Margaret
Cary is President of Boundroids, Inc., a consultancy specializing
in strategy for web-based healthcare technology companies and
physician organizations, and a member of the Leapfrog Group's
Incentives and Rewards Lily Pad. She was recently Chief Medical
Officer of the Colorado Business Group on Health (CBGH) and the
physician representative and speaker for the CBGH Leapfrog Group
rollout. Her areas of specialty include patient safety, patient
information, healthcare quality, physician relationships and healthcare
leadership. She coauthored a definitive text in telemedicine and
telehealth, Telemedicine and Telehealth: Principles, Policies,
Performance and Pitfalls (Springer).
She holds
a faculty position at the University of Colorado (CU) School of
Medicine and is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Business
at CU-Denver. She is chair of the Dean's Policy Advisory Council
for the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, a member of the CU
Technology Transfer External Advisory Board, the Executive Advisory
Board for the Center for Health Administration at the Graduate
School of Business at CU-Denver, the Advisory Board for the Global
Health Initiative at CU, and the Board of Directors for the California
Health Collaborative.
She is the
former Regional Director for the US Department of Health and Human
Services where she developed health and social care policy and
implemented programs for six states, and managed 350 employees
in the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS, formerly
HCFA), the US Public Health Service, the Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA), the Administration on Aging, the
Administration for Children and Families and the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). She was a member of several cabinet level
committees including women's health, managed care, and infant
mortality. She was a member of the National Action Plan on Breast
Cancer and advised HHS on healthcare information technology/ telehealth
recommendations. While at HHS she was given the Colorado BioMedical
Venture Center Award for improving communications between biomedical
companies and the FDA and Secretary Shalala's Award for Distinguished
Service.
Additional
posts include Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President
of Vox Medica, a $200 million health communications company with
marketing, advertising, education and public relations agencies
and Vice President of a startup medical device company with innovative
technology in diagnosing and treating breast cancer.
Margaret Cary
was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Center for Health
Care Technologies at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a
specialist advisor for Military Health Services (MHS2025), which
submitted recommendations for redesigning the Military's healthcare
system for 2025, and a member of Micromedex's Strategic Advisory
Board and the Governor's Task Force on the Columbine High School
Tragedy. From 1988-1994 she was a member of the Colorado Board
of Medical Examiners.
She is a member
of the Denver Committee on Foreign Relations, Women's Forum of
Colorado, American Academy of Family Practice, American Academy
of Pharmaceutical Physicians, American College of Physician Executives,
American Public Health Association, American Telemedicine Association,
Health Information and Management Systems Society, and National
Association of Science Writers.
Margaret Cary
has spoken extensively on healthcare technology implementation,
healthcare communications strategies, the changing physician-patient
relationship, healthcare quality, leadership and management, women's
health, and patients as partners.
