Richard S. Bakalar, M.D.
Dr. Bakalar is the chief medical officer in the Information Based Medicine Emerging Business Opportunities Unit of IBM Corporation’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Team.  Dr. Bakalar joined the IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences team after 26 years of service in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps.  He has extensive experience in clinical medicine, diagnostic imaging, military medical flight operations and applied information technology. He is board certified in both internal and nuclear medicine and served as the executive assistant to Navy Surgeon General for Global Telemedicine initiatives where he established the Naval Telemedicine Business Office to coordinate Navy-wide telehealth activities to design, budget, field and manage a Global Digital Teleradiology PACS network for 30 Navy ships, 23 shore-based medical facilities and three medical centers. Dr. Bakalar is a subject matter expert to the National Research Council and has been a panelist who conducted annual independent assessments of NIST (Information Technology Laboratory – Division Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing).

Mark Blatt, M.D.
Dr. Blatt is the director for Global Healthcare Strategies in the Digital Health Group at Intel Corporation.  Dr. Blatt has played a key role in formulating Intel’s integrated digital hospital vision, which gained significant interest among Intel’s healthcare customers and industry thought leaders worldwide. Prior to joining Intel, Dr. Blatt was the managing partner of a five-provider group of family practitioners. He practiced family medicine for 15 years before returning to Yale University to earn his MBA in finance. Dr. Blatt earned his medical doctorate at Albany Medical College of Union University and served two years as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service.  He is a member of the IEEE Medical Technology Policy Committee, the American Telemedicine Association and a diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice.

Michael Davis
Mr. Davis is the executive vice president at HIMSS Analytics in Chicago, IL. Mr. Davis has 29 years of healthcare experience and prior to joining HIMSS Analytics, he held the position of managing vice president of Gartner’s Healthcare Research and Advisory Service. Mr. Davis has managed clinical departments in healthcare organizations and has held product management and director positions with Micromedex/Thomson, American Express Health Systems Group, First Data Corporation and Motorola. Mr. Davis has published two books and over 150 research articles on computerizing healthcare information. He has extensive experience with the design, development, implementation and management of healthcare IT systems. Mr. Davis holds a graduate degree in clinical pathology from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and a MBA from Pfeiffer University.

John Glaser, Ph.D.
Dr. Glaser is the vice president and chief information officer at Partners HealthCare System, Inc., based in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Glaser was the founding chairman of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and is the past president of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He has been a member of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association and is currently the chair of the eHealth Initiative Board. Dr. Glaser has been awarded the John Gall award for healthcare CIO of the year and was a recipient of CIO Magazine’s 20/20 Vision Award.  Dr. Glaser is on the editorial boards of CIO Magazine, Healthcare Informatics, Biotechnology Healthcare, Journal of Biomedical Informatics and Journal of Healthcare Information Management. He has published over 100 articles and four books on the strategic application of information technology in healthcare. He holds a Ph.D. in healthcare information systems from the University of Minnesota. 

Bernard Harris, M.D.
Dr. Harris is the president and chief executive officer of Vesalius Ventures located in Houston, TX.  Dr. Harris worked at NASA for 10 years and is a veteran astronaut who has logged more than 438 hours and traveled over 7.2 million miles in space. On his second flight, Dr. Harris conducted the first telemedicine conference from space with the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Harris holds a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Houston, a master’s degree in medical science from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, a MBA from the University of Houston and an his doctorate from Texas Tech University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic, earned a National Research Council Fellowship in Endocrinology at the NASA Ames Research Center and trained as a flight surgeon at the Aerospace School of Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base. He holds several faculty appointments including associate professor in internal medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine. In addition, he is author and co-author of numerous scientific publications.

Jay A Krakovitz, M.D.
Dr. Krakovitz is a board-certified internist who received his undergraduate and medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania. After completing an internal medicine residency at Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia, he started a private practice in internal medicine. He ultimately developed a three-person practice and concurrently, served as Chairman of Medicine of Jeanes Hospital in Philadelphia. Jay was one of the first internists to participate in U.S. Healthcare's network in Philadelphia and was featured in one of the company's first television commercials. He was recruited as a medical director after 14 years of private practice in internal medicine. After Aetna merged with U.S. Healthcare, Jay was ultimately named its' interim Chief Medical Officer in 2000. In mid-2001, he left Aetna to pursue his interest in the growing Hospitalist movement and subsequently worked with two emerging companies. Most recently, he served as Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield Medical Director for Colorado and Nevada. He currently serves as Board President of the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative. In addition to his business duties, Dr. Krakovitz served as Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2002.

Jay H. Sanders, M.D.
Dr. Sanders serves as chair of the Vesalius Ventures Technology Advisory Board, president and chief executive officer of The Global Telemedicine Group and is an adjunct professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Sanders a founding board member of the American Telemedicine Association where he serves as president emeritus and chairman of their Distinguished Advisory Council. As a senior consultant to the NASA Communications Center, Dr. Sanders serves as a member of the Biological and Physical Research Advisory Committee, the scientific director of the NASA Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Commercial Space Center. Dr. Sanders earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School Magna Cum Laude. He did his residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston where he became chief medical resident and did a research fellowship in immunology at the National Institute of Health. Following residency training, Dr. Sanders joined the University of Miami School of Medicine where he established the first division of general medicine at any academic medical center.

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