Dr. Chaudry was nominated and awarded the 2022 Seattle CIO of Year ORBIE Awards in the Healthcare industry. He was nominated for the 2021 CHIME – AHA Transformational Leadership Award. He has also been a finalist for the Seattle CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards (2020 and 2021). He is also a member of the global elite list Constellation’s Business Transformation 150 (BT150) 2020; that recognizes the top global executives leading business transformation efforts in their organizations. Dr. Chaudry was named to the Becker’s Hospital Review’s 102 Hospital CIOs to Know (2021), Becker’s Hospital Review’s 100 Hospital CIOs to Know (2019 and 2020), CIO magazine’s list of U.K. CIO’s to follow on Twitter (2019) and Becker’s Hospital Review (USA) 105 Hospital and Health System CIOs to Know (2018). He was also named to the CIO.CO.UK’s Top 100 list of the most transformative CIOs in the U.K. (2017) and Government Computing’s top 100 influential technology leaders in the U.K. public sector (2010).

Dr. Chaudry, who began his career as a physician, has more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of information technology. His background includes work in both healthcare and corporate settings in the U.S., Australia, Western Europe, and the U.K., in enterprise infrastructure development; business intelligence; unified telecommunications; and implementation of health care information and electronic medical record systems. He previously served as Chief Information Officer at Cambridge University Hospitals in the United Kingdom. Prior to Cambridge University Hospitals, he served as Global Research Director at Gartner. He also served as Chief Information Officer at the Liverpool Women’s and Alder Hey Children’s Hospitals in the U.K.; Consulting Editor for Hospital Information Technology Europe Magazine; Information Technology Strategist for the Vision4Children Pediatric Charity in the U.K. and Teaching Faculty at the City Colleges of Chicago.

Dr. Chaudry earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from Ross University. He subsequently earned his Master of Science degree in health care policy and management from the University of Birmingham. He also holds a Master of Science degree in information systems management from the University of Salford and his Master of Business Administration from Aston University, all in the U.K.

In his time at KLAS, Taylor has conducted over 4,000 interviews with healthcare executives and leaders. With a master’s degree in Statistics from Texas A&M and an MBA from Brigham Young University, as well as experience as an adjunct professor, consultant and speaker, Taylor loves the opportunity KLAS gives him to, “Tell the truth for a living.”

The areas she is responsible for include Nursing, Operational Performance Management, Patient Centered Design, and Enterprise Intelligence. She initially joined Regional Health as their first Vice President of Data Analytics.

Prior to joining Monument Health, Nicole served 24 years in the United States Army Nurse Corps where she focused on supporting quality healthcare with information and technology. Key roles that Nicole served in during her time in the Army included Chief Information Officer, Chief Medical Information Officer, and Military Functional Deputy Program Executive Officer. She also served as the Nursing Informatics Consultant to the Army Surgeon General for four years. She retired at the rank of Colonel.

Nicole earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. She also received Master’s Degrees in Healthcare Administration and Nursing, as well as a Certificate in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

Edward was Chief Digital Officer for Tech Mahindra Health and Life Sciences, a $6B digital transformation company. As CDO, he oversaw digital strategy and execution for providers, payors, life sciences and bio-tech.

Edward was the global Chief Information Officer at Cleveland Clinic. His responsibilities included virtual care, digital solutions and information technology. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, Edward served as CIO for The Advisory Board/NYC Health & Hospitals, Texas Health Resources and University Hospitals. Concurrent with his healthcare career, he served 15 years in the Army Reserve as a combat medic and combat engineer officer.

Edward is a Fellow of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. He has won numerous awards, including HIMSS/CHIME 2013 CIO of the Year, and has been recognized by CIO and Computer World as one of the “Top 100 Leaders.” Becker’s named Marx as the 2015 “Top Healthcare IT Executive” and the 2016 “17 Most Influential People in Healthcare.”

Edward is the author of 5 books including the 2019 healthcare bestseller “Voices of Innovation” and the 2020 bestseller “Healthcare Digital Transformation; How Consumerism, Technology and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future”. Ed is currently writing a book for the Mayo Clinic on “Patient Experience”.

Edward received his Bachelor of Science in psychology and a Master of Science in design, merchandising, and consumer sciences from Colorado State University.

Edward is married to Simran and they have five children and four grandchildren. Simran holds a doctor of nursing practice (DNP). Both wellness fanatics, they love to exercise together and hike throughout the world. They co-wrote a book on marriage to be released in 2023. Edward is a 9+ year member of TeamUSA Triathlon and represents his country at championship events around the world.

