Here are our speakers

IT-Director of Clinical Engineering, Sharp Healthcare, San Diego, CA
12 years experience in the HTM field.
ACCE, Treasurer
AAMI, Technology Management Council member
Certified Clinical Engineer
Certified Healthcare Technology Manager.

Over thirty five + years in the medical device industry with experience in the development and marketing of medical devices from concept to product realization. Medical device experience includes Multi-Parameter Patient Monitoring, Wireless Monitoring, Clinical Information Systems, Interpretive and Non-Interpretive ECG, Spirometers, Holter Monitoring, Ultrasound systems, Ambulatory Blood Pressure monitoring, and Bone Densitometry.
Skilled in market research, product/market launch, project management, resource management, Quality Management Systems, and regulatory applications by working through the regulatory process to include preparation and submittal of FDA pre-market approval documents to obtain pre-market clearance. .

Upon completing my assoicate degree in the spring of 1993. I begin my HTM career working for Master Plan, 3 years later I begin working for Gambro Healthcare as a Certified Dialysis Technician. In 2005 started working for Modern Medical Systems(who was acquired by Crothall Healthcare in 2016). The fall of August 2022 I begin working for Trimedx. Throughout this journey I have worked in several different States, work on a large variety of medical equipment and have gained a large amount of experience. Making lifelong friends along the way. Currently my passion is bringing awareness to the HTM industry. I currently have a Podcast(HTM On The Line), website: Htmonthteline.com and a Youtube channel with the same name. I use all my platforms to motivate and encourage HTM professionals ranging from Students to well seasoned ones. Most importantly I LOVE what I do and feel like its a privilege for me to share my experiences with all who will receive it.

The HTM field found Dan relatively late in life as he started his journey as a field service engineer in his early 30s. Since then Dan has been involved in all aspects of HTM including overall management, agency compliance and project management. His current passion is making sure that new technicians, as well as managers, entering the field are aware of every tool at their disposal to be successful in the journey. Working with cross-functional teams to provide technicians, existing managers and new leaders appropriate skills to serve our hospitals and, through them, their patients has been very rewarding.

Dave has been working within the medical industry for over 25 years, supporting the HTM professionals with test equipment, calibration service and training. QRS Calibrations, dba QRS Solutions, was established in 2007, at the request of Biomeds, to provide efficient, accurate and cost affective services to hospitals, independent service organizations and manufacturers. In 2010, at the request of his customers, QRS began offering test equipment sales, and training to round out QRS HTM centered business. Dave has been a proud member of the CMIA since 2004, and a statewide corporate member since 2007. Dave’s passion lies within the support of the HTM professionals, and their dedication for providing the best services possible, effecting patient centered care.

Denisa Lambert is a graduate of Ball State University, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health. Denisa is a Vice President, Quality and Regulatory Compliance at TRIMEDX and is dedicated to maintaining a high-reliability organization to ensure quality, regulatory compliance and patient safety. She fosters strategic alliances with organizational leaders to effectively align with, support key business initiatives, and mitigate patient safety risks.

Denisa has over 30 years of healthcare industry experience with a passion for advocacy, Women in Leadership, and community service.
Denisa received her Bachelor of Science, Public Health degree from Ball State University and has achieved certifications as an ISO 13485 and 27001 Lead Auditor, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, as well as Corporate Ethics Manager.

Dennis Fridrich is vice president of cybersecurity for TRIMEDX, an industry-leading, independent clinical asset management company delivering comprehensive clinical engineering services, clinical asset informatics, and medical device cybersecurity. Dennis has nearly 20 years of information technology leadership experience. Previously, he held positions at AIG Trading Group, General Reinsurance, and several small businesses. He earned his Executive Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Connecticut and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Western New England University.

Don has been a Biomedical Equipment Technician for over 35 years.
CBET since 2006 and CHTM since 2016.
Currently works as a Technical Training Manager with Renovo Solutions
Held Biomed, Lead Biomed, Customer Quality Manager, CBET and Sr. Manager roles throughout his career but his heart and soul is being a Biomed (especially in the OR).
Previously worked at Stanford Health Care, GE Healthcare and UCSF.
I am Married to a Nurse of over 35 years, we have been married for 20 years (no idea how she puts up with me) We have a Son and I 3 year old granddaughter (the best). We also have two awesome Boston Terriers.
Becoming certified was one of the most important milestones in my career. I have said more than once “Being a Biomed was once my job but once I got certified it became my career and life’s work”

A seasoned professional clinical engineer with experience in medical device development and applications. I’ve had the opportunity to watch new technologies come from concept to implementation. The most significant of these was pioneering the use of pulse oximetry for the non-invasive assessment of blood oxygenation status. Previously, I was a professor and taught college level classes in biomedical engineering. Presently, I work at Stanford HealthCare with a special focus on patient safety and appropriate use of medical devices and systems.

