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Eugenio
“Gene” Fernández, FACHE An essential member of the executive team, Gene Fernandez currently serves as
the Chief Information Officer for L.A. Care Health Plan in Los Angeles, CA. (www.lacare.org).
Prior to this role, Gene served as Vice President, Information Services for the Accident Fund Insurance Company of America
in Lansing, Michigan from January - 2005 to June - 2007.(www.accidentfund.com).
He also previously served as the Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Sparrow Health System over the
span of 5 ˝ years. Prior to moving to mid-Michigan in 1999, Gene was a senior IT consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP Healthcare Consulting Practice in Washington, D.C. His corporate background includes over 20 years of experience
as a healthcare information management executive. Prior to his stint as a consultant, Gene served in a myriad of Information
Technology (IT) leadership positions for Department of Defense health care delivery organizations as an active duty commissioned
officer in the Navy Medical Service Corps. His other positions included serving as Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the
National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD (1995-1998); as well as CIO, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA (1989-1993). Gene has extensive experiences with healthcare IT systems implementation, business process re-engineering,
IT strategic planning, IT outsourcing and project management. He is board certified in healthcare management as a Fellow
in the American College of Healthcare Executives (www.ache.org). He is also a member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (www.himss.org)
and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (www.cio-chime.org). Gene
earned a Master of Science degree from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Illinois University. He
has also completed the Information Management Executive Course sponsored by the University of Michigan & the College of Healthcare
Information Management Executives (CHIME). In addition, he has also completed a healthcare management certificate program
sponsored by Case Western Reserve University and completed a second master’s from the University of Illinois at Springfield
in 2007 (http://mis.uis.edu/). Gene augments his professional work with a variety
of volunteer pursuits. Until very recently, he was very active in the Lansing community for a period of eight years as the
past-Chair of the Information Technology Council (Lansing TechConnect) and former Board member of the Lansing Regional
Chamber of Commerce. He is a former member of the Lansing Rotary and former Trustee on the Capitol Region Community Foundation
Board (www.crcfoundation.org/aboutroster.html). Gene is a native of Havana, Cuba. He arrived in the United States with his family at the age
of three. He is the proud father of two adult daughters and two adult step-sons. Gene and his wife have relocated from Michigan
to California.
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