Prior to joining Cook Children’s her career included serving in roles as a registered nurse in a Cardiac Transplant Unit; healthcare consulting, project management, and leadership positions at a web development company and a large Electronic Medical Record Company. Meadows also served as a Regional Director for Ascension Health Information Services where she not only lead software implementations but was instrumental in the development of Communities of Excellence. In her current position, Meadows has led the organization through extensive improvements and modernization. In 2012, the organization received recognition as one of the Most Improved Hospitals as part of the “Most Wired” award program and recognized as one of the Information Week 500 innovators. In 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 Cook Children’s received “Most Wired” designation. Cook Children’s was recognized by Computeworld’s Honors program for their state of the art distributed antenna system implementation. In addition, Ms. Meadows was also named one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT leaders for 2013. Ms. Meadows’ department has been recognized as one of the “Best Hospital IT Departments to Work” by Healthcare IT News and by Computerworld as one of the 100 Best Places to Work in IT in 2015. In 2016 & 2017, Meadows was recognized as one of the Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT and in 2017 is a Finalist for the North Texas non-profit CIO of the year. Ms. Meadows currently serves as the Co-Chair for the Health and Human Services Healthcare Cybersecurity Task Force. This task force is charged in creating recommendations in improving cybersecurity posture in the healthcare industry. The taskforce recommendations will be delivered in March 2017. Meadows currently serves on the NetApp Healthcare CXO Advisory Board and is a member of the McKesson Innovation Leadership Council. She served as chair for the North Texas Healthcare Information and Quality Collaborative (NTHIQC). Ms. Meadows has published several articles and her organization was the first to participate in the CHIME case study publications on their successful implementation of bar-coded medication verification. Ms. Meadows has a master’s degree in healthcare informatics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham; a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is an active member of the Children’s Hospital Association CIO Council; is a Fellow in the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS); is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and is an active member of the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME). Ms. Meadows is a graduate of Healthcare CIO Boot Camp™ and is a credentialed by CHIME as a Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO).

She led the clinical aspects, data conversion strategy and the incorporation of multiple Community Connect sites. In January of 2018 Dr. Lahr added the role of CIO and is now responsible for the strategy and management of the Information Technology Division. Dr. Lahr is an experienced informaticist, change agent, and leader. Her passion lies at the intersection of improving healthcare delivery through the use of technology. 

She is on the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Board, a member of the Epic Community Connect Steering Board, she is on the South Dakota state HIE board, she is an active member of AMDIS and CHIME, and remains connected to her community as board member for the United Way of the Black Hills. Dr. Lahr is also and advocate and mentor for women in HealthIT and has shared her experience and advice on several podcasts and educational sessions. Stephanie attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. 

She completed Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Washington University in St Louis, but her heart drew her to complete her training in Internal Medicine which she then completed at UTMB in Galveston. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and in 2015 became Board Certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine in Clinical Informatics. She has also completed the CHIME Healthcare CIO Boot Camp™ and is a certified CHCIO.

After receiving her undergraduate degree in computer science from Marquette University and earning her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Lozovatsky began her career as a pediatric hospitalist at NorthShore University HealthSystem. There she also pursued a career in healthcare informatics, leading efforts to improve documentation and inpatient optimization. Dr. Lozovatsky later worked as a Medical Director of Information Systems at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. In that role, she focused on improving physician efficiency, EMR optimization and the development of tools to improve pediatric care. Dr. Lozovatsky then served in a variety of leadership roles at BJC Health Care and Washington University in St. Louis, including: Chief Medical Information Officer for Child Health, the Vice Chair of Clinical Informatics for the Department of Pediatrics, Program Director of the Clinical Informatics Fellowship and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in hospitalist medicine. Dr. Lozovatsky’s informatics experience includes implementation and optimization of technology at multiple health care institutions. As the CHIO at Novant Health, Dr. Lozovatsky is focused on the use of technology by clinicians with the goal of improving quality of care and the patient experience

George is board certified in Clinical Informatics, Pediatric Critical Care and General Pediatrics. Prior to his transition to the CIO role, he directed the PICUs at Children’s and the Nebraska Medical Center. He also holds a master’s degree in Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been recognized as Healthcare Informatics’ Innovator of the year for Children’s Analytics program, as well as the AMDIS Award in Applied Medical Informatics. Modern Healthcare named him one of the 25 top Clinical Informaticists and Becker’s Healthcare included him in their 25 CMIOs to know list.