Vice Chair
Gordon Hunt, M.D., M.B.A.
Senior Vice President and CMO
Sutter Health

Treasurer
Rockwell Fredrickson, M.D.

Secretary
Molly J. Coye, M.D., M.P.H.
Chief Executive Officer
Health Technology Center

Lee Akay
LSG International

Chuck Denham, M.D.
CEO
Health Care Concepts, Inc. (HCC)

Lauren M. Doliva, Ph.D.
Heidrick & Struggles

Dan Fox, Ph.D.
President
Milbank Memorial Fund

Louise Liang, M.D.
Senior Vice President, Quality and Clinical Systems Support
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals

Mary Pittman, Ph.D.
President
Health Research and Educational Trust

David B. Pryor, M.D.
Senior Vice President, Clinical Excellence
Ascension Health

John T. Shea, M.B.A.
Senior Vice President of Business Development
Bon Secours Health System

Ex officio Director
Bruce M. Fried
Attorney
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal

John Haughom, M.D.
Senior Vice President, Healthcare Improvement Division, PeaceHealth

John Haughom, M.D., is corporate Senior Vice President of the Healthcare Improvement Division for PeaceHealth. Prior to this, Dr. Haughom served as the corporation's Chief Medical Officer and the Director of Health Services Research and Development. He also has 15 years of clinical practice experience. In this role, he is responsible for clinical improvement, health services research, outcomes measurement, the information systems department, the web services department, and all PeaceHealth information systems initiatives including the Community Health Record, a computer-based medical record system providing across the continuum care support to physician groups and regional health care facilities in three states (Oregon, Washington, and Alaska). In addition to an electronic medical record, features of the Community Health Record include physician order entry, real time decision support, chronic disease registries, a robust data warehouse architecture and advanced secure access to clinical information for patients via the Internet. Dr. Haughom is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Informatics at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, OR.

Gordon C. Hunt, Jr., M.D., M.B.A.
Senior Vice President and CMO, Sutter Health

Dr. Hunt heads Sutter Health’s system-wide quality initiatives and efforts to integrate care through alliances with aligned and affiliated physicians groups across northern California. He has extensive experience in medical group formation, developing hospital-physician partnerships, and the integration of hospitals, multi-specialty medical groups, and IPAs. Dr. Hunt is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine. He is a member of California Medical Association’s Commission on Legislation.

Rockwell Fredrickson, M.D.

As the Vice President of Clinical Excellence and CMO for Providence Health System, Dr. Fredrickson led Providence’s medical and clinical affairs. He has fifteen years of experience as a General Internist at Pacific Medical Clinics, a 150-physician group practice in Seattle. Dr. Fredrickson received his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School, completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Virginia Mason Clinic in Seattle, and has a Certificate in Healthcare Management from Arizona State University.

Molly J. Coye, M.D., M.P.H.
CEO, Health Technology Center

Dr. Molly J. Coye is founder and CEO of the Health Technology Center (HealthTech), a non-profit education and research organization established in 2000 to advance the use of beneficial technologies in promoting healthier people and communities.

Today HealthTech provides objective technology forecasts, innovative decision-making tools, and expert learning networks for 45 Partner organizations. Partners include nearly 25 percent of the nation’s hospitals, as well as the country’s leading health plans and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, which together cover more than half of all insured Americans.

Dr. Coye has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors. She served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New Jersey and Director of the California Department of Health Services, in addition to heading the Division of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, leading marketing and product development for interactive health communication and disease management at HealthDesk Corp, serving as Executive Vice President for the Good Samaritan Health System, and directing The Lewin Group’s West Coast office.

As a member of the Institute of Medicine, Dr. Coye co-authored the reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, chaired the Committee on Access to Insurance for Children, and co-chaired the Committee on Patient Safety Data Standards.

Dr. Coye is on the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association and the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), one of the largest and most creative nonprofit organizations working in international health. She was a founding board member of The California Endowment, the largest private health care philanthropy in California.

Dr. Coye has her M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from Johns Hopkins University and is board certified by the American College of Preventive Medicine. In 2005, she was selected one of the 100 most influential leaders in health care - and the 25 most influential women in health care - by Modern Healthcare magazine.

Lee Akay
LSG International

Lee Akay is a senior partner with the Life Sciences Group (LSG). He joined LSG in 2005 from Deloitte Consulting. Prior to LSG, as a senior ranking partner with both Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers, he held P&L responsibilities and led international assignments. He has extensive experience in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications industries. His clients have included Chiron, Wellpoint, GlaxoSmithKline, Kaiser-Permanente, Ciba-Geigi, NTT, SBC and many other Fortune 500 companies. His career has taken him across the United States, as well as to Japan, Canada and Europe. He led practices focusing on turning around underperforming businesses, accelerating global expansion, introducing new revenue-producing product categories, and reorganizing structures to improve productivity and reduce costs. Prior to his career in consulting, Lee founded and built a successful software development firm, Computech, which pioneered an innovative systems engineering approach (RAPIDTM) that dramatically reduced system development time. He has a B.A. in Business Administration and Computer Science from Southern Illinois University.

