Jayant "JP" Parthasarathy

Technical Working Group Chair

Business Manager, eHealth Segment, Nonin Medical

Jayant "JP" Parthasarathy leads the eHealth segment at Nonin Medical (Plymouth, MN) as its overall Business Manager. JP's responsibilities include developing the vision and strategies that enable Nonin's innovative physiological monitoring solutions to be successful in eHealth. Previously, in his role as a Technology Program Manager, JP led the development of connectivity -related standards in various organizations such as the Bluetooth SIG, IEEE and Continua Health Alliance. He currently serves as the Chairperson of the Continua Alliance Technical Working Group and works with a global group of industry experts to define the next generation of interoperability guidelines for the Personal Health ecosystem. JP received his PhD from the University of Minnesota for the development of implantable wireless neural micro-systems.

Frank Wartena

Technical Working Group Vice Chair

Research Scientist

Phillips Research Europe

Frank Wartena is Research Scientist at Philips Research Europe working on the topics Healthcare Informatics and Home Healthcare to support Philips Healthcare in future growth opportunities. As part of his activities Frank has been involved in the Continua Health Alliance since the start in June 2006. From October 2006 till October 2008 he was Secretary of the Use Case Working Group (UCWG), in that position he already had a strong relationship with the Technical Working Group (TWG) and acted as liaison between both working groups. Since June 2009 Frank is Vice-Chair of the TWG and maintains the liaison role with the UCWG. An important activity as Vice-Chair is to guide the staged process of the TWG that takes the use cases and develops them through requirements and standards selection into guidelines.

Next to his activities in Continua, Frank is active in multiple research projects in home healthcare and information management for clinical trials.

Frank obtained his Master's degree with honors in Computer Science at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands and has since worked at Philips Research Europe in Eindhoven. In 2007 he received the Distinguished Employee Award at Philips Research. He lives in Eindhoven with his wife and two cats.

Gerry Lewis

Technical Working Group Vice Chair

Regional Chief Information Officer, West Region

Ascension

Gerry Lewis is the Regional Chief Information Officer (RCIO) for the West region of Ascension Health Information Services (AHIS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ascension Health that is dedicated to providing information technology to the organization's hospitals and System Office.

As one of the five RCIOs for AHIS, Mr. Lewis is responsible for the West Region, which is made up of four Health Ministries - hospitals and health systems - including:

• Seton Family of Hospitals, Austin, Texas
• Providence Healthcare Network, Waco, Texas
• Carondelet Health Network in Tucson, Ariz
• St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, Lewiston, Idaho
• Lourdes Health Network, Pasco, Wash.

Mr. Lewis also supports the organization's community health centers - including:

• Daughters of Charity Services of Arkansas, Dumas, Ark.
• Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans, New Orleans, La.
• Daughters of Charity Services of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
• Nazareth Hall Nursing Center, El Paso, Texas
• St. Catherine's Nursing Center, Emmitsburg, Md.
• Seton Center Family & Health Services, Kansas City, Mo.

Mr. Lewis is responsible for providing local and System-level IT leadership at these sites - selecting, implementing and evaluating the IT solutions required to advance Ascension Health's Strategic Direction.

Mr. Lewis also serves as the Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Seton Family of Hospitals. Here he is responsible for managing the Health Ministry's technology vision including operations, finances, and technology procurement and implementation, while serving as the Health Ministry's service and delivery escalation point. He also manages local vendor relationships, and governance models and serves on local committees.

Previous to his current appointment, Mr. Lewis served in various leadership roles at Dell, Inc., and Compaq Computer Corporation, and was an analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Mr. Lewis possesses a master's degree in business administration from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, and a bachelor's of science degree from The University of Texas at Austin.

Mr. Lewis resides in Austin, with his wife, Debra and daughters, Julia and Jill. He serves his community as a member of the Board of the Indigent Care Collaboration IT Committee and in various Board member roles at Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Central Texas.

Johan Muskens

Architecture Team Chair

Philips Research

Currently, Johan is a scientist at Philips Research Europe in the area of healthcare systems architecture. From a technology perspective, he supports Philips businesses in medium-to-long term growth opportunities. In scope are applications and services for remote patient management and personal and consumer healthcare. In this context, he has been participating in the Continua Health Alliance Technical WG. As a chair of the end-to-end architecture sub-team, he has been focusing on the impact of new use cases on the overarching and longer-term architectural aspects of the Continua interoperability framework. In parallel to these activities Johan works on projects searching for new personal disease management concepts.

