Meet the Clinovations Team

Trenor Williams, MD

Dr. Williams is the CEO and co-founder of Clinovations. He has a long history of leading CPOE implementation, ambulatory EHR strategy, and clinical transformation engagements. Currently he is supporting inpatient and ambulatory HIT engagements at several large integrated health systems. Trenor has significant experience developing benefits realization, physician adoption, clinical transformation strategies as well as working with 3rd party vendors to develop evidence-based clinical content.

Dr. Williams is Associate Editor of the book Improving Medication Use and Outcomes with Clinical Decision Support: A Step-by-Step Guide, which received the 2009 HIMSS Book of the Year Award. Prior to beginning his consulting career in 2002, Trenor was the Medical Director of Family Practice at Mammoth Hospital in California and was a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He holds a B.S. in Biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, M.D. from Marshall University, and completed his family practice residency at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles.

Anita Samarth

Ms. Samarth is the President and Co-Founder of Clinovations with more than 15 years of experience in the healthcare and technology industries. She is currently leading EHR/PHR benefits realization efforts and methodology for Clinovations and its clients and working as a SME for an AHRQ project synthesizing findings from six state/regional HIE efforts. Recently Anita led TA activities for the AHRQ National Resource Center for Health Information Technology (2005-2009), led SMEs and authored select American Health Information Community (AHIC) Use Cases for ONC, and led certification development for Electronic Prescribing and Interoperability for CCHIT.

Ms. Samarth previously led GE’s Clinical Consulting practice, during which she was trained in Six Sigma, Change Acceleration Process, and LEAN. She also led HIT strategic planning efforts for large health systems as a manager at First Consulting Group (now CSC) and is an experienced implementer of EHRs and HIT solutions. Ms. Samarth holds Bachelor of Science degrees from Johns Hopkins University in Biomedical Engineering and in Electrical Computer Engineering.

Kevin Coloton, FACHE

Mr. Coloton is a Principal and Chief Operating Officer of Clinovations with more than 13 years of experience in healthcare clinical practice, consulting, hospital administration, and healthcare technology. He leads our Ambulatory healthcare consulting practice and serves as a strategic healthcare advisor to a number of Mid-Atlantic hospitals and health systems. Mr. Coloton has experience in healthcare strategic planning, hospital/Clinic operations, and technology design and implementation. He also has an expertise in EHR and Revenue Cycle system selection, design, and implementation. Currently, Kevin is leading Electronic Health Record (EHR) business benefits realization, EHR implementation planning, and technology governance/organizational structure engagements for a portfolio of key clients.

Prior to joining Clinovations, Mr. Coloton was responsible for the healthcare technology portfolio at a Fortune 30 company. He has significant management consulting experience, having served as the strategic advisor to hospitals and health systems nationwide. Mr. Coloton brings to his consulting work a multifaceted knowledge of the healthcare industry from his former experiences as a Hospital Executive at Johns Hopkins, a physical therapist, and an employee of a premier healthcare think-tank based in Washington. He holds a Master in Business Administration from Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business in Baltimore and a Master of Physical Therapy/BSc in Healthcare from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

John Kontor, MD

Dr.Kontor is a Partner at Clinovations.  John is currently leading an engagement at a large health system to evaluate their overall health information technology and EHR strategy.  Previously, John was the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO)of the Bon Secours Health System.  At Bon Secours, he led their 14 hospital clinical transformation efforts and Epic clinical information system implementation. Additionally, Dr. Kontor led Bon Secours’ IT-enabled quality improvement strategy and development of its standardized order set, care plan and physician documentation tools.

Dr. Kontor leads efforts with health systems and other private and public sector clients to achieve their clinical, operational and financial goals through the effective use of health IT, data analytics, and workflow redesign to achieve organizations’ clinical transformation goals.

Michele Behme, RN, C

Ms. Behme is a registered nurse with over 20 years of healthcare IT experience. In addition to significant hospital operational and leadership experience, Michele has led work with several major consulting firms supporting both management and director roles. She has worked for both large and small consulting firms in senior management and practice director positions.  She brings to Clinovations a strong background in EMR implementation work, participating in single and multi-facility EMR implementation projects across the country.  This work has given her keen insight into the challenges of pre-implementation planning, EMR system selection, design and redesign workflow, clinical integration, application build, testing, training, go-live support, optimization analysis, CPOE, physician documentation, and change management.   

