George T. Hickman, CPHIMS, FHIMSS, is Senior Vice President and System Chief Information Officer of the Albany Medical Center, a 164-year old free-standing medical college/hospital system. As Senior VP and CIO at the Medical Center, Hickman is responsible for overseeing all information technology activities throughout the institution, which includes the Albany Medical Center Hospital Main and South Clinical Campuses, the Albany Medical College, and the Physician Group Practice. AMC is Hickman’s third academic health system CIO role. Hickman is 2007 Chairman of the Board of Directors and a Fellow of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He is also a Certified Professional in Health Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS). He is a past member of the HIMSS Analytics Board and also sits on the University Healthsystems Consortium (UHC) CIO Forum and the Executive Council for the Editorial Advisory Board of ADVANCE for Health Information Executives. He holds a BS and an MS in engineering. He was a vice president with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and a partner of Ernst & Young LLP. He also has worked with Price Waterhouse Coopers and started his career as a project engineer at a community hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee, his hometown. He has performed consulting engagements across the U.S. as well as for the Ministry of Health in Singapore and the U.K Health Authority and publishes frequently on healthcare IT and operational change topics. Hickman holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in industrial engineering from the University of Tennessee.