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External Advisory Board
David Barber
Director, Information Technology Programs
Ohio Board of Regents
Columbus, Ohio
Frank Brady
Medical Missions for Children
Frank Brady spent most of his professional career with CGE, a French conglomerate. He organized projects and arranged financing for international business consortiums composed of major European, Asian and American companies who partnered on large international contracts.
Today, Frank is a co-founder, along with his wife Peg, of Medical Missions for Children and serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees and CEO. In addition, he serves on the Program Committee of Operation Smile and as a Trustee of the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation. Peg and Frank have written a book: The Art of a Meaningful Retirement: Is it time to climb a mountain or dig a hole.
Today Medical Missions for Children can provide telemedicine services for children in 108 countries and since 1999 had helped slightly over 30,000 children with both diagnostic and treatment consults. In 2003, the MMC Mission Statement was expanded to include “transferring medical knowledge from those who have it to those who need it”. This resulted in the launching of a FCC licensed Global Television Network, the Medical Broadcasting Channel (MBC), the Global Video Library of Medicine and Giggles Children’s Theater. Additionally, MMC produces four health related television programs for the PBS Network to further patient awareness.
Charles R. Doarn, MBA, TVRC Executive Director
Deputy Director
Advanced Center for Telemedicine and Surgical Innovation (ACTSI)
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio
Charles R. Doarn is a peer-review funded researcher at the University of Cincinnati (UC). He holds a faculty appointment as a research associate professor of surgery and biomedical engineering. Doarn serves as a special assistant to the chief health and medical officer at NASA Headquarters through an IPA agreement. Doarn also serves as the co-principal investigator and administrative director of the National Science Foundation's Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Minimally Invasive Medical Technologies (MIMTeC). Prior to joining the UC faculty, Doarn served as the executive director and co-principal investigator for NASA's Research Partnership Center for Medical Informatics and Technology Applications (MITAC), located at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Throughout the 1990s, Doarn served as the program executive for Aerospace Medicine and Telemedicine at NASA Headquarters. He was the principle author of NASA's Integrated Strategic Plan for Telemedicine and served as the lead for NASA's telemedicine activities.
Doarn served on the board of directors for the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and held several key positions, including secretary, treasurer and chair of the International Special Interest Group for the ATA. Doarn serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Telemedicine and e-Health. Doarn is a recognized leader in telemedicine as a scholar and teacher, having published more than 100 manuscripts and 11 book chapters on telemedicine.
Doarn received his undergraduate degree in biological sciences from The Ohio State University in 1980. He received a master's degree in business administration from the University of Dayton in 1988. Additional training has included Advanced Program Management at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Va., and a Medical Informatics Fellows Course from the National Library of Medicine at Woods Hole, Md.
Erica Frank, MD, MPH
Departments of Health Care and Epidemiology and Family Practice at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Dr. Frank is a Professor in the Departments of Health Care and Epidemiology and Family Practice at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, a Tier I Canada Research Chair, and a Senior Scholar of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. She is also Founding Director of Health Sciences Online (creating a virtual health sciences university), President Elect of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the Research Director for the Annenberg Physician Training Program in Addiction Medicine.
Until 2006, she was a tenured Professor, Vice Chair (Academic Affairs), and Division Director (Preventive Medicine) in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. She also directed Emory’s Preventive Medicine Residency Program, and had a clinical practice in cholesterol management. Following a transitional internship at the Cleveland Clinic, she was residency (Yale, 1990) and fellowship (Stanford, 1993) trained, and also board certified, in preventive medicine.
David Gray
Knowledge & Learning Coordinator
Latin America and the Caribbean Region
The World Bank
As Regional Coordinator of the World Bank's Global Development Learning Network (GDLN), David is in charge of directing the Network’s growth and presence in the Region, as well as establishing strategic alliances among institutions. Launched in 2000, the network is an alliance of public, private, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that supports the exchange of knowledge. In Latin America and the Caribbean Region, this interactive community is made up of a group of Distance Learning Centers (DLCs) established at a variety of organizations, primarily universities, that have telecommunications infrastructure and experience in the distance education training area. The aim is to serve the developing world by increasing understanding and capacity, and supporting knowledge networks.
Michael J. McGill, Ph.D.
Health Sciences, Internet2
Mike has over thirty years of experience in Information Technology and over twelve years in healthcare technology. He has been responsible for system wide operations, development and vision for information systems including the development of clinical repositories, the implementation of clinical and administrative systems, and support architectures that allow secure and reliable access. Dr. McGill was the Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the Henry Ford Health System, an integrated delivery system.
