Stever Aubrey is CEO and Managing Partner of Dovetail Health. Dovetail Health is new company which has been established to help redefine the way Americans manage aging. Dovetail enables seniors to actively manage their health at home through a combination of technology and a team of health and well care experts, allowing them to live safely at home as long as possible deferring the need, worry and extraordinary expense of moving into an assisted living facility. Prior to becoming a Managing Partner at Dovetail Health, Stever was President and Chief Operating Officer of Pri-Med, the leading provider of continuing medical education conferences for primary care physicians in the United States, Mexico and Europe. Stever was a lead player in the sale of Pri-Med to Bain Capital during 2004. Before his forays in the healthcare marketplace, Stever spent over 23 years in the marketing and advertising business in both New York and Boston. He has strategically directed companies and brands in categories ranging from consumer package goods, to financial services and healthcare. He worked at Hill, Holliday in Boston for over 10 years where he was EVP, General Manager overseeing operations, management and personnel for the company’s Boston, New York, and San Francisco offices. Stever serves on the Jimmy Fund Committee at Dana-Farber and is on the board of The Trinity Boston Foundation. Stever and his wife Elsie live in Dedham and have two children.

Mike is a graduate of Harvard College magna cum laude and Northeastern University School of Law. An attorney, he served four elected terms in the Massachusetts State Senate from Cambridge, chairing the Committee on Health Care. Mike left office in 1995 to head up the Visiting Nurse Association of New England, a group of Medicare-certified nonprofit home health agencies organized into a successful services delivery network. He departed the VNAs in 1999 to join the health care IT team at Forrester Research. In 2003 he established Critical Mass Consulting, his own firm, an independent health care and life sciences IT consultancy.

Stephen W. Bernstein is a partner in the Health Law Department of McDermott Will and Emery LLP and chairs the Firm’s HIPAA Practice Group and the Firm’s Health Transactions Group each on a nationwide basis. He advises academic medical centers, pharmaceutical, biotech and device companies, and contract research organizations on HIPAA and EU data protection matters, e-health and health related matters impacted by the Internet, as well as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and related health regulatory matters. Mr. Bernstein has practiced health law since 1988 in Boston, Massachusetts and in Palo Alto, California where he provided on-site counsel to Stanford University Medical Center. Mr. Bernstein lectures and writes extensively on HIPAA and the European Data Protection Directive. He has lectured at numerous conferences, including various PRIMR meetings, the Association for Clinical Research Professionals Annual Meeting and Audioconferences, the Clinical Trials Congress, and the Annual Pharmaceutical Industry and Regulatory Compliance Summit. His articles have been featured in The Monitor, a publication of the Association of Clinical Research Professionals, BNA’s Medical Research, Law and Policy, Good Clinical Practice Journal, and Mass High Tech, and he has been featured on National Public Radio’s syndicated program Here and Now as well as quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Lawyers Weekly USA discussing privacy issues. Mr. Bernstein is ranked in Chambers USA, and has been recognized in Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Expert Guide to the Leading U.S. Healthcare Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America (2007 edition), and in Boston Magazine as one of Massachusetts’ Super Lawyers. Representative clients include: Cardinal Health, Inc., Harvard University, IMS Health, Inc., Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Physicians’ Organization at Children’s Hospital, Outcomes Sciences, Ovation Research Group, The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Mr. Bernstein graduated cum laude from Boston College Law School and received his A.B. magna cum laude from Duke University. He served on the Boston College Law Review and as the executive editor of the Annual Survey of Massachusetts Law. He is a member of the Massachusetts, District of Columbia and California bars.

Karen is the Director of Business Development, Healthcare and MedTech, at Mintz Levin. Previously, she was with Law Practice Consultants LLC and the WJF Institute where she worked with law firms in the areas of business development training, client interviews, coaching and strategy. Prior to consulting, Karen headed the Boston office of a legal placement and staffing company when she grew revenues and positioned the company’s Boston office for sale. Also, Karen was associated with Korn/Ferry’s legal and healthcare groups and in 2001 she was selected as one of the Boston Business Journal’s 40 under 40. She is presently on the board of The Capital Network. Karen was on the Boston University School of Law’s law review and practiced law in the areas of antitrust, government investigations, healthcare and litigation at Crowell and Moring, Hale and Dorr, and Todd and Weld. She also served as in-house counsel at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. Additionally, she clerked for the Honorable Juan R. Torruella, First Circuit Court of Appeals. She received her B.A. with honors from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Karen is the author of the comic AttorneyMan Conquers Cha Chingi Changa LLP - Sales, Service and Survival.

Vince has 23 years health care experience in varied leadership roles: President, VP Corporate Development, VP operations, management consultant, and marketing executive. His consulting and work projects span over 100 different health care organizations, including hospitals, physician groups, medical devices, pharma, health plans, disease management, e-Health, IT, and others. Since 1997, Vince has worked as founder and principal of Better Health Technologies, LLC (www.bhtinfo.com), a strategy and business development consulting company creating value for patients and shareholders by leveraging technology, business models and partnerships in e-health and chronic disease management areas. BHT publishes an e-newsletter with 3,000 subscribers in 27 countries (www.bhtinfo.com/pastissues.htm). Its clientele includes established organizations and early-stage companies. Vince is a board member of the Telemedicine Research Center, and he an editorial advisory board member of Disease Management and Health Outcomes Journal, Medicare Disease Management, the Home Healthcare Technology Report and the International Disease Management Alliance. Vince is also on the advisory boards of several early stage companies.

