Awarepoint Appoints Dr. Dennis O’Leary, President Emeritus of The Joint Commission as Chief Strategy Officer
August 25th, 2009
Market Wire: SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - August 24, 2009) - Awarepoint Corporation (www.awarepoint.com), a provider of real-time location system (www.awarepoint.com/rtls.shtml) (RTLS) solutions, today announced that Dr. Dennis O'Leary has joined the company as chief strategy officer. In this role, O'Leary will assist Jason Howe, chief executive officer, with creating, communicating, executing, and sustaining strategic initiatives within Awarepoint. Prior to joining Awarepoint, O'Leary served a 21-year tenure as President of The Joint Commission. During that time, O'Leary led the successful transformation of its accreditation process to focus on actual organization performance in the provision of patient care. He is now President Emeritus of The Joint Commission.
Prior to his time at The Joint Commission, O'Leary served as Dean for Clinical Affairs at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and Vice President of the George Washington University Health Plan. At George Washington, he achieved the faculty rank of Professor of Medicine and served as Medical Director of the University Hospital. O'Leary has been active in a variety of professional activities. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and served as a member of the board of directors of the National Quality Forum and as a member of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In 2000, he was identified by Modern Healthcare as "one of the 25 most influential leaders in health care." O'Leary earned his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY, and his bachelor's degree from Harvard College, Cambridge, MA. Awarepoint is growing its health care vision to a new generation of connected health solutions and is actively building an ecosystem of partners that will enable it to expand its location-aware technologies (www.awarepoint.com/technology.html) for use in a wider range of applications and service offerings.
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