Lee Shapiro, Vice Chairman
Lee Shapiro is President of Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, information and connectivity solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. Mr. Shapiro is responsible for the Chicago-based company's strategy, mergers and acquisitions, business development and partnerships. He has been with the Company since 2000.

Mr. Shapiro holds a J.D. degree from The University of Chicago Law School. He serves on the board of the Gastro-Intestinal Research Foundation (GIRF) in Chicago.

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Edward J. Fotsch, MD
Edward Fotsch, M.D.'s professional experience spans health care, information technology and business start up/syndication commerce. Dr. Fotsch has over ten years experience in the clinical practice of medicine and was the founding chairman of a Northern California IPA with 200+ physician members. Since 1995, Doctor Fotsch has lead organizations that provide Internet-based healthcare applications, networks and communications services. In 1996 he founded, was CEO and Board Chair for Metis LLC, one of the first Internet Health firms in the country. Healtheon purchased Metis in 1998 and Dr. Fotsch served as a senior executive until joining Medem in 1999.

Dr. Fotsch authored Planning and Implementing Your Healthcare Internet Strategy, published by Atlantic Information Services, copyright 1996, and has also been published repeatedly in the area of online professional liability, including a chapter on eHealth liability in Medical Malpractice, A Physician's Sourcebook, 2005 Humana Press Inc. He is a frequent conference speaker in healthcare IT and is regularly quoted as an expert in physician Internet and IT issues by the national press including the NY Times, Chicago Tribune, AP, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal

Dr. Fotsch graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin and completed his postgraduate work at the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Fotsch is currently the CEO of Medem Inc., the corporation founded in 1999 by six of the nations medical societies and the AMA to deliver the premier secure online physician communications network in the country. In this capacity he lead the formation of the eRisk Guidelines- the national standards adopted by liability carriers, medical societies and state boards governing provider-patient communication online. Dr. Fotsch is 48 years old and lives in Sausalito CA with his wife and four children; two sets of twins.

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Bernie Hengesbaugh
Bernie Hengesbaugh is the new Chief Operating Officer of the American Medical Association (AMA). He oversees key elements of the AMA, including business operations, finance, human resources, administrative services, Board governance support and information technology. Among his most important current projects are efforts to ensure the AMA can support physicians in adopting e-health technologies, and spearheading a customer relationship management project within the AMA, so that the AMA can serve its members more effectively.

Hengesbaugh is also the recently retired Chairman of CNA Financial Corporation (CNA), a leading property/casualty insurance company based in Chicago. Hengesbaugh's tenure with CNA spanned twenty-three years beginning with Corporate Accounting and followed by twenty years in operating roles. He spent the first seven of these years in Field Operations and then was appointed to lead CNA's Specialty Operations in 1990. He became CNA's first Chief Operating Officer in 1998 and was named Chief Executive Officer one year later. He served in the CEO role until 2002 after which he continued as Chairman until his retirement in early 2004.

He has also been active in insurance industry issues. He served as Chairman of the American Insurance Association in 2001 and 2002 and was also Chairman of the Insurance Information Institute in 2001.

Before joining CNA, Hengesbaugh was a Partner with Touche Ross & Co. (now Deloitte & Touche).

Hengesbaugh is the recent past-Chairman of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). JCAHO is the leading accreditor of hospitals and other healthcare providers in the United States and is a leading consulting organization outside the United States. He also serves on the boards of Arthur J. Gallagher (NYSE) and The Adler Planetarium.

Hengesbaugh received his undergraduate degree in accounting at Saint Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Indiana and an MBA at Indiana University Graduate School of Business, Bloomington, Indiana. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

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Al Herzog, MD
Dr. Herzog is Medical Director, Professional Programs at the Institute of Living/ Harford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. In his role as its Vice President/Medical Affairs until January 2006, he was actively involved in helping Hospital Hospital launch its EMR journey. He is a psychiatrist and is a past speaker of the American Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Herzog has been active in organized medicine in several other areas. He was President of the Connecticut State Medical Society (2001-02) and is a Delegate to the American Medical Association's House of Delegates from Connecticut. He also practices adolescent and adult psychiatry in Hartford, Connecticut. He has presented on the use of the PHR and e-mail in the practice of psychiatry at both regional and national meetings.

He received his medical training at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1967, was a resident in Internal Medicine at Hartford Hospital from 1967-69 and received his psychiatry training at Yale from 1971-74. He is Board Certified in Psychiatry and is a Distinguished Fellow in the APA as well as the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.

He is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University Of Connecticut School Of Medicine. He has written on a wide variety of medical topics ranging form psychiatry to organized medicine and to the application of complexity science to the practice of medicine. With regard to the latter, he is a founding member of the Plexus Institute, an organization devoted to the study and application of complexity science to medicine and healthcare.

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J. Allen Meadows, M.D.
Dr. Meadows received his medical degree at the University of South Carolina, and completed his residency in Mobile, AL. He finished his adult and pediatric allergy fellowship in Denver, CO at the National Jewish Center, a national referral center for respiratory problems. He passed the board exam and became board certified in allergy in 1991. He passed the Board Recertification exam in 1999.

