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Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

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Dr. David Bates is the Chief of General Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis for Partners Information Systems, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also the Chair of the National Alliance for Primary Care Informatics (NAPCI), a multistakeholder coalition of primary care organizations which is working to promote the interests of primary care informatics. His research focuses on the use of information technology to improve the safety and quality of healthcare.

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Professor, Health Informatics Program, Department of Health Services Administration, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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National Quality Forum, Washington, DC

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Clinical Librarian, Welch Medical Library
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

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Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

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University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis, MN

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Don E. Detmer, MD, MA, is President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is also Professor Emeritus and Professor of Medical Education in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia, and Senior Associate of the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is Co-chair of the Blue Ridge Academic Health Group and chairman of MedBiquitous. He is a lifetime Associate of the National Academies, and a fellow of AAAS, American College of Medical Informatics, ACS, and ACSM (emeritus). Dr. Detmer's research interests include contributions to national health information policy, quality improvement, administrative medicine, vascular surgery, sports medicine, and master's level educational program for clinician-executives.

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Paul Gorman, MD is Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology and Department of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Gorman earned his bachelor's degree in Biology at the University of Illinois in Chicago, his MD from Rush Medical College, and completed a residency in internal medicine at Rush Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. He was in primary care practice on the Oregon coast and in Portland before returning to academia to complete a fellowship in General Internal Medicine and join the faculty in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health Sciences University. He teaches internal medicine residents, medical students, and graduate students, and he conducts research on the use of information by clinicians and the impact of technology on clinical practice and patient care.

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University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

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Dr. Johnson is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Biomedical Informatics, with a joint appointment in the Department of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical School. He received his MD from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and his M.S. in Medical Informatics from Stanford University. Dr. Johnson is an internationally-respected developer and evaluator of clinical information technology, and an advocate for pediatric needs in healthcare information technology. His research interests have been related to developing and encouraging the adoption of clinical information systems to improve patient safety and compliance with practice guidelines; the uses of advanced computer technologies, including the Worldwide Web and personal digital assistants in medicine; and the development of computer-based systems for e-prescribing and documentation at the point of care.

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Columbia University, New York, NY

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Gilad Kuperman is Director for Quality Informatics at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, helping the hospital to use information technology to improve the quality of care. He chairs the hospital's Medication Safety and Informatics Committee and co-chairs the Alerts Committee. He leads strategic planning on the best way to use information technology to improve quality. His research examines the impact of clinical information systems on the cost, quality, safety, and efficiency of medical care. His research focus is on knowledge-based clinical decision support systems. He is the board chair for NYCLIX, an emerging RHIO in the NY City region. He is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University Medical School and Assistant Professor of Public Health at Weill-Cornell Medical College. Dr. Kuperman chairs the AMIA Clinical Information Systems Working Group (CIS WG) and is on the JAMIA editorial board.

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Johns Hopkins Children's Medical and Surgical Center
Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Health Sciences Informatics & Dermatology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

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Judy Murphy, a nurse, is Director of Application Development at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is responsible for the systems that support all clinical areas and leads Aurora's EHR (Electronic Health Record) implementation. She has been in systems work for 21 years, involving extensive system implementation experience with both custom program development and purchased vendor products, and is currently responsible for 120 analyst and programming staff. Judy has published and lectured nationally and internationally on the use of computers in healthcare, project management methodology, and clinical documentation systems.

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Daniel Z. Sands is an internationally recognized lecturer, consultant, and thought leader in the area of clinical computing and patient and clinician empowerment through the use of computer technology. He is currently Senior Medical Informatics Director, Cisco Systems. Prior to that, Dr. Sands was the Chief Medical Officer and Vice President for Clinical Strategies for Zix Corporation and the Clinical Systems Integration Architect at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he had worked since 1991. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and maintains a primary care practice in which he makes extensive use of health information technology.

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Paul C. Tang, MD, is an Internist and Chief Medical Information Officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), Sutter Health. He is also Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. At PAMF, Dr. Tang is responsible for clinical information systems, including an enterprise-wide electronic health record system and an eHealth program that allows patients to access their health record on-line and to communicate with their physicians securely over the Internet. Dr. Tang received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and his MD from the University of California, San Francisco. He serves on the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Health Care Services Board and chaired the most recent IOM patient safety committee. Dr. Tang has published and lectured extensively on topics related to electronic health record systems, eHealth, patient safety, and the National Health Information Infrastructure.

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University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis, MN

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