Ad Hoc Working Groups

* see GHTF Steering Committee Members for contact information
+ see the Ad Hoc Working Group Chart below for contact information

Combination Products Ad Hoc Working Group

Beginning Date: 8 May 2007,
Chair: Rita Maclachlan*
Members: John Brennan+, Michael Gropp*, Rohan Hammett*, Sabina Hoekstra+, Brian Matthews*, Dario Pirovano+, Roland Rotter*, Anne Trimmer*, Janet Trunzo*, Hiroshi Yaginuma*, Thinh Nguyen+

GHTF Training Ad Hoc Working Group

Beginning Date: 30 November 2006
Chair: Larry Kessler*
Members: Stephen Diebert*, Jeff Gren, Michael Gropp*, Hiroshi Ishikawa*, Rita MacLachlan*, Roland Rotter*, Terry Sweeney*, Janet Trunzo*

Global Model Ad Hoc Working Group

Beginning Date: 2 October 2007
Chair: Tim Ulatowski*
Members: Johan Brinch*, Hiroshi Ishikawa*, Jos Kraus*, Roland Rotter*, Werner Schoenbuehler*, Terry Sweeney*

GMDN Ad Hoc Working Group

Beginning Date: 2 October 2007
Chair: Rohan Hammett*
Members: Paolo Catalani+, Susanne Hoeke+, Hiroshi Ishikawa*, Roland Rotter*, Christine Tarrajat*, Tomiko Tawaragi*, Anne Trimmer*, Janet Trunzo*

HTAi Ad Hoc Working Group

Beginning Date: 2 October 2007
Chair: Roland Rotter*
Members: Stepehen Dibert*

IAF Ad Hoc Working Group

Beginning Date: 2 October 2007
Chair: Roland Rotter*
Members: Egan Cobbold*, Matthias Neumann*, Markus Zobrist*

Maintenance Mode Ad Hoc Working Group

Beginning Date: 2 October 2007
Chair: Matthias Neumann*
Members: Gail Costello*, Jorge Garcia*, Janet Trunzo*

Process Improvements Ad Hoc Working Group

Beginning Date: 2 October 2007
Chair: David Kelly*
Members: Anne Trimmer*, Hiroshi Yaginuma*

Software Ad Hoc Working Group

Beginning Date: 10 November 2005
Chair: Larry Kessler*/Brian Fitzgerald
Members: Todd Cooper, Sherman Eagles, Julian Goldman, Jos Kraus*, Werner Schoenbuehler*, Carl Wallroth*, Hideto Yokoi

WHO Ad Hoc Working Group

Beginning Date: 27 June 2006
Chair: Larry Kessler*
Members: Michael Gropp*, Rohan Hammett*, Hiroshi Ishikawa*, Jos Kraus*, Janet Trunzo*

+ GHTF Ad Hoc Working Group Members

NAME	AFFILIATION	EMAIL
Christian Bohrt	Global Regulatory Affairs Roche Diabetes Care Dept.: DQ-A Sandhofer Straße 116 D-68305 Mannheim Germany	Christian.Bohrt@roche.com
John Brennan	European Commission DG Enterprise Directorate G - Single Market: regulatory environment, standardisation & new approach,Principal Administrator, Medical Devices Sector SC15 3/122, Rue de la Science 15, 1040 Brussels, BELGIUM	john.brennan@ec.europa.eu
Paolo Catalani	European Commission, 1049 Brussels, Belgium	paolo.catalani@ec.europa.eu
Todd Cooper	Convenor, ISO TC 215 WG7 Health Informatics - Devices Chair, IEEE 11073 Point-of-Care Medical Device Communication Standards Board, ANSI/HIMSS Health Informatics Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) Co-Chair, HL7 Health Care Devices (DEV) SIG (Interim) Co-Chair, ACCE-HIMSS/IHE Task Force 12127 Ragweeed Street San Diego, CA 92129-4103	t.cooper@ieee.org
Sherman Eagles	Medtronic 7000 Central Ave. NE Mineapolis MN55432	Sherman.eagles@medtronic.com
Brian Fitzgerald	US Food & Drug Administration, Center for Devices & Radiological Health, Office of Science & Engineering Laboratories, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, WO62-4206, Silver Spring, MD, 20993-0002	brian.fitzgerald@fda.hhs.gov
Julian M. Goldman, MD	Principal Investigator, ORF PnP Project Massachusetts General Hospital Departments of Anesthesia and Biomedical Engineering CLN-2, Massachusetts General Hospital , 55 Fruit St , Boston , MA 02114 USA	jmgoldman@partners.org
Susanne Hoeke	Medical Devices, Unit F3 - C o s m etics and Medical Devices, Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General European Commission, Commission européenne, Office BREY 10/160, B-1049 Bruxelles	susanne.hoeke@ ec.europa.eu
Sabina Hoekstra-van den Bosch, Pharm.D.	Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport P.O. Box 20350 2500 EJ The Hague The Netherlands	sl.hoekstra@minvws.nl
Friedrich Jost	Research & Development Head of SW Development Tecan Schweiz AG Seestrasse 103, 8708 Männedorf, Switzerland	Friedrich.Jost@tecan.com
Toshiaki Nakazato	Senior Manager Strategic Technologies Development Department Research & Development Center Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation 1385, Shimoishigami, Otawara-Shi, Tochigi 324-8550, Japan	toshiaki.nakazato@toshiba.co.jp
Thinh Nguyen	US Food & Drug Administration, Center for Devices & Radiological Health, Director, Office of Combination Products, 15800 Crabbs Branch Way (HFG-3) Suite 200 Rockville, MD 20855	combination@fda.gov
Anil Raman	GE Medical 3200 N. Grandview Blvd Waukesha WI, USA	Anil.raman@med.ge.com
Victor Rodrigues	Audiological Software Manager / Software Development Manager Cochlear Ltd, 14 Mars Road Lane Cove, NSW, 2066 Australia	vrodrigues@cochlear.com.au
Shinichi Takae	Specialist for New Materials Office of Medical Devices Evaluation Evaluation and Licensing Division Pharmaceutical and Food Safety Bureau Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 1-2-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8916, Japan	takae-shinichi@mhlw.go.jp
Hideto Yokoi M.D., Ph.D	Assitant professor & Vice-Director Department of Medical Informatics Kagawa University Hospital Kagawa, 761-0793, Japan	yokoi@med.kagawa-u.ac.jp

Updated 16 June 2008

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