Previously, Johan Muskens worked as a scientist in the area of component based middleware for high volume embedded devices that support robust and reliable operation, runtime upgrading and extension and component trading contributing to Philips corporate research programs, external research projects with European partners and standardization efforts in MPEG (Multi Media Middleware). Before his work at Philips Research, Johan worked as a scientist at Eindhoven University of Technology on the topics predictable assembly of components and software architecture analysis.

Johan Muskens is a M.Sc. in Computing Science from the Eindhoven University of Technology. He lives in Eindhoven, The Netherlands and his hobbies include sailing, skiing and driving a motorbike.

PAN Interface Chair - Bernard Burg

Telehealthcare Development

Panasonic

Bernard Burg is leading the PAN Team in charge of defining the V2 Low Power PAN interfaces while maintaining the Continua V1 standard by providing bug fixes for the PAN layer. Bernard is also the custodian of the first Low Power PAN Continua use case and develops the corresponding IEEE device standard.

Bernard isin charge of telehealthcare development at Panasonic, with a key role to foster, outside of Japan, Continua-related collaborations worldwide. His technical contribution ranges from standardization work, to design and development of new concepts. His core competencies cover proof-of-concept design, prototype implementation, intellectual property creation, project management and concept promotion to technical and non-technical audiences.

Prior to working in telehealthcare, Bernard was a pioneer in Intelligent Agent technology, where he held a position of VP in the Agent Standard FIPA while leading research teams at Hewlett-Packard that implemented key mechanisms in the leading semantic web environment Jena. In addition, he launched the EU LEAP project which produced the first standard agent platform running on phones while working for Motorola.

Bernard holds a PhD in machine learning from Paris XI-Orsay. Originally a mechanical engineer, he was ‘corrupted' by computer science and AI while studying robotics and control systems.

LAN Interface Chair - Lars Schmitt

Senior Scientist

Phillips Research Europe

Lars is a Senior Scientist at Philips Research Europe. Since joining Philips in 2006, Lars has been active in the healthcare domain addressing connectivity standards and technology. In this context, he has been actively participating in the Continua Health Alliance and other standardization organizations such as IEEE, Bluetooth, and ZigBee.

Lars received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, and his PhD from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in Iterative Algorithms for Communications Receivers.

xHR Team Chair - Igor Gejdos

Data Architect

Roche

Igor has been involved with the Continua Health Alliance for over two years and at this time acts as a Chair of the xHR sub-team. Additionally he is the main contact/liaison to the HL7 Structured Document Technical Committee, presenting out as necessary and tracking/resolving technical issues required for the specification.

Igor is currently a Data Architect at Roche, Diabetes Care division. He is responsible for data aspect of information technology solutions including databases, data architecture and systems design. Before joining Roche he worked as senior consultant focused on integration of hospital information systems, design and development of data management solutions.

WAN Interface Chair - Lee Surprenant

Software Engineer

IBM

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.

Security SIG Chair - Martin Rosner

Director of Standardization

Philips

Martin Rosner is a Director of Standardization at Philips - North America and has over 10 years of experience in research and standardization of technologies applicable in the healthcare domain. Martin began his career at Philips as a Researcher with focus on security and privacy issues facing Philips Healthcare. His early work at Philips explored new innovations in patient identification and authentication, suitable access control mechanisms and privacy policy management and enforcement. Martin also applied his data security expertise to challenging problems in the Consumer Electronics domain, including copy protection and digital rights management. Currently, as a Director of Standardization at Philips, Martin is managing research and standardization projects directed at enabling the secure exchange of health information within and between the consumer and professional healthcare domains. In this capacity, Martin is chairing the security and privacy discussions in the Continua Health Alliance and is contributing to the relevant security initiatives within HITSP and HL7. Within Philips, Martin contributes in defining the directions for standardization for the global businesses of Philips Healthcare and manages a set of standardization programs relevant to them.

Philips is a global leader in healthcare, lighting and consumer lifestyle, delivering people-centric, innovative products, services and solutions through the brand promise of "sense and simplicity". Philips employs approximately 121,000 employees in more than 60 countries worldwide. With sales of EUR 26 billion in 2008, the company is a market leader in medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring systems, energy efficient lighting solutions, as well as lifestyle solutions for personal wellbeing.