Dr. Nobel is on the adjunct faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health where he does research on emerging information technologies and health care delivery processes. An important aspect if Nobel’s work includes active engagement with the payer and purchaser world, including advisory liaisons with large self-insured employers, insurers and healthcare business coalitions. Dr. Nobel is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine with Master’s Degrees in both Epidemiology and Health Policy from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Dinesh Patel M.D. is Chief of Arthroscopic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In the past he was a member of the telemedicine committee of MGH. He has taught and trained Arthroscopic Surgery all over the world and has been recognized and honored by professional organizations here and abroad. He has been a founding member of his professional organization. Some of the honors included an award given by Gov. Weld as one of the best new immigrants in Mass. In Nov 2003 he was appointed by Secy. Paige as commissioner and consultant to NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN MEDICAL EDUCATION AND ACCREDITATION (NCFMEA). He has been in US News and World report as one the best doctors and in Feb 2002 Boston magazine voted him by his peers as one of the Top Docs in the field of Orthopedic Surgery. He was Chairman of Board of Registration in Medicine [Licensure and Disciplines for doctors ] and served as one of the Board members and a member of the executive committee of Federation of State Medical Board the apex body of all State Boards in USA . In April 2003 he was given a leadership award by the FSMB. He is chairman of board for licensure of Dubai health care center Oct 2005. He is on the management committee of IAMRA.

Dr. Puskin is the Director of the Federal Office for the Advancement of Telehealth and chair of the Federal Joint Working Group on Telemedicine. Prior to her current position, Dr. Puskin was the Acting and Deputy Director of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP). Prior to joining ORHP, Dr. Puskin was a senior analyst at Congress’s Prospective Payment Assessment Commission, where she analyzed medical economic issues related to rural hospitals and specialized hospitals in the U.S. --psychiatric, rehabilitation, and chronic disease hospitals -- and developed the annual update factor for Medicare hospital payment rates. During her career, she has also served as a senior legislative analyst with the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association; the Research Director at the Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency; and as Assistant Professor of Community Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Puskin received: (1) Sc.D. degree in Health Policy and Research from Johns Hopkins University; (2) M.S. degree in Community Medicine from the University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry; (3) B.A. and M.A. degrees in Biology from Boston University.

Debby has counseled health providers on regulatory requirements for more than 20 years. Based in Washington DC where she is a partner at Arent Fox, Deborah focuses on community-based services in the hospice, homecare, assisted living and nursing facility settings, as well as high tech services and telehealth. She served in the Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Trade Commission and as general counsel for the National Assn for Home Care. She is on the Board of Directors of the Alzheimer’s Association of the National Capital Area and an Assembly Member of the National Alzheimer’s Association. Ms. Randall’s law degree is from Columbia University and her undergraduate degree from Harvard University. She lectures extensively and has written numerous articles and book chapters on health law.

Jay H. Sanders, M.D. is President and CEO of The Global Telemedicine Group, Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Adjunct), and a founding board member of the American Telemedicine Association where he serves as President Emeritus. Dr. Sanders has served on the NASA Biological and Physical Research Advisory Committee, as a consultant to the NASA Space Communication Center and the Scientific Director for the NASA Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Commercial Space Center. He is a consultant to the Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) at Ft. Detrick, and previously to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and served as a consultant to the Air Force Center for Telehealth and Theater Informatics, and was a member of the Department of Defense Telemedicine Board of Directors with the Surgeon Generals of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. He has been appointed by Secretary of HHS, Michael Leavitt, to the Chronic Care Workgroup of the American Health Information Community Committee, and during the Clinton Administration he directed the U.S. telemedicine initiatives to the G-8 nations, has been a consultant to the World Health Organization on Health Telematics, as well as a consultant to the Russian Telemedicine Foundation.

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.

Mr. Zall is a partner in the Health Care Group at Proskauer Rose, an international law firm headquartered in New York. Rick’s practice is focused on corporate and regulatory representation of a wide array of health care clients, including academic medical centers, hospitals, physician organizations, information technology and medical device companies, managed care and health benefit management companies and private equity firms. A significant part of Rick’s practice consists of the representation of companies developing and commercializing new health care technologies to connect providers and consumers. Rick provides clients with counsel in the planning and execution of health care-related corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, and equity and debt financings; the structuring of joint ventures and other contractual relationships among various health industry parties; and compliance with federal and state health care regulations. He also advises health care clients and health sector investors on business strategy, product and service development, financial transactions, and new venture implementation. Rick is admitted to practice law in New York. He received his B.A. from Brown University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law where he was a member of the Law Review and an Arthur Garfield Hays Fellow.