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Executive Profile: Michael Cowan of Deloitte Consulting LLP
By Camille Tuutti at 10 March, 2010, 10:12 am
Michael Cowan is chief medical officer at the federal health sector of Deloitte Consulting LLP. He joined Deloitte in June 2009 upon its acquisition of BearingPoint’s Federal Practice. He is responsible for clinical leadership in healthcare, social services and Federal health consulting. He leads the development of new service offerings and the strategic recruitment and [...]
Read More >>Executive Profile: Paul Nedzbala of SRA International Inc.
By Camille Tuutti at 9 March, 2010, 4:16 pm
Paul Nedzbala is vice president and director of health research and informatics at SRA International Inc. Nedzbala manages the day-to-day operations of the global health sector unit, which provides research, informatics and IT services to the U.S. public health sector arena.
Nedzbala joined SRA in the acquisition of Constella Group, LLC, in August 2007. He was [...]
Executive Profile: Don Picard of HP
By Camille Tuutti at 9 March, 2010, 3:13 pm
Don Picard is vice president and segment leader of federal healthcare for HP’s U.S. Public Sector. He is responsible for business with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Food and Drug Administration; the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; and the Military Health System [...]
Read More >>Executive Profile: Kevin M. Fickenscher of Dell Perot Systems
By Camille Tuutti at 9 March, 2010, 2:27 pm
Kevin M. Fickenscher serves as executive vice president of international healthcare for Dell Perot Systems. He is a physician executive and leader with extensive experience in strategic and operational development in complex healthcare organizations. He has provided leadership for various organizations related to technology and information management, organizational transformation and development, physician management, health policy [...]
Read More >>Executive Profile: Robert M. Wah of CSC
By Camille Tuutti at 9 March, 2010, 2:23 pm
Dr. Robert M. Wah is chief medical officer and vice president at CSC’s North American Public Sector- Government Health Services organization.
Before coming to CSC, Wah served as acting deputy national coordinator for health IT at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He also worked for the Military Health System in the Office of [...]
Executive Profile: Susan Penfield of Booz Allen Hamilton
By Camille Tuutti at 9 March, 2010, 2:19 pm
Susan Penfield serves as senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton. She specializes in the management and strategic use of IT within the national health industry. Her duties include devising strategies for health data interoperability; increasing the integration of public health information to support food safety, chronic disease management and collaborative research; developing IT modernization [...]
Read More >>Executive Profile: Kerry Weems of Vangent
By Camille Tuutti at 9 March, 2010, 2:03 pm
Kerry Weems serves as senior vice president and general manager of health solutions at Vangent. Prior to his current role, Weems spent 28 years with the federal government and held the position of administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and was also vice chairman of the American Health Information Community. There, he [...]
Read More >>Executive Profile: Bruce Caswell of MAXIMUS
By Camille Tuutti at 9 March, 2010, 2:01 pm
Bruce Caswell serves as president and general manager of the health services segment at MAXIMUS. He is responsible for overseeing the development, growth and operations of the company’s largest business segment, which includes program administration for Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Center for Health Literacy, and our Canadian health operations.
Previously, Caswell was at IBM [...]
Executive Profile: Amy King of Northrop Grumman
By Camille Tuutti at 9 March, 2010, 1:59 pm
King serves as vice president of the health IT programs business unit at Northrop Grumman. Her responsibilities include developing a comprehensive health business strategy. She also is responsible for operational growth and program execution for the business unit.
King spent the last three years focusing on Northrop Grumman’s health IT programs business group as director of [...]
Executive Profile: Lawrence R. Albert of Agilex
By Camille Tuutti at 9 March, 2010, 1:51 pm
Lawrence R. Albert is president of Agilex’s healthcare sector. Before joining Agilex, Albert created and led the healthcare practice at Integic Corporation, where he led the design, development and deployment of the world’s largest electronic healthcare management system, the DoD’s Medical System: Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application.
After Integic was acquired by Northrop Grumman Corporation, [...]
