Executive Staff
James M. Maisel, M.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Maisel, Chairman and CEO of ZyDoc Medical Transcription, completed his retina training at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center as the Ester Dyson Foundation vitreoretinal fellow. In 1993, he helped develop one of the first prototype multimedia EMRs that was purchased by the Department of Defense. In medical informatics, he served as President of HOST (Health Care Open Standards and Trials), has participated in many industry and standards development efforts, and is a frequent lecturer. ZyDoc has won awards from the medical informatics, speech recognition and computing industries. Dr. Maisel has a unique perspective in applying technology as a practicing vitreoretinal and laser surgeon for over 20 years. His practice with the Retina Group of New York serves as a showcase utilizing ZyDoc technology and transcription integrated with best-of-breed cutting-edge medical informatics solutions in a production environment that addresses the complex challenges faced by medical practices in the 21st century.
Albert S. Llanes, Chief Technology Officer
Albert S. Llanes, whose multidisciplinary approach to needs identification and problem solving have led to the conception, design, creation, and marketing of award winning products and services, serves as ZyDoc’s CTO.
His primary strength is his ability to analyze and transfer knowledge of otherwise complex technical subject matter in easy to follow instructor led trainings, web based trainings, and self-based tutorials. This ability to translate the “complex technical” to “easily understood” was well honed at previous diverse positions held at multinational corporations including Philips Speech Processing and Pioneer New Media Technologies.
He has been on the leading edge of software integration with a focus on continuous speech language model development for the last ten years and to ZyDoc’s credit, ZyDoc now owns a process for building continuous speech recognition vocabularies of superior performance at a fraction of competitor’s costs.
Albert holds MSHRM and BS in Applied Science degrees. His certifications include PMI’s prestigious PMP and COMPTIA’s A+, i-Net+, IT Project+, Linux+, Network+, and Server+. He is an active member of the Project Management Institute.
On his free time Albert likes to play with his children and play bass guitar in a small regional group.
Laura Maisel, Esq, Corporate Secretary
Laura Maisel is Secretary of ZyDoc and has been with the company since its inception in 1993. Her responsibilities include company legal affairs, HIPAA compliance, press relations, and supervision of legal, Spanish and law enforcement transcription operations. She received her B.A. in English from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1974, her M.S.J. from Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University in 1975, and her J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law in 1978.
Sharon Dietz, National Sales Director
Sharon has a wide-range of professional experience that lends itself to the growth of ZyDoc. She was raised in Arizona and has lived in all parts of the country, including Southern Missouri, Maryland, New York North Carolina, and now Florida. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.
In Sharon’s professional career, she served as an Associate for Medical Products Division of W.L. Gore & Associates. Her initial position was contracts administration for hospitals nationwide, involving major agreements with hospital systems and group purchasing organizations. This experience allowed her to transition into sales and relocated to Maryland to cover most major hospitals in the Northeast, including George Washington University Hospital, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Long Island Jewish and North Shore Hospitals, Maimonides, and several other well-known hospital systems located from Virginia to Massachusetts.
Before coming to ZyDoc, Sharon served as a Regional Sales Manager with ChartOne, providing Release of Information (ROI) services and chart tracking software. ChartOne serves more hospitals than any other ROI company. In this environment, Sharon became very familiar with the HIPAA regulations, while covering another large territory, working with small to large group physician offices, as well as hospitals in North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi.
Currently, Sharon serves as the National Sales Director for ZyDoc. In this capacity, Sharon works with large physician groups nationwide, offering medical transcription infrastructure and services, as well as chart tracking and electronic patient information solutions. Medical records and transcription is an environment that Sharon is experienced in, as she is a former medical transcriptionist in an acute care hospital in Mountain Home, Arkansas.