Consortium Bios
Ernest L. Carter, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Ernest Carter is a healthcare and engineering professional with over 28 years of experience in the practice and management of medicine as well as fourteen (14) years in teaching and implementing biomedical and electrical engineering programs. Dr. Carter received his bachelor of arts degree in physics from Harvard College (1976), his M.D. from Harvard Medical School (1980) and his Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania (1988). He is board-certified in pediatrics and a diplomate of the National Academy of Pediatrics. He has extensive knowledge in the management, planning, and operations of pediatric and newborn services. He has focused his engineering work on biosensors, telehealth systems and health information technology.


Milestones of his professional career include the following positions:

Member of Howard University’s Department of Electrical Engineering for 6 years as an Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Materials Science Research Center. His area of expertise was biosensors and finite element modeling of the electrical properties of the human body.

  • Medical Director of Pediatric Services at Misericordia Hospital in Philadelphia, where he designed, planned and implemented a new inpatient level I+ newborn care service and built a new outpatient pediatric service for the West Philadelphia community
  • Associate Director and cofounder of a level II neonatal intensive care unit at Methodist Hospital in Philadelphia Vice president of Virgo Carter Pediatrics of Silver Spring, Maryland
  • Founder and President of Telemedicine Solutions International, a telemedicine company that designed and implemented telehealth systems in the U.S. and the Caribbean for three years
  • Director and founder of the Howard University TeleHealth Sciences and Advanced Technology Center
  • Medical Director of My Healthy Access, where he designed and implemented six retail-based clinics in the Houston, TX area
  • Co-Principal Investigator of the Minority Organ Transplant Teaching Education Program (MOTTEP) TeleHealth Center Project funded by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) Project EXPORT.

He has designed and implemented projects such as the Howard University/U.S. Virgin Islands Telemedicine Project, the Emergency Medicine Internet Teaching Tool for South Africa, Urban Asthma TeleHealthCare Project, the Nigeria TeleHealth Project, Howard University’s partnership with the World Bank’s Global Development Learning Network, hypertension and diabetes portals for the MOTTEP TeleHealth Center and retail-clinic clinical standards and health information technology integration. He is published in the field of bioengineering and has served as a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine for 4 years. His professional affiliations include IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, the American Medical Informatics Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.




 COMPANY PROFILES

VIPMedRX


Visionary Consulting Partners, LLC


Zane Networks, LLC



 CONSORTIUM BIOS

Michael D. Thornton Sr.


Ernest L. Carter, Jr.


Eleanor Thornton


Luigi Leblanc


Harriet V. Washington


Alexandra Jellerette
Organizational Structure
The Healthcare Management and Technology Consortium is a joint venture of three companies: Zane Networks, LLC, Visionary Consulting Partners, LLC and VIPMedRx. We have combined our technical and managerial expertise to promote wellness and address health needs. The consortium aims to build provider capacity, provide management services, promote health information technology and provide care management and other related services.

Our companies include leaders in the health and HIT community with advanced degrees in medicine, public health, health promotion, engineering, computer science and project management. With years of experience in the HIT field, our staff contributes expertise in these areas of study to meet the needs of our clients.

The consortium emphasizes cross-disciplinary collaboration, allowing clients to benefit from our collective knowledge as well as the expertise of our individual members. The aim of the consortium is to promote personal wellness and empowerment and to offer effective methods to manage chronic diseases with the tools of technology. Thus supported, individuals, while staying connected with healthcare providers and the healthcare community, will be enabled to meet their full potential.

The Healthcare Management and Technology Consortium