Isaac is a Clinical Engineer who joined the Huntington Hospital Biomed team in August 2022. He has prior healthcare technology experience from working at Epic Systems and a degree in Biomedical Engineering from USC, as well as experience designing and operation unmanned aerial vehicles.

Director of Service and Training for AUS. He has over 35 years of experience working on variety of electronic equipment. His experience includes repairing and operating flight simulators, specialty aircraft avionics, destructive material testing instruments and a variety of ultrasound systems. He has taught thousands of biomedical engineers throughout the nation. He enjoys a variety of outdoor activities which include camping, fishing and golfing.

Jeff has worked for Stanford Medicine Children’s Health (SMCH) for the past 10+ years in Clinical Engineering. He started as a Biomedical Equipment Technician with specialization in ventilator and respiratory therapy devices. During his time as a BMET, he received his MSE in Biomedical Engineering from San Jose State University and became a certified BMET.

With the ever-growing need and use for integrated medical devices, he took on the role of Senior Clinical Systems Engineer where he collaborates daily with various multidisciplinary hospital teams including Information Technology/Services (IS) and Security. His duties include the operational management, development, and deployment of integrated medical devices, systems, and applications for Clinical Engineering. Jeff has also served as project manager for various hospital construction projects, integrated medical equipment system deployments & upgrades, and biomed capital refresh projects.

Currently, Jennifer serves as the Sr Director of Business Development at Masimo Corporation in Irvine, CA. In this role, she leads the team responsible for developing the 3rd-party interoperability strategy and executed successful business development agreements with several technology and healthcare delivery partners with applications for emerging trends related to hospital process automation, interoperability, the application of “wearables” technologies in and out of the inpatient setting, and strategic telehealth services.

Prior to her role at Masimo Corporation, Jennifer served as the Executive Director of Clinical Engineering and Device Integration at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles, CA. In this position, she led strategic efforts to build medical device and integration programs based on service line requirements. Some notable accomplishments include the implementation of an enterprise-level unified communications platform leveraging Hill Rom (Voalte) and Connexall, the integration of BD/Carefusion/Alaris IV pumps with a bidirectional communication interface to EPIC’s electronic medication administration record, and the successful cross-disciplinary quality improvement initiative to reduce the risk of adverse events related to opioid-induced respiratory depression.

Outside of work, She enjoys exploring distant lands, going on hikes with her pups, cooking Mexican and Italian cuisine, and gaming with her child.

She earned her Biomedical Engineering B.S. at Boston University, where she attended the College of Engineering from 1992 to 1996. She also completed the MBA program at Babson College from 2003 to 2005.

Mark Anthony Germanos has been a computer guy since 1992. He protects the confidentiality, integrity and availability of his clients’ data, networks and reputations. He specializes in HIPAA and PCI-DSS audits and remediates the issues they uncover. He ethically hacks his clients’ networks then helps his clients improve their network security.

Mark’s fourth book, How Hacks Happen, presents two personas. The evil persona wants to victimize you through phishing, installing keystroke loggers and holding data for ransom. The good persona shows how to protect yourself, how hackers cover their tracks and how to make hacking you so time intensive hackers will give up and pursue other targets. His presentation How Hacks Happen via Ransomware (and how to protect yourself) helps you prepare for and recover after the inevitable ransomware infection.

Mark is the CISO at Cyber Safety Net. He holds CompTIA’s Pentest+, Microsoft’s MCSE, Payment Card Industry’s Qualified Integrator and Reseller and EC-Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker certifications. He is a KnowBe4 partner, ConnectWise partner, Sophos partner, national cybersecurity speaker and Dale Carnegie graduate. He lives with his wife of 22 years and dog near Sacramento.

