Lisa Dykstra is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. In this role, she provides strategic leadership and vision in the development and implementation of the healthcare information technology program to advance the enterprise mission. She has been in healthcare for almost thirty years primarily in top Academic Medical Centers. Through her leadership and collaboration with stakeholders, she leads digital health, innovative initiatives, and technology operations that drive healthcare delivery transformation and value throughout the enterprise.  Throughout her career, she has held various roles where responsibilities included the advancement of clinical, business, research, and university operations to industry-leading, enterprise-wide solutions, application development, and implementation of governance models for information technology investments.  She has directed the strategy, implementation, and operational management of multiple large-scale, multi-year, electronic health record and enterprise resource planning investments.  Prior to joining Lurie Children’s Hospital, she held healthcare IT leadership positions at, the University of Chicago Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, M.A. Leach & Company, and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Lisa serves as an advisory to several community Boards including, Erie Family Health (FQHC) and American Heart Association, and is actively involved in many industry-related Boards and initiatives including CHIME Innovation, InspireCIO, Epic Community Connect, and others.

Jeri L. Koester has been with Marshfield Clinic Health System since 2011. Koester ensures the operational effectiveness and efficient delivery of information services to the Marshfield Clinic Health System.

As the System’s chief information officer, she determines long-term information services needs and develops the technology vision in providing services to the organization aligning with the System’s goals and strategic imperatives. She develops overall strategies for information technology, software development, and hardware acquisition and integration.

Prior to her current position, Koester was vice president of IT operations for MCIS, Inc., the System’s dissolved forprofit IT subsidiary, from 2015-2017, director of business operations from 2014-2015 and senior project manager at Marshfield Clinic from 2011-2014. Her experience also includes senior project management for Weather Shield and business startup experience from Window Technology Systems.

Koester holds a Master of Business Administration from University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Koester was recognized in Becker’s Healthcare Women to Watch in Health IT in 2020 and participated in the Carol Emmott Fellowship in 2017. She also is a CARIN Alliance board member, Technology Business Management board member, and a Certified Project Manager Professional from the Project Management Institute and CHIME Certified Healthcare CIO.

Stephanie Lahr, MD, serves as the CIO and CMIO for Monument Health, the largest healthcare provider in Western South Dakota. Stephanie joined the team at Monument Health (formerly Regional Health) in April 2016 to lead the clinical aspects of their EHR unification project. In January of 2018, Stephanie added the role of CIO and is now responsible for the strategy and management of the Information Technology Division for the health system and is a member of the senior executive team. She loves the intersection of technology and medicine and is passionate about improving the tools available to let clinicians do what they do best, which is care for patients. Prior to her role at Monument Health, she was the Medical Director of IT at Kootenai Health in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, a role she developed during her eight years there as a hospitalist.

Stephanie attended medical school and completed Internal Medicine residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics and is a CHIME certified CHCIO.

Theresa Meadows, MS, RN, CHCIO, FHIMSS is the senior vice president and CIO for Cook Children’s Health Care System. Cook Children’s Health Care System, based in Fort Worth, Texas, is a national award-winning, not-for-profit, integrated pediatric healthcare system comprised of nine companies. She leads a team of 300 members covering areas such as infrastructure, applications, telecommunications, and program management. The IS team currently supports 140 project initiatives that include deploying business intelligence, advanced clinical systems, security and enterprise resource management.

For has 20+ years she has lead efforts for incorporating information systems as a mechanism for facilitating process improvement, clinical quality and efficiency. 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. Theresa 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.

She currently serves as the co-chair for the Health and Human Services Healthcare Cybersecurity Task Force, 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).

Theresa has a master’s degree in healthcare informatics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Aaron Miri is the CIO for The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School and UT Health Austin.  Aaron brings more than 15 years of healthcare experience driving growth and innovation, leading both provider and commercial healthcare enterprises, and providing thought leadership and close collaboration with state and federal representatives.  As CIO, Aaron is passionate about humanizing technology by collaborating with clinicians, technology partners and business champions to truly transform healthcare delivery for consumers, patients and providers.

In 2020, The U.S. Senate congressionally reappointed Aaron for a second term to the Health and Human Services, federal Health IT Advisory Committee (HITAC), established under the 21^st Century Cures Act. Furthermore, he was elevated to the role of co-chairman of the HITAC. The Senate first appointed Aaron to the HITAC in 2018.

