OurMed:Personnel

It is envisioned that the OursMedicina Board of Trustees will congregate here to vote on resolutions and discuss organization-related issues.

Currently there are four Board Members who meet quarterly to govern and guide the development of OurMed.

Stan Kachnowski, OurMed Board Chair
Email: mailto:Stan.Kachnowski@OurMed.org Stan Kachnowski is one of America’s distinguished scholars in healthcare information policy and management having taught e-health and healthcare e-business for nearly 20 years. He has authored over 100 scholarly papers and presentations for the world’s leading journals and societies in healthcare technology management, informatics and e-governance. In 2003 he was elected as a Fellow in the Royal Society of Medicine in the United Kingdom for his research with the National Health Service in using handhelds to track patient data. In 1996 he was elected to the US-based College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. Stan is currently a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.

Florence Devouard, OurMed Board Member
Florence Devouard served as one of the elected representatives to Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) Board that produced Wikipedia starting June 2004, and was the Chair of the WMF Board from October 21, 2006 until July 16th, 2008. Florence was born in Versailles (France). She grew up in Grenoble, and has been living since then in several French cities, as well as Antwerpen in Belgium and Tempe in Arizona. She holds two masters, one in Agricultural Sciences (a 5-year degree in agronomical engineering (Diplome d'Ingénieur Grande Ecole) from ENSAIA and the other a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Genetics and Biotechnologies from INPL.She has been working in public research, first in flower plant genetic improvement, and second in microbiology to study the feasability of polluted soil bioremediation. She was employed until 2005 in a French company, to conceive decision-making tools in sustainable agriculture. She is now a consultant in Internet Communication Strategy. She joined the Wikipedia adventure in February 2002 and is known as a contributor under the pseudonym Anthere. Florence lives in Clermont Ferrand with her husband Bertrand and her three children, Anne-Gaëlle aged nine, William eleven and Thomas two. On May 16 2008, Florence was made a knight in the French National Order of Merit, proposed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as "chair of an international foundation"

Alex Fotopoulos, OurMed Board Secretary
Alex Fotopoulos has served on the board since October 2008. He attended Rutgers College in New Brunswick, NJ and then received his Juris Doctorate degree from Southwestern University in Los Angeles, California in 1990. He has experience as a litigation attorney and as an entrepreneur. He has held held positions as an attorney and as part of the management team of such high technology companies including AT&amp;T Wireless, T-mobile, Nextel, Metricom, GTE Internetworking as well as small local start-up ventures. He is a licensed Attorney in New York, New Jersey and California.

Oleta McHenry, OurMed Board Treasurer
Oleta McHenry was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Ohio. After graduating high school, she briefly attended Wright State University in Dayton, studying Political Science. She transferred to St. Petersburg College in St. Petersburg, FL and received her A.A. degree in Liberal Arts. Oleta earned her B.S. in Accounting from Florida Metropolitan University in Clearwater, FL in 2006. Oleta worked for the Pulitzer prize winning newspaper, St. Petersburg Times as a circulation manager. After receiving her degree in accounting, she worked briefly in the insurance industry before joining the Wikimedia Foundation as the fulltime accountant of record. While at the Wikimedia Foundation, Oleta helped put in place accounting practices that would help the company in growth and development. She did not follow Wikimedia to San Francisco and now works for a large medical supply company managing the General Ledger for several regions within the United States. Oleta resides in St. Petersburg, FL where she works for as an accountant.

Executive Director
Greg Miller came to OurMed, drawing on his extensive background in corporate marketing/finance and volunteer management, he has enjoyed helping build OurMed using my experience developing non-profit communities as well as with putting new products in the market place.

After attending the University of Michigan to study International Business, he worked abroad for nine years for Bosch in Germany, Shearson Lehman Hutton in England, and EDS in Japan. Upon returning to the US in 1996, he's been in New York continuing work developing brands for large companies (All Nippon Airways, Cablevision and Revlon) through 2005.

Having been inspired by health care and art non-profits since 2003, he founded a non-profit art services organization that produces New York's annual Dance Parade. Looking to hone his skills on volunteer community building and non-profit work, we all discovered a good fit with OurMed and he has been Executive Director since January of 2009. Greg says "I am profoundly moved by OurMed's mission to create a global community of non-biased health care users because I think that it is a sorely needed resource, coupled with a viable mission."

Executive Technical Director
Dr. Stephen Press, DC, PhD, CCSP, FACSM, FICC, ICSSD Is a practicing Chiropractic physician (33 years). Was chief physician for the "Unified Team" (former USSR) at the XVIth Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France in 1992. Founded the World Governing body for Sports Chiropractic "FICS", Fédération Internationale de Chiropratique du Sport, now headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland at the Maison Internationale du Sports, and administered in Toronto, at the World Federation of Chiropractic offices. He served on the Medical commissions of two IOC recognized World Sports Governing bodies; 1st as Chairman for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Roller_Sports_Federation Fed. Int'l de Roller Sports], and then as Vice-Chairman for FIDE (Chess). Founded the IAOCO.org, and co-founded WikiChiro.org. Today, he serves as Board Member/Advisor for the International Sports Chiropractic Association, which is the Chiropractic profession's liaison body with the World Olympians Association.

Dr. Press has served as an editor on OurMed since November of 2009, and was elected Chairman of the Content Committee by the OurMed Wiki Community. In July, 2010 the Chairman of the OurMed Board asked Dr. Press to serve as Executive Technical Director - Dr. Press  said, "It is a real honor to have been asked by the OurMed Board to accept  this position, and I shall endeavor to make them as proud of me as I am of our relationship." Savealife 17:48, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Technical and Content Committees
Dr. Stephen J. Press, Executive Technical Director

Recruitment and Founding Framer Committees
Chairman: Vanessa Moore

Founding Framer Committee
Chairman: Vanessa Moore

Fundraising Committee
Chairman: (TBA)

Marketing, Media, P/R, Copyright Committee
Chairman: (TBA)