Board of Directors

Officers


 

Clint McClellan

President and Chair of the Board of Directors,
Continua Health Alliance

Senior Director of Market Development
Qualcomm, Incorporated

Clint McClellan is currently the Senior Director of Business Development for QUALCOMM Incorporated. McClellan's current responsibilities include establishing opportunities in the Wireless Health market. McClellan joined QUALCOMM in December of 1997 as Director of Strategic Marketing. McClellan brings a wealth of wireless industry analysis experience to QUALCOMM. Since joining QUALCOMM, McClellan has served in business development roles and established the Global Industry Analyst program and Global Market Intelligence program at QUALCOMM.

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Horst Merkle

Vice President,
Continua Health Alliance

Director Information Management Sytems Diabetes Care,
Roche Diagnostics Corporation

Horst Merkle has served as the Director of Information Management Systems, Diabetes Care since 2003. In this position he is responsible for the proposal and the development of key components for the Roche Diabetes Care information management product portfolio with focus on interoperability/connectivity, tele-health and standardization.

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Paul Coebergh van den Braak

Second Vice President,
Continua Health Alliance

Intellectual Property and Standards, Senior Director Standardization
Philips

Paul Coebergh van den Braak has more than 25 years of experience in managing product and technology development in various companies and application fields, with emphasis on software, electronics and ICT systems. He was with Philips for 8 years in the eighties and again since 1998. Over the last 10 years he has frequently been responsible for advanced developments in the Healthcare domain including Home Healthcare.

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Michael McGarry

Secretary,
Continua Health Alliance

Director, Engagement & Prototypes for Transformational Development
Ascension Health

Mr. McGarry serves as the Director, Engagements & Prototypes for Transformational Development, Ascension Health's internal innovation center, which is building the next platforms for healthcare delivery in the United States by taking non-traditional approaches to traditional problems facing healthcare. In this role, Mr. McGarry is responsible for the evaluation of technologies and development of new business models focusing on how to meet health-related needs in the future in a way that extends beyond hospitals and clinics.

He joined the company in 2008 with over 14 years experience in the healthcare industry developing innovative programs and medical devices from prototype through FDA approval within small start-up organizations and Fortune 500 medical companies. Mr. McGarry has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University and has several published patents and publications.

 

     

 

Christopher Wasden

Treasurer,
Continua Health Alliance

Global Healthcare Innovation Leader,
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Dr. Christopher Wasden is a managing director and Global Healthcare Innovation Leader at PwC.  He is a named inventor on 20 issued and pending patents. He has been a leader in nine separate startups both venture and corporate backed. He has over 25 years of executive leadership experience in public and private companies across several industries: banking (JP Morgan), energy (Koch), utilities (Azurix), and healthcare and technology startups. He works with leaders to enable their organizations to create spontaneous and continuous innovation by: 1) establishing enterprise innovation processes, structures and practices that remove barriers to innovation and creates an innovation culture, and 2) addressing significant growth challenges for clients and then helping structure and run campaigns to overcome them through innovation. He advises private equity and venture capital firms, governments, and corporate clients on strategic and commercial risks, uncertainties and opportunities associated with their growth and innovation strategies including: mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate venturing, entrepreneurial ventures, and new product and business development. He holds a doctorate from George Washington University, and MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, and a BS in Accounting and BA in Asian Studies from Brigham Young University.

     
 

Chuck Parker

Executive Director,
Continua Health Alliance

Chuck Parker is a healthcare professional with more than 20 years of experience in the industry, Charles was most recently the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at Masspro, one of the United States' leading performance improvement organizations dedicated to advancing healthcare quality.

     

Board Members


 

Petra Wilson

Senior director of the European Health and Care Team
Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG)

Petra Wilson is Senior Director of the European Health and Care team in Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Her work focuses on helping health and care providers develop their strategies for making good use of communication and collaboration technology to demands of care provision for an ageing society, where patients' needs become wider and demands on health and care providers straddle many of the established silos of care organization.

Previously, she was Deputy Director of the European Health Management Association (EHMA), a membership organization committed to improving healthcare in Europe by raising standards of managerial performance in the health sector. At EHMA she had responsibility for the association's Brussels' office and, in particular, EHMA's relationship with the European Commission. In that role, Petra advised a wide number of European healthcare organizations on EU-level health policy and assisted them in engaging with policy-makers in the Commission.

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Rick Cnossen

Director of Personal Health Enabling,
Intel Corporation Digital Health Group

Rick Cnossen is the director of Personal Health Enabling for Intel in its Digital Health Group with a focus on medical device interoperability standards. He is currently leading a large, international, cross-industry consortium, the Continua Health Alliance, focused on the establishment of an eco-system of interoperable, personal telehealth systems.

