Dave Whitlinger, Director, Healthcare Standards & Interoperability, Intel

David is responsible for Intel's healthcare device interoperability strategies and the standards development to support those strategies. He leads the newly formed Continua Health Alliance, a large, cross-industry consortium, focused on the establishment of an eco-system of interoperable, personal telehealth systems. Dave has been with Intel since 1993 and prior to establishing the Healthcare Device Standards Group worked on a wide variety of wireless standards. Dave and his team are leaders in many standards organizations throughout the world, including: Health Level Seven (HL7); Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE); IEEE 1073; Bluetooth SIG; WiMedia Alliance; Homeplug Alliance; UPnP Forum; Oasis; WSI; and, the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA). Dave served on the Bluetooth SIG Board of Directors for several years and has authored five research journal articles, four of which focused on breast cancer DNA analysis.