As a Director on the Clinovations leadership team, Michele is responsible for the quality and growth of the clinical delivery team and is an active participant in business development, project delivery, and client relationships.  Michele holds a Bachelors of Science in Nursing from the University of Evansville, professional memberships in HIMSS, Indiana HIMSS Chapter, ANIA, ISNA, IONE, IRHA, and holds ANCC certifications in Nursing Informatics and Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing.  Additionally, she is certified in Epic Inpatient Clinical Documentation, Procedure and Medication Orders, Order Transmittal and Decision Support.

Rodrigo Martinez, MD

Dr. Martinez has 14 years of experience in clinical medicine in both academic and community hospitals. As a consultant, Dr. Martinez has focused on developing clinical IT adoption strategies, developing clinical content, and motivating others to lead organizational change. He has recently been working with select multi-hospital health systems in the mid-Atlantic area, advising enterprise CMO's and CMIO's as well as leading physician order set development projects.
Prior to joining our team, Dr. Martinez worked as a Physician Consultant for McKesson Provider Technologies where he partnered with numerous clients across the country to help drive physician adoption of computerized patient management and order entry systems. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an MD from the University of South Florida College of Medicine. He completed his Surgical Internship, ENT Residency, and Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship at University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, University Hospital Stony Brook, and University of New Mexico School of Medicine respectively.

Lisa Shah, MD, MAPP

Dr. Shah focuses on quality improvement and clinical guidelines projects, identifying opportunities to leverage health information technology to support improved delivery and management of care.  Prior to Clinovations, Lisa was a Senior Manager at Avalere Health, where she provided clinical guidance and leadership to the organization’s Evidence-Based Medicine practice.  At the University of Chicago, Shah’s research interests focused on quality improvement, medication adherence, and clinical guideline implementation.  In addition, she co-directed the Hospitalist Medicine Fellowship Program, part of University of Chicago Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERT). This program brought hospitalists from throughout the country to the University of Chicago to participate in the Summer Outcomes Research Training Program, with a focus on introducing academic hospitalists to outcomes research and setting them on a track to increase academic productivity.

Lisa holds a BA in English and Spanish from Duke University, an MD from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Chicago.  She completed a fellowship in health outcomes research and her residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago, is board certified, and continues to practice clinical medicine as a hospitalist.

Greg Fuller

Mr. Fuller possesses a deep understanding of HIT and evidence based medicine (EBM) trends, drivers, and challenges facing the healthcare industry. For the previous 5 years, he was a Manager at Avalere Health, where he worked extensively on the Federal HIT Strategic Plan released in June 2008. Significant expertise on issues including HIT legislation and regulation, EHRs, electronic prescribing (eRx), telehealth and remote monitoring, regional health information organizations (RHIOs), the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model, and CER. Mr. Fuller has led and assisted clients with developments in public policy and legislative, regulatory, and budgetary changes related to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device sectors.

He has extensive experience tracking the evolution of Federal efforts to support the adoption of HIT and promote nationwide HIE. He holds a B.A. in Public Health from The Johns Hopkins University and has completed graduate-level coursework in public health and health policy at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Karen Hwang, MHS

Ms. Hwang is currently managing CPOE implementation, ambulatory EHR benefits realization, and clinical transformation efforts for large health system clients in the Mid-Atlantic region. Ms. Hwang comes to Clinovations with over 8 years of experience in project management, business development, health policy, hospital administration, clinical quality measurement, and IT implementation.

Previously, Ms. Hwang was a project manager at the National Quality Forum (NQF) where she worked directly with federal agencies and non-profit organizations to define Meaningful Use of health IT to improve clinical performance measurement and quality improvement. Prior to her role at NQF, Ms. Hwang was a manager at Accenture where she led integration assessment, design, testing, and implementation efforts as part of global customer relationship management projects. Ms. Hwang holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Duke University in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering, and a Masters of Health Sciences from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Health Policy (Delta Omega).

Laurie Lindsey

Laurie is a senior healthcare IT professional with over 29 years experience in Implementation services, Integrated Workflow redesign, Training/ Site Activation, Business Intelligence data analytics services and Project Management. She has a proven track record as a knowledgeable and experienced Project Manager and Implementation specialist for a variety of clinical and financial systems. Laurie is especially skilled at building productive working relationships with clients’ Medical and clinical operations staff and other team members for optimal experiences. Many of her previous engagements involved performing readiness assessments, physician integrated workflow redesign analysis, integrated EMR design, build and adoption, Physician/Clinician training, scanning conversions, Go Live support and Customer Service for healthcare IT projects. Laurie is also well versed in data integrity and extraction of clinical data-warehouse information for use in benchmarking and quality improvement efforts, as well as, for application of meaningful use analyses.

