Donald E. Brown, M.D. Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer Interactive Intelligence Interactive Intelligence is the third software company co-founded and led by Donald E. Brown, M.D. The global company provides call center technologies and software solutions for mid-size to large organizations. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Interactive Intelligence serves organizations around the world with center software, unified communications, business process automation and cloud solutions. The company debuted in 1994, and currently has more than 2,000 employees worldwide. Dr. Brown has been President of the company since its inception, became Chief Executive Officer in 1995 and was named Chairman of the Board in 1998. Prior to Interactive Intelligence, Dr. Brown co-founded Software Artistry Inc. to develop customer support software. He served as Chief Executive Officer from the company s inception until 1994. Software Artistry became a public company in 1995 and was acquired by IBM Corporation in 1998. Dr. Brown s initial start-up was a software company acquired by Electronic Data Systems Inc. in 1987. Dr. Brown earned his medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1985, and also received a Master s degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor s degree in Physics from Indiana University.
Traci Dolan Board Member, Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ), the Central Indiana Community Foundation, the ExactTarget Foundation Board Member, Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ), the Central Indiana Community Foundation, the ExactTarget Foundation Traci Dolan brings a wealth of financial, administrative and technology company experience to the Diagnotes. From 2011 through early 2014, she was Chief Administrative Officer of ExactTarget Inc., a global digital marketing software company. From 2004 to 2011, she was the company s Chief Financial Officer, responsible for all financial and administrative functions of the business. She led and successfully completed the process to take the company public in March 2012 (NYSE). Before joining ExactTarget, Dolan was Chief Financial Officer of the enterprise software company Made2Manage Systems Inc. (NASDAQ). At Macmillan Publishing USA, she held various accounting and operational positions, including Vice President of Finance and Operations. She began her career at Coopers & Lybrand. Dolan was named Financial Executive of the Year by the American Business Awards in 2010. In 2009, the Indianapolis Business Journal named Dolan CFO of the Year, and in 2010, the newspaper honored her as a Woman of Influence.
Howard D. Silverman, M.D., MS Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix Dr. Howard Silverman is Founding Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, where he guides the department s educational, clinical and research programs. He is actively involved in developing the department s big data health-outcomes capabilities and is overseeing accreditation for a Clinical Informatics Fellowship. Previously, he was Associate Dean of Information Resources and Educational Technology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. In this role he coordinated all information resources services on the Phoenix campus, and was actively involved in creating the medical school curriculum. In addition to serving as a clinical professor of Family and Community Medicine, and professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanism there, he also is a clinical professor of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University. He was previously the Banner Health System Director of Medical Informatics and Clinical Innovation where he had organizational responsibility for creating synergy between care transformation activities, clinical innovation and information technology. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Purdue University in mathematics and German, Dr. Silverman earned a Master s degree in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he specialized in artificial intelligence applications in medical decision-making. He attended Stanford University School of Medicine, and served a Family Practice Residency at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix. With experience in private practice, Dr. Silverman also served as Medical Director of Hospice of the Valley, the Samaritan Visiting Nurse Service, and Samaritan Care Center, and was Program Director for the family practice residency at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. Dr. Silverman also was Chief Medical Officer for the American Centers for Health & Medicine, a Catholic Healthcare West-sponsored experimental practice to integrate managed care reimbursed primary care services with complementary and alternative therapies. Dr. Silverman is author of Healing Ceremonies: Creating Personal Rituals for Spiritual, Emotional, Physical and Mental Health, describing his experience using ceremonies to integrate traditional medical care and personal healing and serves as a primer for creating healing ceremonies.
