in systems planning, research, development, and engineering (SPRDE) science and technology (S&T) management. Colonel Hack holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry from Andrews University, an MPH from Johns Hopkins University, a MSS from the U.S. Army War College, and an MD from Loma Linda University.

Katherine Helmick, MS, CRNP

Deputy Director, Traumatic Brain Injury Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) PANEL - Current DoD Landscape: 11:20am 12:20pm
Ms. Kathy Helmick currently serves as the deputy director for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) at DCoE and brings considerable clinical and research experience in the field of neuroscience to the position. In addition, Ms. Helmick has served in a variety of leadership, advisory, and operational roles, including serving as the deputy director for the Clinical and Educational Affairs Office for Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC). Ms. Helmick holds both Bachelors and Masters degrees in nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in family and child development from Virginia Tech University. In addition, she holds following certifications: Certified Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP) through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and Certified Neuroscience Registered Nurse (CNRN) through the American Board of Neuroscience Nursing (ABNN).

Sean Hill, PhD

Executive Director, International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) PANEL Past as Prologue: Lessons Learned from Data Aggregation and Federation Efforts in the Federal and Industry Spaces: 10:25am 11:15am
Dr. Hill currently serves as the Executive Director of the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility, and has previously served as the Project Manager for Computational Neuroscience in the Blue Brain Project at IBM. He has also supervised and led research efforts exploring the principles underlying the structure and dynamics of neocortical microcircuitry. Dr. Hill holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computational Neuroscience from Hampshire College (Amherst, MA), and a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). His PhD research focused on an investigation of the computational role of the auditory thalamocortical circuitry in the rat, which involved multi-unit recordings and large-scale neuronal simulations. After receiving his PhD, Dr. Hill held postdoctoral positions at The Neurosciences Institute of La Jolla, CA and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Stuart Hoffman, PhD

Scientific Program Manager for Brain Injury, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service; TBI Point of Contact and Subject Matter Expert, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs PANEL Current VA Landscape: 1:35pm 2:25pm
Dr. Hoffman is the Scientific Program Manager for the Brain Injury portfolio in the Rehabilitation Research and Development Service. The research content of the Brain Injury portfolio is primarily focused on translational research that will maximize recovery of function and repair for those Veterans with brain injury, whether it is caused by traumatic brain injury or by stroke. Dr. Hoffman is also the Point-of-Contact and the Subject Matter Expert for traumatic brain injury for the Office of Research and Development. Dr. Hoffman received his doctoral degree in behavioral and molecular neuroscience at Rutgers University in 1995 and completed his postdoctoral training in pharmacology at Virginia Commonwealth Universitys medical campus in 1997. Prior to accepting this position with VA, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University from 1997 to 2006. Dr. Hoffman was also faculty in both the graduate and undergraduate neuroscience programs at Emory University, where he codeveloped and directed a multidisciplinary course on neurotrauma. At Emory University, Dr. Hoffman was part of the interdisciplinary team that brought progesterone from the laboratory to its current clinical trials. Immediately prior to joining the VA, Dr. Hoffman was the Research Director for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center in Johnstown, Pennsylvania from 2006-

2010. Dr. Hoffman has more than 25 years of brain injury research experience and has authored over 45 peer-reviewed publications in translational research on neuroprotection and recovery of function after brain injury.

Louis French, PsyD

Chief, Traumatic Brain Injury Service, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Site Director DVBIC PANEL - Current DoD Landscape: 11:20am 12:20pm
Dr. French currently serves as the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Service Chief at the hospital and site director for the DVBIC at Walter Reed, where he oversees operations related to the identification and treatment of individuals with TBI. He currently serves and has served previously on a number of federal or Department of Defense (DoD) panels on issues in TBI, including the Army Surgeon Generals Taskforce on TBI, and is a frequent speaker on issues of TBI in the military. He is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). Dr. French received his doctorate in clinical psychology, focused on assessment, from The George Washington University. He completed fellowships in clinical and experimental neuropsychology at the National Institute of Mental Health and in neuropsychology, focusing on traumatic brain injury, at the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC).

