Jon Adams

Technical Working Group Chair

Business Development, Freescale Semiconductor

I have been at Freescale Semiconductor since its spinout from Motorola in 2004, and at Motorola since 2000. While I am currently involved in business development, my involvements have included director of systems engineering for the cellular transceiver division, cellular security expert, director of WLAN/WPAN architecture and security, director of radio technology, among others.

Previous to Freescale and Motorola, I spent 17 exciting years at NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (www.jpl.nasa.gov) as a senior member of the Caltech technical staff. I was the cognizant (aka chief) engineer and sometimes contract manager for radar and telecom payloads for a number of terrestrial, Earth-orbiting, and planetary missions. My largest single responsibility was a US$50M radar subsystem, launched into earth orbit on Japan's ADEOS-1 spacecraft. I occasionally participated as a technical or programmatic review board member for other missions. My final role was a senior manager responsible for payload development for the Mars Network, a Mars-orbiting system of UHF "radio repeaters" for communications from the Martian surface back to Earth. It was at JPL that I learned the value of well-defined and traceable requirements, to stay focused on the mission needs while avoiding creeping functionality, and to lead large teams of extremely diverse talent and deep expertise, while making sure that my portion of the mission met schedule.

I am on the board of directors of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (www.ieee-isto.org), which promotes the development of industry standards through collaborative efforts, and hold a board seat on the Arizona Telecommunications and Information Council (www.arizonatele.com/atic), a policy organization which advises the Governor's office on telecommunications matters like broadband and telehealth. I am a member of the Arizona Technology Council (www.aztechcouncil.org), a supporter member of the Arizona Health-e Connection (www.azhec.org), and regularly attend meetings of the Arizona Telemedicine Council (www.telemedicine.arizona.edu/atc.cfm). I have been a participant and voter in numerous IEEE standards activities including 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16.

I hold BSE and MSEE (Electromagnetics) degrees from UCLA. I am a senior member of the IEEE; in order to understand better health care system needs from the IT and care provider point of view, I am a member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (www.himms.org), and the American Telemedicine Association (www.atmeda.org). I have been fortunate to receive multiple medals and awards from NASA, JPL, Motorola and Freescale for engineering, leadership and ethics. I have made dozens of technical presentations at meetings and events globally, have authored or co-authored many articles, white papers and one refereed journal paper, and have been quoted or referenced in industry and popular publications.

In related matters, I am currently vice technical chair and marketing chair for ZigBee Health Care (www.zigbee.org), and am the technical liaison between Continua and ZigBee.

Personally, I live in Arizona, a state with a great interest in telemedicine and telehealth, due in part to the large rural population outside of the Phoenix/Tucson metro areas. As well, my wife, Suzana, is a clinical psychologist with a strong interest in applying remote connectivity to provide mental health services to underserved populations in rural areas. Completely beside the point, my interests include amateur radio, hiking, astronomy, geology, mountain biking, camping, off-road exploration, geocaching, and railfanning.

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 - Tim Reilly

President

Stonestreet One, LLC

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 - Barry Reinhold

President and CEO

LNI

Barry is President and CEO of LNI and has been involved in Continua since 2007. Barry has been engaged with the IEEE PHD workgroup since 2008 focusing on the 11073-20601 specification. Barry currently chairs the Continua TWG WAN group.

Barry has worked with communication protocols, as well as compliance and verification issues in a number of settings. Barry founded the InterOperability Lab (IOL) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in 1989 and directed it until 2001. From 2001 – 2003 Barry acted as the lead protocol architect for an iSCSI to Fibre Channel translation chip built by Trebia before joining LNI in 2003. Barry has developed test suites for many communications and storage protocols including IEEE 11073, iWARP (RFC 5044, RFC5040, and RFC 5041), Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FDDI, IEEE 802.5, HomePlug, PCI-ASI, PCI-E, and well as protocols within the IEEE 802.x family.

Barry received a B.S. in Physics and Computer Science and a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire

In his free time Barry enjoys board games, cycling, frisbee and mentoring University students interested in technology

E2E Security - 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.