Alan D. Snell, M.D., M.M.M. Board Member, Regenstrief Institute of Medical Informatics and Health Care Excel Dr. Alan Snell recently served as Chief Medical Informatics Officer for St. Vincent Health, an integrated healthcare organization with 22 hospital sites, 16,000 associates, and more than $6 billion annual revenue, leading innovative initiatives for new health information technologies in clinical settings. He also developed telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, and other telehealth demonstration projects for St. Vincent s parent organization, Ascension Health, the nation s largest nonprofit healthcare system. In 2010, he co-authored an ARRA Beacon Community Grant with Indiana Health Information Exchange, and was principal investigator for a successful two-year clinical trial that reduced hospital readmissions by 60 to 70 percent using home monitoring and video-conferencing technologies and new transitional care processes. In 2012, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the national coordinator for Health IT, named Dr. Snell one of 82 Health IT Vanguards. In the mid-1990s, Dr. Snell conceptualized one of the nation s first Health Information Exchanges. He later served as CEO of Michiana Information Network and, in his first CMIO role at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in South Bend, led the implementation of electronic medical records in more than 120 physician practices. Dr. Snell is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Medicine, and completed a Family Medicine residency in South Bend. He earned a Master s in Medical Management from Tulane University School of Medicine and Public Health, and currently is an adjunct professor of Clinical Informatics at Indiana University, and volunteers on statewide projects including Better Healthcare for Indiana. For 27 years, Dr. Snell was a primary care physician in South Bend, and volunteered as a clinical faculty in two residency programs in the community.
Michael Mote Executive Consultant Michael Mote has more than 40 years of experience in senior and executive level management, with more than 25 years in healthcare where he has served in roles as chief operating officer, chief information officer, chief security officer, vice president of product and service strategy and vice president of operations. He has significant practical skills in strategic business planning, strategic technology planning, organizational structuring and operational planning and execution. His many successes include product and service quality improvements, cost reduction and containment, new product and service development and market share expansion. Recognized for his ability to facilitate diverse groups in defining and achieving common goals and objectives, and for his ability to medicate and reconcile strategic issues among differing constituencies. For the past 12 years, Mote has served as an executive consultant to healthcare-related organizations including a large healthcare system, three state-level health information exchanges (HIE), two regionallevel HIE initiatives, and four healthcare information technology software companies. These efforts included advising two healthcare-related software companies in the development of their national software and support pricing and marketing strategies. Recently, Mote was interim CIO, CSO, and Vice President of Product and Service Strategy for HealthBridge, one of the oldest and largest HIEs in the country, and he currently serves as the Interim COO/CIO for the Health Information Network of Arizona. Since 1992, Mote has been actively involved in early efforts to define and create telemedicine networks and health information networks (today s HIEs and HIOs), and for more than 10 years he has worked with HIEs developing strategic business plans, sustainability plans, and evaluation and selection of product and service offerings. Mote s substantial information and technology management background includes experience at all levels of the industry, from programming to C-suite, with service on several organizational boards.
Samuel L. Odle Senior Policy Adviser Bose Public Affairs Group Samuel L. Odle is a senior policy adviser for Bose Public Affairs Group. In this capacity, Odle works with clients on a variety of public policy issues involving health care and the life sciences. Prior to joining Bose Public Affairs Group, Odle served as lead executive in the merger of Methodist Hospital of Indiana with the hospitals of the IU Medical Center in 1997. The merger required the creation of a new, not-for-profit 501c3 with employment of 9,000 FTEs on its first day of existence. The combined organization had a budget of $1.6 billion and included the full spectrum of tertiary services, including one of the state s largest trauma centers. Odle has had executive responsibility for more than $1 billion in health care construction over the last 15 years. He has had extensive experience in negotiating physician relationships, including employment as well as independent physician group integration with responsibility for more than 1,000 physicians at Methodist, University and Riley Hospital for Children. This included physician coverage of two separate trauma centers. Odle served on the Executive Coordinating Team that managed the relationship between the health system and the IU School of Medicine. Working with the Chairman of Medical School Departments, Odle coordinated the operational merger of faculty and non-faculty physician groups involving psychiatry, pathology, cardiology, general surgery, trauma surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, transplant surgery, internal medicine, nephrology and CV Surgery. Odle has been recognized on several occasions for both his professional and community service. In 2011, Odle received the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee Charles L. Whistler Award for his visionary and enthusiastic leadership in serving the community in bringing together the public and private sectors for civic improvement in Indianapolis. In 2007, Odle was inducted into the Indiana Business Hall of Fame. Board-certified in health care management, Odle is a fellow and past chairman of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). He has worked with the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellowship program to develop future health care leaders, and is also a member of Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE).