Page 14 THE REVERE ADVOCATE - Friday, February 15, 2019 Cambridge Health Alliance Names Brian Herrick, MD, Chief Information Offi cer CHA is an academic served as CHA’s chief medical information offi cer, a position he has held since 2012. As the senior physician responsible for overseeing the organization’s IT collaboration with patients, clinicians, operations, quality, compliance and researchers, he has played an essential part in improving patient quality and provider satisfaction. He has led CHA’s optimization and implementation of clinical information systems to ensure they support patient care, quality measure reporting and operational processes. His accomplishments include launching a number of new features in CHA’s MyChart patient portal, which gives patients active in the system better control to manage their health, and guiding CHA through the many stages of Meaningful Use incentive programs. Dr. Herrick has also worked with regional healthcare leaders to create a standard in CHA’s electronic medical record to promote inter-organizational information exchange to benefi t patient care. “As a family medicine physician and informatics leader, Dr. Herrick has a keen understanding of CHA's operational, clinical and technical needs,” said CHA CEO Patrick Wardell. “He will provide compassionate and innovative leadership in support of our mission to improve the health of our communities.” Dr. Herrick completed his medical degree at Dartmouth Medical School, family medicine residency at the University of Rochester, a fellowship in faculty development at the University of California at San Francisco and a certificate in biomedical informatics from Oregon Health and Science University. He completed his board certification in clinical informatics in 2017. Brian Herrick, MD, chief information offi cer at Cambridge Health Alliance. community health system committed to providing high-quality care in Cambridge, Somerville and Boston’s metro-north communities. CHA has expertise in primary care, specialty care and mental health/ substance use services, as well as caring for diverse and complex populations. It includes three hospital campuses, a network of primary care and specialty practices and the Cambridge Public Health Dept. CHA patients have seamless access to advanced care through the system’s affi liation with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. CHA is a Harvard Medical School teaching affi liate and is also affi liated with Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine. For more information, visit www.challiance.org. Bonavolonta named special agent in charge of the Boston Field Offi ce F BI Director Christopher Wray has named Joseph R. Bonavolonta as special agent in charge of the Boston Field Offi ce. Bonavolonta has served as deputy assistant director for the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division since March 2018. He previously helped lead the Boston Field Offi ce as assistant special agent in charge from 2013 to 2017 and is honored to be returning to the offi ce. Bonavolonta has held a variety of leadership, operational and investigative positions throughout his FBI career. He entered duty in May 1996 as an investigative specialist in the FBI’s New York Field Office. In August 2000, he received his fi rst assignment as a special agent in the New York Field Offi ce, where he spent many years investigating the Bonanno La Cosa Nostra (LCN) Family within the offi ce’s organized crime branch. His work led to the convictions and/or guilty pleas of dozens of high-ranking members and associates of the Bonanno LCN Family. For his contributions to these investigations, Bonavolonta received the Attorney General’s Director’s Award for Superior Performance in 2005. CAMBRIDGE – Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), an academic community health system serving Cambridge, Somerville and Boston’s metro-north region, has named Brian Herrick, MD, as its new chief information offi cer. Dr. Herrick, who has served in various IT leadership roles at CHA since 2010, has more than 15 years of management experience in the health care delivery and IT environments. Dr. Herrick most recently fice in New Jersey in 2008. He directed the investigations of major economic crimes, including corporate/securities fraud, intellectual property rights, Internet fraud, wire and mail fraud, and money laundering. Under his supervision, his team generated some of the most significant economic crimes investigations in New Jersey. In 2013, BonavolonJoseph R. Bonavolonta From 2006-2007, Bonavolonta served as the program manager in the Organized Crime Section at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for the coordination of organized crime cases throughout the country. He also directed an international organized crime initiative in coordination with the Italian National Police aimed at combating joint criminal operations between the American-based LCN Families and the Sicilian Mafi a. Bonavolonta was promoted to supervisory special agent of the corporate/securities fraud squad at the Newark Field Ofta received a promotion to assistant special agent in charge of the Boston Field Offi ce, where he oversaw the cyber and counterintelligence programs as well as the resident agencies in Bedford/Portsmouth, N.H., and Providence, R.I. Bonavolonta then served as the section chief for the FBI’s employee development and selection program from March 2017 to March 2018. In this role, he managed the national oversight responsibilities for the supervisor development, transfer, senior leader selection, and senior executive service programs. Bonavolonta was born in Montclair, N.J., and earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science/communications from Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J.
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