SI Advisors

The SI Advisors are the eyes, ears and heart of what makes SI a small-but-mighty organization dedicated to sharing best practices and thought leadership content through education, collaboration and networking. Each July we convene the SI Advisors to gather their thoughts on top strategic, technical and operational concerns faced by today’s progressive, integrated health systems. We also communicate informally with SI Advisors throughout the year to keep our finger on the pulse of industry thought leadership. Our conversations with SI Advisors inform the design of the SI Roadmap for the coming year, in terms of our Webinars and Fireside Chats schedule; Affinity Group Dialogues, Roundtables and Summits; and our Annual Conference agenda. Most importantly, Advisor input helps architect a vision of the emerging Health System of the Future.

Zain Kazmi, MBA

Assistant Vice Chancellor, Chief Digital and Analytics Officer in Health Affairs, The University of Texas System

Zain Kazmi serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor, Chief Digital & Analytics Officer in Health Affairs at the University of Texas System. He leads several UT health enterprise-wide, strategic initiatives and collaborations in areas of digital health, technology and EMR...

Tricia Julian

CIO, Baptist Health

As chief information officer for Baptist Health, Julian oversees the implementation of comprehensive IT strategy and systems in support of Baptist Health’s vision to lead in clinical excellence, compassionate care and growth. In this role, she partners with other Baptist...

Tina Wheeler

Vice Chair, Partner and US Health Care Leader at Deloitte

Tina has 30 years of experience at Deloitte and has been a partner for 19 years. She has provided audit services to privately and publicly held clients primarily in the consumer products and health care industries. Tina has managed the...

Thomas Moran, MD

VP and CMO, Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital

Thomas Moran, MD, is Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital. Prior he served as VP and CMO of Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital from 2021 – 2023, and as VP and Chief Medical Information Executive...

Steve Tuohy

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Seth Hain

Senior Vice President of R&D, Epic

Seth Hain, Senior Vice President of R&D at Epic, focuses on advancing the use of analytics and machine learning across healthcare to improve care and efficiency. During his 18 years at Epic, Seth has worked on enhancing the core analytics...

Seth Cohen, MBA, MPA

President, Cedar

Seth Cohen is President of Cedar and a member of its Board of Directors. Cedar is the leading provider of patient financial solutions that drive immediate increases in cash income while improving patient engagement. Cedar manages over 30 million patient...

Scott C. Rissmiller, MD

EVP and Chief Physician Executive, Atrium Health

Scott Rissmiller, M.D., is executive vice president and chief physician executive for Advocate Health, the third largest nonprofit health systems in the U.S., created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. He is responsible for the clinical...

S. Nicholas Desai, DPM, MBA, FACFAS

CMO/Chief Quality Officer, Houston Methodist Sugar Land; Former CMIO, Houston Methodist

S. Nicholas Desai, DPM, MBA, FACFAS is the chief operating officer, chief medical officer and chief quality officer at Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital, as well as the chief medical officer and chief quality officer at Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital....

Robert Eardley, MBA, CPHIMS

SVP, CIO, University Hospitals

Robert Eardley is a Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio. Eardley joined University Hospitals in February 2018 after serving as Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer for Houston Methodist...

Praveen Chopra

Chief Digital and Information Officer, Bellin and Gundersen Health System

Praveen Chopra serves patients, staff, and business and community partners as Chief Digital and Information Officer for Emplify Health. Praveen joined what was then Gundersen Health System in 2021 to focus intensely on the system’s digital transformation efforts for enhanced...

Peter Bonis, MD

CMO, Clinical Effectiveness, Wolters Kluwer Health

Dr. Bonis serves as chief medical officer of Wolters Kluwer Health leading the team of physicians, pharmacists, engineers, informaticists, and business development executives who create clinical content across medical specialties, referential and embedded drug information, and patient engagement solutions. ...

Pete Stetson, MD, MA, FAMIA

CHIO, Deputy Physician-in-Chief at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Pete is the Chief Health Informatics Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. His role at MSK is to lead digital strategy and ensure impact and value delivery for MSK’s digital health solutions. As part of the core leadership team...

Paul Tang, MD, MS

Adjunct Professor, Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC), Executive-in-Residence, Scottsdale Institute, and CMIO Emeritus, Palo Alto Medical Foundation

Paul Tang, MD, MS, is Adjunct Professor at the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) and an internist at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF). Previously Dr. Tang was Vice President and Chief Health Transformation Officer at IBM Watson Health,...

Paul T. Browne

Retired CIO

Paul Browne retired from full-time, health system, executive leadership in May 2024. He is now seeking opportunities to use his extensive experience in a governance or advisory capacity to advance the healthcare industry. During his career Mr. Browne served as...

Michelle Conger

Chief Strategy Officer, OSF Healthcare System; CEO, OSF OnCall Digital Health

Michelle Conger joined OSF HealthCare in 1994. Since that time, she has served OSF with growing executive responsibility at both the local and enterprise levels. Ms. Conger served as the senior vice president of Performance Improvement until 2010 when she...

Michael A. Pfeffer, MD, FACP

Chief Information Officer, Stanford Health Care and Stanford School of Medicine

Michael A. Pfeffer, MD, FACP serves as Chief Information Officer and Associate Dean for Stanford Health Care and Stanford University School of Medicine. Michael oversees Technology and Digital Solutions (TDS), responsible for providing world class technology solutions to Stanford Health...

Laishy Williams-Carlson

Chief Client Information Officer, Nordic Global

CIO, Bon Secours Mercy Health and Roper St. Francis Healthcare Chief Information Officer for Bon Secours Mercy Health and Roper St. Francis Healthcare, leading the I&T and Epic EHR teams responsible for information technology, applications, cyber security and digital solutions....

