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career at NEMA culminated as senior vice president and chief technical officer in 2006. He currently serves as NEMA’s senior technology advisor and continues to provide advice to NEMA on standardization and conformity assessment matters at regional and international levels.

Throughout his career, Mr. Kitzantides has also been active with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Over the last seven years, he has been dedicated to fulfilling responsibilities as vice president of IEC; a member of its executive committee; and chairman of the Standardization Management Board, IEC’s decision-making body responsible for the management of its technical work. NEMA’s representative on the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 70E Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace. He was instrumental in the development of IEEE 1584 Guide for Performing Arc Flash Hazard Calculations and IEEE training videos and materials. He contributed to NFPA 70E arc-flash hazard assessment requirements, assisted in the inclusion of IEEE 1584 arc-flash equations and materials into NFPA 70E, and participates as a steering committee member on the IEEE/NFPA Collaboration on Arc Flash Phenomena. By participating on IEEE committees, Mr. Saporita has been at the forefront in

Mr. Kitzantides received ANSI’s prestigious Astin-Polk International Standards Medal in 2004 and the Howard Coonley Medal in 2010. In August 2002, the Standards Engineering Society recognized him as a Fellow. He also is a life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. ei

Vince Saporita, pe Vince Saporita participates in and provides leadership for many NEMA activities and committees. He is currently a vice chair of NEMA Codes and Standards Committee, chair of the NEMA-UL Technical Forum Committee, chair of the Fuse Technical Committee, and chair of the Fuse Ad-Hoc Committee. He participates in the Low Voltage Distribution Equipment (LVDE) switch and panelboard sections, as well as the Industrial Control Section, and serves as Harry p. Solomon Harry Solomon, an interoperability architect at GE Healthcare, senior member of the IEEE, and a university lecturer in healthcare standards, began his electroindustry career in software and systems engineering for signals intelligence processing. His work with distributed clusters of minicomputers included algorithm design, user interfaces, and network communication protocols and standards. Through his involvement with GE Medical Systems for the digitization of

developing methods to quantify arc-flash hazards. He has been a major contributor in the protocols for arc-flash testing by conducting tests and then developing equations for determining the incident energy based on specific variables. Mr. Saporita has contributed engineering methods to mitigate arc-flash hazards via technical materials, articles, and seminars, and represents the fuse industry on National Electrical Code® Panels 10 and 11. Mr. Saporita has been with Cooper Bussmann for 36 years and is currently vice president, technical sales. ei

the cardiac catheterization laboratory, Mr. Solomon participated in the ad hoc work group that established standards for cardiac image exchange. He was a member of the joint committee of the American College of Radiology and NEMA for the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard. He has been involved in that work ever since, and is now chair of DICOM WG-01, Cardiac and Vascular Information. Mr. Solomon is active in many healthcare standards bodies, citing their importance as the industry undergoes a rapid transformation to electronic records and information exchange. He is currently responsible for DICOM’s use of the

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine standard and co-chairs the liaison committee between DICOM and the Health Level Seven (HL7) standard. Mr. Solomon’s current passion is expanding standards education for the new generation of healthcare information technology leaders. He teaches the popular interoperability and standards course in the Masters of Biomedical Informatics programs at Northwestern University and Oregon Health and Science University. The course is being adapted for use at additional schools through the HL7 University Project. ei

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