portfolio of technical resources needed to support the meaningful use program and health information technology interoperability. While at ONC, he developed the standards and interoperability framework to accelerate the development of technical specifications for interoperability, and in collaboration with the NIH and other federal agencies was instrumental in establishing the key priorities in the PCOR Trust fund. Before ONC, Dr. Fridsma held academic appointments at the University of Pittsburgh, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, and Mayo Clinic, and had a part-time clinical practice at the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale. He has served as a board member of HL7 and the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, where he was instrumental in developing standards that bridge clinical care and clinical research.

Andrew Gettinger, MD, serves as chief medical information officer and director of the Office of Clinical Quality and Safety for ONC. He is a professor of anesthesiology, adjunct professor of computer science at Dartmouth, and senior scholar at the Koop Institute, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and was formerly the chief medical information officer for Dartmouth-Hitchcock and associate dean for clinical informatics at Geisel. Dr. Gettinger has extensive experience in the field of health information technology. He led the development of an electronic health record (EHR) system at Dartmouth and subsequently was the senior physician leader during Dartmouth’s transition to a vendor-based EHR. Dr. Gettinger’s clinical practice and research has been focused both on anesthesiology and critical care medicine, and on information technology as it applies generally to health care.

Julian M. Goldman, MD, is medical director of biomedical engineering for Partners HealthCare System, an anesthesiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and director of the Program on Medical Device Interoperability based at the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Partners HealthCare System, and CIMIT. Dr. Goldman founded the Medical Device “Plug-and-Play” (MD PnP) Interoperability research program in 2004 to promote innovation in patient safety and clinical care by leading the adoption of patient-centric integrated clinical environments. Dr. Goldman completed anesthesiology residency and fellowship training at the University of Colorado. His research fellowship was in biomedical informatics, focusing on simulation and applications for monitoring and real-time decision support. He left Colorado in 1998 as a tenured associate professor to work as an executive of a medical device company. Dr. Goldman joined Harvard Medical School and the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine at the Massachusetts

General Hospital in 2002, where he served as a principal anesthesiologist in the MGH “Operating Room of the Future.” He is board certified in anesthesiology and clinical informatics. Dr. Goldman co-chaired the FCC mHealth Task Force, the HIT Policy Committee FDASIA Workgroup regulatory subgroup, and the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee work group on health care. He served on the National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering Advisory Committee, as a Visiting Scholar in the FDA Medical Device Fellowship Program, and as a member of the CDC Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Public Health Informatics. He currently serves in leadership positions in several medical device standardization organizations, including chair of ISO Technical Committee 121, chair of the Use Case Working Group of the Continua Health Alliance, and co-chair of the AAMI Interoperability Working Group. Dr. Goldman is the recipient of the International Council on Systems Engineering 2010 Pioneer Award, American College of Clinical Engineering 2009 award for Professional Achievement in Technology, the 2009 AAMI Foundation/Institute for Technology in Healthcare Clinical Application Award, and the University of Colorado chancellor’s “Bridge to the Future” award.

Michael M. E. Johns, MD, is professor of Medicine and Public Health at Emory University, where he served as chancellor from 2007 until 2012. His career at Emory began in 1996 when he was appointed executive vice president for Health Affairs, CEO of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, and chairman of the board of Emory Healthcare. As leader of the health sciences center and Emory Healthcare for 11 years, Dr. Johns engineered the transformation of the center into one of the nation’s preeminent centers of education, research, and patient care. He previously served as dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and vice president for medicine at Johns Hopkins University from 1990 to 1996. Dr. Johns has been a significant contributor to many of the leading organizations and policy groups in health care, including the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Academic Health Centers, the Association of Academic Health Centers, and many others. He frequently lectures, publishes, and works with state and federal policy makers on topics ranging from the future of health professions education to national health system reform. Dr. Johns was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1993 and has served on many IOM committees. He received his bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University and his medical degree with distinction at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Solutions team, which is transforming the provider experience by supporting and delivering a seamless business interaction across Anthem’s industry-leading portfolio of provider partnerships and payment innovation models. Additionally, Dr. Samitt has responsibility for HealthCore, Anthem’s clinical outcomes research subsidiary, and AIM Specialty Health, Anthem’s specialty benefits management subsidiary focused on promoting evidence-based care in high-risk, high-cost areas such as imaging, oncology, and specialty pharmaceuticals. Dr. Samitt is a nationally recognized health care policy expert and thought leader with more than 20 years of experience leading health care delivery and service organizations. Before joining Anthem in September 2015, Dr. Samitt served as partner and global provider practice leader of Oliver Wyman’s Health & Life Sciences division, and, before that, as president and chief executive officer for HealthCare Partners, a subsidiary of DaVita HealthCare, one of the largest physician-centric delivery systems in the country. Much of Dr. Samitt’s leadership career was spent as president and CEO of Dean Health System, one of the largest integrated health systems in the Midwest. Dr. Samitt serves on the board of directors of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and is serving a second three-year term as a commissioner for MedPAC, an influential, independent legislative branch agency established and appointed by the US Government Accountability Office to advise Congress on policies governing health plans and health care providers serving America’s Medicare beneficiaries. Dr. Samitt previously served on the boards of Advocate Physicians Partners, Tandigm Health, the Wisconsin Statewide Health Information Network, the Wharton Healthcare Alumni Association, and the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative Center for Accountable Care. He lectures extensively about the transformation of US health care, has been recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders,” and serves as an annual faculty lecturer at the Wharton School of Business. Dr. Samitt earned his undergraduate degree from Tufts University, medical degree from Columbia University, and MBA in health care management from the Wharton School of Business. He completed medical residency in internal medicine at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Ram D. Sriram, PhD, is the chief of the Software and Systems Division, Information Technology Laboratory, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is also the lead for the NIST’s Health IT Program. Before joining the Software and Systems Division, Dr. Sriram was the leader of the Design and Process group in the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division, Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, where he conducted research on standards

