IMELF 2018: Leadership in the face of Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Kent Bottles has held a number of leadership positions in academia, biotechnology, and community health systems. He served as president of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) and as chief medical officer of the Iowa Health System, a $2 billion integrated community health system in the Midwest. At the Iowa Health System, he developed and implemented a Physician Leadership Academy for over 200 physician leaders. He has also served as tenured professor, chair, medical director of managed care, corporate operations officer for ambulatory services, assistant dean, residency director, designated institutional officer, and elected medical school executive committee member.

Today, Dr. Bottles lectures and writes about leadership topics. He has contributed articles to the Physician Executive Journal of the American College of the Physician Executives, Trustee Magazine, and the op-ed page of The New York Times.

Dr. Alyson Byrne is an assistant professor in organizational behaviour and human resource management at the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University. She received her PhD in organizational behaviour from Queen’s University in 2013. Prior to arriving at Memorial, Dr. Byrne also worked at the University of Manitoba and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in leadership at the Ivey Business School at Western University.

Dr. Byrne’s research interests lie primarily in leadership, status, gender, and relational outcomes. She has been published in journals such as The Leadership Quarterly and the Journal of Business Ethics and has presented her research at numerous international conferences. She has also been the keynote speaker for a number of public events concerning her research on leadership and gender.

Dr. Mirou Jaana is an Associate Professor of Health Care Management and Health Informatics, and Director of the PhD Program in Management at Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. She earned her PhD in Health Management and Policy at the University of Iowa, with a concentration in Health Informatics, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at HEC Montreal under the Canada Research Chair in Information Technology in Health Care.

Her research interests focus on telehealth applications adoption and impacts evaluation, information technology (IT) innovation and assessment in health care organizations, and IT use by seniors. Specially, she has conducted projects on the adoption and impacts of home telemonitoring for the management of patients with chronic conditions. She also worked on research assessing IT capacities and EMRs in hospitals, risks in clinical IT projects, and IT management issues facing Chief Information Officers/IT directors in hospitals. More recently, she has been involved in projects investigating the use of health IT by seniors in the community. Dr. Jaana has published articles in top peer-reviewed journals in the areas of health care management and medical informatics. She has presented at international conferences and was a member of grant selection committees and editorial boards. She currently serves as a referee for several journals and conferences in her field.