Traci Totino, PhD
TNT Education

Traci has over twelve years of management and public speaking experience. Her early career started as an adjunct professor. She has presented to, trained and developed all levels of corporate employees in both English and Spanish. Traci specializes in designing customized seminars for companies, organizations and individuals. Her expertise also includes grant writing as she has successfully secured grants from state and federal agencies and private foundations. She has authored several articles and has been the featured speaker at many events. She recently coauthored a book with Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard and Jack Canfield Speaking of Success. Traci is working on her second Doctorate degree in Education with data collection from corporate clients providing benchmarks and quantitative results from their collective training programs. Traci's company, TNT Educational Services, provides educational and vocational training for companies.

Charles S. "Steve" Dawson
President & CEO,
Princeton Diversity Partners
 
Charles S. (Steve) Dawson has a proven track record of bringing success to organizations in both the public and private sectors – and spanning both technology and business arenas.

Perhaps best known as the innovative state CIO / CTO of the State of New Jersey, Dawson is credited with a statewide transformation from legacy systems and paper-based operations to a national reputation for innovation, leadership, and operational excellence.  In this role, as in others, Dawson assessed complex business and operational needs, recruited experts and led the adoption of technologies and business processes that substantially increased the capabilities and productivity of 65,000 government employees.  

Dawson’s record also includes stints as senior executive for multiple corporate and government organizations.  He has advised on and led strategic initiatives at BCT Partners, a multimillion-dollar business / technology / policy consulting firm; Tiger Medical Systems, a healthcare professional services firm; SAIC, a $9 billion scientific, engineering, and systems consulting firm; Horizon Blue Cross & Blue Shield; and the New Jersey State Lottery, where he led the lottery to 4th largest nationwide.

Dawson has served on the Boards of numerous business, education, and technology organizations and is the former Assistant State Commissioner of Human Services.  In addition, he has chaired initiatives such as the New Jersey 9-1-1 Commission and the New Jersey Information Resources Management Commission.

Steve Dawson is a graduate of Princeton University.  He is a former officer on Princeton’s Alumni Council.   Dawson also holds a master's degree from Rutgers University.

Anna Domurat Thomas has extensive experience in the public sector in the areas of program development and project management, policy development, and communications management. She has been strongly committed to the concept of good and responsive government, focusing many of her efforts on community outreach and solid communications with the public. She was instrumental in developing and expanding government communications via the web. Ms. Thomas established and is president of VA Thomas LLC, a marketing communications services company. She works with public, private and non-profit sector clients.

Nelson Gomes is the founder and principal technology consultant of Priority One Consulting Group. With over eighteen years experience in information technology, he has been employed specifically in the healthcare industry for the last twelve years beginning as a network analyst and project manager for the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He attributes his proven proficiency in healthcare information technology to a solid foundation built during his years of experience at the Valley Hospital.
 
He both relied on and built upon his hospital background when he was selected as the technical project manager for the multi-million dollar PACS (picture archiving communication system) project for Baptist Health in Montgomery, Alabama. He successfully managed the technical  implementation of a Philips iSite PACS for three hospitals and three imaging centers that combined totaled approximately four hundred thousand studies per year.
 
Most recently, Priority One Consulting Group was selected as the sole vendor of choice to provide technical expertise in the merger of five large urology group practices located in Morris County, New Jersey. He and his team developed and implemented a practice management solution networking and merging the technology of the five practices. Priority One continues to provide the group with managed services and long-term strategic technology planning.
 
The key to his success is his method of leveraging technology to provide better healthcare - driven by a single mission of enabling healthcare organizations to make the most of their technology.
 
Nelson is a graduate of Devry University and is a certified project manager associate. He is  also a member of NJMGMA, NJPHYSICIANS, PMI and HIMSS.

Helen Oscislawski is a corporate and regulatory attorney whose practice focuses almost exclusively on advising and representing healthcare clients.  In New Jersey, Ms. Oscislawski is considered by many as the "go-to" attorney on health information exchange (HIE) and regional health information organization (RHIO) topics, and advises some of the largest organizations and initiatives in the State.  She is an appointed member of the NJ Health Information Technology Commission where she serves as the "attorney with demonstrated expertise in privacy laws".  Recently, she authored the "Update to Privacy and Security Law Manual" offered through the New Jersey Hospital Association.  Ms. Oscislawski is also nationally-recognized for her contribution to the State's various HISPC projects over the years, as well as for preparing the "Strategic Plan for Privacy and Security" section of the ARRA Grant recently submitted by the State to ONC.  

In February of 2010 Ms. Oscislawski established Oscislawski LLC, a specialized boutique practice dedicated to providing legal representation to clients grappling with legal questions and challenges arising from implementing and using electronic health records, sharing patient health information through electronic HIE, and complying with rapidly evolving federal and state legal standards that must be met in order for RHIOs and their stakeholders to be poised for future connectivity to the National Health Information Network (NHIN).  As Ms. Oscislawski stays abreast of legal changes that affect HIE, RHIOs and health information technology (HIT), she contributes her thoughts through blog posts she calls Helen's "Legal HIT".  You can read Ms. Oscislawski's legal HITSM posts on www.healthsystemcio.com/blogs and www.LEGAL-HIT.com.

Ms. Oscislawski received her law degree from Rutgers School of Law, with honors in 1999, and is admitted to practice in New Jersey.   She completed her undergraduate degree at Rutgers University, Douglass College in 1994, with highest honers in her major and high honors overall.  She was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa upon graduation.

Mr. Kutner has a decade of consulting experience (www.consulting-ics.com) in areas ranging from business development to sales and marketing to strategic planning. His core expertise is networking and relationship-building and, in particular, using those as a basis for finding deals and resources to grow businesses--his own version of business development. Exceedingly well-rounded, he has worked with companies in various technology disciplines, including digital media, information technology, and biotech, as well as in the health care, homeland security, sports & entertainment, and even non-profit sectors. Recent clients in this arena have included (A) a health care IT start-up building a Travelocity-for-Health Care, (B) an IT firm boasting an advanced web-only document management system, (C) one of the top providers of social networking software and services, (D) one of the leading youth sports coaching and instructional content sites, and (E) a biotech start-up at Rutgers University.

Janice Giese

With over 20 years of experience in medical billing and medical practice management, Janice is available to assist with your medical practice needs. Her expertise is managing the financials of the medical practice.