Matt Wooley, RN

Mr. Wooley comes to Clinovations with over 16 years in the healthcare industry, including healthcare IT applications, clinical informatics, implementations and development. He is currently a member of our EMR Optimization team focusing on inpatient areas. Prior to joining Clinovations he was responsible for assessing client’s EMR functionality and reporting measurements to determine if they met the stage 1 Meaningful Use requirements; identify any gaps and/or risks related to clinical data and facilitated meetings with IT leadership committees to review the operational impact the ARRA Meaningful Use requirements will have on the organization.

He also has extensive experience with multiple EMR applications. Specifically design/build and optimization (usability) for inpatient and mid-level provider workflows, CPOE implementations, and evidence based order set design as well as test script design and execution.

Laura McQueen, RN, MSN

Ms. McQueen, RN, MSN, has a combined nine years of experience in clinical nursing, nursing informatics and nursing administration. She is currently working as a lead implementation specialist for the District of Columbia Regional Extension Center for Health IT, eHealthDC.

Prior to joining Clinovations, Ms. Queen developed and implemented clinical end-user training for Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) at Inova Health System, as well as managed the CPOE Support Team, which provided 24/7 on-the-floor support to end-users, including physicians and nurses. She has a Bachelor’s in Nursing and a Master’s in Nursing Administration from George Mason University.

Nicole Kemper, MPH

Ms. Kemper is working as an implementation specialist for eHealthDC, and a senior research analyst for projects in the Federal Health and Public Health sectors. She serves as the Quality Measures SME and Meaningful Use expert for DC’s Regional Extension Center and is a project manager for a project with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to develop Stage 2 clinical quality measures for behavioral health. Ms. Kemper brings specialized expertise in the electronic infrastructure for quality measurement from her prior work as a Project Manager at the National Quality Forum (NQF), where she managed NQF’s activities around integrating clinical decision support and quality measurement, and aligning the development of electronic quality measures to national health and public health priorities. Prior to NQF, Ms. Kemper was a Health Research Analyst at the Center for Studying Health System Change, where she conducted research and analysis on market variation in health and public health system delivery, financing and organization. Her work focused on public sector trends, including coordination of care between public hospitals and public health clinics, public health preparedness infrastructure, and the use of health IT to improve communication and data sharing between health care and public health settings.

Ms. Kemper holds a Master’s in Public Health from the Yale School of Public Health, where she developed a research-based, interdisciplinary approach to policy analysis that encompasses social and behavioral health, epidemiology, and biostatistics, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Santa Clara University.

Billy Wolf

Mr. Wolf is currently working as a  health information technology analyst and project coordinator for eHealthDC, the District of Columbia’s Regional Extension Center for Health IT.  In this role, he guides primary care practices through EHR education, vendor selection, implementation, and achievement of Meaningful Use.  Mr. Wolf is experienced in use and implementation of Salesforce.com and Sugar customer relationship management (CRM) software for managing client information, reporting, and analytics, and is experienced in conducting qualitative analysis and synthesis of interview data and meeting summaries.  Mr. Wolf recently served as a research analyst and technical writer for health information exchange projects and “Connecting Technically” module of the eHealth Initiative’s health information exchange toolkit,  and supports data and information analysis, synthesis, and reporting to support development of briefing papers, white papers, and presentations for Clinovations projects. Prior to joining the eHealthDC team at Clinovations, Mr. Wolf worked on health care business development projects with London Group International. He holds a BA in Organizational Studies from the University of Michigan.

Danielle Ford

Ms. Ford is currently working as an implementation coordinator for the District of Columbia’s Regional Extension Center, eHealthDC, serving as a lead for the implementation and optimization of various EHRs, configuring and customizing the EHR to promote quality care and efficiency, positioning the organization to receive Meaningful Use incentives. Prior to joining the eHealthDC team as an analyst at Clinovations, Ms. Ford worked in various ambulatory settings receiving firsthand experience to small clinic operations and processes.  She holds a BS in Health Sciences with emphasis on Health Services Management from Drake University in Des Moines, IA. She also is a graduate of the Federal Workforce Development Program receiving additional Health IT education in Implementation Management and has received her Federal Health IT Professional certification. To complement this educational experience, Ms. Ford has had prior involvement with Meaningful Use, Regional Extension Center related work and various quality initiatives.

Anastasia Tate

Ms. Tate is the Office Manager for Clinovations. In this role, Ms. Tate is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the office. She is an accomplished administration professional with more than 13 years experience working in both the non-profit and private sectors, where she has worked closely with senior and executive-level management. Prior to joining Clinovations, she held the position of Executive Assistant to the CEO of eHealth Initiative.

Ms. Tate is working to obtain a Bachelors of Science in Nursing degree. Her long-term goal is to become a Pediatric Registered Nurse.