2023 AEHIS Board Election

Education:

• B.S. Finance, Bryant University
• Candidate for Master, Certificate Cyber Security, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

Professional Affiliations:

• Health System CIO – Presenter/Panel Leader
• Cybersecurity Collaboration Forum – Board Member
• Provider Third Party Risk Management Council – HITRUST – Founding Member
• CISO Executive Network – Member
• Healthcare Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) – CISO Mentor
• HHS 405(d) Task Force – Member

I have had the opportunity to work for many years in financial services with an organization that invested significantly in cyber security. After leaving the financial service industry, I worked in security consulting and got to assess many organizations and many industries. My goal was to land into an industry where I felt I could have the most impact. Healthcare is one of the industries that needs to increase its cyber readiness. The industry is going through a digital transformation, and we need to ensure cybersecurity is aligned to protect our patients. CHiME can do great things and I want to offer up my experience to move healthcare forward to combat the cyber risks facing the industry and allow organizations to provide quality care securely.

Nate has spent the last 20 years driving innovation at the nexus of technology and security. He has held technical and executive positions in government, non-profits, and the private sector. As the Children’s National Hospital VP & Chief Information Security Officer, Nate is responsible for leading the information security team and protecting the information of patients, families, and staff.

Prior to joining Children’s National, Nate served as the Managing Director of Cypient, where he advised clients on enterprise cybersecurity capabilities, conducted standards-based assessments, and designed solutions to reduce clients’ cyber risk. Before founding Cypient, Nate served as the Deputy Director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he ran the national lab dedicated to solving cybersecurity challenges, including medical device security.

Earlier in his career, Nate served as a policy analyst and Presidential Management Fellow at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and worked on the staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. He also spent several years at Booz Allen Hamilton leading a team of cybersecurity engineers in support of various federal agencies including the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State, Health and Transportation. Nate attended Columbia University in New York and graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering. He is a frequent public speaker with over 30 publications and presentations on various topics in cybersecurity.

AEHiS is perfectly positioned to fill a critical need in healthcare – a non-profit membership organization to provide advocacy, education, and collaboration in cybersecurity.

Over the last year, I have enjoyed being an active member of CHIME and AEHiS and have benefited greatly from participating in the AEHiS Policy and Strategy Committee with Mari Savickis and David Finn. As the CISO for Children’s National Hospital in Washington DC, I hope leveraging our unique location and relationships to expand on this policy and advocacy work. Having served in various capacities as a federal employee (NIST, OMB/OIRA), hill staffer (HSGAC), and non-profit and commercial board member, I am eager to apply these experiences to the work of the AEHiS board and staff.

If elected, I would seek to help expand the AEHiS scope of influence through increased membership, and broader advocacy and collaboration. I believe no other organization is as well positioned to become the unified voice and defacto standard for healthcare CISOs. I am excited to have the opportunity to join in helping to achieve this audacious goal.

At Fairview Health Services, Jim leads the cybersecurity engineering and automation, identity and access management, incident response and threat management, security operations, security policy, and security governance, risk, and compliance teams. Prior to joining Fairview Health Services, Jim was the Chief Information Officer for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the second-largest municipal health system in the nation with an integrated system of 19 health centers and four hospitals. Jim has also served as the CIO at Kaiser Permanente Orange County, the Chief Information Security Officer and Director of Technical Services at Hawaii Health Systems Corporation in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the Enterprise Information Services Systems Manager at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles, Calif.

I am excited to share my interest in joining the AEHIS board. As a mission driven, healthcare-focused cybersecurity executive, I recognize that AEHIS is an outstanding professional association that can shape current and future healthcare leaders, influence cybersecurity policy and education, and promote improved security and risk initiatives across our healthcare organizations. I have been actively involved in volunteer professional associations since 2007, serving in capacities from enhancing emerging professional opportunities, to working with vendor partners, to overseeing local chapter associations, and would be honored to able to directly influence the future of AEHIS by becoming a contributing board member.