Former Representative Patrick Kennedy

Co-Founder, One Mind For Research Welcome/Opening Remarks: 9:00am 9:15am Closing Remarks and Next Steps: 5:00pm 5:10pm
Congressman Kennedy served 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and is predominantly known as the author and lead sponsor of the Mental Health Parity & Addiction Equity Act of 2008. This dramatic piece of legislation provides tens of millions of Americans who were previously denied care with access to mental health treatment. Now, Congressman Kennedy is the co-founder of One Mind for Research, a newly formed national coalition that is seeking new treatments and cures for neurologic and psychiatric diseases of the brain that afflict one in every three Americans. One Mind for Research is dedicated to dramatic enhancements in funding and collaboration in research across all brain disorders in the next decade. This historic grassroots endeavor unites efforts of scientists, research universities, government agencies, industry, and advocacy organizations across the country. Congressman Kennedy is bringing everyone together to map out a blueprint for the first plan of basic neuroscience that will become the roadmap leading to the off-ramps to cures for of all neurological disorders that affect 1 in 3 Americans. Congressman Kennedy has authored and co-sponsored dozens of bills to increase the understanding and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders, including the National Neurotechnology Initiative Act, the Genomics and Personalized Medicine Act, the COMBAT PTSD Act, and the Alzheimers Treatment and Caregiver Support Act. Congressman Kennedy is a winner of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Distinguished Service Award, the Society for Neuroscience Public Service Award, the Autism Society of America Congressional Leadership Award, the Depression and Bipolar Support Paul Wellstone Mental Health Award, and the Epilepsy Foundation Public Service Award. He is also founder of the Congressional Down Syndrome Caucus and the 21st Century Healthcare Caucus.

Peter Levin, PhD

Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Chief Technology Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs Liberating Data: The VA Approach: 9:35am 9:55am
Dr. Levin was appointed Senior Advisor to the Secretary and CTO in May 2009. In this position, he is responsible for the leadership of Veteran health and benefit service innovations. He is the executive sponsor of the Blue Button personal health record, of the Fast Track electronic claims processing system, of the electronic record modernization initiative, the open source custodial agent, and of the VA's Open Government initiatives all of which have been institutionalized by the agency as part of its ongoing transformation. Dr. Levin was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator (G.H.W. Bush), a White House Fellow (Clinton), and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (TU Darmstadt). He is the co-author of more than 50 articles ranging from global positioning and cyber-security to computer modeling and simulations and is also a coauthor of the technology chapter of the 1997 Biennial Presidential Report to Congress on Science and Technology. Just before joining the Obama administration, he co-founded and led an awardwinning semiconductor design software firm, was a venture partner at Dusseldorf-based venture firm Ventizz Capital Partners, and was an executive director of Astaro A.G. Dr. Levin studied in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and received his post-doctoral training at the Technical University of Munich. His first academic appointment was at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and he was later the associate dean for research in the College of Engineering at Boston University. He is a Consulting Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Stanford University.

Geoffrey Manley, MD, PhD

Professor and Vice Chairman of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco; Chief of Neurosurgery, San Francisco General Hospital; Co-Director, Brain and Spinal Injury Center (BASIC) PANEL Past as Prologue: Lessons Learned from Data Aggregation and Federation Efforts in the Federal and Industrial Spaces: 10:25am 11:15am
Dr. Manley is the Co-Director and Principal Investigator, Brain and Spinal Injury Center (BASIC), Chief of Neurosurgery at San Francisco General Hospital, and Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He is a trauma neurosurgeon with clinical interests in brain injury, spinal cord injury, and neurocritical critical care. An internationally recognized expert in neurotrauma, Dr. Manley is a graduate of the Medical Scientist Training Program at Cornell University Medical College, where he earned his medical degree as well as his doctorate degree in Neuroscience. He completed his residency in Neurosurgery at UCSF and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Molecular Biophysics. He has helped to define new molecular mechanisms of injury to the nervous system and is considered a leader in the rapidly growing field of advanced neuromonitoring and clinical informatics for critical care. More recently he has focused on development and implementation of the TBI Common Data Elements for clinical research and has just completed a large prospective longitudinal study of TBI patients across the injury spectrum of concussion to coma. His many honors include the General Motors Trauma Research Award and the Trauma Research Award from the American College of Surgeons, and he has served as a Consultant for the Prehospital Guidelines Committee for the World Health Organization and on a number of committees for the National Institutes of Health.

