Mitch Parker

Cris Ewell

CISO, UW Medicine

Ewell, PhD, is CISO at University of Washington Medicine. Previously, he was CISO of Seattle Children's Hospital. Before that, he served as the director of information security operations at the University of Washington, chief security officer for PEMCO Corp. and chief technology officer for Breakwater Security.

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Sean Murphy

CISO, Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield

As the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Premera Blue Cross (Seattle, WA), Sean Murphy is responsible for providing and optimizing an enterprise-wide security program and architecture that minimizes risk, enables business imperatives, and further strengthens the health plan company's security posture. He works closely with Premera's leadership team to establish and maintain a comprehensive program to protect employees, information assets and technologies and mature the corporate culture from security awareness to accountability. Murphy retired from the U.S. Air Force (Medical Service Corps) after achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel. He has served as CIO and CISO in the military service and private sector at all levels of healthcare organizations. He has served at the forefront of building robust security programs while responding and recovering healthcare organizations from major security events. But his proudest professional accomplishment was his service as a senior mentor to the Afghan National Police Surgeon General's Office in 2008-2009 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

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Mitch Parker

CISO, Indiana University Health System

Parker is CISO at University of Indiana Health, based in Indianapolis. He formerly served as CISO at the four-hospital Temple University Health System as well as CISO for Temple's clinical faculty practice plan, Temple University Physicians. Previously, he was an information security consultant to the Defense Logistics Agency and others.

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Jennings Aske

CISO, New York-Presbyterian

Aske is the CISO for New York-Presbyterian. Prior to this he was VP Information Security & Chief Security Officer of Nuance Communications as well as Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer of Partners HealthCare. Prior to Partners, Aske was the Chief Information Security Officer for UMass Memorial Hospital. Aske was also the Chief Information Security Officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's Executive Office of Health and Human Services, responsible for coordinating information security across the 16 state agencies. Aske is a licensed attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Dan Bowden

CISO, Sentara Health

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Mitch Parker

CISO, Indiana University Health System

Parker is CISO at University of Indiana Health, based in Indianapolis. He formerly served as CISO at the four-hospital Temple University Health System as well as CISO for Temple's clinical faculty practice plan, Temple University Physicians. Previously, he was an information security consultant to the Defense Logistics Agency and others.

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Phil Curran

CISO, Cooper University Health Care

As the Chief Information Assurance and Privacy Officer at Cooper University Health Care in Camden NJ, Phil Curran is responsible for managing governance and regulatory compliance, risk assessment and management, threat intelligence and vulnerability assessment, privacy and security investigations, business continuity, and awareness and training. He has served on the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) task force to integrate privacy controls in the Common Security Framework and the development of the ISC2 Health Care Information Security and Privacy Practitioner. Phil serves on the Executive Committee for Secure World - Philadelphia and the Philadelphia and New Jersey Chapters of the CISO Executive Network. He has spoken on Information Security and Privacy issues at Secure World and HIMSS Privacy and Security.

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Mark Eggleston

VP, CISO and CPO, Health Partners Plans

Eggleston is vice president, CISO and chief privacy officer at Health Partners Plans, a Philadelphia-based HMO. He leads the maturation of various security technologies and privacy initiatives and manages a business continuity and disaster recovery program. Eggleston started his professional career serving as a program manager and psychotherapist at a hospital serving children and adolescents. Later, he helped develop a HIPAA privacy and security compliance program for a geographically dispersed healthcare provider organization and later at a local health plan, before moving to his current role.

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Brian Lancaster

VP of IT and CIO, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Brian Lancaster currently serves as Vice President of IT and CIO at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. A healthcare technology executive with over 20 years of experience, he provides vision, direction, coordination and oversight of the delivery of the highest quality information technology to the enterprise. Technology that is critical to deliver upon Nebraska Medicine and UNMC's shared mission statement to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care. Lancaster joined Nebraska Medicine in 2015 and during his tenure at Nebraska Medicine, he has lead the enterprise's technology strategy to achieve HIMSS Level 7 in 2015, as well as led the organization to be awarded the 2017 Most Wired award and the 2017 HIMSS Enterprise Davies award. Prior to joining Nebraska Medicine, he was employed by Cerner Corporation where he was the executive over the product and business strategies for Cerner's Electronic Medical Record and Population Health product lines. Lancaster is a recognized innovator with 7 inventions awarded patents and an additional 12 inventions awaiting patent approval.

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Mitch Parker

CISO, Indiana University Health System

Parker is CISO at University of Indiana Health, based in Indianapolis. He formerly served as CISO at the four-hospital Temple University Health System as well as CISO for Temple's clinical faculty practice plan, Temple University Physicians. Previously, he was an information security consultant to the Defense Logistics Agency and others.

