WorldVistA Executive Team

Chairman Maury Pepper
is a computer consultant with his own company, M-Technology, and has been programming in MUMPS since the early 1970s, before MUMPS was standardized, when he programmed in Digital Equipment Corporation's MUMPS-11. He holds a masters degree in computer science and has spent most of the past thirty-five years applying computer technology to healthcare. Pepper co-founded DRA Library Systems in 1975, developing library automation for public libraries and libraries for the blind and physically handicapped. He is a longstanding member of the MUMPS Development Committee and was one of the founders of WorldVistA, which he chairs from his home in St. Louis, Missouri.

President Rick Marshall
is a medical software consultant in Seattle, Washington and has been programming in MUMPS since 1984. He formerly served as a VistA computer specialist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): seven years of local support and development and twelve years of national development, including major work on both the TaskMan and FileMan packages for VistA. Marshall has also written technical documents, including the 1995 Standard M Pocket Guide, and taught classes in FileMan and Kernel for more than a decade. He was a director of the M Technology Association for four years and vice chair of the MUMPS Development Committee, and was one of the founders of WorldVistA.

Director Joseph Dal Molin
is an internationally recognized expert in health information technology and pioneer in open source strategy and community building. He is president of e-cology corporation co-founder of WorldVistA, and chaired and co-founded the Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA). His work includes developing the business plan and strategy for OSCAR, McMaster University Dept. of Family Medicine’s open source EHR, and SPIRIT, the European Commission funded portal for collaborative health software development. He co-authored Canada's first federal study on the impact of the open source model on the Canadian IT market. Joseph managed the national health care business for a major computer manufacturer and has consulted to the OECD, UCLA School of Medicine, UK NHS Information Authority, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and Centre for Global eHealth Innovation. Joseph is a frequently invited speaker on open source and health IT strategy including events organized by the Kennedy School of Government; American Association of Medical Colleges, American College of Physicians; OECD Working Party on the Information Economy, and Brasilian and Malaysian Health Informatics Associations,. He is currently program manager for VistA Vendor Support Organization which WorldVistA is establishing for CMS's VistA Office EHR initiative. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Director Brian Lord
our newest director, is a senior medical software consultant and businessman in Durham, North Carolina. He is president and owner of Sequence Managers Software, LLC. He holds six degrees, including a masters in software engineering and bachelors degrees in physics, medical technology, and computer science. Lord has been programming in MUMPS for 20 years and has worked on several major medical implementations including CHCS, IDX, VistA, and Epic. He has been active in the OpenVistA community since the first conversion of VistA to GT.M. and has been part of several successful implementations of OpenVistA. He was one of the founders of WorldVistA.

Director Bob Miller
is an associate professor of pathology and biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of its pathology data systems unit. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Director and Secretary Chris Richardson
is a senior computer specialist with the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Martinez, California and has been programming in MUMPS since 1978. Formerly employed by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), he worked on the the initial version of the Composite Health Care System (CHCS), the Department of Defense's dialect of the VA Decentralized Hospital Computer Program, now called VistA. Richardson has also programmed for NASA's Johnson Space Center, Computer Sciences Corporation, and the United States Public Health Service as well as his own company, Richardson Computer Research. He was a longstanding member of the MUMPS Users Group of North America and the MUMPS Development Committee, and was one of the founders of WorldVistA.

Treasurer David Whitten
is a senior computer specialist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He holds a masters degree in computer science and is a recognized expert on knowledge bases and artificial intelligence. Whitten has worked with VistA and its predecessors for more than twenty years while programming for such employers as Houston's Methodist Hospital, the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) as well as the VA. In the artificial intelligence field, he has contributed to the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology working group, written the unofficial FAQ on the Cyc system, and founded the Public Domain Knowledge Bank. Whitten is a longstanding member of the MUMPS Development Committee and was one of the founders of the OpenVistA project and World VistA.

Past Executives
For information on the other VistA Community members who have served as members of the WorldVistA executive team in the past, read the Past Executives webpage.

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