Advisory Committee
William G. Anlyan, M.D. is Chancellor Emeritus of
M. Roy Schwarz, M.D. received his Bachelor of Science degree of
His administrative posts have included Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Founding Director of the WAMI (Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho) Program at the University of Washington, Director, Experimental Satellite Communications Program of the University of Washington, Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Senior Vice President of Medical Education and Science of the American Medical Association.
He is the immediate past President of the China Medical Board of New York, Inc., a private foundation established in 1914 to promote high quality, western medicine in
The author of over 150 articles, books and abstracts, Dr. Schwarz is Chairman of the Board of the
Richard Y. Wang, Ph.D. is Director, MIT Information Quality Program. He has served as a professor at MIT, the
Associates
Brenda Marion Nevidjon, RN, MSN, FAAN is a Clinical Professor and Specialty Director - Nursing and Healthcare Leadership, Duke University School of Nursing. Ms. Nevidjon has had an extraordinary nursing career of leadership in service and education. It is distinguished by her being the first nurse and first woman to be chief operating officer of
Stan Davis is a Board Certified OB-GYN with 24 years of experience in delivering babies. He is a graduate of St. Olaf College, the University of Minnesota Medical School, and finished his residency in Reproductive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Upon completion, he spent one year as a Post-Doctoral Scholar in Fetal and Placental Pathology under the direction of Dr. Kurt Benirschke at UCSD. His medical career has been given to reducing fetal and neonatal harm.
Stan has spent the last 4 years as a Medical Quality Consultant with Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis. He has worked on an AHRQ grant studying the impact of teamwork in obstetrics, and has served as faculty for the Premier Perinatal Patient Safety Project, currently involving 18 hospitals working to achieve “Zero Birth Injuries”. He is also faculty for TEAMSTEPPS training of Quality Improvement Organizations across the country.
He has written and lectured nationally and internationally on teamwork, communication, and simulation in obstetrics including the IHI National Forum, ICSI, Premier National “Breakthroughs”, and the Quality Colloquium on the campus of Harvard University.
He has been a leader in the development of in situ simulation, a dynamic in-house form of simulation that employs experiential learning around teamwork and communication and serves as a powerful tool for understanding latent process failures in hospital units.
Earl Hadden is the former CEO of Pacific Information Management (1981 – 1993). For PIM, Earl developed and conducted seminars on data process and modeling, Information Strategy Planning and Information Resource Management. Under Earl’s leadership, PIM developed IE/Impact, one of the first methodologies to implement James Martin’s Information Engineering and CASE tools. They also developed the first Data Warehousing methodology, DW/Impact based on work by Bill Inmon., His clients included IBM, the US Air Force Office of Space Medicine, DoD Office of Medical Systems, Tri-services Pharmacy Improvement Task Force, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, DHL Systems, LL Bean and HP.In 1993, as Hadden & Company Management Consultants, Earl lead a small team that refined DW/Impact into the Hadden Data Warehousing Method, an approach adopted by vendors and consultant companies all over the world. In 1996, DW/Impact was integrated with Metis, the DW methodology developed by Sean Kelly, founder of the Data Warehouse Network (
Earl was labeled “The Godfather of Data Warehousing” by Aaron Zornes and named one of the Top Five Data Warehouse consultants by Meta Group (1995). The Data Warehouse Institute (
In 2001, Earl sold the intellectual property of Hadden & Company to Synapse Technology and joined the company as Executive VP and Director of the Data Warehouse Practice wherein he expanded Synapse business in pharmaceuticals, agribusiness and consumer packaged goods. Earl left Synapse in 2002 and continues to work on advanced methods for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Information Quality and implementing Data Governance and Stewardship. His primary interest is helping health care organizations improve wellness and quality of life for workers in
Peter Anlyan built teams during 20 years of corporate life. Having been an organizational development catalyst for clients in health care, higher education, state and county government, and the corporate sector, his work in Top Ten Hospitals includes a broad range of programs, from aligning leadership teams to training staff in enhanced communications skills to coaching physicians to be more effective team members. His focus is enhancing the effectiveness of Quality and Patient Safety teams. He authored the Fulcrum Leaders and Team programs for organizations that want to more effectively connect managers and teams to the organization's mission, strategies and outcomes. He is certified in the American Hospital Association & Center for Healthcare Governance Quality Curriculum for Trustees. He also has certifications in MBTI, Crucial Conversations, and Coaching and Organizational Learning, and is a trainer of The Leadership Challenge program. Peter has chaired, co-chaired or served on over a dozen organizational boards and is currently a director of the RTP Chapter of the Association of Psychological Type. He was a founding leadership coach with Leadership Triangle and is a Principle Associate of The Learning Consortium. Peter is Co-chair of the MIT Information Quality Industry Symposium which entered its first year of collaboration with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in 2009.
Hope I. Hills, Ph.D, a psychologist since 1986, and a Leadership and Organizational consultant since 1991, brings a breadth and depth of experience to her work with leaders and their organizations. Dr. Hills has worked with numerous health care organizations, most frequently working intensively with executives and managers to erase silos and create highly performing teams. Some of her clients have been: Annie Penn Hospital, Bon Secours: St. Francis Health System; Nalle Clinic, GE Medical. Throughout her years as a psychologist, Hope has applied solid psychological theory to real life issues. Her work researching and utilizing the Interpersonal Circle is extensive and has created a solid, actionable model that she uses to help individuals, teams and organizations become more effective. Her years of teaching, research and practice support her extraordinary track record as an executive coach. She has designed a Life Line Process that enables leaders to recognize the life experiences and core beliefs that are holding them back from getting the results they want. She is the invited author of a chapter on coaching men in business that outlines her approach. Her work with Executive and Senior Teams routinely results in their performing higher than expected. She has designed and implemented very successful succession planning and high potential development processes. Her design for high potential and executive development focuses on creating a “new learning environment” around the individual by involving direct reports, peers and supervisors. David A. Fitts, MPH, Ph.D. is a clinical Biostatistician with more than 20 years experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Most recently, he was Vice President, Global Biostatistics and Data Sciences at EMD Pharmaceuticals within the Clinical R&D Organization of Merck KGaA – Europe’s longest-standing Pharmaceutical company. His global staff of 42 provided biostatistical, programming, and data management support to Merck’s clinical development portfolio. In addition, he participated in strategic and tactical decision-making on Merck’s operational and scientific management teams. While with Merck, he merged several site-specific computing platforms into a harmonized environment, thereby providing a single programming interface for the global department and launched an effort to establish a data repository for all of Merck’s clinical data. Originally trained as Pharmacist, Dr. Fitts received his pharmacy license in the State of New York. After two years with the University of Rochester Hospital, he joined the Peace Corps and served as a Pharmacy instructor in the West Indies. From there, he moved to New Orleans where he earned his Master of Public Health (Epidemiology) and Ph.D. (Biostatistics) degrees at Tulane University. The combination of pharmacy and quantitative methods made Pharmaceutical R&D a natural career choice. During his postgraduate education, Dr. Fitts was recruited by the Clinical Research Center in New Orleans to provide both patient care (as a pharmacist) and data analysis for phase I and III clinical trials. After completing academic requirements, he joined SmithKline Beckman (soon to become SmithKline Beecham) in Philadelphia. There, he served as a project biostatistician, ultimately becoming Associate Director of the Biometrics Oncology team. While at SB, he gained direct experience in the US and European regulatory processes by supporting three NDA’s and by defending SB’s application for topotecan at multiple ODAC and EMEA hearings. In addition to his business responsibilities, Dr. Fitts has a record of professional development. He has presented to external audiences on such diverse topics as Non-Inferiority Designs, Efficiency in Clinical Development, and Creation of an Integrated Data Warehouse. He is also a reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Oncology. In 2003, he was awarded the Champion of Public Health Award by Tulane University and, with a former colleague, presented a workshop on Preparation of the Statistical Analysis Plan at the Society for Clinical Trials 2007 Annual Meeting. Laura Wimbish, Ph.D. For the past 20 years, Laura has worked extensively with executives and their teams to create high performance organizations capable of meeting the challenges of an increasingly complex and globalized marketplace. A licensed psychologist, her focus is on developing leadership potential in the workplace by helping people transcend self-limiting perceptions, attitudes and interpersonal behaviors. Laura was a principal in the Chicago-based WorkGroup Consultants, Inc. She was also the President and founder of Chicago Psychological Services and Consulting. Laura’s approach integrates what she has learned from many years of psychological practice as well as her experience as a consultant and coach. Her areas of expertise include executive coaching and leadership development, assessment, needs analysis, organizational realignment, change management, team building, work/life balance and critical incident services.
