
Paul Brient
Chief Product & Operations Officer, athenahealth
Innovation & Engineering Excellence
Paul leads product vision, strategy, and development to optimize practice workflows and delight users. With over 25 years in healthcare IT, he leverages his expertise to drive purposeful innovation that clinicians need. The former CEO of PatientKeeper, Paul holds an MBA from Harvard and a BS in engineering/CS from Princeton.
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Christine Davis
athenahealth staff writer since 2015.

Julie Valentine
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