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WorldVistA Past Executives
Peter GroenVice President Government Liaison recently retired from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He was the Director of the Health Information and Technology Sharing (HITS) program. He served in the federal government for over 33 years and occupied a number of senior Information Technology (IT) management positions within VA Headquarters and in the field. He served as the Director of the Medical Information Security Service, Director of VHA Telecommunications Services, Deputy Associate CIO for the Veterans Health Administration, as well as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the VA Medical Centers in Atlanta and Columbia S.C. He served as the national project manager for the VA Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) as well as the VA Internet and VHA Intranet Redesign projects. Prior to coming to the VA, he also served in the U.S. Navy for six years. He was a supervisor of the Combat Information Center aboard the guided missile destroyer, U.S.S. Sellers DDG-11. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree from Clemson University and a Masters of Public Administration (M.P.A.) from The Pennsylvania State University. During his long federal career, he received numerous awards for outstanding performance and special contributions. He served five years as an adjunct faculty instructor at the University of South Carolina and is currently on the faculty of the Computer & Information Sciences Department at Shepherd University in West Virginia. He has been published in a number of journals and books over the years, primarily with a focus on information technology in healthcare. |
Chuck LinkFormer Board Member Chuck Link is a Contracting Officer Technical Representative for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, working at the field office in Birmingham, Alabama. He has been a member of the VistA community for twenty years, and spent nine of those years working on VistA's Pharmacy applications. He is one of the Hardhats Volunteers, and served on the MUMPS Development Committee (MDC) for ten years. Link served as chairman of the MDC's Subcommittee 16 (Object-Oriented Language), and in that role led a working group in its biweekly conference calls and quarterly meetings, out of which grew the OpenVistA project and WorldVistA itself. He works at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs's Field Office in Birmingham, Alabama. Link was one of the founders of WorldVistA, and later served as a Director of WorldVistA during 2003. |
Brian LordFormer Board Member is a senior medical software consultant and businessman in Durham, North Carolina. He is president and owner of Sequence Managers Software, LLC. He holds six degrees, including a masters in software engineering and bachelors degrees in physics, medical technology, and computer science. Lord has been programming in MUMPS for 20 years and has worked on several major medical implementations including CHCS, IDX, VistA, and Epic. He has been active in the OpenVistA community since the first conversion of VistA to GT.M. and has been part of several successful implementations of OpenVistA. He was one of the founders of WorldVistA. |
Rick MarshallChief Technical Officer Director is a VistA consultant in Seattle, Washington and has been programming VistA since 1984. He formerly served as a VistA computer specialist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): seven years of local support and development and twelve years of national development, including major work on both the TaskMan and FileMan packages for VistA. He has also written technical documents, including the 1995 Standard M Pocket Guide, and taught classes in FileMan and Kernel for more than a decade. He was a director of the M Technology Association for four years and vice chair of the MUMPS Development Committee, served as WorldVistA President, and cofounded WorldVistA. |
Bob MillerFormer Board Member is an associate professor of pathology and biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of its pathology data systems unit. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. |
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Stan Saiki Former Board Member Stanley Saiki is the Director of the Pacific Telehealth and Technology Hui (Hui), at Tripler Army Medical Center and the Director of Clinical Informatics at the VA Honolulu. He has spearheaded research projects related to data warehousing, clinical telemedicine, and electronic medical record development. He serves as Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Hawaii. In 1998 through 2000, he served as the Director of the University of Hawaii Telemedicine Project where he coauthored the UH Telemedicine Curriculum. Saiki has also authored database applications. In his role as Director of the Hui, he helped fund the development of OpenVistA, and later served as a Director of WorldVistA during 2004. |
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