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past award recipients

Past Award Recipients

1989 John E. Gall, Jr.


1990 Ward Keever


1991 Larry Grandia, FHIMSS


1992 Richard Duncan, FHIMSS


1993 John P. Glaser, PhD, FHIMSS


1994 William C. Reed, FHIMSS


1995 Sam Schultz II, PhD


1996 Walter R. Menning, FHIMSS 1997 James Wagner, BA, MS


1998 Wei-Tih Cheng, PhD, FHIMSS, FCHIME


1999 Stephanie Reel


2000 Charles C. Emery Jr., PhD, FCHIME


2001 Richard I. Skinner


2002 Pamela G. McNutt, FHIMSS


2003 Timothy R. Zoph


2004 Gregory Walton, CPHIMS, FHIMSS


2005 Timothy Stettheimer PhD


2006 Eric B. Yablonka FCHIME


2007 George Hickman


2008 Patricia Skarulis


2009 William A. Spooner FCHIME


2010 Charles E. Christian FCHIME


2011 Rick Schooler, FCHIME


2012 Jim Turnbull, LCHIME


2013 Edward Marx, FCHIME


2014 Sue Schade, FCHIME


2015 Craig Richardville, MBA, FACHE, FHIMSS


2016 Pamela Arora, CHCIO


2017 Randy McCleese, FCHIME, LCHIME, CHCIO, FHIMSS


2018 Ed Kopetsky


2019 Marc Probst

2006 Linda Reino, CIO, Universal Health Services with Siemens


2007 Mike Ward, CIO, Covenant Health with McKesson


2008 George Carr, CIO, University of Missouri Health Care with Cerner


2009 Laureen O’Brien, CIO, Providence, Providence Health & Services with GE & McKesson


2010 Chuck Christian, CIO, Good Samaritan Hospital with Kirby Partners, Inc.


2011 RelayHealth & Linda Reed, CIO, Atlantic Health with


2011 Lou Hermans, VP – IS & CIO, Solaris Health System


2011 Frank DiSanzo, CIO, Saint Peter’s University Hospital Health System


2011 Judy Comitto, VP – IT/CIO, Trinitas Regional Medical Center


2011 Ben Bordonaro, Director – IT/CTO, Hackensack University Medical Center


2011 Glenn Mamary, CIO, Hunterdon Healthcare System


2011 Michael McTigue, CIO, Saint Barnabas Medical Center


2011 Neal Ganguly, VP & CIO, CentraState Healthcare System


2011 Craig Edwards, Director of IS, Summit Medical Group 2012 Siemens Healthcare & Aurelia Boyer, VP & CIO, New York-Presbyterian Hospital


2013 Cerner Corporation & Carla Robelli, CHE Trinity Health


2014 Frank Fear, CIO & VP of Ancillary Services, Memorial Healthcare with Iatric Systems


2014 Marc Probst, CIO, Intermountain Healthcare with Airwatch by VMware


2015 Jaime Parent, Associate CIO & VP of IT Operations, Rush University Medical Center with the Hewlett-Packard Compnay, Citrix Systems, EMC Corporation, Epic Systems, NetApp & Lexmark Healthcare


2015 John Showalter, MD, CHCIO, CIO, University of Mississippi Medical center with Jvion


2016 LeanTaaS & Steve Hess, CIO, University of Colorado Health


2017 HCTec & Deborah Gash, CHCIO, VP & CIO, Saint Luke’s Health System

2005 Judith Faulkner, Epic


2006 Kent Gale, KLAS


2007 Betsy Hersher, Hersher Associates


2008 Ralph Fargnoli, Jr., Beacon Partners, Inc.


2009 Ivo Nelson, Encore Health Resources


2010 Bill Childs, Vitalize Consulting Solutions


2011 Glen Tullman, Allscripts


2012 John P. Glaser, PhD, FCHIME, CHCIO, Siemens Healthcare


2013 Larry Grandia, FCHIME, FHIMSS


2014 Neal Patterson, Cerner Corporation


2015 Cyndi Vely Cahill, Pursuit Healthcare Advisors


2016 Linda Hodges, Witt/Kieffer


2017 Dana Sellers, Retired CEO & Co-founder, Encore Health Resources


2018 Kali Durgampudi, CFCHE, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Greenway Health


2019 Mac McMillan, founder and CEO emeritus of CynergisTek

2016 Philips


2017 Connection


2018 Philips


2019 First Health Advisory

2008 University Health System. William Phillips, VP & CIO & George Hernandez, CEO


2009 BayCare Health System. Lindsay Jarrell, Sr VP & CIO & Stephen Mason, CEO


2010 Drexel University College of Medicine. Tish Calvarese, CIO & Richard V. Homan, MD President & Annenberg Dean


2011 Intermountain Healthcare. Marc Probst, CIO & Charles Sorenson, MD, CEO


2012 Beaumont Health System. Subra Sripada, Executive VP & CIO & Gene Michalski, CEO


2013 Texas Children’s Hospital. Myra Davis, Sr VP & CIO & Mark Wallace, CEO


2014 Truman Medical Centers. Mitzi Cardenas, Sr VP & CIO & John Bluford, CEO


2015 Brian Jacobs, MD, VP CMIO & CIO, Children’s National Health System & Patrick Anderson, CIO, Ochsner Health System


2016 Pamela Arora, CHCIO, Sr VP & CIO, Children’s Health – Dallas Bryan Bliven, CIO, University of Missouri Healthcare


2017 Gary Barnes, LCHIME, FCHIME, CHCIO, CIO, Medical Center Health System


2018 Omer Awan, Senior VP and CIO, Navicent Health

2005 David Muntz, SVP & CIO, Texas Health Resources


2006 Jim Cramer, VP & CIO, Scottsdale Healthcare


2007 Jack Kowitt, Sr VP & CIO, Parkland Health & Hospital System


2008 Rick Schooler, VP/CIO, Orlando Health


2010 David Muntz, Sr VP & CIO, Baylor Health Care System


2011 Dedra Cantrell, CIO, Emory Healthcare


2016 David Higginson, CIO, Phoenix Children’s Hospital


2017 Fernando Martinez, CHCIO, CDO, Texas Hospital Association


2018 Simon Lin, Chief Research Information Officer, Nationwide Children’s Hospital

2012 Edward Martinez, VP & CIO, Miami Children’s Hospital with special recognition of Dr. M. Narendra Kini, President & CEO, Miami Children’s Hospital


2013 Philip Chuang


2015 Shafiq Rab, MD, VP & CIO of Information Technology, Hackensack University Medical Center

2013 Pam McNutt FCHIME


2013 Bill Spooner FCHIME, LCHIME, CHCIO


2014 Liz Johnson


2015 Rod Dykehouse, FCHIME, CHICIO


2016 Randy McCleese, LCHIME, CHCIO


2017 Chuck Christian, FCHIME, FHIMSS, LCHIME, CHCIO

2013 Gary Barnes, MBA, LCHIME, FCHIME, CHCIO


2016 Randy McCleese, LCHIME, CHCIO


2017 Chuck Christian, FCHIME, FHIMSS, LCHIME, CHCIO

2013 Tim Zoph, LCHIME, CHCIO, FCHIME


2014 David Muntz, CHCIO, FCHIME, LCHIME, FHIMSS


2014 Judy Murphy, RN


2014 Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD