Bill Tierney, M.D., is internationally recognized for his research in biomedical informatics, health services and clinical database epidemiology. He was the founding chair of Dell Medical School’s Department of Population Health, which is playing a leading role in the school’s mission to help make Austin a model healthy city. The Department of Population Health focuses on community engagement, health equity, primary care, occupational health, global health and health information and data analytic sciences.

Previously, he spent 36 years at Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute, where he led the implementation and study of electronic medical records and health information technologies. In 2010, he assumed the roles of president and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute, associate dean for research at the Indiana University School of Medicine and chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine for Eskenazi Health, the nation’s fourth-largest safety-net health system, where he had practiced for more than 35 years as a primary care physician, emergency physician and hospitalist. He also served as the founding director of informatics and research for the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), a 30-year collaboration of more than 20 North American universities with universities in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Tierney is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, a master of the American College of Physicians and fellow of the Royal College of Physician–London and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.

Steven Dinh, Sc.D. is Chief Operating Officer of GDB. He is a pharmaceutical and biotech senior executive who has successfully built and led multinational organizations to develop and commercialize small molecule and biologics drug products. His accomplishments in product development and drug delivery technology innovations have resulted in 27 US patents, and the approvals from global health authorities to successfully commercialize 10 therapeutic products. Most recently, he was Chief Scientific Officer of CutisPharma, and Noven Pharmaceuticals. In addition, he is a Visiting Professor in the College of Engineering and Computing, and a member of the Board of Advisors in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education at
Florida International University (FIU). In these roles, he mentors faculties and students on entrepreneurship and innovation. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of biopharmaceutical companies. He received his doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from MIT, and is a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Ursula H. Hübner, PhD, FIAHSI, is Professor of Medical and Health Informatics and Quantitative Methods at the University AS Osnabrück, Germany where she serves as academic dean for digitalization and the promotion of young scientists and as head of the Health Informatics Research Group. Her main fields of research in health sciences informatics are international health IT adoption and diffusion research, understanding inter-professional eHealth education and workforce development, building a regional learning healthcare system and enabling continuity of care through health IT standards. As member and past international co-chair of TIGER (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform) she fostered the development of an educational recommendation framework for health informatics in nursing and interprofessional care.

Since 2010, Ursula Hübner serves in various roles for the German Association of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), including as a member of the Board of Directors. Ursula Hübner is editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics and medical informatics editor of German Medical Science – Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology. She serves as Secretary of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). In 2021, she received the “Most Influential Women in Health IT” Award from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

Tracy Lieu, MD, MPH, is Director of the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California. She leads a department of 670+ people who transform health through research on the causes of disease and the best ways to deliver care for Kaiser Permanente members and for society. She guides and supports leaders of large programs in delivery science, predictive analytics, genomic research, and clinical trials.

Nationally, Dr. Lieu has served on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and as chair of the NIH Health Services Organization and Delivery study section. She has also chaired and served on committees for the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Before her current role, she was the founding director of the Center for Healthcare Research in Pediatrics and a professor in the Department of Population Medicine of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School. She is a practicing pediatrician who has led nationally recognized work in health care delivery for vaccines and childhood asthma. Dr. Lieu was elected to the National Academy of Medicine for her research in decision sciences and cost-effectiveness analysis in health.

Dr. Kate Miller is the Vice President for Research and Innovation at UT Arlington. Miller has more than two decades of leadership experience in higher education, most recently serving as the provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Wyoming and having spent time in Texas at both Texas A&M and UT El Paso.

Prior to her leadership at the University of Wyoming, Miller served as dean of the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University, fostering major interdisciplinary research collaborations across the institution. Under her guidance, the college re-secured its long-term cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation to manage the science services for the International Ocean Discovery program, among other milestones.

 Throughout her career, Miller has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on projects totaling $16.8 million, including $8.9 million to support research infrastructure. Miller earned her doctorate and master’s degrees in geophysics from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in geological and geophysical sciences from Princeton University. Her research into active source seismology, continental evolution and shallow geophysics has resulted in nearly 70 refereed publications.

Ferdinand Velasco, M.D. As Texas Health’s chief health information officer, Dr. Ferdinand Velasco leads  the system’s functions responsible for clinical decision support, medical informatics, nursing informatics, research informatics, electronic health record reporting, clinical analytics, and quality measurement. Through his and his team’s leadership of the implementation of the electronic health record, Texas Health was awarded the Enterprise Davies Award for Excellence in 2013 and has achieved  HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Dr. Velasco is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of the Clinical Informatics Center at UT Southwestern.

Prior to joining Texas Health Resources in 2002, Dr. Velasco served as an assistant professor and physician champion for the implementation of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He simultaneously practiced as a cardiothoracic surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

A Fellow of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Dr. Velasco served on the North America Board of HIMSS and chaired the society’s Quality, Cost, Safety Committee.  Modern Healthcare honored Dr. Velasco as an inaugural member of the Top 25 Clinical Informaticists in Healthcare. He received his medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine.