SI Advisors

The SI Advisors are the eyes, ears and heart of what makes SI a small-but-mighty organization dedicated to sharing best practices and thought leadership content through education, collaboration and networking. Each July we convene the SI Advisors to gather their thoughts on top strategic, technical and operational concerns faced by today’s progressive, integrated health systems. We also communicate informally with SI Advisors throughout the year to keep our finger on the pulse of industry thought leadership. Our conversations with SI Advisors inform the design of the SI Roadmap for the coming year, in terms of our Webinars and Fireside Chats schedule; Affinity Group Dialogues, Roundtables and Summits; and our Annual Conference agenda. Most importantly, Advisor input helps architect a vision of the emerging Health System of the Future.

Darren Dworkin

President & COO, Press Ganey

Darren joined Press Ganey in 2021, bringing to the company decades of experience working in both health care and the information technology space. A longtime health care executive, Darren is a nationally recognized leader for driving innovation, digital and technology...

Jonathan L. Manis

SVP and CIO, CHRISTUS

Jonathan Manis, a veteran health care information technology leader, currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for CHRISTUS Health of Irving, Texas. A Catholic Health Ministry serving communities across five countries, CHRISTUS Health is one of...

Lacy Knight MD, MS

Chief Health Information Officer, Piedmont Healthcare

Chief Health Information Officer, Piedmont Healthcare See LinkedIn

Sarah Hatchett, CH-CHIO, MBA

SVP CIO, Cleveland Clinic

Sarah Hatchett has over 20 years of experience of healthcare IT leadership. She has been at Cleveland Clinic for the past 7 years and is currently serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic,...

Briana Saucier

Vice President, Healthcare Sales, EXL

Vice President, Healthcare Sales at EXL See LinkedIn

Brent G. Snyder, Esq.

Executive Vice President, Revenue Cycle, Risk, and Technology, AdventHealth

Experience • Brent provides leadership and direction for all the IT systems across the enterprise, as well as data security. In addition, as a Senior Finance Officer for AdventHealth, he oversees the organization's revenue cycle and cost accounting functions. Previously,...

S. Nicholas Desai, DPM, MBA, FACFAS

COO, Chief Medical and Quality Officer, Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital

S. Nicholas Desai, DPM, MBA, FACFAS is the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer at Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital. He is also a practicing physician in the Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group in Houston, Texas. Dr....

Peter Bonis, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Wolters Kluwer Health

Peter A.L. Bonis, MD is the Chief Medical Officer at Wolters Kluwer Health. He is a member of the executive leadership team and oversees content, informatics, and industry partnerships. Dr. Bonis is a physician entrepreneur, executive, and internationally renowned academic...

Donette Herring

CIO, ECU Health

Ferdinand Velasco, MD

Chief Health Information Officer, Texas Health Resources

As Texas Health’s chief health information officer, Dr. Ferdinand Velasco leads the system’s clinical decision support, medical and nursing informatics, business intelligence and data analytics functions across the continuum of care. Through his and his team's leadership of the implementation...

Jason R. Joseph, MBA

Chief Digital and Transformation Officer, Corewell Health

Jason R. Joseph, MBA, is the chief digital and transformation officer for Corewell Health™. As chief digital and transformation officer, Jason leads strategic and operational digital, information and technology services as well as the system’s strategic acceleration office. Jason is...

Ryan Smith

Chief Digital and Information Officer, Intermountain Health

Ryan Smith is Intermountain Health’s chief digital and information officer (CDIO) and oversees the organization’s digital transformation and IT strategies. With over 25 years in healthcare IT, he has driven innovation and improved patient outcomes. Previously, Ryan was the interim...

Michael A. Pfeffer, MD, FACP

SVP & Chief Information and Digital Officer, Associate Dean, Technology and Digital Solutions, Stanford Health Care and School of Medicine

Michael is the Chief Information and Digital Officer and Associate Dean for Stanford Health Care and Stanford University School of Medicine. Michael oversees Technology and Digital Solutions, responsible for providing world class technology solutions to Stanford Health Care and the...

Lynnette Clinton, MBA, CHCIO, CDH-E

Chief Information Officer, BayCare

Lynnette A. Clinton has served as CIO and on the BayCare CEO Cabinet since September 2024. As leader of the 700+-member information services and clinical engineering department, Clinton is responsible for leveraging that team to support BayCare’s technology needs, organizational...

Andy Crowder, CHCIO, CDH-E

Chief Digital & AI Officer, Advocate Health

Andy Crowder is the Senior Vice President, Chief Digital & AI Officer for Advocate Health. In his current role, he oversees all software platforms and solutions, virtual and digital technologies, as well as strategic partnerships and innovation with a focus...

