Dr. Gwendolyn B. O'Keefe has been with Group Health Cooperative in Seattle as both the Medical Director for Informatics and the Executive Director of Care Delivery IT services since 2009, and was recently named CMIO for Group Health. She is a General Internist practicing in one of Group Health's Seattle based clinics.

Prior to joining Group Health, O'Keefe was medical director for General Internal Medicine and assistant professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where she was a physician champion for EMR implementation. Her previous industry roles include leading a medical and drug safety program at Medco Health Solutions, a leading pharmacy benefit manager and a similar role as Medical Director at Active Health Management (now owned by Aetna) in New York City.

Dr. O'Keefe represents Group Health on the recently formed Care Connectivity Consortium, a group of five innovative and leading health systems that have joined efforts on an nationwide initiative to securely exchange electronic health data, with the first data exchange planned in 2011. The consortium will utilize standards-based health information technology to share data about patients electronically.

She is also on the leadership team guiding the development of the Washington state's Health Information Exchange.

Dr. O'Keefe's medical school training occurred at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, NY. She completed Internal Medicine residency training and served as Chief Medical Resident at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York.