KEYNOTE SPEAKERS


DR. STEPHEN MARKOVICH President, Riverside Methodist Hospital Sunday, Feb. 19 at 10 a.m.


As the president of Riverside Methodist Hospital, the largest hospital in the OhioHealth system, Markovich guides the operations and strategic development for the hospital. He has served as a physician and an administrator for the hospital since 1996. He graduated magna cum laude from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed his residency in family medicine at Riverside Methodist. He has


practiced as a family and emergency physician at Riverside Methodist and has served as clinical assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at The Ohio State University. Markovich was formerly the senior vice president of operations at the hospital, overseeing all aspects of hospital operations, including strategic planning, capital management and finance. He is a brigadier general in the Ohio Air National Guard, where he currently serves as the chief of staff. He has logged more than 2,000 flying hours as a fighter pilot and has led the development of the medical-response force that responds to medical disasters in Ohio. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Wright State University.


DAVID ROBERTS Vice President, Government Relations, HIMSS Monday, Feb. 20 at 3:10 p.m.


Roberts is vice president of government relations for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He oversees the association’s congressional, federal and state outreach to influence and educate key stakeholders. He is senior executive for the HIMSS Virginia Office, which includes the Office of Government Relations, and staff liaison to the HIMSS Public Policy Committee. Roberts was previously a


financial analyst for the U.S. Air Force in the Pentagon and Germany and served various public service roles, including mayor of Solana Beach, Calif., and two terms on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Advisory Panel on Outreach and Education. He is a founding member of the National Health IT Collaboration for the Underserved and chair of the 50th Congressional District’s Organizing for America health policy team.


FEATURED SPEAKERS


David Cowan, Georgia Institute of Technology “Advancing Career Development”


Mark Graban, Constancy Inc. “Improving Improvement: From the Suggestion Box to Visual Idea Boards”


Lisa K. Olenski, BJC HealthCare “What We Didn’t Know We Didn’t Know – and What You Can Learn from It”


Doris Quinn, MD Anderson Cancer Center “My Travels with Dr. W. Edwards Deming: The Man and the Message”


Bill Schwent, BJC Healthcare, and Julie Silver, Johns Hopkins MHA Program “A Rational Decision-Making Framework: Medication Distribution”


“When we look at value, we’re really talking about the quality-cost proposition. How do we maximize that relationship so that we deliver the best possible product at an affordable and sustainable rate?”


- Dr. Stephen Markovich


President, Riverside Methodist Hospital


“Everybody is so focused right now on meaningful use and making sure that we get the technology distributed that we can’t lose sight that this is not about the technology. It’s about the whole process improvement – how we’re going to use these systems to improve the quality of care.”


- David Roberts Vice President, Government


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