healthcare

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. From January 2009 to January 2011, he served as special advisor for health policy to the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Since 1997 he was chair of the Department of Bioethics at The Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health and a breast oncologist. Dr. Emanuel received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University.

(PhD; MBA; GradDipMgtSt; BSc. Amus.A, piano;Amus.A, violin)

Dr. Charles Thompson is a Human Capital Management Consultant for International Business Machines (IBM). Dr. Thompson uses issue-based consulting techniques to design and implement human capital solutions related to the entire employee life cycle (i.e., recruitment, selection, career development, etc.) for federal government and healthcare organizations.

Mary Ann Scheirer is now an Independent Consultant in program evaluation and performance measurement, as well as Adjunct Faculty of the Department of Public Administration, George Washington University. She has more than 20 years experience conducting program evaluations, with recent emphasis on developing performance measurement systems for government agencies. Her professional training was in applied sociology, including a Ph.D.

Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe has an internationally recognized research record in the area of healthcare and technology management. Her expertise is in the strategic application and management of technology for effecting superior healthcare solutions. In this light, she has and continues to work with several leading healthcare institutions throughout the US including the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins and Northwestern Memorial Hospital on numerous applications of various technology solutions.