Mike Dow

Freescale Semiconductor

Mike took the lead on defining the Continua Certified logo requirements and recommendations for potential use cases. Mike went above and beyond in soliciting Continua-wide feedback, level-setting what was approved for Version One, and reconciling into a detailed recommendation which was recently approved by the Continua Board of Directors.

Mike Dow has a BSEE degree from Texas A&M University and is a Professional Engineer licensed in the state of Texas and has worked for Motorola/Freescale for 13+ years. His specialization is business development of emerging markets through standards organizations and consortiums and his current focus markets are Medical and Industrial.

 Chris Johnson

Cypak

Chris, who has been recently named a Vice-Chair for the MWG was a key and vital leader for the MWG and Continua overall in developing the strategy, plan and implementation at NHS show this past spring. Chris lead the effort to work with other key Continua members and coordinate resources for the demonstration in the Innovation House (supported by Continua member LNI and Brendan Jorgenson along with Petra Wilson, and Paul Williamson). He further coordinated the 45 minute speech about Continua/emerging standards and planned staffing for the booth to promote Continua.

He did all of this under very tight time constraints and limited resources all on behalf of the Alliance. The show went very well and provided good story and message about Continua to a key European audience of opinion leaders and influencers.

All told, he put forth a yeoman like work effort and should be commended for rising to the challenge and pulling together a brilliant show for Continua.

Chris Johnson is an experienced international marketeer who has created new markets and standards for Royal Philips Electronics (CD and DVD) and established the Z-Wave Alliance as the de-facto norm for wireless home control. He is currently Vice President Business Development for Cypak A/B and chairs the ISO/IEEE workgroup on Medication Monitoring. He is also Director of the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council Europe. http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisjohnson752

 Lee Surprenant

IBM

For the over and above effort to cull through a plethora of alternate standards and opinions for the WAN interface and drive convergence on any approach that meets the requirements and was approved by Continua and IHE. This is a huge step forward for the industry as it allows for a harmonized approach between HITSP, IHE, and Continua.Lee Surprenant is an IBM Software Engineer on the Emerging Software Standards team in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. As the WAN sub-team chair, Lee draws from a large network of experienced standards developers in order to focus the team on delivering quality interoperability guidelines that will extend the reach of personal health data.

At IBM, Lee has worked closely with the Sensors and Actuators team to integrate sensor data with the enterprise and has helped target the WebSphere Sensor Events platform for use in the healthcare industry. Lee has been been working behind the scenes on connected health prototypes and demonstrations for the past two years and is project lead for the Stepstone Connected Health project at Open Health Tools. Lee holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 Paul Schluter

GE Healthcare

For the over and above effort to cull through a plethora of alternate standards and opinions for the WAN interface and drive convergence on any approach that meets the requirements and was approved by Continua and IHE. This is a huge step forward for the industry as it allows for a harmonized approach between HITSP, IHE, and Continua.Paul Schluter is the Principal Engineer for Systems Engineering in the Monitoring Solutions business segment at GE Healthcare in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He represents GE Healthcare in several medical device connectivity standards organizations, including IEEE 11073, the HL7 Health Care Devices SIG and most recently with the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Patient Devices Domain (IHE PCD) and the Continua Health Alliance. Paul currently chairs the IHE PCD Rosetta Terminology Mapping effort.

Previously, Paul led the development of the Series 8000 Holter system, the Solar 9000 Patient Monitor and other advanced technology programs at GE Healthcare and Marquette Electronics. He also played an active role in the Connectivity Industry Consortium and CLSI/NCCLS POCT1-A for bedside lab device connectivity standardization. Paul's technical interests include biomedical signal acquisition, processing and modeling, and the design of networks, systems, instruments and devices to provide advanced clinical functionality for patients and clinicians. Paul received his BS in Engineering and Applied Physics from Caltech and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in 1981.