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Steven Teppler

Attorney; Bitcoin/Blockchain Expert, Mandelbaum Salsburg P.C.

Teppler has practiced law since 1981 and now leads the firm's electronic discovery and technology based litigation practice. His practice focus is on electronic discovery, including production, preservation, and spoliation matters, and he advises clients about risk, liability, and compliance issues unique to information governance. His experience includes litigation matters, both against and on behalf of Fortune 500 companies, as well as probate and family law disputes where electronic discovery is critically implicated. Nationally, Teppler is the Co-Chair of the American Bar Association's IoT Committee, a member of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Electronic Discovery Pilot Program, a founder and co-chair of the American Bar Association's IoT National Institute as well as the American Bar Association's National Institute on Electronic Discovery and Information Governance, and a contributing author of the ANSI X9F4 trusted timestamp guideline standards for the financial industry. Steven holds six patents in the field of content authentication and is the founder and CEO of a content authentication provider.

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Vikrant Arora

CISO, Hospital for Special Surgery

Vikrant Arora is a credentialed business leader with more than 15 years of experience in developing enterprise security and risk management programs in the healthcare, government and education sectors in North America and Asia. In his former role as the assistant vice president and chief information security and risk officer at NYC Health & Hospitals, an integrated system of 11 hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and home care in New York City, Arora is focused on security strategy, business risks, regulatory compliance and securing clinical systems as well as biomedical devices.

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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee

Executive Editor, HealthcareInfoSecurity

McGee is executive editor of Information Security Media Group's HealthcareInfoSecurity.com media site. She has about 30 years of IT journalism experience, with a focus on healthcare information technology issues for more than 15 years. Before joining ISMG in 2012, she was a reporter at InformationWeek magazine and news site, and played a lead role in the launch of InformationWeek's healthcare IT media site.

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Mitch Parker

CISO, Indiana University Health System

Parker is CISO at University of Indiana Health, based in Indianapolis. He formerly served as CISO at the four-hospital Temple University Health System as well as CISO for Temple's clinical faculty practice plan, Temple University Physicians. Previously, he was an information security consultant to the Defense Logistics Agency and others.

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Iliana Peters

Shareholder, Healthcare Security, Polsinelli

Iliana Peters currently serves as a shareholder at Polsinelli, charged with championing healthcare security on behalf of the firm. She previously served as the Acting Deputy Director of Health Information Privacy at the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights. In this role, she is the national lead for OCR enforcement of the HIPAA Rules, and works closely with OCR's ten regional offices to promote compliance with and enforcement of the HIPAA Rules. Additionally, Peters supports many other OCR policy and outreach initiatives, including rule-makings, compliance initiatives with other federal agencies, and training, including of the State Attorneys General. Prior to joining the team in D.C., she worked as an investigator in Region VI in Dallas, Texas. Prior to joining OCR, Peters worked in private practice in Texas.

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Anahi Santiago

CISO, Christiana Care Health System

As Christiana Care Health System's Chief Information Security Officer, Anahi Santiago is charged with providing strategic direction and oversight to a comprehensive security program, policy development, standards and controls implementation, training and awareness, regular risk assessment and mitigation, as well as partnerships with internal and external auditors. She also regularly collaborates with state and federal regulatory bodies and actively contributes to proposed state and federal regulations that govern privacy and information security. Before joining Christiana, Santiago provided similar support for the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network at a director level.

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Phil Curran

CISO, Cooper University Health Care

As the Chief Information Assurance and Privacy Officer at Cooper University Health Care in Camden NJ, Phil Curran is responsible for managing governance and regulatory compliance, risk assessment and management, threat intelligence and vulnerability assessment, privacy and security investigations, business continuity, and awareness and training. He has served on the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) task force to integrate privacy controls in the Common Security Framework and the development of the ISC2 Health Care Information Security and Privacy Practitioner. Phil serves on the Executive Committee for Secure World - Philadelphia and the Philadelphia and New Jersey Chapters of the CISO Executive Network. He has spoken on Information Security and Privacy issues at Secure World and HIMSS Privacy and Security.

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John Houston

Vice President, Privacy and Information Security, and Associate Counsel

Houston is vice president, information security and privacy, and associate counsel for University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, an $11 billion health system. At UPMC, Houston handles such issues as privacy, information security and legal matters associated with the acquisition, licensing and use of technology. He is an adjunct assistant professor in the department of biomedical informatics at the university's school of medicine.