As the Vice-President and Chief Information Security Officer for Fairview Health Services, a 10 hospital, 50+ clinic academic health system that operates in partnership with the University Of Minnesota Medical School, I am privileged to be a part of an outstanding academic health system that is prioritizing the importance of managing and mitigating cybersecurity risk to improve patient and community health outcomes. I have held CIO, CTO, and CISO roles at my previous organizations, including at the Los Angeles Department of Health Services, Kaiser Permanente Orange County, and Hawaii Health Systems, giving me a broad range of experience in various types of acute care and ambulatory settings, along with large system and rural health settings, including public sector and private organizations. I am a member of multiple cybersecurity company board of advisors, am a certified, independent Corporate Board of Director Qualified Technology Expert (QTE) specializing in cybersecurity and digital technologies, and teach as an adjunct professor at National University in the Cybersecurity and Health Sciences departments.

If selected, I would seek to further the many needs and initiatives within cybersecurity and risk management at the organizational, state/local, and federal level through the AEHIS organization.

Thanks for the opportunity,

Jim Brady

James Case has more than 26 years of information technology experience working in multiple industries including healthcare and financial with a demonstrated ability to align business strategic goals with regulatory compliance and internal policy requirements while keeping a focus on customer service. James is currently the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Baptist Health in Jacksonville Florida where he provides the strategic vision and leads the information security program. Previously James worked as a VP Information Security Officer at Citibank where he lead the information security program for Global Fraud. He is a graduate of Clemson University where he earned a degree in Electrical Engineering and has the following certifications: CISSP, PMP, and GSLC. On the weekends you will find James at the beach with his family, wife Hilary, son Ben, and daughter Anne.

I believe we are stronger together and CHIME and AEHiS is a key place for brining healthcare security leaders together to learn, collaborate, and help each other improve.

I am interested in serving on the board of AEHiS in order to give back while also furthering my collaboration and involvement with AEHiS.

I would like to help bring a fresh practical view to the future of AEHiS to help it refine and achieve the objectives and vision.

Louis is the CISO and Director of IT Infrastructure at the University of South Alabama Health. As the only academic health system along the upper Gulf Coast, USA is one of the region’s leading providers of innovative healthcare through both hospitals and clinic care. Louis Wright earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with a concentration in Information Systems from Spring Hill College, and a Master’s in Business Administration and Project Management from Florida Institute of Technology. Louis has over twenty years of experience working in the IT medical field with USA Health and has helped to implement several major projects including building two EMR’s, developing an IT Security program and various other large scale infrastructure projects for the health system.

Prior to his tenure at USA Health, he worked for Computer Programs and Systems, Inc, providing networking and systems implementation support. In his current role as CISO and Director of IT Infrastructure, Louis often collaborates with leadership within the organization and is responsible for several major innovations, acquisitions and the implementation of IT technologies and security protocols that support the policies and processes within the health system. These responsibilities helped Louis to develop his management and business skills in hopes to becoming a CIO in the healthcare field in the future.

A native of Lacombe, Louisiana, Louis resides in Mobile, AL with his beautiful wife of fourteen years, Tamika, and their beautiful daughter, Monique.

I would like to serve on this board for several different reasons. Being in the healthcare technology field for 20+ years, the job of security has been operating in silos. Since becoming a CISO, one of the things to challenge me as a leader was to look beyond my general service skills and envision security for an entire organization. I believe this experience of building the security division within my organization from the ground up has given me a great perspective on how to help grow membership of AEHIS with so many new CISO’s. Also, being apart of an organization like CHiME is what exposed me to AEHIS, but many CISOs are not aware that this resource structure exists, and I would like to assist with expanding this forum and continue to learn from other leaders in field. Another reason is I believe in the diversity and inclusion efforts of CHIME and AEHIS. I would love to assist with challenges of getting minorities into the field of security and building the knowledge of minorities in the industry.

What direction you envision for the AEHIS Foundation?
My vision for the AEHIS Foundation is for the foundation to make itself known to CISOs in the industry. With the resources and knowledge available, all CISOs shouldfind significant value in being members of AEHIS. I also envision the continued growth of the diversity and inclusion of members in the foundation. Bringing in many different security professionals to this platform could have major impact on the environment ofsecurity in the healthcare industry, and where AEHIS continues to grow as a foundation. Many new CISOs developing their programs must continue to look for knowledge andwe need to assist to help them develop the right foundation to protect their organization. I believe that AEHIS could be the foundation that is the glue to help many CISO likemyself to continue developing their security programs