Prior to that, he was the Chief Information Officer of the University of Michigan Health System. At the University of Michigan, McGill also headed its telecommunication networks and phone service.. He was vice president of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), Inc. At Syracuse University, Mike held the positions of Associate Professor, Assistant Dean for Research and the Ph.D. Program, School of Information Studies and Associate Professor of the School of Computer and Information Science. He was Program Director for Information Science for the National Science Foundation and a Senior Computer and Information Science Advisor, Office of Toxic Substances, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
He holds a BA degree from Michigan State University and an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Syracuse University. Dr. McGill is a Member of the American Medical Informatics Association, the College of Health Information Management Executives and the Health Information Management Systems Society. He has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his "pioneering research and development in information systems". He is also the author of numerous articles and co-author of Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval published by McGraw-Hill.
Pat Molholt
Continuing Medical Education consultant
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Pat Molholt currently serves as executive director of Global Health Care Learning within International and Corporate Health at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Her responsibilities include building physican-to-physician relationships between NYP doctors and those abroad using education as the outreach mechanism. She also assists in business development, as NYP offers management and advisory expertise internationally. She recently retired as associate vice president and associate dean for Education and Scholarly Resources at the Columbia University Medical Center, after spending 16 years in the health care environment focusing on issues of technology infrastructure, library and information resources, faculty development, and curriculum development. She has been an active member of the Internet2 community, serving on the Membership Meeting Program Committee and the Healthcare Committee. She holds a master's degree in library and information science and a doctorate in an aspect of artificial intelligence.
Paul Schopis
Director of Networking
OARnet
Paul Schopis is director of networking at the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet), where he is responsible for the operation and ongoing strategic development of OARnet’s statewide optical fiber network.
In this role, Schopis led the design team that created the OARnet’s network, which is considered the nation’s leading statewide, high-speed network dedicated to education, research and economic competitiveness. He was involved in all phases of fiber procurement, fiber testing, design of the optical plane and all layer2 and layer3 services. The network uses a unique architecture that incorporates MPLS and Logical Routers.
Schopis previously served as senior engineer for Ohio’s Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC-Ohio), a consortium of Ohio universities, government agencies, and corporate partners whose purpose is to examine critical new applications, infrastructure problems and emerging technologies.
In 2007, Schopis was selected to serve on the executive committee of The Quilt, a national coalition of more than 20 leading U.S. research and education networking organizations, and was elected chair of the board of directors in 2008. The Quilt coalition promotes consistent, reliable, interoperable and efficient advanced networking services that extend to the broadest possible community. Participating organizations provide network service for more than 200 Internet2 universities and thousands of other educational institutions. Schopis was also a founding member of the Advanced Testing and Monitoring Team (A-Team), in partnership with ITEC-Ohio, ITEC-NC, Spirent, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and San Diego Supercomputing Center, for which he wrote the “Proof of Concept” WAN test.
Schopis holds a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University in mathematics and physical science.
Pankaj Shah
Executive Director
Ohio Academic Resources Network
Pankaj Shah serves as executive director of the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet), the technology infrastructure and operations arm of the University System of Ohio, under the Ohio Board of Regents. His duties include management and operation of the statewide network and a national Internet2 GigaPoP; design, architecture, implementation and maintenance of shared services systems and storage infrastructure; identification and development of the services and applications which can be hosted collaboratively; consolidation and standardization of technology; identification of future technology trends; and technology strategic planning.
Previously, Shah served as Marquette University’s director of infrastructure for information technology services, where he was responsible for networking, systems, storage, telecommunications and security. During an earlier tenure with OARnet, he was responsible for creating and managing the Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center (ITEC-Ohio) and was an instrumental partner in the Transportable Satellite Internet System, a satellite trailer used for distance learning and special events in areas where reliable terrestrial Internet connectivity is unavailable.
With more than 25 years in the industry, Shah has held positions in public, private and not-for-profit sectors including engagement manager at Resource One Computer System, where he managed the City of Columbus project; senior manager for the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), where he set up the state-of-the-art IT department; manager for the New York City Transit Authority (MTA) - Division of Track; and systems administrator for the City University of New York-Computer Science Department.
Shah in recent years has focused on emerging needs in research, education, government and economic development. While managing complex cyberinfrastructure, he has identified trends in high-speed data transfer, videoconferencing and optical, wireless and satellite-based hybrid networking.
Shah represents OARnet on The Quilt and Internet2’s governance and nominations committee. He also serves on the steering committee of StateNets group within Net@edu and Educause. Additionally, Shah contributed to the Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, 2nd Edition.
He received a diploma in mechanical engineering, as well as advance tool technology certification, from S.B.M Polytechnic in Bombay (Mumbai), India. He earned his masters in computer and information science from Brooklyn College, City University of New York.