40+ years of experience in Health Technology (HT)

Main activities:

• Secretary of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering / Clinical Engineering Division (IFMBE/CED), our global CE society, 2015-2018. 
• Retired from Kaiser Permanente (KP) after serving 25 years in 2016, half as National Project Director, Clinical Technology, and the other as KP Georgia Quality & Patient Safety Director. 
• Had prior CE leadership roles in teaching, community, and military hospitals emphasizing CE-HTM, and has focused the last 10 years on CE-IT solutions in local and global healthcare delivery.
• Overall, he has 40+ years in Health Technology (HT), with a particular focus on global CE, and serving as HT Advisor to WHO/PAHO since 1989.
• With ACCE colleagues and partnered with WHO/PAHO, he began the Advanced Clinical Engineering Workshops (ACEWs) in 1991, where CEs and health leaders from over 90 countries have 
• Now been trained in CE-HTM best practices.  Serves on NGO boards in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and Haiti, to help improve mother and child healthcare (MCH).
• Recently named as Associate Editor for Health Technology and Quality for The Permanente Journal, KP's peer-reviewed physician journal, http://www.thepermanentejournal.org/