M. Jason Brooke, MSE, JD, CSQE is an attorney and the Managing Member at Brooke Consulting, LLC—a boutique...
Dr. Alicia Morton Farlese is a retired Captain/O-6, having served twenty-six years in both the United States Navy...
Evelyn Gallego, MBA, MPH, CPHIMS, is the CEO and Founder of EMI Advisors LLC, an 8(a) certified Economically...
Dr. Jamie Skipper is a nationally respected expert on health data regulations. She currently serves as...
For over 20 years Kem has been a transformational healthcare leader providing strategic and operational...
M. Jason Brooke, MSE, JD, CSQE is an attorney and the Managing Member at Brooke Consulting, LLC—a boutique law and advisory firm that provides legal and consulting services to innovative medical device and digital health companies across the globe and at various stages of commercialization. Jason brings a focused expertise that combines nearly 20 years of experience ranging from science and technology design, development, implementation, and testing; to business strategy and operations; to legal and regulatory compliance. Jason has conducted scientific research (pre-clinical and clinical) and technology development in academic and industry environments as a biomedical engineer, worked within the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health as a regulatory affairs program analyst, counseled clients as an attorney and consultant focused on the medical device and digital health space, and served as the chief executive officer, general counsel, and vice-president of regulatory and quality for small medical device companies. Jason has served as a Director and Global Lead of the Life Science Regulatory, Quality & Patient Safety practice within a multinational management consulting company, where he supported large and small U.S. and international medical device and digital health companies address the challenges that arise across the product lifecycle when commercializing medical devices, mobile/digital health technologies, and clinical decision support software.
In addition to advising on global market authorization strategies (for the U.S., E.U., U.K., Brazil, Saudi Arabia, India, and Australia, among others), Jason often supports the development of quality management systems, pre-clinical/clinical study designs, pre-submission strategies and preparation, regulatory submission development, post-market surveillance, regulatory investigations, supplier evaluation, and import/export activities. As a developer of medical device software and an ASQ-certified software quality engineer, he has a particular focus on legal, regulatory, and quality matters related to the development of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), clinical decision support software, and AI/ML-based technologies. Jason is an Exemplar Global certified lead auditor and regularly audits and remediates quality systems for conformity to 21 C.F.R. Part 820, ISO 13485:2016, and other international standards (e.g., ISO 14971:2019 and IEC 62304:2006/A1:2015) in preparation for certification or in response to observations from the FDA or international Notified Bodies. He has extensive experience developing, assessing, and remediating post-market surveillance programs for identifying, evaluating, and reporting adverse events related to medical devices.
Evelyn Gallego, MBA, MPH, CPHIMS, is the CEO and Founder of EMI Advisors LLC, an 8(a) certified Economically and Socially-Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business. EMI was started to further Evelyn’s mission of delivering value-driven health data management advisory services to her government and commercial clients. Evelyn is a trusted advisor in helping her clients bridge the gap between health information technology policy and standards and business requirements. She has a strong ability to work across and build consensus with diverse stakeholder groups to include multidisciplinary providers, policymakers, healthcare payers, researchers, system vendors and implementers, and standard development organizations. Evelyn provides specialized expertise in digital health interoperability and health policy with a focus on alignment of regulatory, technical, and process improvement requirements to enable the effective adoption and use of technology. She is a thought leader in the areas of care coordination, social determinants of health (SDOH), health IT policy analysis and development, health information exchange and interoperability, and health IT standards development. Ms. Gallego currently serves as the Program Manager and SME for leading interoperability projects including the HL7 Gravity Project, the ACL Innovative Technology Solutions for Social Care Referrals Challenge, the NIH Multiple Chronic Care (MCC) electronic Care Plan Project, the Community Information Exchange (CIE) Toolkit Project, and the CDC Social Determinants of Health Public Health Business Care and Use Case Development Project.
Dr. Alicia Morton Farlese is a retired Captain/O-6, having served twenty-six years in both the United States Navy Nurse Corps and the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service. Dr. Farlese received her BSN from the University of Kentucky and both her MSN and DNP from the University of Maryland. As an ANCC board-certified informatics nurse, Dr. Farlese was a senior leader in national health IT policy and programs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ONC & CMS) from 2003–2020. Dr. Farlese heavily contributed to many health IT regulations, most recently those addressing the 21st Century Cures Act requirements, and implemented many of the ARRA/ HITECH ACT provisions, including overseeing the nation’s only health IT certification program. At the HHS/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. Farlese was a senior advisor/subject matter expert in social determinates of health (SDoH), health IT certification, nursing/clinical informatics, quality, safety, usability, interoperability, compliance, clinical decision support, health IT workforce development, and public health response/ readiness. Dr. Farlese was a clinical nurse at both Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD, and has deployed numerous times, including aboard the USNS Comfort and as a first-responder pre/during Hurricane Katrina. She is an instructor in the DNP program at the University of KY and is the CEO of HealtheConsulting, LLC.
Dr. Jamie Skipper is a nationally respected expert on health data regulations. She currently serves as Director of Healthcare Registry Technology Consulting Services at IQVIA. After over a decade of setting health policies across the federal space, Dr. Skipper founded Elevation Health Consulting to help health tech companies align to health regulations to improve scaling capabilities. At Elevation, she has curated a team of experts with federal and state regulatory backgrounds to work with tech companies, health sector investors, venture capital firms and incubators to navigate current and emerging health tech regulations.
Dr. Skipper was the Senior Scientist at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and ONC’s Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Coordinator. During this time, Dr. Skipper built a multi-million-dollar PCOR program to help HHS create essential policies and standards to enable data liquidity and exchange data to improve patient outcomes. Prior to taking on the role as ONC’s PCOR Coordinator, Dr. Skipper served as the Coordinator for the ONC’s Standards & Interoperability (S&I) Framework where she developed and provided oversight for ONC’s health technology standards efforts.
Before coming to ONC, Dr. Skipper served as a healthcare and health IT Legislative Assistant on Capitol Hill and as Program Director for the Cardiac Dysfunction grant portfolio at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at NIH. Dr. Skipper has a Ph.D. in Cardiac Physiology from the University of Glasgow, Scotland and a B.S.N. from Marquette University.
For over 20 years Kem has been a transformational healthcare leader providing strategic and operational leadership to hospitals and independent practices. Kem holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Healthcare Administration and Organizational Management. Her certifications include: Certified Medical Practice Executive (CMPE), Certified Professional Coder (CPC) and Certified Medical Office Manager (CMOM).
Kem is the co-author of: “Revenue Cycle Management: Don’t Get Lost in the Financial Maze” ISBN: 978-1-56829-677-7: MGMA. She develops and presents continuing education and CME accredited programs for physicians, staff and practice leaders. Kem serves as a SME for medical malpractice insurers, medical societies, and health IT software companies. The State of Maryland awarded Kem with the Governor’s Volunteer Service citation for 2015-2018. Kem has also earned the MD MGMA’s Outstanding Service Award.