Tricia Julian

CIO, Baptist Health

As chief information officer for Baptist Health, Julian oversees the implementation of comprehensive IT strategy and systems in support of Baptist Health’s vision to lead in clinical excellence, compassionate care and growth. In this role, she partners with other Baptist...

Joel L. Vengco, MS, MA, CHCIO, CPHIMS

SVP and Chief Information & Digital Officer, Hartford Health

Joel Vengco is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information and Digital Officer at Hartford HealthCare, with more than 400 locations serving 185 towns and cities, including two tertiary-level teaching hospitals, an acute-care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and...

David E. Lundal MBA

Senior Vice President & CIO, Children's Minnesota

Dave Lundal joined Children’s Minnesota in March 2019 and, as senior vice president and chief information officer, he is responsible for the strategic direction and technical support of all information systems supporting the hospitals and clinics. He also provides leadership...

Reid Conant, MD, FACEP

Sr. Physician Executive, Abridge

Dr. Reid Conant brings extensive experience to Abridge as a Physician Executive and Innovator, dedicated to leveraging AI to transform healthcare delivery. Through his work with leading healthcare AI ventures, including his cross-functional and leadership role with Abridge, Reid has...

Bonny Chen, MD, MBA, FACEP, CPHIMS

Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Froedtert ThedaCare

Dr. Bonny Chen serves as the Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Froedtert ThedaCare, where she provides strategic medical informatics leadership across the continuum of care. A dynamic, internationally respected, and transformational physician executive, she has led large-scale digital initiatives in...

David Ting, MD

Chief Clinical Product Lead, Microsoft

David Ting, MD, is a physician and Chief Clinical Product Lead at Microsoft, where he guides the design and deployment of clinically responsible AI across the Health and Life Sciences portfolio. His work sits at the intersection of frontline care,...

Priti Patel, MD

Chief Medical Information Officer, John Muir Health

Dr. Priti Patel is the Chief Medical Information Officer at John Muir Health, a not-for-profit health care organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. With over two decades of experience in family medicine and clinical informatics, she leads the organization’s...

Scott Arnold

EVP, Chief Digital & Innovation Officer, Tampa General Hospital

Scott Arnold is the Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Innovation Officer at the Florida Health Sciences Center (FHSC), which comprises an array of organizations, including Tampa General Hospital, one of the nation’s leading not-for-profit academic health systems, in...

Donna M. Roach, MS, CHCIO, CHD-E, LFCHIME, LFHIMSS

System Chief Digital Information Officer, University of Utah Health

Donna Roach serves as the Health System Chief Digital Information Officer for the University of Utah Health System (UUHC). In her current role, she has led the organization to earn the CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Level 10 designation for...

Gagan Singh

SVP, Chief Information Officer, Ascension

Gagan Singh serves Ascension as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, responsible for all of the Ascension Technologies operations. Previously Gaga was the Vice President and Chief Data Officer, where he led a dedicated data delivery and governance team...

Bruce G. (Skip) Lemon

Managing Director, Impact Advisors

Mr. Lemon is a healthcare consulting professional with over 35 years of experience in strategy development, program management, system integration, clinical and revenue cycle process improvement, interim leadership, board education, and outsourcing. His career has focused on serving dozens of...

Daniel Barchi

Sr. Executive VP and Chief Information Officer, CommonSpirit Health

Daniel Barchi is senior executive vice president and chief information officer of CommonSpirit Health, where he leads technology operations and strategy, AI, digital innovation and cybersecurity. CommonSpirit is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic health care organizations, operating 158...

Elad Walach

CEO, Aidoc

Elad Walach is the co-founder and CEO of Aidoc, a leading clinical AI platform that supports care for more than 70 million patients annually across 150+ health systems and holds the most FDA clearances in its category. Under his leadership,...

Zain Kazmi, MBA

Assistant Vice Chancellor, Chief Digital and Analytics Officer in Health Affairs, The University of Texas System

Zain Kazmi serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor, Chief Digital & Analytics Officer in Health Affairs at the University of Texas System. He leads several UT health enterprise-wide, strategic initiatives and collaborations in areas of digital health, technology and EMR...

Joshua Glandorf

Chief Information Officer, UC San Diego Health

Josh Glandorf is the Chief Information Officer at UC San Diego Health, where he leads enterprise-wide information technology strategy and operations. With more than two decades of experience in healthcare IT, he is focused on advancing digital capabilities that improve...