for interoperability of computer-aided design systems. Before joining NIST, he was on the engineering faculty (1986–1994) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was instrumental in setting up the Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory. Dr. Sriram has co-authored or authored more than 250 publications, including several books. He was a founding co-editor of the International Journal for AI in Engineering. Dr. Sriram has received several awards, including an NSF’s Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989); ASME Design Automation Award (2011); ASME CIE Distinguished Service Award (2014); the Washington Academy of Sciences’ Distinguished Career in Engineering Sciences Award (2015); and ASME CIE division’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2016). Dr. Sriram is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Washington Academy of Sciences, and a life member of the Association for Computing Machinery and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He has a B.Tech. from IIT, Madras, India, and an MS and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Ashwini M. Zenooz, MD, is the chief medical officer for the Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) in the Office of Secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). She most recently served as the deputy to the deputy undersecretary for Health Policy and Services, where she provided guidance and leadership on matters related to health care policy, strategic objectives, and policy requirements for legislatively mandated health care delivery programs. Before that, she was a Brookings Congressional Health Policy fellow in the US Senate. Dr. Zenooz is a practicing abdominal radiologist. She has held various clinical roles in the VA, including chief of imaging services at the NY Harbor Healthcare System. Her private sector radiology experience includes her practice at Brigham and Women’s Healthcare System and at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

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Y. Claire Wang, MD, ScD, is senior program advisor at the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and associate professor of health policy and management at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. She was trained as a physician epidemiologist and decision scientist, with expertise in health policy, outcomes research, and population health. She leads the NAM’s Vital Signs initiative, which aims to catalyze the refinement and adoption of a streamlined set of parsimonious measures to provide consistent benchmark for health progress and improve

system performance in the highest priority areas. As a member of the Columbia faculty, she co-directs the Obesity Prevention Initiative, a cross-disciplinary team focusing on environmental and policy approaches to preventing obesity at the community level, as well as the MPH certificate in Comparative Effectiveness and Outcomes Research. In 2015–2016, she was selected as Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy fellow, serving in the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health. She obtained her medical degree from National Taiwan University and her doctorate from Harvard School of Public Health.

Marianne Hamilton Lopez, PhD, MPA, is research director of the Value-Based Payment Reform portfolio at the Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University. In this role, she manages the center’s activities aimed at identifying barriers and facilitating implementation of new value-based payment models for pharmaceuticals, including gene therapies, and medical devices. She oversees the Developing a Path to Value-Based Reimbursement for Medical Products Consortium and partners with Duke University faculty, scholars, and external health experts to advance this work. Before joining Duke-Margolis, Dr. Hamilton Lopez was a senior program officer with the National Academy of Medicine’s Leadership Consortium for a Value & Science-Driven Health System and provided strategic direction and oversight of the consortium’s science and technology portfolio and the Clinical Effectiveness Research Innovation and Digital Learning Collaboratives. She was a senior manager at AcademyHealth; a public health community advisor for the United States Cochrane Center; and the Federal Women’s Program manager and American Indian/Alaska Native Employment Program manager for the National Institutes of Health.

J. Michael McGinnis, MD, MPP, a physician and epidemiologist, serves at the National Academy of Medicine as senior scholar, Leonard D. Schaeffer executive officer, executive director of the Leadership Consortium for a Value & Science-Driven Health System, and the NAM Learning Health System Initiative. He is also an elected member of the NAM (1999). Previously, Dr. McGinnis was senior vice president and head of the Health Group at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (1999–2005). Before that, he served as assistant surgeon general and deputy assistant secretary for health at the US Department of Health and Human Services, with continuous leadership responsibility from 1977 to 1995 for federal activities in disease prevention and health promotion, a tenure unusual for political and policy posts. Chair and founder of various national efforts, key programs developed and launched at his initiative include the Healthy People

national goals and objectives, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and the US Preventive Services Task Force, each still ongoing. Internationally, he worked in India as state director for the WHO smallpox eradication program (1974–1975), and in Bosnia as chair of the World Bank/European Commission Task Force for reconstruction in health and human services (1995–1996). Dr. McGinnis’s scientific interests focus on population health and the determinants of health, his publications include approximately 200 articles and more than 20 edited books, and among his national recognitions are the public health Distinguished Service Medal (1989), Health Leader of the Year Award (1996), and Public Health Hero Award (2013). His degrees are from Berkeley (1966), UCLA (1971), and Harvard (1977); he was commencement speaker at each.

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