Speaker Bios
Keynote Speaker, David C. Goodman, MD, MS
Dr. David C. Goodman is Professor of Pediatrics and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. Dr. Goodman’s primary research interest is geographic and provider variation in health care quality and efficiency with a particular focus on the physician workforce. In his 20-year tenure at Dartmouth, he has been the principal investigator of projects that have examined the relationship between the regional supply of medical care, medical care utilization, and health outcomes in a variety of settings—pediatric hospitalizations, neonatal intensive care, unintended and teen pregnancies, and most recently end-of-life care at academic medical centers.
He is the principal investigator of the Primary Care Service Area Project, which has developed geographic based measures of primary care availability for federal and state efforts to improve primary care delivery. He is also the co-principal investigator of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care (John E. Wennberg, founder), one of the most widely cited ongoing studies of the U.S health care system.
Dr. Goodman's papers and editorials have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, BMJ, and Pediatrics. Dr. Goodman is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Health Services Research.
Featured Speaker, Chris McInnish
Chris McInnish is currently serving as the Children’s Affairs liaison for the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center. He began his work in Alabama 16 years ago with the Department of Youth Services and has stayed with them for more than seven years. In 2007, Mr. McInnish was selected by the Annie E. Casey Foundation as Alabama’s only Children and Family Fellow.
He has worked to establish Children’s Policy Councils (CPC) in every Alabama county. CPCs are led by the County Juvenile Judge and include other local leaders committed to child welfare. CPCs develop a local needs assessment each year and coordinate local child services. While at DCA, Mr. McInnish coordinated funding for the Children First Trust Fund, which provides $60 million annually to 12 state agencies for special programs for children.
He has also championed the use of the Results Based Accountability (RBA) framework as an evaluation tool for Alabama health and human services organizations and governmental agencies, and he has become a trainer for the process. RBA has been implemented in a statewide needs assessment for children, and representatives from more than 100 programs have been trained in its use.
Three years ago, Mr. McInnish began leading development of the ARMS. The online system produces demographic reports and dashboards for state and local agencies, but it’s most recognized for its use of mapping to present data. The system provides more than 100,000 variables including demographic data and state statistics. ARMS was selected by ESRI as the winner of the 2008 Vision Award for GIS in Health and Human Services, international recognition for ARMS’ innovative approach to understanding complex issues impacting children and families. ARMS was also recognized with an Honorable Mention in the 2007 Innovations in Alabama Government award.
Mr. McInnish serves on the Leadership Team for the Board of Stewards and on a special team partnering with the Montgomery Public School System.
Featured Speaker, Kim R. Pemble
Kim R. Pemble is executive director of the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange and president of the National Institute for Medical Informatics. He received his M.S. in health informatics from the University of Minnesota and B.S. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin (UW)-La Crosse. Previous positions include vice president of operations and development for the Wisconsin Health Information Network; faculty, UW-Milwaukee College of Health Sciences; vice president of IT for Infinity Healthcare, a multispecialty physician practice; general manager for EMSystem; and most recently, vice president/CIO for SynergyHealth in West Bend, Wisconsin. He is a member of HIMSS, CHIME, the UW-Milwaukee College of Health Sciences Health Administration and Informatics Advisory Board, the Wisconsin eHealth Quality and Patient Safety Board, and the HIPAA Collaborative of Wisconsin. Premble further serves UW-Milwaukee College of Health Sciences as clinical assistant professor.
Lunch Speaker, Dr. Jane Linder
Dr. Linder also co-leads the Smart Government Solutions practice which helps state and local governments improve their results by integrating their systems and processes. Previously, Dr. Linder was a director of research at the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business, an operating executive at a major consumer goods company, and a professor at Harvard Business School in the information management area. Dr. Linder holds an MBA with distinction and a doctorate in business administration.
Closing Plenary Speaker, Dr. Stephanie B. C. Bailey
Dr. Bailey holds a B.A. from Clark University, Worchester, Massachusetts; a M.D. from the Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee; and performed her residency in internal medicine at Grady Memorial/Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; and a Masters of Science in Health Services Administration from the College of St. Francis.
Prior to Dr. Bailey’s career at CDC, she served for 11 years as the director of health of Nashville and Davidson County Public Health Department and as Nashville medical director/director of health services administration from 1988 to 1995. She began her career at the Metro Nashville Public Health Department in 1981 as medical advisor for the East Nashville Clinic. Her work as Director of Health has been noted nationally. She has received the APHA Roemer Award; the AMA’s Nathan Davis Award; and has received the 2007 Balderson Lifetime Public Health Leadership Award.
Dr. Bailey is a past president of the National Association of County and City Health Officials. She has been appointed to four national committees by the secretary of health and human services including the advisory board to the director of CDC. She co-chaired the CDC National Public Health Workforce Taskforce and served as a senior consultant for local practice to CDC Public Health Practice Program Office. Since 2006, Dr. Bailey serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.
