Executive-in Residence
Harvard Medical School
John is an Executive-in-Residence at Harvard Medical School. He is a former senior vice president of Population Health, at Cerner Corporation. Previously he was chief executive officer of Siemens Heath Services. Prior to Siemens, John was chief information officer at Partners HealthCare.
John was the founding chair of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), past board chair of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and the past-president of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He is a former Senior Advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Health and Human Services.
John is the board chair of the Scottsdale Institute, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, Neu Health, and Carleton Willard Village.
John has received numerous industry awards including the John P. Glaser Innovation Award (established by the School of Biomedical Informatics, UTHealth), William B. Stead Thought Leadership Award (American Medical Informatics Association) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (CHIME). He has published over 200 articles and 4 books on digital health.
John received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is on the faculty of the D. Bradley McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston and the Harvard School of Public Health. He was previously on the faculty of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
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