Russell B. Leftwich, MD, Senior Clinical Advisor, Interoperability, InterSystems

Dr. Russell Leftwich is on the board of directors for both the HL7® organization and the FHIR® Foundation. He is an active co-chair of the Learning Health Systems work group and the HL7® Clinical Interoperability Council. Dr. Leftwich is a founder of the Clinicians on FHIR® meeting and an active member of the American Medical Informatics Association. He practiced medicine in Nashville for 22 years and subsequently became the CMIO for the State of Tennessee, as well as an adjunct faculty member of the Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Department. He holds a B.S.E. degree in chemical and bioengineering from Arizona State University, and an M.D. from Vanderbilt University. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics. Dr. Leftwich was honored with the HIMSS Physician IT Leadership Award in 2012.

Dan Gottlieb, Product Specialist, InterSystems

 Dan Gottlieb is a Product Specialist at InterSystems, working on the HealthShare Unified Health Record. Over the past decade, Dan has focused on creating standards and software to help healthcare providers deliver better care to patients. In his position at InterSystems, and through a clinical informatics appointment at the Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical Informatics (HMS) and work with the HL7® organization, he is collaborating with developers around the world to create and deploy open standards that enable an interoperable ecosystem of healthcare apps, clinical decision support services, and population health analytic tools. Prior to joining InterSystems, Dan served as the head of technology for the SMART Project at Boston Children’s Hospital/HMS, and has led software teams at the New York City Department of Health and JPMorgan. He has a master’s degree in health policy from NYU.

Laura Heermann Langford, PhD, RN, Nurse Informaticist, Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research, Intermountain Healthcare; COO, Healthcare Services Platform Consortium

Dr. Laura Heermann Langford, PhD, RN is a Nurse Informaticist in the Homer Warner Center for Informatics Research at Intermountain Healthcare and the Chief Operating Officer for the non-profit Healthcare Services Platform Consortium.  Dr. Heermann-Langford has a clinical background of nursing in adult emergency care and pediatric intensive care units and burn care.  Her informatics work has focused on clinical decision support and workflow, clinical engagement, standards and interoperability.  She is a co-chair of the HL7® Emergency Care Workgroup, HL7® Healthcare Clinical Interoperability Council Working Group, and the HL7® Patient Care Workgroup (PCWG) where she co-leads the HL7® PCWG Care Plan Initiative and is a member of the leadership of Clinicians on FHIR®.  She is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Policy Committee and a past Chair of the AMIA Nursing Informatics Working Group.  She is also past co-chair of IHE Patient Care Coordination Planning and Technical Committees. She received her MS and PhD degrees in Nursing Informatics and Nursing Research from the University of Utah, and her BS degree in Nursing from the University of Northern Colorado.