Ed Kopetsky

Ed Kopetsky is an accomplished healthcare executive and consultant with expertise in integrated healthcare systems, information technology (IT) and operations improvement. While serving as Chief Information Officer, Stanford Children’s received numerous awards and recognitions for advancing health information technology and analytics to improve patient care. Before joining Stanford Children’s, Mr. Kopetsky was a partner at IBM Global Business Services and Healthlink, a consulting firm specializing in healthcare IT and process improvement. In the early 1990s, he implemented one of the first integrated patient care systems supporting a multi-hospital and physician network at Sharp Healthcare.

Mr. Kopetsky has contributed nationally and locally to numerous professional organizations, including serving as a founding member and Board Chair for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). He founded and Co-Chairs the CHIME Opioid Task Force, helping healthcare organizations confront the national opioid crisis. He has served on multiple industry advisory boards, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Encore, Next Wave Health Advisors, and (currently) CARI Health. He also served as Chair of the advisory board for the Industrial & Systems Engineering Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mr. Kopetsky was named one of the top 20 CIOs driving change in the U.S. healthcare system in 2013 by Healthcare Information Week. In 2014, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering, citing his pioneering work in integrating healthcare systems. He received the CIO Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, San Francisco Business Times, and PwC. He was named the 2019 CHIME-HIMSS Healthcare CIO of the Year and the ORBIE Awards Bay Area 2021 CIO of the Year Public Sector for significant leadership and industry-leading contributions. Mr. Kopetsky earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.