OSEHRA Board of Directors (BoD)

James B. Peake, M.D.
Lieutenant General, USA (Ret)
Chairman of the Board of Directors OSEHRA

James Peake, M.D. was nominated by President George W. Bush to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs on October 30, 2007. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on December 14, 2007, and served from December 2007 through January 2009.

In December 2009, Dr. Peake was appointed Senior Vice-President for the Health Industry at CGI. He is responsible for the overarching US and European strategy for growing CGI's business in the evolving Health and Health Insurance industries.

A St. Louis, Mo., native, Peake received his Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry. Following service in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division, he was awarded the Silver Star, a Bronze Star with "V" device and the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster, Peake entered medical school at Cornell University in New York. He was awarded a medical doctorate in 1972.

Dr. Peake served as U.S. Army Surgeon General from 2000 to 2004. As Army Surgeon General, he commanded 50,000 medical personnel and 187 army medical facilities worldwide. Prior to that, he served as Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School, one of the largest medical training facilities in the world with 30,000 students annually.

After retiring as a Lieutenant General, Dr. Peake served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Project HOPE, a non-profit international health foundation operating in more than 30 countries. Just prior to his nomination as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Peake served as Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors for QTC, one of the largest private providers of government-outsourced occupational health and disability examination services in the nation.

John D. Halamka, MD
Member of the Board of Directors OSEHRA

John D. Halamka, MD, MS, is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN),  co-Chair of the national HIT Standards Committee,  and a practicing Emergency Physician.

As Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative and academic information technology serving 3000 doctors, 14000 employees and two million patients.   As Chairman of NEHEN he oversees clinical and administrative data exchange in Massachusetts.    As co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee he facilitates the process of electronic standards harmonization among stakeholders nationwide.

Michael O’Neill
Board Liaison to OSEHRA

Mr. Michael O’Neill is Senior Advisor to the Director, Veterans Affairs Innovation Initiative (VAi2) with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs where he drives the identification and deployment of new solutions addressing VA’s top priorities.

Mr. O’Neill has been involved in the commercialization of new products and technology as an executive and in both startups and large companies, and as an early stage venture capital investor. He served as a Clean Energy Fellow with the New England Clean Energy Council, working with a variety of startup businesses in the Boston area. He was Senior Vice President of AMI Semiconductor’s Digital ASIC and Communications Products division, and continued to run the division following ON Semiconductor’s acquisition of AMI. At semiconductor startup Philsar Semiconductor, he served as Vice President of Sales, Marketing & Business Development through Philsar’s acquisition by Conexant Systems. Mr. O’Neill led a number of seed and early stage investments as a General Partner with Kodiak Venture Partners. He started his career in engineering and management positions with IBM. He currently serves on the board of directors of Prime Photonics.

Mr. O’Neill received a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Mark Goodge
Board Liaison to OSEHRA

Mark Goodge currently serves as the first Chief Technology Officer for the Military Health System’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, Assistant Secretary of Defense Health Affairs. As CTO, Mr. Goodge is the primary advisor to the MHS Chief Information Officer on all mission, scientic, technical and information technology and information management issues. He also serves as an authority for strategic development, oversight and leadership concerning major MHS-wide health care information technology development efforts.

Prior to becoming the MHS CTO in July 2010, Mr. Goodge rose rapidly through the civilian ranks at the former Tri-Service Infrastructure Management Program Office, under the Joint Medical Information Systems Office, where he most recently served as CTO.  Mr. Goodge initially served as the Director of Deployment Services at TIMPO when he arrived in 2006, where he received a Rising Star award from Federal Computer Week in 2007, for his efforts in leading the installation of network protection suites to ensure the privacy of medical information and for his potential as an up-and-coming future leader.

Mr. Goodge previously provided engineering expertise at Bethesda first as the Chief Information Officer at National Naval Dental Center then CTO at National Naval Medical Center Bethesda. He was responsible for the integration, planning, budgeting, security, and manning requirements of systems integration and interoperability for the health care enclave. NNMC Bethesda health care enclave supported all four branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, spanning 5,000 network users across 5,000 miles in five states.