Matthew McAuliffe, PhD

Chief of Biomedical Image Research and Services Section in the Division of Computational Bioscience, NIH Center for Information Technology; Leads development of the National Database for Autism Research (NDAR); Co-director Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research (FITBIR) project PANEL Past as Prologue: Lessons Learned from Data Aggregation and Federation Efforts in the Federal and Industrial Spaces: 10:25am 11:15am
Dr. McAuliffe currently serves as the Chief of the Biomedical Image Research and Services Section in the Division of Computational Bioscience at the NIH, and leads the development and implementation of the National Database for Autism Research (NDAR). The NDAR system is a secure bioinformatics platform for scientific collaboration to support autism spectrum disorder (ASD) research, which provides a common platform for data collection, data retrieval and data archiving, while allowing for individual differences in data entry and analysis. Dr. McAuliffe earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Detroit, and his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC. He is the original author the Medical Image Processing Analysis and Visualization (MIPAV) application and actively manages the continued development of the application. His current research interests in biomedical imaging include segmentation, quantification, and image fusion.

Seong K. Mun, PhD

Acting President of Open Source EHR Agent (OSEHRA) Inc. PANEL-Building the Right Platform: Open Source and Technology Partners: 3:00pm 3:55pm
OSEHRA Inc. is a not-for-profit organization established under the sponsorship of Veterans Affairs to bring rapid innovations in developing state-of-the-art electronic health record.
Dr. Mun is also a professor and the Director of the Arlington Innovation Center for Health Research. He is engaged in a number of new biomedical research programs including 7T MRI and PET imaging for sleep research, patient-centered medical home a new model for primary care services, and ultrasound imaging and particle therapy. Dr. Muns research over the years has focused on diagnostic imaging, health informatics, chronic illness management, telemedicine, disease surveillance, surgical instrumentation, and robotics for casualty assessment. Dr. Mun previously served as Associate Vice President for Special Programs at Georgetown University Medical Center. He received his doctoral degree in physics from the State University of New York, Albany; and his postdoctoral fellowships included training in medical physics at the University of Colorado Medical Center and MRI research in Nobel Laureate Dr. Lauterburs lab at the SUNY, Stony Brook.

Mike ONeill

Senior Advisor to the Director, VA Innovation Initiative PANEL-Building the Right Platform: Open Source and Technology Partners: 3:00pm 3:55pm
Mr. ONeill currently serves as the Senior Advisor to the Director of VAi2, driving the operational aspects of the programs that make up the Innovation Initiative. He has been involved in the commercialization of new products and technology as an executive in both startups and large companies, and as an early stage venture capital investor. He began his career in engineering and management positions with IBM, and has served as the Senior Vice President of AMI Semiconductor's Digital ASIC and Communications Products division, and continued to run the division following ON Semiconductor's acquisition of AMI. At the semiconductor startup Philsar Semiconductor, Mr. ONeill served as Vice President of Sales, Marketing & Business Development through Philsar's acquisition by Conexant Systems. He has led a number of seed and early stage investments as a General Partner with Kodiak Venture Partners. Mr. O'Neill received a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech University.

Colonel Paul Pasquina, MD

Chief, Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Defining the Challenge: The impact of TBI/PTS across the DoD and VA: 9:55am 10:15am PANEL Moving Forward: What priorities should we be addressing now! : 4:00pm 5:00pm
Colonel Paul F. Pasquina, MD is the Chief of the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Sciences Research (CRSR) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and USUHS. In addition to being board certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R), he is also board certified in Electrodiagnostic Medicine and Pain Medicine. He completed a fellowship in sports medicine and remains interested in all aspects of musculoskeletal medicine especially as it applies to individuals with disabilities. He is the specialty consultant to the Army Surgeon General for Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and a Secretarial appointee on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Advisory Committee for Prosthetics and Special Disabilities Programs. Dr. Pasquina has authored multiple book chapters, journal articles and policy papers. He has served as the PM&R Residency Program Director and Medical Advisor to the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command for quality healthcare. He has received multiple military awards, as well as awards for teaching and mentorship, including the U.S. Armys A Proficiency Designation for academic excellence, the Order of Military Medical Merit, and Honorary Fellow of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA).

