Majed Tomeh, MS, MBA

President & CEO

As President & CEO, Majed has overall responsibility for the strategic direction and operation of the company. He has built his career in technology-based service companies in the Boston area, most notably in organizations that have applied emerging technologies to distill vast amounts of data into personal, meaningful and actionable information. Beginning in 1989 as a co-founder of Individual, Inc., a pioneer in customized daily electronic news for business and healthcare professionals, he led the company’s technical and content operations through five consecutive years of doubling revenues, product expansion, and evolution of communication platforms from fax and email to groupware and the Internet. Individual became a public company in 1996, and was eventually acquired by Thomson Publishing. During 1999 and 2000, Majed was CEO of Adero, a provider of infrastructure for distributing content globally across the Internet. Under his leadership, Adero expanded from five to over 250 employees, raised over $100 million in financing, acquired two companies, and built an international network of content servers in over 100 countries. Majed has also worked for McKinsey & Co. and Analog Devices, and has consulted to a variety of technology-based companies. He is a graduate of Princeton University (BSE), Stanford University (MS), and Harvard Business School (MBA).
 

Kathy Rowell, MHA, MS

Chief operating officer & Executive Vice President

Kathy has worked in the healthcare industry for 20 years, developing expertise in a number of areas including clinical outcomes, quality management, and healthcare operations and policy. As Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President at QCMetrix, Kathy works closely with the entire team to provide management and direction for the company. She applies her knowledge of operations and healthcare by overseeing the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) and as an advisor to the numerous stakeholders of the program. Kathy’s previous work at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center with the Surgical Outcomes Assessment Project (SOAP) to develop a continuous quality improvement model using risk-adjusted outcomes led her to work with the Massachusetts General Hospital where she helped to establish the Center of Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery (CCES). Kathy has also served as a consultant and advisor to the Partners Healthcare System in Boston, MA and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, OH on similar projects aimed at helping those organizations to capture, understand and implement change in their surgery departments. An author of several articles on this work and the Principle Investigator of an NIH SBIR Grant “Using Pre-Operative Variables to Predict Length of Stay,” Kathy is a highly sought-after speaker at Surgical Grand Rounds and at conferences for healthcare administrators and policymakers. Her academic credentials include two Master degrees, one in the Evaluative and Clinical Sciences from the Dartmouth Medical School, and the other in Health Administration from the University of NH.
 

Fred Millham, MD, MBA

Chief medical officer

Fred Millham, MD, MBA grew up in Gilford New Hampshire. His undergraduate education was at St. Lawrence University in Canton NY, where he received a BS in Biology. He subsequently attended Boston University School of Medicine, graduating in 1985 with an MD degree. Dr. Millham's post graduate education was in the Boston University Surgical Residency and the Boston University Surgical Critical Program. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery with a certificate of special competency in Critical Care. Dr. Millham spent 12 years at Boston Medical Center as a trauma/critical care surgeon before becoming the Chair of Surgery at Newton Wellesley Hospital in 2003. Dr. Millham received an MBA in Health Care Management from Boston University in 2001. In addition to numerous national and local organizations, Dr. Millham has served as the Massachusetts State Chair of the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons. He subsequently served two terms as a member of the ACS COT. Dr. Millham presently serves as Chair of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, State-wide Trauma Committee, and has previously served as Chair of the Sub-Committee on Trauma Outcomes. In this latter position, he had an instrumental role development of the Massachusetts State-Wide Erwin Hirsch Trauma Registry, a population based data repository for all patients admitted to Massachusetts hospitals due to injury.

Dr. Millham's research interests include outcomes measurement and the history of surgery. In particular he is interested in severity adjustment in Trauma Care.

An avid skier and indoor rower, Dr. Millham lives with his wife and two children and Labrador retriever in Newton Massachusetts.

Sandy Lawson

Business Development Consultant

Sandy is a senior executive with more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry as both a provider and consultant. Currently she leads the product development and marketing efforts for QCMetrix’ flagship product QCMetrix|Surgery. She has expertise in marketing, product development, strategic planning, business development, clinical and financial operations, quality management, regulatory and corporate compliance, reimbursement, and information technology deployment. Sandy co-founded two health care services companies and was on the senior team at Mariner Health, a venture backed company that, during her tenure, grew to become a publicly traded $750M organization employing 15,000 employees across the spectrum of post-acute care venues. Over a 10-year period she served as Mariner’s VP of Marketing, VP of Operations, CIO, and Sr. VP of Quality.

Sandy mentors MBA students pursuing careers in health care and is on Advisory Boards for the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine and the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. Sandy holds an MBA from Harvard Business School ’89 and a BS in Biology from Boston College.  

Babar Rao, BS, MBA

Technical Lead

Babar has over 14 years of software development experience. Prior to joining QCMetrix he spent eight years in a leadership role at Attunity where he served as technical lead on several projects. Babar received a BS in Computer Engineering from The University of Texas, Austin and a MBA in Information Systems from The University of Massachusetts, Boston.
 

Kristine Bartzokis, RN, BSN, MHA

Vice President Clinical Services

Kris is a Registered Nurse with over 20 years of clinical and managerial experience in the healthcare industry spanning provider, payer and information technology sectors in both well established and start-up organizations. She has proven ability to effectively lead departments and project teams in technical and operational initiatives. She has experience in systems implementation where her clinical skills in conjunction with her ability to analyze business requirements has led to successful deployment of quality improvement, case management and claims processing systems. She has also participated in corporate wide regulatory initiatives which led to full accreditation with NCQA and URAC. She has successfully reorganized and reengineered departments with a strong focus on operational impact of industry changes and customer satisfaction. Kris received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Masters in Health Care Administration from Framingham State College.
 

Harry Wu, PhD

Senior Technology Consultant

Harry provides technology and management consulting to QCMetrix and its clients. He draws from over 25 years of experience in the computer information industry as a technologist and an executive. After receiving his Ph.D. from Cornell University, he held progressively more senior technical positions at ITT and Honeywell, developing database and knowledge base systems. He co-founded two start-ups, Individual, Inc. and MyESP.com Corp. As the Chief Scientist at Individual, he oversaw and implemented an information retrieval system for real-time news dissemination. As the VP of Engineering at MyESP.com, he managed the development of a Web-based groupware platform to support community communication and chat. Harry is the holder of two patents in knowledge-base and information-retrieval technologies. At QCMetrix, he is pursuing his latest interest in the building of healthcare applications using open-source software. In addition to the PhD from Cornell, Harry earned a BA degree in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

Woody Vandever

Senior Technology Consultant

Woody provides technology, business and marketing consulting to QCMetrix. Woody has over 35 years in the information industry, the last 18 in healthcare. Woody has been Vice President of engineering at several start-up companies, and was Vice President of Clinical Development at Healthvision from 1999 through 2004. Healthvision provided web based clinical solutions to large IDNs and hospitals. Healthvision acquired his prior company in 1999 which had developed a fully functionally web based ambulatory system. In 2005, Woody co-founded U.S. CareLink, LLC, a company engaged in the development of web based clinical software for intelligent questionnaire and clinical alert functionality. His prior experience also includes being Executive Vice President and Principal of InterConsult, Inc. from 1985 through 1989. InterConsult was a leading market research and consulting firm in the electronic publishing and information fields and provided customized and multi-client market research studies, consulting, trade shows and newsletter. Woody has spent much of his career in the design and development of software systems, building and managing technical teams, and the business development of early stage companies. Woody received his BS degree in Mathematics from MIT.