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Accella Learning, LLC is a Lexington, Kentucky-based technology software development company. Accella focuses on web-based applications for training, testing, and certification of members of the healthcare community, from physicians to non-clinical health team personnel. Accella is not a content development company, but serves organizations that are seeking to deliver educational content and test competency for a widely dispersed target group in an effective and efficient manner. Accella is engaged in research on adaptive learning strategies to promote rapid learning, create maximal proficiency/retention, and provide 24/7 access to the learner in a teaching/testing environment that is easily updated and maintained via the web.
In 2002, Accella was invited into a "portfolio partner" relationship with the Department of Defense (DOD) and its Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) unit at Fort Detrick, MD. Accella has current application development contracts with TATRC and the new TATRC-West offices and has been accepted in a Cooperative Research Development Agreement (CRDA) with the DOD/TATRC.
Key Personnel
Accella Learning Company is led by recognized leaders in the field of medical infomatics and emergency medicine.
Bryan Bergeron, MD
 A medical software industry pioneer, Bryan Bergeron has nearly two decades of experience designing computer-mediated instructional systems, designing curricula, and teaching at Harvard and MIT. Among other simulation firsts, he developed the first commercial multimedia patient simulator on the microcomputer. Dr. Bergeron is the author of several hundred publications on Biotechnology and Informatics, including over a dozen books, among which is the first original eBook accepted for copyright by the Library of Congress. He currently edits several Informatics journals, teaches at Harvard and MIT, and practices Medical Informatics at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Bergeron has consulted extensively on computer-based education and testing to companies such as Partners Healthcare Systems, the National Board of Medical Examiners, and the American Board of Family Practice. He was Acting Chief Scientist at Medical Learning Company, Inc. and Vice President and Director of Planning and Development at Sabri Systems for Medicine, where he directed the development of simulation-based systems for the Pharmaceutical and Medical Publishing industries.
Bryan is a recognized thought leader in the application of computing to the practice and teaching of medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the Founding Editor-in-Chief of e.MD, a Contributing Editor of Physicians Home Page and MD Computing, Technical Editor of Postgraduate Medicine, and on the Editorial Boards of Advance for Health Information Executives, Healthcare Informatics, Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, Healthstream, Medical Software Reviews, and WebMD/Medscape Tech Med. He is also a regular columnist for WebMD, and has contributed extensively to Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Journal of Medical Education Technology, Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, Journal of Instructional Delivery Systems, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, and the British Journal of Knowledge Management.
Active in the Harvard/MIT academic community, Bryan remains thoroughly involved in curriculum and course development, especially as it relates to computer-based curriculum delivery and testing.
Additional Key Personnel
Steve Hoey
Steve Hoey serves as a technical team leader for Accella. He has a decade of experience designing, building, and maintaining complex web sites and on-line applications for exacting clients including Harvard University, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Boston, the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, Cambridge College, and the American Board of Abdominal Surgery. As the Senior Web Developer at Kurzweil Technologies, and later at the Medical Learning Company, Steve directed the development of interactive products and websites for the American Board of Family Practice, FamilyPractice.com, and KurzweilAI.net. Steve graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with a degree in Psychology.
Ryan McCullough
Ryan McCullough is the lead programmer for Accella. He was an integral part of the team that developed and launched the integrated portal for the American Board of Family Practice. His experience includes extensive programming in C++, perl, Java, and other languages; HTML, PHP, JavaScript and CGI development, as well as algorithm design and analysis. Ryan graduated from Dartmouth College magna cum laude with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics. He is currently enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Laboratory for Computer Science, Masters/PhD Program.
Todd Graham
Todd Graham has over 20 years experience in healthcare industry project management, marketing, and client management , with primary emphasis on medical education and online initiatives. Most recently he was Vice President of Marketing for the Medical Learning Company, a technology company that developed unique patient simulations for use in online case-based medical education. Previously, Todd was a Principal with Franklin Graham Associates, providing strategic and tactical consulting services in e-health communications and marketing.