Dr. Meadows began his practice in 1991 choosing to locate in Montgomery where his wife was raised. His mission is to educate his patients about the causes of coughing and allergic illnesses and to teach his patients that they can lead a symptom-free life. He believes in treating and solving problems with a minimum of expense and trouble to the patient. Fewer than 5% of Dr. Meadow's patients are on allergy shots; his patients get successful results with more conservative therapy.

Dr. Meadows is active in the Montgomery County Medical Society and the Medical Society of the State of Alabama, formerly serving as an officer in these organizations. He believes that by taking a proactive stand on medical politics he will better serve his patients' needs. Dr. Meadows travels to Washington D.C. each year to discuss health concerns with our congressmen. He is on the Board of Regents of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Outside of medicine, he is active in his church and enjoys time with his wife and children.

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David W. Parke II, M.D.
David W. Parke II, M.D. is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Dean A. McGee Eye Institute. The McGee Eye Institute is one of the nation's largest facilities devoted solely to research, clinical care, and education in ophthalmology and vision science. It has over 200 faculty and staff, five locations, and ranks in the top twenty institutions nationally in terms of National Eye Institute research grant support. Dr. Parke is also Edward L. Gaylord Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology in the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

A graduate of Stanford University and an honors graduate of Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Parke completed residency training at Baylor College of Medicine, serving as Chief Resident. He then completed two years of fellowship training in diseases and surgery of the retina and vitreous. His professional activities have focused on that subspecialty and on medical education and biomedical organizational leadership and development.

Dr. Parke is a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and received its Honor Award in 1989 and its Senior Achievement Award in 1998. He has maintained a particular interest and expertise in medical education, serving as Chairman of the Academy's Resident and Fellow Education Committee, Ophthalmologists-in-Training Committee, and Interprofessional Education Committee. In 2001 Dr. Parke was elected Senior Secretary for Ophthalmic Practice and has served on the Academy Board of Trustees since 2000. Dr. Parke's other active medical leadership positions include Past President of the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology. He is a Board Director of the Oklahoma Academy of Ophthalmology; of a statewide multispecialty IPA; and of a multistate PPO. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Company (OMIC) and of Medem, Inc.

Dr. Parke serves on the Editorial Board of two ophthalmic journals, including as Executive Editor of the American Journal of Ophthalmology and has received numerous biomedical research grants. He has served as an Associate Examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology for over ten years, currently as a Mentor Examiner and is an active member of the American College of Physician Executives. Dr. Parke lectures widely on topics in retina, professional development, and medical organizational leadership and management. He is recognized in Who's Who in America and Best Doctors in America.

Community activities include past Board member of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce and Oklahoma Economic Development Foundation. Dr. Parke is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Oklahoma Health Center Foundation and of the Presbyterian Health Foundation. He serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of Casady School.

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John R. Peterson
Mr. Peterson is a member of the Board of Directors of Cleary Gull and currently serves as Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking. Mr. Peterson has over 20 years of experience in corporate and financing transactions.

Since joining Cleary Gull in 1995, Mr. Peterson has advised clients completing numerous merger and acquisition and public and private financing assignments representing over $2.0 billion of transaction value in the Consumer, Wholesale Distribution, Growth Industrial, Healthcare, Technology, Automotive and Staffing areas. From 1998 through 2001 he was Head of Investment Banking and a member of Management Committee and Board of Directors of Tucker Anthony Sutro Capital Markets, a company formerly affiliated with Cleary Gull.

Previously, Mr. Peterson practiced corporate law for 13 years and was a shareholder in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin law firm of Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. where he represented buyers, sellers, lenders, investors, intermediaries, executives and owners of privately and publicly held businesses in numerous transactions including mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, private placements of debt and equity, senior credit facilities, management and leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and strategic alliances. He is a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Richardson Electronics, Ltd. (Nasdaq - RELL) and a member of the Board of Directors of Krueger International, Inc., a privately-held contract furniture manufacturer, and Medem, Inc., a privately-held healthcare information technology company.

Mr. Peterson earned his B.A. in accounting with high honors from Michigan State University, a C.P.A. designation in Illinois, where he was a tax accountant with Arthur Young, and his J.D. (Order of the Coif) from the University of Wisconsin.

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Paul Pomerantz, CAE
Paul Pomerantz, CAE, is the Executive Vice President of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, based in Arlington Heights, IL (2002 to present). Previously, he was the Executive Director for the Society for Interventional Radiology in Fairfax, VA (1997 to 2002), and for the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (1989 to 1997) in Wayne, PA. Prior to these, Mr. Pomerantz served at the executive level with several hospitals in Philadelphia.

Mr. Pomerantz is the immediate Past President of the American Association of Medical Society Executives in Milwaukee, WI, and is a board member of the American Society of Association Executives/The Center for Association Leadership in Washington D.C. He speaks and writes frequently on association management topics.

Mr. Pomerantz earned his Master of Business Administration degree in health administration from Temple University in 1977.

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