Southeast Regional User Group
2021 Annual Conference
Facing the Future Together as One

With nearly 20 years in leadership and nonprofit experience, Michelle Sperzel currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Harbor House of Central Florida. During the past two years, she’s focused on improving processes for survivors; started conversations within our community around the epidemic; opened the new temporary housing facility on the Harbor House campus; and implemented youth programs to stem the tide of violence.

Prior to Harbor House, Sperzel led several nonprofit organizations through administrative and direct service program development. She came to Harbor House by way of Girls in the Game in Chicago, IL, which empowers all girls to be gamechangers; but her experience with domestic violence within Florida came when she led Shelter House in Ft. Walton Beach.

While at Shelter House, Michelle worked in rural and at-risk programs for women, children and men. She started numerous survivor-defined programs including literacy, economic justice, youth and prevention, transitional housing, an on-site kennel at the emergency shelter and an on-site mental health program. In 2009, she and her staff were presented with the governor’s Promote Peace, Prevent Domestic Violence award for creating and implementing a model youth prevention program that addressed stereotypes, self-esteem and bullying. In Florida, Michelle also served on several local boards and was involved in numerous community projects that addressed family violence, homelessness and social justice. Her passion is for social change work that creates advocacy for issues related to violence against women and children.

Dr. Alan M. Weiss joined the BayCare Health System as their CMIO in August 2018. He assumed primary responsibilities over all clinical systems, their associated governance as well as over providing executive leadership over data and analytics.

Prior to BayCare, Dr. Weiss spent 5 years in the Memorial Herman System in Houston, Texas, as their first Ambulatory CMIO. In that role, he had responsibilities over GE Centricity, Cerner and eClinic Works EHRs. Central to that role was EHR optimization efforts as well as the conversion of GE Centricity to Cerner.

Before Memorial Hermann, Dr. Weiss was the Assoc. Medical Director of Inpatient Systems at Cedar-Sinai in Los Angeles where he helped develop and implement their EHR, Epic.

A general internist by training, Dr. Weiss spent 10 years practicing at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. He also reported directly to their CIO to assist on EHR implementation and optimization efforts, was the head of their business informatics group in primary care, head of main campus internal medicine operations and was an internal medicine section head. Furthermore, Dr. Weiss spent time teaching medical student and residents while providing both ambulatory and inpatient care.

Before medical school, Dr. Weiss worked for Eli Lilly as a clinical information analyst, helping to develop data entry systems for clinical trials as well as analyzing that data for FDA reporting and for medical journals. Dr. Weiss earned a B.S. from the University of Michigan with a double major in computer science and philosophy. He also has both an M.B.A. and an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University. His M.B.A involves a double focus on health care management as well as the management of information systems.

Dr. Weiss is passionate about patient care and advocates for the proper use of data and analytics to refine EHR development towards the inclusion of evidence-based medicine.

Dr. Jeffrey Wall is a physician with over 22 years of clinical experience. Currently he is a Physician Strategy Executive for Cerner, the world’s largest healthcare IT organization where he works to help define the capabilities of Cerner solutions for the physician community.

Prior to joining Cerner, Dr. Wall worked with University Physician Associates where was an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Missouri Kansas City Medical School (UMKC). In his tenure at the university he was the medical director for the Women’s Health and Wellness Center at Truman Medical Center, UMKC’s primary teaching hospital.

Dr Wall has served on national committees and written for the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) as well as the Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and has spoken on women’s health care issues and Healthcare IT. He is a veteran of the United States Navy.

As vice president of Revenue Cycle Solution Strategy, Steve Colucci has executive responsibilities for driving Cerner’s revenue cycle solution strategy and design for all revenue cycle solutions and markets. Steve drives value for our clients by leading a team that ensures on-time delivery of solutions that help clients meet their organizational objectives and strategies. Leadership experience

Steve has 25 years’ experience in health care revenue cycle. He joined Cerner through the Siemens Health Services (HS) acquisition in 2015. Steve most recently led the revenue cycle solution strategy team for the U.S. market. At Siemens HS, Steve served in various roles in solution strategy and consulting services, spending the first half of his HS career with strategic consulting as a consulting manager and principal consultant. Accomplishments

Steve has contributed to the client experience in multiple roles through leading measurable, value-driven projects in both consulting and solution strategy. He has a strong track record leading teams through the quick decisions required to keep projects on track while driving value for Cerner and our clients.

Steve is a graduate of Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. He has also completed several corporate leadership courses and actively participates in the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

Meet Bob

As the Senior Vice President of our US Client Organization, Bob Kopanic is accountable for growth and delivery of our US client accounts including client relationship management, satisfaction with end -to-end solution sets and problem solving. He oversees Premier/ITWorks, Foundations/IO, CommunityWorks, and our new growth opportunities within the US.
Bob makes an impact on our Client Relationships in the commercial space by setting out to renew our commitment to client excellence, make it easier to work with Cerner, and enable our associates to work more efficiently and deliver more rapidly.

Leadership experience

Bob comes to Cerner with over 20 years of experience in the Commercial Healthcare Business. Most recently, he served as the Senior Vice President of Healthcare Sales for Philips North America. In addition to this role, during his 15 years at Phillips he held various leadership positions in client relationship management, sales, enterprise partnerships and led the connected care business. Outside of his Phillips career, Bob was the Chief Technology Officer for Forum Health and is a Veteran of the United States Airforce where he served as a Bio Medical Equipment Technician.

Accomplishments

Philips Executive Management Award 2010
Philips Pinnacle Board Member 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
Philips North America Leadership Award 2016
Bob is a graduate of Youngstown University and has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.