Mr. Cnossen serves on the HITSP Board of Directors and as a chairperson for the ISO/IEEE 11073 Medical Device Communications WG. He is a participating member of the ISO/IEEE 11073 Personal Health Data WG, the HITSP Consumer Perspectives Technical Committee, the Health Level Seven (HL7) Structured Document Technical Committee, the USB Personal Health Device WG, and the Bluetooth Medical Device Profile WG.

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Sakari Lang

Director at Compatibility & Industry Collaboration Unit
Nokia

Sakari Lang is a Director at Compatibility & Industry Collaboration (CIC) Unit, Corporate Development, Nokia Corporation. CIC leads Nokia's compatibility and industry collaboration towards industry standards, technical regulation, and Nokia product security. CIC is also closely engaged with Nokia's Wellness & Health Program which is coordinated by Corporate Alliances and Business Development.

Sakari has a strong scientific background in radiation biology, bioelectromagnetics and biophysics, and obtained his PhD at Kuopio University (KU), Finland, in 1994. Years 1995-96 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Colorado State University. Before joining Nokia 1998, he was an Assistant Professor in radiation biology at KU.

Sakari is on the Board of Directors and has been a chairman of Mobile Manufacturers Forum (http://www.mmfai.org/public/), is chairing the EMF Advisory Board at Finnish Technologies Industries, and has been a Board member of Research Association for Radio Applications ("FGF"), Germany. He is also a member of IEEE and Bioelectromagnetics Society.

 

     
 

Kimio Minami

General Manager of Healthcare Systems Development Office,
Panasonic

Kimio Minami has more than 27 years of experience in consulting and sales in information systems architecture within Matsushita Electric (Panasonic), working predominantly with Japanese Government organizations and large enterprises. Mr. Minami's specialty is reorganizing management operations by making extensive use of IT solutions For the past five years, he has been engaged in the development of Internet service businesses based on consumer platforms such as Digital TV and Digital Video Recorders and the development of network infrastructure including network connectivity, authentication and billing systems.

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Joseph C. Kvedar, M.D.

Director, Center for Connected Health,
Partners HealthCare

Joseph C. Kvedar, M.D., is Founder and Director of the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare that is applying communications technology and online resources to improve access and delivery of quality patient care. Dr. Kvedar is internationally recognized for his leadership in the field of connected health. He is a past President and board member of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and co-editor of Home Telehealth: Connecting Care within the Community, the first book to report on the applications of technology to deliver quality healthcare in the home. Dr. Kvedar is also a board-certified dermatologist and Associate Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School.

 

     

 
   
     
 

Youngsoo Kim

Vice President, Corporate Strategy Planning Team,
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Youngsoo Kim is Vice President of Corporate Strategy Planning Team of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. a position he has held since January, 2004. In this function he is responsible for the areas of strategic alliance, mergers and acquisitions as well as new business development. Prior to current position, he was Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Samsung Corning Micro-optics, Inc. which was a joint venture company between Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Corning, Inc. for optical component business.

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Ibrahim Sezan

Chief Technology Officer and Director of AVDT,
Sharp

Ibrahim Sezan is the Chief Technology Officer and the Director of Advanced Video and Display Technologies at Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (SLA). SLA is a multidisciplinary R&D laboratory pursuing applied research within a very broad spectrum of scientific endeavor.  Areas of focus include research on new and differentiated materials, devices, advanced algorithms and systems, with applications to displays, solar energy, energy management, biosensors, ambulatory health and wellness monitoring, solid state lighting, and factory automation.  Prior to joining SLA in 1996 as a Senior Manager, Ibrahim was the founding leader of the Motion and Video Technology Area at Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories. He received his Ph D in Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984.  He holds an MSc degree in Applied Physics and undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. He is a Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

     
 
 

Marc Perlman

Global Vice President, Healthcare and Life Sciences,
Oracle

Marc Perlman is Oracle's Global Vice President for the healthcare and life sciences industry. He is responsible for driving strategy and industry enablement across the organization.

With more than 28 years in the healthcare industry, he has deep experience in working with payers, providers, consumers, and the U.S. federal government to improve operational performance, clinical quality, patient safety, and revenue cycle performance.

Mr. Perlman joined Oracle after a 12-year tenure at McKesson Corporation, where he progressed through operational and sales leadership roles in the company's healthcare information technology, medication safety, and automation businesses. Prior to McKesson, Mr. Perlman held executive roles with various healthcare organizations focused on analytics, services, and innovative disease management programs.

 

Jayant Parthasarathy  

UnitedHealth Group

 

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