Joe is is Associate Director of the Center for Connected Health at Partners HealthCare and focuses on policy, contracting, enterprise relationships and corporate-sponsored research. The founder and organizing chair of an annual symposium at the Conference Center of Harvard Medical focusing on critical issues associated with connected health, Mr. Ternullo also serves on the board of directors and as Vice President of Continua Health Alliance, on the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital institutional review boards, and on the American Telemedicine Association's policy committee. In 2007, Mr. Ternullo was appointed to serve on the American Health Information Community Chronic Care Workgroup, a federal advisory body chartered to make recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on accelerating the development and adoption of health information technology. He also serves as Associate Director of the Northeast Telehealth Resource Center, a consortium operating through a grant from the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth. Mr. Ternullo has earned degrees from Boston College, Bentley College, Boston University and Harvard and is Adjunct Associate Professor at Northeastern University where he teaches a Health Care Informatics Law course to NU graduate students.