Chuck Denham, M.D.
CEO, Health Care Concepts, Inc. (HCC)

Dr. Denham is CEO of Health Care Concepts, Inc. (HCC). Launched in 1983, HCC is a private equity investor in medical, technical, and service product fields. In parallel with a healthcare product development career of over 20 years, Dr. Denham practiced medicine as a Radiation Oncologist for 12 years. A graduate of the University of Alberta, he undertook specialty training at the Baylor College of Medicine, with training at Texas Children’s Hospital and the M.D. Anderson Tumor Institute of Texas Medical Center in Houston.

Lauren M. Doliva, Ph.D.
Partner, Heidrick & Struggles

Dr. Doliva serves as co-leader of the Heidrick & Struggles Global E-Business Practice. Since 1984, she has represented clients in several industries, including interactive media, e-commerce and other on-line businesses. Dr. Doliva received her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, in counseling psychology, earned while serving as clinical psychology staff intern at Children's Hospital (San Francisco), University of California, Los Angeles Public Health Department, and Kaiser Hospital (Oakland). She received her M.A. in teaching from Harvard University and her B.A. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dan Fox , Ph.D.
President, Milbank Memorial Fund

Dr. Fox leads the Milbank Memorial Fund, the nation’s oldest endowed foundation in healthcare and public health. Prior to that he was a faculty member and administrator at Harvard University and then at the Health Sciences Center of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Fox holds A.B, A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Louise Liang
Senior Vice President, Quality and Clinical Systems Support, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals

Louise L. Liang, M.D., Senior Vice President, Quality and Clinical Systems Support, joined Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals in 2002. She oversees the national quality agenda to ensure that members receive excellent care and service. She is also responsible for the development and implementation of organization-wide electronic clinical and administrative systems to support the continuity and quality of care as well as efficient business functions. Prior to her role at Kaiser Permanente, Dr. Liang served as the Chair, Board of Directors, Institute for Healthcare Improvement. From 1997 to 2001, Dr. Liang served as the Chief Operating Officer and Medical Director of Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound and the founding CEO and President of Group Health Permanente, their affiliated medical group. Previously she held various leadership positions in hospital, health plan, and public policy settings. Dr. Liang served on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Panel of Judges during 1998 and 1999, on the Leadership Council of the American Association of Health Plans during 2000 and 2001, and various other boards and committees.

Mary Pittman, Ph.D.
President, Health Research and Educational Trust

Dr. Pittman serves at President of the Health Research and Educational Trust, which conduct research, demonstration projects and education. She is also a member of the executive staff of the American Hospital Association. Prior to assuming the leadership of HRET in 1993, she was President and CEO of the California Association of Public Hospitals. Dr. Pittman received master’s degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in Public Health and City and Regional Planning, as well as a doctorate in Public Health Administration.

David B Pryor, M.D.
Senior Vice President, Clinical Excellence, Ascension Health

Dr. Pryor is the Senior Vice President for Clinical Excellence at Ascension Health. In this role, Dr. Pryor is responsible for strategically positioning the organization as the premier quality spiritually based program in the country. Prior to joining Ascension, Dr. Pryor was the CIO at the Allina Health System where he built a nationally recognized IT program. Before that he was the President, New England Medical Center Hospitals, and on the faculty of Duke University for 15 years where he was the director of clinical program development, and the chief of the section of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics and the Duke database for cardiovascular disease. He was also head of the cardiology consultation service. He has authored close to 300 publications. He has served on a large number of national and international committees and recently chaired the advisory council for performance measurement for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Dr. Pryor has served as an industry consultant to a number of healthcare analysts and as a consultant to venture capital firms. He has also served on a number of boards of developing organizations.

John T. Shea, M.B.A.
Senior Vice President of Business Development, Bon Secours Health System

John Shea is senior vice president of Business Development for the Bon Secours Health System, a position he has held since 1993. Since joining Bon Secours Health System, Shea has led the negotiations for acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships that have expanded the health system from 13 facilities in 1993, to its current 32 facilities in nine states. Before joining Bon Secours Health System, Shea served as a member of the Executive Committee of HCA Management Company. Prior to this, Shea served as chief executive officer of Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital, Haverhill, Mass.; and the chief financial officer of Chesire Hospital, Keene, N.H. Shea is a certified public accountant and received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Bentley College in Waltham, Mass. He earned a master’s degree in business administration from New Hampshire College. A native of Boston, Shea is a Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

Ex Officio Director

Bruce M. Fried
Attorney, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal

Mr. Fried is a health care law and policy expert who counsels and represents health plans and insurers in his firm's health law group. He has more than 25 years of experience in health policy, in both the public and private sectors. Mr. Fried served at the Health Care Financing Administration as director of the Center for Health Plans and Providers and as director of the Office of Managed Care. He earned both his B.A. and law degrees at the University of Florida College.