Kathleen A. McCormick, PhD, is an author, senior practitioner, researcher, and policy executive in healthcare informatics and bioinformatics. She spent 13 years as an informatics scientist and clinical trial researcher within the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging and Clinical Center. Dr. McCormick retired as 06 Captain in the United States Public Health Service and has spent the past 19 years in the healthcare IT industry as a scientist/executive contractor and consultant.
Brian Gugerty, DNS, RN, is CEO of GIC Informatics, LLC. He has been involved in clinical informatics for more than 20 years and his experience includes academics, software development, and consulting healthcare organizations in electronic health record implementation planning, activation, and optimization.
John E. Mattison, MD, is Assistant Medical Director and CMIO of Kaiser Permanente, SCAL. His team led the design and implementation of the largest integrated electronic health record in the US, and he is the founder of the international XML standard for health record interoperability now known as CDA, CCD, and CCDA. He chairs the eHealth Workgroup of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), and is a board member of Open mHealth, BioCOM, and the Big Data Advisory Board, among others. Dr. Mattison has taught at multiple universities including Exponential Medicine at Singularity University, UCSD, Stanford, USC, and UCLA.
