Medical Advisory Board

One of the founding members of PatientKeeper, Dr. Bonventre is the Roger H. Ebert Professor of Molecular Medicine at Harvard Medical School, director of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and past-president of the Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont chapters of the National Kidney Foundation. He is director of the Renal Division at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and is a member of the Council of the American Society of Nephrology. A specialist in nephrology, Dr. Bonventre is the author of more than 180 original publications, 80 invited chapters and reviews and three books on the subject. He holds an MD and Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard University.

Currently a practicing anesthesiologist in San Francisco, Dr. Huang previously served as medical director for the Newton division of Apple Computer, and was co-founder of Tactile Systems. For over a decade, Dr. Huang has been a luminary in the arena of handheld computing and published and edited many articles on the subject. Dr. Huang received his bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering from The Johns Hopkins University and his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine. He served six years in the U.S. Navy as a flight surgeon assigned to the U.S. Marines where he logged more than 100 hours of flight time in the F/A-18 Hornet.

A published author on a wide range of healthcare topics, Dr. Johnson holds dual appointments at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine as associate professor of both pediatrics and biomedical informatics. He earned his master's degree and completed his residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins, and also received a master's degree in medical informatics from Stanford University School of Medicine.

Currently Senior Vice President, Clinical Excellence at Ascension Health headquartered in St. Louis, Dr. Pryor has also served as senior vice president and chief information officer at Allina Health System in Minneapolis, and president of the New England Medical Center Hospitals. He also was director of clinical program development, clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, and the cardiology consultation service at the Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Pryor is chair of the performance measurement council of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and has authored 300 publications in the field of cardiology, outcomes research and medical informatics.

A full-time internal medicine hospitalist, Dr. Shah is a well-recognized leader in healthcare mobile computing. During his medical training at the Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Shah founded Dactyl Software (acquired by PatientKeeper) and developed the original, hugely popular PatientKeeper Personal. Dr. Shah served as a product manager for PatientKeeper before taking the position of associate director of the internal medical residency program at Baylor.

Professor and chair of the Department of Medical Informatics at Columbia University, Dr. Shortliffe was, for 20 years, a member of the Stanford University faculty. Focusing on the broad range of issues related to integrated decision support systems and their effective implementation, Dr. Shortliffe was the principal developer of the medical expert system known as MYCIN. He received his MD and Ph.D. in medical information sciences from Stanford.