In 2016, Aaron was appointed to serve on the Health IT Policy Committee established under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Aaron is the prior chair of the HIMSS National Public Policy Committee and serves as an expert adviser to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) and to other congressional panels engaged in numerous health IT policy topics. Aaron also serves as an adviser to the National Academy of Medicine on the topics of healthcare privacy, security and data.

Prior to joining UT Austin, Aaron served as the CIO for Imprivata, where he helped to build and transform a global commercial enterprise focused on healthcare cybersecurity.  Prior to Imprivata, Aaron was the CIO for Walnut Hill Medical Center, and former CTO for Children’s Health System of Texas.

Aaron received his MBA with distinction from the University of Dallas, and his Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Shafiq Rab, MD, MPH, CHCIO, is the EVP, Chief Digital Officer and System Chief Information Officer for Wellforce in Burlington, MA. Dr. Rab leads the organization’s digital transformation efforts, finding new and innovative ways of connecting consumers and caregivers. He oversees the system-wide IT organization that supports care across academic, community, home health and virtual settings.

Dr. Rab is known throughout the country for his ingenuity and his passion for bringing joy to the lives of patients and caregivers. His achievements in liberating health information and placing the control of healthcare in the palm of the hand via first-of-its kind mobile apps earned him the Innovator of the Year award from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). Dr. Rab currently serves as chair of the CHIME foundation’s board and is a leading national expert on interoperability, cloud strategy and the modernization of healthcare IT via apps, APIs and AI.

Guided by a set of self-designed technology principles of API-first, AI-first, Cloud-first and Video-first, Dr. Rab has invented a platform using a patent-pending interoperable exchange between any application or data format in order to meaningfully integrate machine-learning driven artificial intelligence serving contextually aware insights directly into clinical and business workflows to provide the right information at the right time in the right situation.

Dr. Rab has served as a strategic advisor to the US Department of Health and Human Services and has worked collaboratively with the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. His work in the public, private and government sectors have resulted in numerous industry-firsts. Dr. Rab is a founding member and the former president of the New Jersey chapter of HIMSS. He is also an ONC Health IT Fellow as well as a former board member of the Jersey Health Connect HIE, a Certified Healthcare Chief Information Officer (CHCIO), Fellow of CHIME, and CHIME Board Chair, as well as a member of the American Health Information Management Association.

Prior to joining Wellforce, Dr. Rab held the CIO positions at Rush University and Rush University System for Health in Chicago, and the Hackensack Meridian Health Network in New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers University with a Masters of Public Health and holds a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery from Dow Medical College in Pakistan.

Ryan Smith is the CIO and Vice President at Intermountain Healthcare, an integrated delivery network based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ryan is nationally and internationally recognized as a CIO and is a frequent speaker on the topics of healthcare IT strategy, digital transformation, enterprise data and analytics strategy, IT governance, strategic vendor alignment and consumer digital experience.

Ryan has been involved with information technology for over 25 years. Prior to Intermountain, Ryan was Senior Vice President and Executive Advisor at Health Catalyst, where he advised healthcare executives on enterprise data and digital strategies. He was previously Senior Vice President and CIO at Banner Health, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit healthcare systems, where he helped create the organization’s recognized digital business capabilities. He spent 19 years in various IT and digital business leadership roles at Intermountain, where he started his professional career. Ryan has significant interest in promoting the digital transformation of the U.S. healthcare system by leveraging integrated technology, data intelligence, reimagined workflows and organizational leadership.

Ryan has served as a board member at Health Current, Arizona’s statewide health information exchange, while also serving on numerous advisory boards across the high tech and HIT sectors. He participates in multiple healthcare industry organizations, including CHIME and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Ryan received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Utah and later a Master’s of Business Administration from Western Governor’s University.

Jeff Sturman is Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at Memorial Healthcare System/South Broward Hospital District. Previously he was a Partner with Cumberland Consulting Group, a national healthcare IT consultancy, as well as Ernst & Young’s Healthcare Consulting practice. Mr. Sturman has over 25 years of healthcare experience, specifically in the planning, management and facilitation of digital transformation, organizational change, operational impacts, and overall governance. He is an accomplished, results-driven executive with demonstrated success leading healthcare digital initiatives.