Jordan Asher, MD, MS

Chief Clinical Officer, Sentara Health

Dr. Jordan Asher is Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer at Sentara Health. His role concentrates on creating high quality, equitable, and innovative models of care delivery as well as providing national thought leadership directed towards the future of...

Jonathan L. Manis

SVP and CIO, CHRISTUS

Jonathan Manis, a veteran health care information technology leader, currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for CHRISTUS Health of Irving, Texas. A Catholic Health Ministry serving communities across five countries, CHRISTUS Health is one of...

John Kravitz

Vice President, Healthcare, Workday

John brings more than 25 years of Healthcare experienced to Geisinger Health System. As the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer is responsible for I.T. Strategy, Digital Strategy, Cloud Migration Strategy, Governance and Operations and business growth through merger...

Joel L. Vengco, MS, MA, CHCIO, CPHIMS

CIO, Hartford Health

Joel Vengco is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information and Digital Officer at Hartford HealthCare, with more than 400 locations serving 185 towns and cities, including two tertiary-level teaching hospitals, an acute-care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and...

Jason R. Joseph, MBA

Chief Digital and Information Officer, Corewell Health

Jason R. Joseph, MBA, is the chief digital and information officer of Corewell Health™—formerly Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health. As chief digital and information officer, Jason leads strategic and operational information services with a primary focus on simplifying and enhancing...

Helen Waters

Executive Vice President & COO, MEDITECH

As Executive Vice President and COO, Helen Waters plays a pivotal role in defining MEDITECH’s strategic direction, and setting operational priorities and overall communication strategies. She is at the forefront of ongoing customer engagement, product direction, business partnerships, and executive...

Gregg Mohrmann

Managing Partner, Chartis

Gregg Mohrmann is a Director and Senior Partner with Chartis in the Informatics and Technology practice. Gregg has more than 25 years of experience in management consulting, primarily focused on the strategic and operational use of information technology (IT) by...

Gianna Zuccotti, MD, MPH

CMIO and VP Digital Health Transformation, Mass General Brigham

Gianna Zuccotti, MD, MPH serves as the Vice President, Digital Health Transformation and Chief Medical Information Officer at Partners Healthcare System where she works at the intersection of Partners Information Systems, Quality Safety Value and Population Health Management with direct...

Gagan Singh

SVP/CIO, Ascension

Gagan Singh serves Ascension as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, responsible for all of the Ascension Technologies operations. Previously Gaga was the Vice President and Chief Data Officer, where he led a dedicated data delivery and governance team...

Ferdinand Velasco, MD

SVP, Chief Health Informatics Officer, Texas Health Resources

As Texas Health’s chief health information officer, Dr. Ferdinand Velasco leads the system’s clinical decision support, medical and nursing informatics, business intelligence and data analytics functions across the continuum of care. Through his and his team's leadership of the implementation...

Erik Decker

VP and CISO, Intermountain Healthcare

Erik Decker is the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Intermountain Health, a multi-state integrated delivery network based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Erik has 24 years of experience within Information Technology, with 17 years focused on Information...

Doug Greenberg

Global Sector Leader for Healthcare Technology & Services at Korn Ferry

Doug Greenberg is the North America Market Leader for Healthcare and is based in Korn Ferry's Atlanta office. He also serves as the Global Sector Leader for Healthcare Technology & Services. Mr. Greenberg's search practice focuses in the recruitment of...

Derek Streat

Co-founder & CEO, DexCare

Derek Streat is Co-founder and CEO of DexCare, a data-driven intelligence company that makes healthcare access better for everyone. He is an accomplished healthcare technology entrepreneur and executive, having co-founded and/or led six venture-backed companies including three in health tech...

Darren Dworkin

President, Chief Operating Officer, Press Ganey

Darren joined Press Ganey in 2021, bringing to the company decades of experience working in both health care and the information technology space. A longtime health care executive, Darren is a nationally recognized leader for driving innovation, digital and technology...

Cherodeep Goswami

SVP and Chief Information and Digital Officer, UW Health System

Chero serves as a System Vice President and Chief Information & Digital Officer for the UW Health System. In his role, he serves a talented team of technology professionals and provides strategic direction and leadership for IT and co leads...

Bruce G. (Skip) Lemon

Managing Director, Impact Advisors

Mr. Lemon is a healthcare consulting professional with over 35 years of experience in strategy development, program management, system integration, clinical and revenue cycle process improvement, interim leadership, board education, and outsourcing. His career has focused on serving dozens of...

Brent G. Snyder, Esq.

EVP, CIO, SFO, AdventHealth

Experience • Brent provides leadership and direction for all the IT systems across the enterprise, as well as data security. In addition, as a Senior Finance Officer for AdventHealth, he oversees the organization's revenue cycle and cost accounting functions. Previously,...

April Giard, DNP, MSN, NP-BC, NEA-BC

Senior Vice President & Chief Digital and Innovations Officer, Northern Light Health; Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO), Optum Insight

April is accountable for the overall leadership, transformation, and information management of the Market Performance Partnership (MPP) playing a key role across clinical transformation in multiple health systems. In her role she will be leading efforts to stabilize, standardize, and...

Andrew Rosenberg, MD

Chief Information Officer, Michigan Medicine

As the inaugural Chief Information Officer for Michigan Medicine, Dr. Rosenberg guides the strategic planning and operations of information technology and services across University of Michigan Health and the University of Michigan Medical School. Previously, he was the first Chief...