Speakers

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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Organisation: GeHAP

Position: Chairman

We are delighted to welcome Archbishop Desmond Tutu via video to open this year’s conference with remarks on 'the power of global connections'.
Archbishop Tutu plays an active role in global social welfare and eHealth initiatives including his roles as:
- Chairman of the Global eHealth Ambassador’ s Program (GeHAP), facilitating international dissemination of knowledge and experience in Telemedicine and eHealth; and
- Chairman of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders who work together for peace and human rights.

Jane Halton, PSM

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Organisation: Department of Health and Ageing

Jane Halton is Secretary of the Australian Department of Health and Ageing. She is responsible for all aspects of the operation of the Department including the provision of advice on and administration of Medicare, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Aged and Community Care, Population Health, regulation of Therapeutic Goods, plus hospital financing and Private Health Insurance. She also has responsibility for leadership on health security issues, including matters related to bioterrorism. Click here for more.

David Garets

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Organisation: The Advisory Board Company

Position: General Manager and Executive Director

Mr. Garets leads The Advisory Board Company’s Health Care IT Suite which includes the Applications and Technologies Collaborative, the Global eHealth Executive Council, the IT Strategy Council, and the Meaningful Use Navigator programs.

Previously, he served as president and CEO of HIMSS Analytics, Executive Vice President of HIMSS and has held executive positions at Healthlink, Inc., Gartner, Inc., and as an experienced health care CIO.
Mr. Garets is a HIMSS fellow and served as HIMSS board chair in 2004.

He also served on the faculties of the CHIME Information Management Executive courses for 11 years and was a Charter Member of CHIME. He is an internationally known author and speaker on health care information strategies and technologies, and was recently elected to the HIMSS 50-in-50, the 50 most memorable and influential contributors to healthcare IT in the last 50 years. Mr. Garets earned a Bachelor’s of Business Administration in Marketing from Texas Tech University.

Professor Ricky J Richardson

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Position: Consultant, Paediatrician & Physician, UK

Professor Richardson took his first Degree with Honours in Cell Biology and Immunology at the University of London and qualified in clinical medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, in 1973. Following three years as an intern, and then a residency in Internal Medicine, he turned to Paediatrics and he has remained in this field ever since. An internationally acknowledged authority on eHealth and Telemedicine he works with WHO on the development of extensive eHealth Networks linked by common language and cultural heritage; with Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the Global eHealth Ambassador Programme to recruit world leaders as eHealth advocates; and challenges conventional thinking on the roles of clinicians in a ‘connected’ healthcare environment. We are delighted to have Prof. Ricky J Richard as a keynote speaker at Health-e-Nation 2012 to share insights to his experiences in the UK & Internationally. Full bio

Jonathan L. Schaffer, M.D, MBA,

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Position: Managing Director, eClevelandClinic, USA

Jonathan L. Schaffer is managing director in the Information Technology Division at Cleveland Clinic where he leads the eClevelandClinic effort to connect the participants in the care process. Cleveland Clinic’s MyConsult program, an online second medical opinion program, is used by consumers and corporations worldwide to pro-vide access while removing the geographic barriers to care. The DrConnect program securely connects referring physicians to their patients care at Cleveland Clinic. An active board certified joint replacement surgeon, he is also the Program Director for the Advanced Operative Technology Group in the Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Research Center. Prior to the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Schaffer was CEO of Harmonie Group, Inc, a corporate spin off from the informatics lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Full Bio