Mary has more than 20 years of experience leading efforts in medical technology, health information technology and data standards with extensive work in health informatics, health infrastructure, interoperability, and sustainable public-private partnerships. As the Executive Vice President of the Interoperability Institute, she is responsible for communicating with stakeholders, government entities, and the public as well as leading development of short- and long-term innovation strategies. Mary is the Advisory Board Chair of the Interop. Community, an industry coalition dedicated to advancing interoperability through open platforms and open-source software.
Mary is a member External Advisory Committee for the Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the Advisory Board of the US Aging Center of Excellence, and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Board.
Mary extensive experience managing complex public-private collaborations. As a member of a U.S. Department of State interagency leadership board, she helped coordinate collaboration among public and private entities and Health Information Technology deployment teams. As a Senior Health Informatics Advisor to the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program, she implemented health information systems in over 40 countries, primarily low and middle-income countries in sub- Saharan Africa. Today, she partners with the Health Management Information System Society (HIMSS) to enable Health Interoperability Virtual E-labs (HIVE) for academic training, CME and workforce skill building programs.