Mr. Brisendine serves as the vice president and CIO for St. Luke’s University Health Network. The network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital is based at the Bethlehem Campus. The network has over 23,000 employees, more than 2,500 physicians and advanced practitioners on the medical staff, and more than 2,250 volunteers. Thanks in large part to Mr. Brisendine’s leadership, the network has achieved Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society “Stage 7” for all facilities, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives’ “Most Wired” designation, and the Davies award from HIMSS. In this role, Mr. Brisendine is responsible for IT, innovation, radiology, construction, emergency transportation services and supply chain. He joined St. Luke’s University Health Network in 2009 after serving as the corporate director for new technology and delivery for CHRISTUS Health in Irving, Texas. He also served as a CIO for three hospitals within the health system, which includes 44 hospitals and facilities in 6 states and Mexico. He has over 20 years of experience in healthcare, with 15 years as a CIO. He specializes in transformational healthcare strategy and project delivery.