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Mitch Parker

CISO, Indiana University Health System

Parker is CISO at University of Indiana Health, based in Indianapolis. He formerly served as CISO at the four-hospital Temple University Health System as well as CISO for Temple's clinical faculty practice plan, Temple University Physicians. Previously, he was an information security consultant to the Defense Logistics Agency and others.

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Geoff Fisher

Director Cybersecurity & Privacy, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Fisher is a Director in PwC's US Advisory practice focused on delivering security, privacy, strategy, and infrastructure services to Provider, Payer, Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences clients. With over 15 years of professional experience, he is an accomplished technology leader with a demonstrated record of delivering solutions to help clients manage their cybersecurity and business risks while achieving their organizational objectives. Fisher has led initiatives both domestically and internationally including a range of IT due diligence assessments, acquisition integrations, application and infrastructure strategy developments/deployments, and information security strategies. He holds a BA from Boston University in Economics and International relations. Her is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Certified HITRUST Practitioner (CCSFP).

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John Halamka

CIO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Halamka is Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He also has had roles as Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), co-Chair of the national HIT Standards Committee, co-Chair of the Massachusetts HIT Advisory Committee and a practicing Emergency Physician. As Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Halamka is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative and academic information technology serving 3000 doctors, 14000 employees and two million patients. As Chairman of NEHEN he oversees clinical and administrative data exchange in Eastern Massachusetts. As co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee he facilitates the process of electronic standards harmonization among stakeholders nationwide. As co-Chair of the Massachusetts HIT Advisory Committee, he engages the stakeholders of the Commonwealth to guide the development of a statewide health information exchange.

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Jigar Kadakia

Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer, Partners HealthCare

Kadakia has more than 17 years of information security experience across multiple industries, with a focus on health care delivery and projects such as HIPAA/HITECH assesments, Meaningful Use assessment, ICD-10 releted implementations, privacy program assessments and implementations, IT internal audit, and business associate risk management. Kadakia has spoken at many security and privacy forums/roundtables/conferences, and is a leader in the health care information security and privacy space. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Master in Business Administration from Xavier University. He is CISSP, CIPP and HITRUST Certified. He is also certified in Risk and Information System Controls.

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Mitch Parker

CISO, Indiana University Health System

Parker is CISO at University of Indiana Health, based in Indianapolis. He formerly served as CISO at the four-hospital Temple University Health System as well as CISO for Temple's clinical faculty practice plan, Temple University Physicians. Previously, he was an information security consultant to the Defense Logistics Agency and others.

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Kate Borten

President, The Marblehead Group

Borten, founder of The Marblehead Group, provides her clients with expertise in security, privacy, and health IT from over 20 years inside the healthcare industry. In the 1990s she led the enterprise-wide security program at Massachusetts General Hospital; and as Chief Information Security Officer, she established the first information security program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and CareGroup in Boston. Borten is a nationally-recognized expert on HIPAA and health information privacy and security, a frequent speaker on these topics, and author of tools and books including HIPAA Security Made Simple (HCPro 2013). The Marblehead Group, founded in 1999, provides HIPAA privacy and security risk assessments, compliance auditing, training, and solutions to the healthcare industry. Clients include the full range of providers, health plans, and business associates.

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Mitch Parker

CISO, Indiana University Health System

Parker is CISO at University of Indiana Health, based in Indianapolis. He formerly served as CISO at the four-hospital Temple University Health System as well as CISO for Temple's clinical faculty practice plan, Temple University Physicians. Previously, he was an information security consultant to the Defense Logistics Agency and others.

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William Hudson

Chief Healthcare Strategist, VMware

Hudson joined VMware in December 2012; in this role he is responsible for working with clients enabling them to achieve their strategic outcomes through the implementation of VMware's solutions. Prior to working at VMware he led the Kettering Health Network technology team where he served as the CTO and provided technology leadership. During his tenure at KHN he served as the technical project director and architect for the system-wide Epic implementation and directly led the following teams: infrastructure computing, network and telecom, end user computing, integration and development, security and the support center. He has over twenty-four (24) years of information systems experience of which more than 17 years have been focused in the healthcare industry. Prior to KHN he led the CTG Healthcare Solutions Advanced Technology Practice for five years, worked as a healthcare strategist with HealthLink, and also spent time at Cerner where he led the Global Technology Practice.

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Mitch Parker

CISO, Indiana University Health System

Parker is CISO at University of Indiana Health, based in Indianapolis. He formerly served as CISO at the four-hospital Temple University Health System as well as CISO for Temple's clinical faculty practice plan, Temple University Physicians. Previously, he was an information security consultant to the Defense Logistics Agency and others.

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