Speakers

                          

 

 

Senator Debbie Stabenow

 

Whither Nations Health Care Is Heading for?

Nation’s Challenges to Enhance Health Care

Through IT

 

Message:

Today we witness symptoms of nation’s health care crisis for families and businesses alike. Critical issues include non-stop rising health care costs, more and more families facing uninsured challenges, inadequate support of prescription coverage, extra hurdles and barriers to reach quality health care, the predicament of the patients who are tossed between the debates, dialectics, and tug-off war between the health care providers and the insurance agencies, and more deplorably, the lack of technology support in health care establishments.

 

Bio:

Senator Stabenow, “Champion for the Medically Underserved” (MPCA, 2005) and “Distinguished Community Health Defender” (NACHC, 2005), cognizant of the urgency of our nation’s health care crisis is now working as the  head of the Senate Health Care Task Force for her Caucus. She is authoring ground breaking health IT legislation to provide critical technology to hospitals and physicians with the objective of lowering medical costs and providing quality health care. Senator Stabenow is working diligently in improving health care and is getting resolutions for Michigan.                            

                                                                                                                                                                                  

 

 

   

 

Frank Nauta

 

21^st Century Technology Platform:

Enhanced Grid Computing Architecture and Its Applications

 

 

Message:

As corporations rapidly grow towards the global market, necessity arises for new technologies that are capable of handling large-scale data integration, sophisticated business intelligence and data mining capabilities.  Mr. Nauta is currently the Director of Platform Technology Strategy, SAS Americas.  His responsibilities include the implementation of many large-scale projects that involve data integration, business intelligence and analytics across the fortune 1000 corporations in the Americas.

 

Bio:

Mr. Frank Nauta, currently in his 12th year at SAS, has been responsible for worldwide technical product management of data integration products, and has been actively involved in numerous engagements across the spectrum of analytics to business intelligence applications. Moreover, Mr. Nauta has taught executive training classes at several major universities and colleges in the United States and Canada.  Mr. Nauta is a graduate of Systems Design Engineering from University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.

 

Robert Herr

 

Senior Manager, VMRD Business Technology

Pfizer Animal Health

 

"Are You Myth Informed?"

IT's Role in Achieving Compliant Systems

 

 

Message:

        From an IT Risk Management perspective, IT control and compliance should target those IT-related aspects that could potentially impact product quality and public health.  This talk will expose some of the common myths related to the delivery and support of compliant IT systems in the life sciences industry, and offer practical solutions for using risk management to speed delivery while still achieving compliance.

 

Bio:

        In the early 90’s, Bob became involved in several industry groups that were shaping the view of computer compliance by the pharmaceutical industry and FDA.  Since then, Bob has often been a featured speaker at industry courses and conferences.  His charismatic style, firsthand experience, and good sense approach with an emphasis on good IT and system engineering practices has helped him become a globally recognized expert on the topic of computer compliance.  He currently serves as a Steering Committee Member on GAMP (Good Automated Manufacturing Practice) Americas.

 

        Bob has worked in many business areas including, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, R&D, Regulatory Compliance, Information Technology (operations and governance), and most recently Animal Health.  He has held positions of increasing responsibility including Systems Analyst, Project Manager, Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist, Applications Manager, Infrastructure Manager and Senior Manager of IT Quality.

 

        In his current role as Senior Manager of Regulatory & Quality in Pfizer Animal Health Business Technology, Bob is implementing an IT Risk Management Program to focus IT resources in line with business risk.

 

Bob, his wife Jackie and their four daughters reside in Schoolcraft, MI.

 

IT Transforming Health Care

The 5th Annual WMU-HCoB IT Forum