Board of Advisors
Anthony M. Cardillo, MD
Dr. Cardillo is the Chairman of the Global Care Quest (GCQ) Medical Advisory Board. He has been involved with GCQ since its inception and has been instrumental in developing key strategies for the company.
Dr. Cardillo began his medical career as an EMT-D for New York City EMS during his college career. It was during that time that he also helped to develop the Fordham University Emergency Medical Service. He then went on to receive his medical degree from the USC School of Medicine in Los Angeles. Dr. Cardillo then went on to complete his residency in the prestigious UCLA double board program in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine.
Currently, Dr. Cardillo is now on staff at the St. John?s Department of Emergency Medicine in Santa Monica, California. Additionally, he holds a faculty position at University of Southern California (USC) as an instructor in clinical medicine.
Dieter R. Enzmann, MD
Dr. Enzmann is the Leo G. Rigler Chair and Professor of Radiology at the UCLA School of Medicine and is responsible for the academic and clinical radiology programs there and at affiliated hospitals. Previously he served as Professor and Chairman of Radiology at Northwestern University Medical School and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, as well as Professor of Radiology, Director of MRI (Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine), Associate Professor Radiology, and Assistant Professor of Radiology at Stanford University.
A Mellon Foundation Fellow for four years, he received the American Society of Neuroradiology?s Cornelius G. Dyke Award for outstanding research and was awarded 2 NIH grants for CNS research projects. He has published numerous papers, scores of chapters and two books. His third book, Surviving In Health Care, received the American College of Physician Executive?s Robert A. Henry Literary Achievement Award for its contribution to medical management.
He holds a bachelor?s degree from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and a medical degree from Stanford University.
Jim Fackler, MD
Dr. Fackler is an Associate Professor within the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He trained in pediatrics, anesthesiology, and pediatric critical care at Hopkins and later joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Children?s Hospital Boston.
While at Children?s, Dr. Fackler and Dr. Kohane founded the Children?s Hospital Informatics Program. Dr. Fackler supported many projects funded by grants including the NIST-ATP Voyager Project — Infrastructure for the electronic medical record; the NIH-NLM project: Multi-platform Internet access to multimedia EMRS; the NICHD-SBIR project: Display software to explore time-oriented clinical data; and the SpaceLabs Medical project: Creation of a neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation workstation, ?smart alarms?, and ?smart displays. Work during the latter grant produced a cable which received a Patent for ?Smart Plug, a universal medial device interface?.
Dr. Fackler returned to Hopkins in 1997 as Director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program and Respiratory Therapy. He continued to his academic work in respiratory failure and informatics. Much of Dr. Fackler?s research and interest lies in the introduction and maintenance of knowledge-based automation in critical care and electronic medical record systems. Dr. Fackler has published more than 50 academic manuscripts.
In 2002, Dr. Fackler joined the Cerner Corporation in a critical care development role where he rose to Vice President. In 2006, he returned to academia full-time to focus on advanced hospital operations technologies and clinical practice at Hopkins. He remains a consultant for Cerner, has served on advisory boards for Mallinckrodt and Hoffman-La Roche and currently sits on the advisory board of Cardiopulmonary Corporation.
Dr. Fackler is a member of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, the American Medical Informatics Association, and the Society for Critical Care Medicine, where served as the chairman of electronic communication committee. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Virtual PICU.
He received his medical degree from Rush Medical College in Illinois and his bachelor?s degree in biology from the University of Illinois.
Neil A. Halpern, MD
Dr. Halpern graduated from The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City in 1981. He trained in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai and then completed a Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Presbyterian University Hospital of Pittsburg, PA. In 1985 he became the Director of Surgical Critical Care and Surgical Stat Lab at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Bronx, NY and was a member of the faculty at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He subsequently became the Patient Care Center Director for all Critical Care services. At the VA, Dr. Halpern constructed a remote wireless computerized cart and developed a computerized physician order entry system years before it gained its current popularity.
In 1999, Dr. Halpern became Chief of Critical Care Medicine and Medical Director of Respiratory Therapy at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City as well as Professor of Clinical Medicine and Professor of Medicine in Clinical Anesthesiology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. At MSKCC, Dr. Halpern has continued to pursue his interests in the national administrative aspects of critical care medicine and has published articles that deal with the use and cost of critical care in the USA. He oversees a CCM fellowship training program, has designed and implemented software to streamline care of the critically ill and helps guide major technology initiatives at MSKCC.
Besides authoring over 50 articles on various critical care related topics and speaking nationally, Dr. Halpern has a special interest in Point of Care laboratory testing and is a Member of the Medical Advisory Board of Instrumentation Laboratories, Lexington, MA. He also is interested in wireless communication and serves as a member of the Medical Advisory Board of Cardiopulmonary Corp. of Milford, CT.
John R. LeMoine, MD, FACP
Dr. LeMoine is the system medical director for Sharp HealthCare. He is responsible for providing medical direction and physician counsel for Clinical Effectiveness and Information Systems.
A graduate of Dalhousie Medical School in Nova Scotia, Canada, LeMoine completed his fellowship program in pulmonary and critical medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He has served on the faculty of medicine at both Dalhousie University and UCSD.
Prior to his current role at Sharp HealthCare, LeMoine has held leadership roles with the Medical Society of Nova Scotia and the Canadian Medical Association. He has also served as executive director for Insured Programs and Clinical Rationalization for the Government of Nova Scotia.
Richard L. Rydell
Founder and CEO of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), the premier physician membership organization dedicated to advance the field of applied medical informatics Rydell has a distinguished career as a healthcare executive. He has served as a Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Memorial Health Services, Long Beach; Stanford University Medical Center; and Baystate Health Services.
A Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and Fellow and Life Member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Rydell also served as National President of HIMSS and was a founding Board Member and Vice Chairman of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives.
He is the co-author of the popular books, The Physician-Computer Connection and The Physician-Computer Conundrum.