The Future of Healthcare

Daniel S. Pelino, IBM General Manager of Healthcare and Life Sciences
As General Manager, Dan Pelino is responsible for the strategic direction of IBM's global healthcare and life sciences business. He leads his team in developing the latest information technology solutions and services, establishing partnerships, and overseeing IBM investments in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and life sciences markets. In this role, Dan works closely with leaders in healthcare and life sciences, including public and private healthcare providers and payers, and biotech and pharmaceutical companies, helping them leverage IBM capabilities to address issues facing the industry. These include rapidly rising costs, information access, and quality of care.

Previously, Dan was Vice President, Worldwide Distribution Channels Management and Channel Enablement, Corporate Marketing. He had responsibility for developing and overseeing IBM's Routes to Market marketing and sales strategy, as well as the execution of the worldwide Distribution Channels Management plan. Dan has held numerous executive positions, including Vice President, Americas, for the Central Region, responsible for customer relationships, revenue, profit, and market share for 15 mid-western states. He also served as the Group Vice President of Global Sales and Support, Technology Group, with worldwide sales, marketing, and technical support responsibility for IBM's Technology Group. In this position, he was responsible for sales, support and marketing of storage, microelectronics, networking, and displaytechnologies.

Dan is involved in many organizations, including the Advisory Board of Western Kentucky University, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Governor's Transition Team Streamlining Government Committee, the Board of Directors for Teach for America and the Board of Directors for Park University in Kansas City. He is a frequent speaker outside of IBM and has authored and presented on such topics as Business Strategy, Managing for Change, Business Transformation and Operational Excellence.

Dan received his Masters Degree in Organizational Communications and his Bachelor of Science undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Public Relations from Western Kentucky University. He joined IBM in 1980. Dan and his family reside in Hinsdale, Illinois.

Dieter R. Enzmann, M.D
Dieter R. Enzmann serves as a Member of Editorial Board of AuntMinnie.com, Inc. Dr. Enzmann serves as Chair and Professor of Radiology at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Enzmann is an internationally known neuroradiologist with decades of contributions to the medical imaging field. He serves at Department of Radiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA. He is the Professor and Leo G. Rigler Chair at the Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at University California Los Angeles, where he has responsibility for teaching, research, and clinical care in one of the nation's leading medical centers. He served as Professor and Chairman of Radiology at Northwestern University Medical School and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, as well as Professor of Radiology, Director of MRI (Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine), Associate Professor Radiology, and Assistant Professor of Radiology at Stanford University. He serves as a Member of Medical Advisory Board of Microfabrica Inc. Dr. Enzmann serves as Member of the Advisory Board of Global Care Quest, Inc. He has 2 US patents and has helped found 2 start-up companies. Dr. Enzmann, a recipient of many other honors and awards, has authored 3 books, 22 chapters, and over 200 articles. He continues to be an active contributor to many societies, organizations and publications because of his interest and expertise in technology trends in radiology and medicine in general. Dr. Enzmann served as a Mellon Foundation Fellow for four years. His third book, Surviving In Health Care, received the American College of Physician Executive's Robert A. Henry Literary Achievement Award for its contribution to medical management. He received the American Society of Neuroradiology's Cornelius G. Dyke Award for outstanding research and was awarded 2 NIH grants for CNS research projects. Dr. Enzmann holds Bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and a Medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine.

Prof. Jonathan Halevy, Director General Shaarei Zedek Medical Center
Prof. Jonathan Halevy is Director General Shaarei Zedek Medical Center and a Clinical Associate Professor at Medicine Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School. He is the Director General at Shaare Zedek Medical Center. Prof. Halevy is also a Director at Van Leer Ventures Jerusalem. In the last few years, he has been involved in medical risk management and quality improvement programs in Israeli healthcare institutions and serves as the Chairman of the Medical Risk Management Forum in the Medical Risk Management Company. Prof. Halevy specializes in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. He is a graduate of Sackler Faculty of Medicine summa cum laude, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv.

Dr. Itsik Pe'er, Ph.D.
Itsik Pe'er is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Science of Columbia University. He is the founder and lead of the computer science graduate track in computational biology and a member of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Columbia University, one of five centers in this field nationally. The Pe'er lab of computational genetics studies high throughput genetic information from arrays of genetic markers and DNA sequencing data, and develops computational methods to enable analysis of such data. Dr. Pe'er and his team have a strong interest in medical and population genetics, with specific focus on analytical methodology for isolated populations. Dr. Pe'er's work illuminates remote family relatedness between strangers as a prevalent feature of human populations and a helpful research tool. Dr. Pe'er had won excellence awards by Celera Genomics, NSF, NIH and Applied Biosystems. Dr. Pe'er received his undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees in computer science from Tel Aviv University. He cross-trained in genetics during his post-studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science as well as at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT before joining the faculty of Columbia University in 2006.

Boaz Carmeli, IBM Research
Boaz Carmeli is a Research Staff Member and the manager of the Clinical Genomics IT group at IBM Research - Haifa. He holds a BSc in computer science from the Technion in Israel. Mr Carmeli is involved in the definition, design and implementation of IT solutions for healthcare and life sciences, such as Clinical Genomics Analytics (Cli-G), Health Information Exchange, the Public Health Information Affinity Domain, and the Hypergenes and EuResist EU research projects. At his current role, he leads a group of experts from several disciplines—including data management, data mining, machine learning, and user interface—to develop a clinical-genomics decision support system that can help treat oncological patients using more advanced personalized medicine. During his scientific career at IBM Research, Mr. Carmeli made contributions to several other computer science fields such as wireless networks for hand held devices, high throughput data networks and multicast protocols. Mr. Carmeli has published numerous papers, is actively involved in various standards organizations, and was a member of the IEEE 802.15 personal wireless network group.