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We are pleased to announce The Third Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT 3.0) will be held on December 9-11, 2007 at the prestigious Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington DC.

FEATURING A KEYNOTE ADDRESS FROM:

Sir Tim Berners-Lee to Keynote at WHIT 3.0 -- December 11, 2007 from 9:00-10:00 am

Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web. Now with the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he directs the W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations whose objectives are to realize the full potential of the Web.

Keynotes Include:

Steve Case Co-Founder America Online (AOL) Chairman & CEO Revolution Health	John E. Abele Founder and Chairman Boston Scientific Corporation
Kevin Kelly Co-founder & Senior Maverick Wired Magazine	David J. Brailer, MD, PhD Former and First National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Founder Health Evolution Partners
Jonathan T. Lord, MD Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer Humana	Vijay Govindarajan Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business Tuck School of Business
Robert Ingram Vice Chairman, Pharmaceuticals GlaxoSmithKline	Andrew M. Slavitt CEO Ingenix
Cindy Christy President Alcatel-Lucent North America	Jerome H. Grossman, MD Director, The Health Care Delivery Policy Program Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government
Jonathan B. Perlin MD, PhD, MSHA, FACP Chief Medical Officer & Senior Vice-President, Quality HCA Healthcare; Co-Chair Electronic Health Record Workgroup, American Health Information Community (AHIC), Department of Health and Human Services; Commissioner, Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)

John Lester more commonly known as Pathfinder Linden in the virtual world, Linden Lab (the creators of Second Life)
Marc Probst Vice President and Chief Information Officer Intermountain Healthcare	John P. Anderton, PhD, MPA Acting Associate Director for Communications Science, National Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Deepak Ayyagari, PhD Personal Healthcare Technologies Project Sharp Laboratories	Karen M. Bell, MD, MMS Director, Office of Health IT Adoption Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Department of Health and Human Services
Célia Boyer Executive Director Health On the Net Foundation (HON); NGO in Special Consultative Status, Economic and Social Council of the United Nations	Anne E. Burdick, MD, MPH Associate Dean for Telemedicine and Clinical Outreach, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD President, Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future Associate Dean, Chicago-Kent College of Law	John Casillas Founder Medical Banking Project
Bill Crounse, MD Director, Worldwide Health Microsoft Corporation	Michael J. Davis, MD, MBA, FACC Associate Director for Medical Specialties, Director of Cardiology Services UTMB Electronic Health Network, University of Texas Medical Branch
Charles R. Doarn, M.B.A. Associate Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering Executive Director, Center for Surgical Innovation, University of Cincinnati	David Ellis Corporate Director, Planning & Future Studies, The Detroit Medical Center; Editor & Publisher, DMC Health Futures Digest
Leroy Foster Manger, Network Security and Regulatory Compliance Advocate Health Care	Joe Frassica, MD Chief Medical Officer, Holtz Children's Hospital Chief Medical Information Officer, Jackson Memorial Hospital Associate Chair, Department of Pediatrics University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Sam Gibbs Senior Vice President eHealth Inc	Joseph Gifford, MD Chief Medical Officer Regence Blue Shield
Richard Granger Director General, IT National Health Service, United Kingdom	Jeffrey Gruen, MD, MBA Chief Medical Officer Revolution Health
Maggie Gunter, PhD President and Executive Director Lovelace Clinic Foundation	John D. Halamka, MD, MS CIO, Harvard Medical School CIO, CareGroup Health System CEO, MA-SHARE Chair, Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)
Tonya Hongsermeier, MD, MBA Corporate Manager for Clinical Knowledge Management and Decision Support, Partners HealthCare	Vipul Kashyap, PhD Senior Medical Informatician, Clinical Knowledge Management, Clinical Informatics Research & Development Group, Partners HealthCare System
William M. Keane, MD Chief Medical Officer Jefferson University Physicians	Dennis Melamed, MA Editor and Publisher Health Information Privacy/Security Alert
Bruce Metz, PhD CIO Thomas Jefferson University	Parsa Mirhaji, MD Director, The Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Informatics Research The School of Health Information Sciences The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Joachim H. Nagel President, International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE); Executive Board, Healthcare Technologies, World Healthcare Organization (WHO)	Mohan Nair Executive Vice President Chief Marketing Executive The Regence Group Chairman of the Board Regence Life and Health
John Ogunkeye Executive Director & VP Jefferson University Physicians Chief Operating Officer Thomas Jefferson Medical College	Hon Pak, MD Director, Advanced Information Technology Group (AITG) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command; Telemedicine & Advanced Research Center (TATRC) President, American Telemedicine Association (ATA)
Ronald A. Paulus, MD, MBA Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Geisinger	Christopher Pierce Manager of Informatics Cleveland Clinic
Dena Puskin, ScD Director, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth US Department of Health and Human Services	Jeff Robertson, MD Chief Medical Officer The Regence Group
Michael Robkin Principal Enterprise Architect Kaiser Permanente Information Technology	Cris Ross Chief Information Officer MinuteClinic
Warren Sandberg, MD, PhD Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Physician Director for Anesthesia Engineering & Technical Support Massachusetts General Hospital Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School Co-Leader, Massachusetts General Hospital OR of the Future Project	Alberto Sanna, PhD Director, e-Services for Life & Health, Scientific Institute and University H San Raffaele; Project Manager, Personalized Information Platform for Life and Health Services (PIPS)
Sue Schade, MBA Chief Information Officer Brigham and Women's Hospital	Jim Slubowski CIO & VP of Enterprise Operations, Priority Health
Christopher Springmann Executive Producer LIFE LOVE & HEALTH	Jay Srini Vice President of Emerging Technologies University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
MaryAnn Stump, RN President Consumer Aware; Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota	Joe Taylor Vice President of Enterprise Business Process, Managed Health Care Delivery, Health Care Services Corporation
Joseph L. Ternullo, JD, CPA Associate Director, Telemedicine, Partners HealthCare System	Lynn H. Vogel, PhD Vice President and Chief Information Officer UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
John C. Wade Former Chief Information Officer, St. Luke's Health System Vice President, Executive Director, Kansas City Regional Electronic Exchange (KCREE)	James M. Walker, MD, FACP Chief Medical Information Officer, Geisinger Health System
David Whitlinger Chairman Continua Health Alliance Director, Healthcare Device Standards, Intel Digital Health Group	Jack Wolf Vice President and CIO Montefiore Medical Center
Eric Yablonka Vice President and Chief Information Officer University of Chicago Medical Center

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