ProHealth’11 Organizers

Dr. Mor Peleg
Senior Lecturer
Department of Management Information Systems
University of Haifa
Haifa, 31905, Israel
E-Mail: morpeleg(at)mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il
http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/
Currently on Sabbatical at BioMedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, CA, USA

Mor Peleg has been a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Management Information Systems at the University of Haifa, Israel since 2003. Mor received her BSc and MSc in Molecular Biology from the Technion, Israel, and a Ph.D in Information systems Engineering from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at the Technion, in 1999. She did a 4-year post-doc fellowship at Stanford Medical Informatics, working with Ted Shortliffe, Bob Greenes, Vimla Patel, Samson Tu, and Russ Altman.
Dr. Peleg's research concerns the development of methodologies and software tools for representing and analyzing complex systems. In particular, she is interested in two domains to which she applies similar principles and research methods: (1) methodologies for supporting the life-cycle of computer-interpretable clinical guidelines and patient-care processes, including their modeling, validation, version management, and implementation. She was one of the principle developers of the GLIF3 guideline modeling-language; and (2) Workflow- and Petri-Net-based modeling of biological process and their analysis. Her research has appeared in publications such as JAMIA, JBI, Methods of Information in Medicine, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and Proceedings of the IEEE. In 2005 she was awarded the New Investigator Award by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). She is a member of the editorial board of Methods of Information in Medicine.

Prof. Dr. Richard Lenz
University of Erlangen and Nuremberg
Department of Computer Sciences
Computer Science 6 (Data Management)
Martensstrasse 3
91058 Erlangen, Germany
E-Mail: richard.lenz(at)informatik.uni-erlangen.de
http://www6.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/people/lenz

Richard Lenz is Professor for Data Management at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He studied Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern. From 1992 to 1997 he was a member of the database research staff at the University of Erlangen where he received his PhD in the field of distributed data management. In 1997 he became a member of the research staff of the Institute for Medical Informatics at the University of Marburg. Since then, he has been working in the field of medical informatics. He has been actively involved in the strategic planning and implementation of the Hospital Information System at the Marburg University Medical Center. In 2005 he received his “Habilitation” (postdoctoral lecture qualification) from the faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Marburg, and he was appointed as substitute professor for medical informatics and temporary head of the Institute of Medical Informatics at the University of Marburg. Since April 2007 he is Professor for Database Systems at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. 
Richard’s main research interests include healthcare information systems, IT support for clinical guidelines and pathways, data quality management, process modeling in healthcare, integration of heterogeneous application systems, standards and interoperability, and IT support for evolutionary information systems. Richard has supervised numerous interdisciplinary projects aimed at process optimization at the University Hospital of Marburg. He currently leads various research projects aimed at continuously improving data quality in interdisciplinary healthcare processes. He has published numerous papers in high quality international journals and conferences and lectured many courses for both computer science and medical informatics.

Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert
University of Ulm
Institute of Databases and Information Systems
James-Franck-Ring
89069 Ulm, Germany
E-Mail: manfred.reichrt(at)uni-ulm.de
http://www.uni-ulm.de/dbis

Manfred Reichert holds a PhD in Computer Science and a Diploma in Mathematics. Since January 2008 he has been appointed as full professor (W3) at the University of Ulm. Before he was working as Associate Professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. At the University of Twente he was also leader of the strategic research orientations on "E-health" and on "Applied Science of Services", and member of the Management Board of the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT).
His major research interests are next generation process management technology (e.g., adaptive processes, process lifecycle management, data-driven and object-centric processes, mobile processes), service-oriented architectures (e.g., service interoperability, service evolution), and advanced applications for IT solutions (e.g., e-health, automotive engineering). Together with Peter Dadam he pioneered the work on the ADEPT process management system. Manfred has been participating in numerous research projects in the BPM area and contributed numerous papers. Further, he has co-organized international and national conferences and workshops. Manfred was one of the initiators of the ProHealth workshop series. Further he was PC Co-Chair of the BPM’08 conference in Milan and will be PC Co-Chair of the CoopIS’11 conference in Crete. Finally, Manfred was General Chair of the BPM’09 conference in Ulm.