Marlene Davis is the Clinical Systems Engineering (CSE) Manager under Clinical Technology Management. Marlene has immediate oversight of the SCAL, Hawaii, Colorado and Washington CSE group. Within her markets, she has direct oversight to deliver on the capital equipment lifecycle planning (TCG) as well as support for the NFS capital program. She represents Clinical Technology on numerous NPC Sourcing and Standards Teams to provide technology assessment, and technical expertise for system implementation and service.​

Marlene started her career with Kaiser Permanente as a Biomedical Technician working at the Los Angeles Medical Center. After 6 years at LAMC, she moved to the SCAL regional office for Clinical Technology. As a Clinical Systems Engineer for the region, Marlene provided her expertise for equipment related to patient monitoring, Anesthesia, Respiratory, GI and Cardiology. During her time in the Southern California region, Marlene has been involved with five replacement hospital projects and worked extensively with the various teams to bring new technology to the market. Marlene has a pivotal role as her team leads the Nihon Kohden patient monitoring conversion for the entire SCAL market. ​

In December 2012, Marlene became one of the Senior Clinical Systems Engineers reporting directly to the Vice President of Clinical Technology. As a member of the National Clin Tech team, she has been involved with the business planning for CMMS within Clinical Technology, deployment of clinical alarm notification system, and serving as the Clin Tech SME for product recalls. In 2017, Marlene returned to the SCAL market as the manager of the CSE team.​

Marlene prides herself on being a single point of contact to ensure that the clinical and technical requirements are being met. Based on the requirements, she hopes to ensure that Kaiser Permanente will always be one of the state-of-the art health care providers driving optimal clinical results through the use of technology. ​

She also represents Kaiser Permanente on the AAMI Standards Board.

I am originally from Italy – was born and raised in the region between Florence and Venice, but I’ve been part of the American HTM community for the last 9 years.
Before moving to the US, I had experiences with the Italian Ministry of Health (in the field of medical device regulatory affairs), as well as with the major British Clinical Engineering Independent Service Organization. I attended the well-known UCONN Master’s Program and did my internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital. I have been with Cedars-Sinai for 7 years, and I have recently had the honor to manage its Clinical Engineering Team. I am a proud CCE (Certified Clinical Engineer) and I currently serve on the Executive Board of ACCE (American College of Clinical Engineering) as its Secretary.

Retired Director of Biomedical Engineering and Green Initiative at Washington Hospital Healthcare System

Paul has been in the healthcare field for over 10 years as a practitioner, a salesman, a trainer, and a technician. He started with the US Army as a medic, and continued on to training and sales. In 2019, wanting to get an edge over his competitors, Paul looked into biomedical equipment field. He sold equipment for years, but didn’t know much about repairing them except what he learned from Biomeds in the army. After completing his education through an accelerated program, he became a technician and incorporated those services with his sales products. In 2022, Paul completely retired all sale products and focused 100% on service. This was a huge risk since sales brought in most of his company’s revenue, but Paul knew it was the transition that would be more beneficial for his company. Today, Paul has contracted with 3 OEMs, 2 major laser repair services, and with his sales experience contracted to be the exclusive repair technician for 2 national PE companies that have over 30 offices all over CA, NV, TX, and the East Coast. Paul is also teaching staff for NCLC where he assists teaching laser repair courses and laser training courses. Paul’s hope is to continue his work and expand, but eventually also teach future biomeds.

Phil is the VP of Medical Device Security for Health-ISAC, working with Medical Device Manufacturers (MDMs) to help improve privacy and security while coordinating with Health Delivery Organizations (HDOs) to ensure implementations are practical and achievable. Phil is a subject matter expert and contributor to Health-ISAC’s Medical Device Security Information Sharing Council (MDSISC). He has over 30 years of technical and operational leadership experience in healthcare and life sciences. Previous positions include Chief Product Officer at Medsec, Global Leader for Medical Device Technology at Deloitte, Vice President of Operations at MDISS, and National Director of Technology Operations at Catholic Health Initiatives. Phil is experienced executive leader in strategy and tactics development for $250m MedTech services organization supporting over 130 Acute Care facilities across 22 states with deep knowledge of clinical settings and extensive knowledge of medical technologies.

I am a graduate of the US Army Medical Equipment and Optical School with 30 years experience in the Biomedical Electronics field. My job titles include ; BMET, Field Service Tech, BMET Supervisor, Manager of Clinical Engineering, Regional Director of Clinical Engineering. I am currently a Product Specialist for Pronk Technologies.

Sean is ‘the engineer’ half of Lead Out Loud (LOL). He and his business partner Stephanie–‘the HR professional’–created LOL as a leadership development framework to help technical people become more effective leaders. LOL workshops combine improv, agile, and decades of engineering and leadership experience to guide participants through hands-on, messy learning. Although he’s not a stand-up comic, he considers himself a student of comedy, which comes in handy in his other roles as University professor, writer, podcaster, and cheer dad.

I have always been passionate about the medical field and how it can improve people’s lives. I started my career as an R&D Manager at a small medical equipment company in Korea, where I worked from 1987 to 1991. After moving to the USA, I pursued further education in Biomedical equipment at Valley college and gained valuable experience working at different companies and hospitals.