Advisory Panel
Rob Alger
Rob Alger is a senior healthcare executive with over 20 years of experience in leadership roles as President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Information Officer of many leading healthcare companies. Rob was President of Advanced Health Technologies, where he was responsible for the development of the first internet prescription application and the leading physician laboratory orders and results applications. Prior to Advanced Health, Rob was the Chief Information Officer for Blue Shield of California where he led the introduction of new claims, membership, financial and reporting systems for the company and participated in the early days of the managed care revolution. Additionally, while at Blue Shield, Rob served as the Chairman of the National Health Foundation's Health Data Interchange initiative during its first two years helping to expand its reach to over 40 California Companies representing over 90% of the states insured population. Rob has also served as the Chief Technology Officer for Skylight Systems, an innovative developer of patient focused hospital infrastructure and as a Partner in Scribner Jackson and Associates, a regional strategic infrastructure consultancy. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the California State University at Northridge.
Robert Avant, MD
Robert Avant is the current Senior Executive and former Executive Director of the American Board of Family Practice (ABFP). Dr. Avant was the Founding Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, serving from 1977 -1991. As Residency Director from 1977-1985, Dr. Avant developed a fully integrated Family Medicine curriculum at the Mayo System. He was Professor of Family Medicine at Mayo Medical School, and first Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL from 1991-1993. In 1988, after serving as Treasurer and Chairman of the Examination Committee, Dr. Avant was elected President of the ABFP. In 1998, Dr. Avant was elected Executive Director of the ABFP, serving until 2002.
Kevin Becker, Psy.D.
Dr. Kevin Becker is a psychologist who has specialized in the field of psychological trauma for nearly 20 years. He has worked with individuals, communities, global corporations and governments on a wide variety of topics related to the effects of trauma and crisis. In the wake of September 11th Dr. Becker oversaw multiple projects in New York and Boston that provided support to families and victims of the attacks. Following the South Asia tsunami he spent a month in Sri Lanka where he developed and delivered a training program for the government which he used to train professionals from across the country. He served as director of The Trauma Center, a specialized research and treatment center, in Boston for nearly 10 years He worked for several years in the private sector as Vice President for Marsh Crisis Consulting, a global consulting firm specialized in crisis readiness planning for Fortune 500 companies. He is the Director of the Institute for Trauma & Crisis at Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a principle partner at Organizational Resilience International, a firm specializing in organizational and leadership training and planning for businesses and government agencies.
Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil is Principal Developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the sounds of orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large vocabulary speech recognition software. Mr. Kurzweil has successfully founded, developed, and sold nine AI businesses in OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, and reading technology. Ray received the 1999 National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology, the 2000 Lemelson-MIT $500,000 prize ,the nation's largest award in innovation, was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame, run by the U.S. Patent Office, in 2002, has received twelve honorary doctors, and awards from three U.S. presidents.
Brian Masterson, MD
Dr. Brian Masterson is a 1984 distinguished graduate from the United States Air Force Academy in biologic sciences and civil engineering. As a 1988 Aesculapian graduate from Harvard Medical School, he completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, and is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Psychiatry. In 1993 he was assigned to Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base (AFB), TX as the mental health director for organ transplantation and commander of the primary care and internal medicine clinics. In 1997 he became the Chief of Medicine for the Air Education and Training Command Headquarter, Randolph AFB, TX, where he spearheaded the development of the Population Health Improvement paradigm for the Department of Defense (DoD). In 2000 he was named the commander of the Air Force .s largest Intensive Care Unit and Critical Care Squadron. During his tenure he was the first commander of the DoD's Medical Rapid Response Force for Homeland Security. He concluded his tour on the Board of Directors . as the Chief Information Officer and Consultant for Informatics and Modernization. He is currently a Resident in Aerospace Medicine and most recently completed his Masters' in Public Health with emphasis on statistical analysis and homeland defense and preparedness in June 2005.
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