William K. Smith, MD

President, The Center for International Rehabilitation Welcome/Opening Remarks: 9:00 9:15am PANEL-Building the Right Platform: Open Source and Technology Partners: 3:00pm 3:55pm Closing Remarks and Next Steps: 5:00 5:10pm
Dr. William K. Smith is President of the Center of International Rehabilitation (CIR) and founder of International Disability Rights Monitor (IDRM) and Physicians Against Land Mines (PALM). He is a board-certified physiatrist, trained prosthetist and Medical Director of the iCons in Medicine international medical volunteer program. Dr. Smith serves as adjunct clinical instructor at Northwestern University Medical School and is Chairman and CEO of MedRed LLC, a medical informatics company. A past recipient of the Scholl Recognition Award for Rehabilitation Research, he is a past member of the United States Council on International Disabilities and a past Chair of the working group on post-conflict development and disabilities for the National Council on Disabilities. His presentations on the health consequences of land mines and international rehabilitation issues have been featured at numerous international conferences, including those of the American Medical Association, Rotary International, and the United Nations Association of the United States of America. A graduate of Duke University, Dr. Smith completed medical school at Georgetown University and residency at Northwestern University and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

Garen Staglin

Co-Chair and CEO (Acting), One Mind for Research Welcome/Opening Remarks: 9:00 9:15am
Mr. Staglin and his wife, Shari, have been active in funding cutting edge mental health research for almost 20 years. Together with their son, Brandon, they have raised more than $135 million in direct gifts and follow on grants for breakthrough discoveries in brain disorders since the inception of their Music Festival for Mental Health and the International Mental Health Research Organization. They also joined in 2009 with actress Glenn Close and others to establish Bring

Change 2 Mind, the nations leading anti-stigma organization. Mr. Staglin is Co-Chairman and CEO (Acting) of One Mind for Research Campaign with the goal of united the advocacy, scientific, government, and industry communities in a 10-year collaborative research effort to accelerate the delivery or treatments and cures for all those who suffer from brain disorders. This global campaign hopes to achieve $15 Billion over the next 10 years in new funding through public and private sources. He has more than 30 years experience in venture capital and private equity and currently serves on the public company boards of SVB Capital, Bottomline Technologies, and ExL Services and several other private companies. Mr. Staglin holds an MBA from The Graduate School of Business at Stanford and a B.S. in Electrical and Nuclear Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles.

Michael Stebbins, PhD

Assistant Director for Biotechnology, Science Division, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy White House Policies: 1:05pm 1:20pm
Dr. Stebbins is Assistant Director for Biotechnology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he is responsible for life sciences, and biotechnology issues. He previously served as a science advisor to the Obama Campaign and on the Obama Presidential Transition Team. He is the former Director of Biology Policy for the Federation of American Scientists and President of Scientists and Engineers for America Action Fund. He is a co-founder and served on the Board of Directors for Scientists and Engineers for America. Dr. Stebbins is a former an Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at U. Penn, has worked as a Legislative Fellow for U.S. Senator Harry Reid and a Public Policy Fellow for the National Human Genome Research Institute. Before coming to Washington, Dr. Stebbins was a Senior Editor at Nature Genetics. He received his B.S. in Biology at SUNY Stony Brook and his Ph.D. in Genetics while working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory where he developed inducible systems for controlling gene expression in transgenic animals.

Jonathan Woodson, MD Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Open Data, Open Research: Challenges and Opportunities for DoD: 9:15am 9:35am
Dr. Jonathan Woodson is the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and Director, TRICARE Management Activity. In this role, he administers the more than $50 billion Military Health System (MHS) budget, serves as principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense for health issues and ensures the effective execution of the Department of Defense (DoD) medical mission. Dr. Woodson holds the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. Army Reserve, and served as Assistant Surgeon General for Reserve Affairs, Force Structure and Mobilization, and as Deputy Commander of the Army Reserve Medical Command. His prior military assignments include deployments to Saudi Arabia (Operation Desert Storm), Kosovo, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Dr. Woodsons military awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal (with oak leaf cluster). Dr. Woodson is a graduate of the City College of New York and the New York University School of Medicine. He received his postgraduate medical education at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and completed residency training in internal medicine and general and vascular surgery. He also holds a Masters Degree in Strategic Studies (concentration in strategic leadership) from the U.S. Army War College.