Helen Waters

Executive Vice President & COO, MEDITECH

As Executive Vice President and COO, Helen Waters plays a pivotal role in defining MEDITECH’s strategic direction, and setting operational priorities and overall communication strategies. She is at the forefront of ongoing customer engagement, product direction, business partnerships, and executive...

Jared Augenstein

Senior Managing Director, Manatt Health

Jared Augenstein is a senior managing director with Manatt Health, an interdisciplinary policy and business advisory practice of Manatt. He provides strategic business advice, policy design and analysis as well as project management to health care providers, health tech companies,...

Kalie Dove-Maguire, MD

President & Chief Product Officer, Evidently

Dr. Kalie Dove-Maguire is an emergency medicine physician, technology leader, and President and Chief Product Officer at Evidently. With a decade of clinical experience and nearly two decades leading health technology teams, she brings a rare frontline perspective to product...

Neal Patel, MD

Chief Information Officer, HealthIT, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Dr. Patel serves as the Chief Information Officer, HealthIT for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He has extensive experience in the use of Healthcare Information Technology to improve clinical and quality processes. He has over 30 years of experience in implementing...

Mark Kandrysawtz, MBA, BA

SVP & Chief Innovation Officer, WellSpan Health

Mark Kandrysawtz is SVP and Chief Innovation Officer at WellSpan Health and President at Benjamin & Bond, a WellSpan Innovations Portfolio Company. In his role, Mark is responsible for system R&D, enterprise digital health, and commercialized ventures. WellSpan Innovations is shaping the WellSpan Health experience for...

Alicia Janisch

Vice Chair, US Health Care Sector Leader, Deloitte

Alicia Janisch is a Deloitte Tax partner with more than 20 years of experience serving clients in the health care industry. Her main focus is providing advice and expertise to tax-exempt health care provider organizations on many issues including executive...

Elizabeth Johnson

Senior Director Clinical and Revenue Cycle IT, Michigan Medicine

Elizabeth Johnson is an accomplished healthcare executive with nearly two decades of experience in healthcare , currently serving as the Senior Director of Clinical and Revenue Cycle Services at Michigan Medicine. With a Master of Public Health in Health Management...

Cardinale B. Smith, MD, PhD, FASCO

Chief Medical Officer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Cardinale B. Smith, MD, PhD, FASCO is Chief Medical Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She is a medical oncologist and palliative care physician whose clinical practice is focused on lung cancer and palliative care. Her research to date...

Kali Arduini Ihde

Director of Ventures & Innovation, Northwestern Medicine

Kali Arduini Ihde has been leading healthcare transformation through technology innovation as the Director of Ventures & Innovation at Northwestern Medicine for five years. With nearly 20 years of experience in healthcare technology activation, Kali excels in strategic planning and...

Nishith (Nish) Khandwala

Co-Founder & CEO, Bunkerhill Health

Nishith (Nish) Khandwala is the CEO and Co-founder of Bunkerhill Health, where he focuses on enabling health systems to design, deploy, and scale AI-driven workflows across clinical and operational domains. He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer...

Shawna Schueller

Partner, Chartis

Shawna Schueller is a Partner at Chartis. She brings more than 20 years of experience helping healthcare organizations leverage the power of digital and technology transformation to accelerate organizational performance and improve the delivery in healthcare. She provides overall management...

Nikhil Buduma

Co-Founder & CEO, Ambience Healthcare

Nikhil Buduma is Co-Founder and CEO of Ambience Healthcare, the leading platform for AI-enabled care delivery. Today, Ambience's AI platform spans outpatient, emergency, and inpatient settings across more than 200 specialties — embedded directly in major EHRs and trusted by...

Reid Stephan

SVP, Chief Information Officer, St. Luke’s Health System

Reid Stephan is the SVP, Chief Information Officer at St. Luke’s Health System. St. Luke’s is the only Idaho-based, not-for-profit health system, with 8 medical centers, a children’s hospital, and several hundred primary care and specialty clinics serving the needs...

Craig Kwiatkowski, PharmD

Senior Vice President, Enterprise Information Services, and Chief Information Officer, Cedars Sinai

Craig Kwiatkowski leads Technology Operations and Enterprise Information Services at Cedars‑Sinai, overseeing clinical technology and day-to-day information technology strategy for the Cedars-Sinai Health System. Kwiatkowski has held several leadership roles at Cedars‑Sinai since joining the organization more than a decade...

Edmund Siy, FHIMSS, FCHIME, CHCIO, CDH-E

Chief Information & Technology Officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health

Edmund Siy, FHIMSS, FCHIME, CHCIO, CDH-E, serves as chief information & technology officer at Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH). He is responsible for global information technology strategy, implementation and operations including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence deployment and clinical informatics throughout the...