Executive Staff
Chief
Executive Officer
Benjamin Littenberg, MD
Dr. Littenberg is the Henry and Carleen Tufo Professor of Medicine, Professor of Nursing and Director of General Internal Medicine at the University of Vermont. He received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and trained in internal medicine at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University before becoming Assistant Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth. Following an appointment as Associate Professor of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, he assumed his present position in 1999.
Dr. Littenberg practices General Internal Medicine in Burlington, Vermont. His research interests center on technology assessment and quality improvement. Recent projects include new ways to measure quality of care in cancer, novel strategies for reporting test results to patients, better approaches to antibiotics in sinusitis, safety improvements in outpatient prescriptions, and strategies to address health literacy. In Vermont, Dr. Littenberg has been active on the Board of the Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care. He has developed statewide registry-based approaches to quality and safety improvement with the Vermont Breast Cancer Surveillance System and as Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded research grant for the Vermont Diabetes Information System which engendered Vermedx.
Chief Medical Officer
Charles D. MacLean, MDCM
Dr. MacLean is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont and Director of Research for the Vermont Area Health Education Centers. He studied Medicine at McGill University in Quebec and trained in Internal Medicine at the Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center and the University of Rochester. After serving as Chief Resident at Rochester, he joined the faculty at Vermont where he practices General Internal Medicine, teaches, and does research on using information systems to improve care. He also completed a faculty development fellowship through the University of North Carolina.
Dr. MacLean has been the Principal Investigator of several grants to study improvements in diabetes care. He is the Project Director of the Vermont Diabetes Information System and the originator of its forerunner system. He is a consultant to the Vermont Department of Health, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care.
Chief
Technology Officer
Michael L. Gagnon, CPHIMS
Mr. Gagnon is the Director of Infrastructure for the Department of Information Services at Fletcher Allen Health Care and is a Clinical Instructor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He has over 25 years experience in the development of software and systems for the aerospace, defense and medical industries. For ten of those years, he was also responsible for marketing, sales and outreach development for hospital laboratories.
Mr. Gagnon is a member of the Health Information and Management System Society (HIMSS) and has earned that organization's Certified Professional in Health Information and Management Systems designation.
Mr. Gagnon is actively involved in regional health information exchange efforts in Vermont. He is a member of the Vermont Blueprint for Health Information Technology work group and is the co-chair of the Vermont Information Technology Leaders Standards and Architecture committee.
Chief
Marketing Officer
David L. Potter
Mr. Potter has led the successful marketplace introductions of numerous health care and technology innovations for more than 15 years. As co-founder of Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc., he directed marketing efforts in conjunction with Johnson & Johnson Inc. and the British National Health System that led to the company becoming recognized as an international leader in Disease Management for smoking cessation and weight management. Most recently, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Previser Health Solutions Inc., whose Oral Disease Management programs are now incorporated within the standard Health Plans of Met Life Inc. and the Government of Israel.
Mr. Potter previously served in senior Marketing positions with the Unum Corporation, where he launched the disability insurance industry's first employee contribution product suite, and in new venture development with divisions of General Mills Inc. and Swarovski North America, Ltd.
He is a graduate of Bowdoin College and received a Masters of Business Administration degree from The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. He is an active member of The Association for Corporate Growth and serves on the Board of Advisors for two privately held Massachusetts companies.