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 | Nancy E. Anthracite, M.D., Chief Medical Officer Nancy is a Graduate of Boston University School of Medicine's 6 year medical program, Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. She has had varying experience including academic medicine as the former third year medical clerkship director for the Department of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, private practice in the Florida panhandle and more than 12 years in occupational medicine in the Washington DC area, most recently at the Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office. She became aware of VistA in 1999 and began the work that ultimately resulted in the installation instructions found on the www.Hardhats.org web site for VistA and CPRS. More recently she has been working on multiple projects including defining the requirements for addition of pediatrics and Ob-Gyn to VistA. She often helps “newbies” to get VistA up and running for the first time. Email: nancy "at" worldvista "dot" org
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 | K.S. Bhaskar, Chief Operating Officer, Director Bhaskar is vice president at Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. in Malvern, Pennsylvania, where he manages the GT.M product line. (GT.M on Linux is an open-source implementation of MUMPS and is part of the open-source free software stack for VistA.) By training and inclination he is an engineer, with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, although he also holds a masters in business administration. He holds five U.S. patents, has written a number of technical articles, and has presented at technical conferences. He cofounded WorldVistA, serving as director from March 1, 2003 to March 14, 2004, and rejoined the board October 20, 2005. |
 | Peter Bodtke, Vice President
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 | Joseph Dal Molin, Interim President, Vice President Business Development Joseph is an internationally recognized expert in health information technology and pioneer in open source strategy and community building. He is president of e-cology Corporation, cofounder of WorldVistA, and chaired and cofounded the Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA). He managed the national health care business for a major computer manufacturer and has consulted to the OECD, UCLA School of Medicine, UK NHS Information Authority, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and Centre for Global eHealth Innovation. His work includes developing the business plan and strategy for OSCAR, McMaster University Dept. of Family Medicine’s open source EHR, and SPIRIT, the European Commission funded portal for collaborative health software development and co-authored Canada's first federal study on the impact of the open source model on the Canadian IT market. He is a frequently invited speaker on open source and health IT strategy including events organized by the Kennedy School of Government; American Association of Medical Colleges, American College of Physicians; OECD Working Party on the Information Economy, and Brasilian and Malaysian Health Informatics Associations. He is currently program manager for VistA Vendor Support Organization which WorldVistA is establishing for CMS's VistA Office EHR initiative. He lives in Toronto, Canada. Email: dalmolin "at" worldvista "dot" org |
 | Matt King, Director Matthew King, MD is the Chief Medical Officer of Clinica Adelante, Inc, a community health center in the Phoenix, Arizona area. He obtained his Medical Degree from University of Washington, School of Medicine in 1989. He is board-certified in Family Medicine and completed his internship and residency at the Ventura County Family Medicine Residency Program. Before accepting the Clinica Position, Dr. King practiced a full spectrum of Family Practice in Okanogan, Washington, including Hospital and ER care, Obstetrics, Geriatrics and Pediatrics. Dr. King has been a computer hobbyist and open source advocate for many years and has experience with the Linux operating system, MySql, OpenOffice.org, Python and Perl. More recently, he has studied VistA and GT.M. In August 2007, Clinica Adelante, Inc, successfully brought WorldVistA EHR into production, using Linux and GT.M. His passion is using technology to improve Healthcare quality and patient outcomes." Email: mking "at" worldvista "dot" org |
 | L.D. Landis, Chief Information Officer , Director Larry is primarily a software developer, supporting development tools and as a DBA supporting MUMPS, Cache and Oracle, and has been programming for over 30 years (primarily UNIX and C). He has been using MUMPS since 1991. He was a participant in the /usr/group standard and assisted in its migration to the IEEE P-1003 (POSIX) committee. He also was a regular visitor to the MUMPS Development Committee meetings, and through participation in the Object working group of the MDC, was involved with WorldVistA at its inception. |
 | Maury Pepper, Chairman, Director Maury is a computer consultant with his own company, M-Technology, and has worked with MUMPS since the early 1970s. He co-founded DRA Library Systems, a company specializing in libraries for the blind and physically handicapped. Later, he led a team which developed a system to monitor radiation treatments for patient safety. He attributes his long-time interest in the application of computers to healthcare, in part, to his father who was a doctor for the VA prior to entering private practice. He holds a masters degree in computer science and became a member of the MUMPS Development Committee in 1991. He cofounded WorldVistA, which he chairs from his home in St. Louis, Missouri. |
 | Chris Richardson, Secretary Chris is a senior computer specialist with the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Martinez, California and has been programming in MUMPS since 1978. Formerly employed by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), he worked on the the initial version of the Composite Health Care System (CHCS), the Department of Defense's dialect of the VA Decentralized Hospital Computer Program, now called VistA. He has also programmed for NASA's Johnson Space Center, Computer Sciences Corporation, and the United States Public Health Service as well as his own company, Richardson Computer Research. He was a longstanding member of the MUMPS Users Group of North America and the MUMPS Development Committee. He has served as a WorldVistA director and is a cofounder of WorldVistA. |
 | Colin Smith, Vice President Special Projects Colin retired in 2003 after a 30-year career with the UK National Health Service (NHS) during which time he worked at all levels in the organisation from the national to individual hospital specialty. He joined a group in Oxford in the early 1970’s designing the first ADT, Laboratory and EHR systems used in the NHS. He started developing systems in MUMPS in 1978 and was involved in the implementation of a network of linked MUMPS based hospital and community systems throughout the Oxford Region. He has extensive experience of all aspect of healthcare information systems development, installation and management. During the 1990’s when the NHS moved away from in-house IS development he lead a team responsible for the specification of the technical and health informatics standards required in all NHS IS procurements. He believes that freeing healthcare from closed software licenses is the best way of achieving affordable, effective and innovative information systems, and that World VistA has the potential to make a very real contribution to improving healthcare throughout the world. He lives near Oxford in the UK. |
 | David Whitten, Chief Technology Officer, Treasurer David is a senior computer specialist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He holds a masters degree in computer science from Rice University and is a recognized expert on knowledge bases and artificial intelligence. He has worked with VistA and its predecessors for more than twenty five years while programming for such employers as Houston's Methodist Hospital, the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (subcontracting to the Department of Defense) as well as the VA. In the artificial intelligence field, he has contributed to the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology working group, written the unofficial FAQ on the Cyc system, and founded the Public Domain Knowledge Bank. He is a longstanding member of the MUMPS Development Committee and cofounded the OpenVistA project and WorldVistA. |
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