CURRICULUM VITAE

James Marcus Pierson, M.D.

Date of Birth

            December 18, 1949

            New Iberia, Louisiana

Undergraduate Education

            Indiana University

            Bloomington, Indiana

            September 1967 - June 1971

            Degree:  Bachelor of Arts

            Major:  Chemistry

Medical Education

            Indiana University School of Medicine

            Indianapolis, IN

            September 1971 – June 1976

            Degree:  Doctor of Medicine

Specialty Training

            Internal Medicine Internship and Residency

            Parkland Memorial Hospital/Dallas VA Hospital

            Dallas, TX

July 1976 - July 1979

Board Certifications

            Internal Medicine

            Emergency Medicine

Board Member, Whatcom Alliance for Healthcare Advancement

            2001-Present

Work with Cambridge Management Group

            Pinnacle Health, Harrisburg, PA

                        March-June, 2012

            Jackson Care Connect, Medford, OR

                        October 2013-March 2014

            Jackson Care Connect and Community Sponsors, Medford, OR

                        October 2014 until present and contracted through June 2015

Last Positions with PeaceHealth

            Executive Director and Architect of, PeaceHealth Center for Innovation

Co-Medical Director of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), Order sets, and Decision Support for PeaceHealth

Chief Medical Officer, VP Clinical Information and Quality Improvement, St. Joseph Medical Center, Bellingham Washington (1996 – 2012)

Emergency Medicine Experience

            Emergency Department Externship, 1974-1976

            Community Hospital, Indianapolis, IN

            Emergency Dept. Physician and Director

            Mesquite Community Hospital

            Mesquite, TX  1979-1980

            Emergency Dept. Physician

            St. Luke's  Hospital

            Bellingham, WA  1980-1989

            Emergency Dept. Physician

            St. Joseph Hospital

            Bellingham, WA 1989-1996

University Clinic Experience

            Western Washington University Health Clinic

            Bellingham, WA   June 1979 - Present

Appointments and Elections

            Adjunct Professor

            Washington State University, School of Nursing

            2014-Present

            Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine

            St. Luke's Hospital, Bellingham, WA 1985

            Instructor in EMT training, 1980-1996

            Physician Coordinator, Whatcom County EMT  1985-1987

            Western Washington University Foundation

            Executive Board Member, 2000-2008

            Board member Whatcom Alliance for Health Care Advancement

            2001-Present

            Steering Committee member

            2011-Present

            Technical Sub Committee member

            2011-Present

            Board Member, P4Medicine Institute

            2011-2013

            Washington State Health Information Advisory Board—Board Member

            2004-2008

Washington State Community HIE Oversight Board—Board Member

2010-2012

Program Development

            Program Developer St. Luke's Trauma Program, and Co-chairman, Trauma

            Committee, St. Luke's Hospital

            1987-1989

            Medical Director, Program Developer, and Lecturer,

            Paramedic Training Program

            Bellingham Fire Department / Bellingham Technical College

            1991-1996

            Regional Physician Director Community Health Record Project

            Co-chair and Assistant to Corporate Physician Director of Community Health

            Record Project

            March 1994 - present

            Medical Director and Developer

            Whatcom Integrated Delivery System (Risk bearing, county-wide, all provider PHO)

            1994-1996

            Chairman and Program Developer

            Whatcom Community Health Improvement Consortium (CHIC)

            County-wide Provider, Payer, Public Health Collaborative

            1996-2001

            Developer, Executive Director and Board Member

            Whatcom Health Information Network (HInet)

            Financially self-sustaining community-wide secure intranet  - Regional health Information   Organization (CHIN-RHIO-HIE)

            1996-Present

            Executive Director

Pursuing Perfection Program

            Dramatically improve chronic care in America and lead development of community-based   patient centric personal health record

            2000-2006

Executive Responsibilities: 

Regional Vice President of Clinical Information, Quality, Special Projects and Medical Affairs

            St. Joseph Medical Center, PeaceHealth

            Bellingham, WA

            March 1996- 2012

Development of 1) PeaceHealth’s Community Health Record, 2) Northwest Regional Lab, 3) Education Department and Quality Department, 4) Community-wide clinical information infrastructure, and 5) Community-wide clinical improvement organization, 6) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pursuing Perfection Project for PeaceHealth & Whatcom County, 7) PeaceHealth’s Regional Laboratories into a single organization, 8) PeaceHealth’s Center for Innovation.

Examinations and Certifications Successfully Completed

            FLEX, 1976   

            American Board of Internal Medicine, 1980 to present

            American Board of Emergency Medicine, 1987 to present

            ACLS, 1994

            ATLS, 1995

            PALS, 1995

Advanced Training Program in Health Care Improvement, Intermountain Health

            Care, 1995

PIMS I & II

Licensure

            Washington State, 1979 - Present

            Texas, 1976 - 1980

Membership

            American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 1995-2005