Stuart H. Altman is the Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University. He has an M.A. and Ph.D. degree in Economics from UCLA and taught at Brown University and the Graduate School of Public Policy at University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Altman is an economist whose research interests are primarily in the area of federal and state health policy. In 2006, Health Affairs listed him among the authors of the 25 Most-Read Health Affairs Papers and 25 Most-Read Health Affairs Papers Overall online. Modern Healthcare, Celebrating 30 years, listed Stuart Altman among the 30 people who have had the most influence on healthcare over the past 30 years; and, for the past six years, they named him among the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare. In June 2004, he was awarded the AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator Award. From 2000-2002 he was Co-Chair for the Legislative Health Care Task Force for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 1997, he was appointed by President Clinton to the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Dr. Altman was Dean of The Florence Heller Graduate School from 2005 until 2008; and 1977 until July 1993. And, from 1990-1991 he was interim President of Brandeis University. He served as the Chairman of the congressionally legislated Prospective Payment Assessment Commission for twelve years. ProPac was responsible for advising the U.S. Congress and the Administration on the functioning of the Medicare Diagnostic Related Group (DRG) Hospital Payment System and other system reforms. Dr. Altman is a member of The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; a member of the Board of Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts; and, Co Chairman of the Advisory Board to the Schneider Institute for Health Policy at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. In addition, Dr. Altman has served on the Board of The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and on the Governing Council of The Institute of Medicine. He is Chair of The Council on Health Care Economics and Policy, a private non-partisan group whose mission is to analyze important economic aspects of the U.S. health care system and evaluate proposed changes in the system. He is also Chair of The Health Industry Forum which brings together diverse group leaders from across the health care field to develop solutions for critical problems facing the healthcare system.

A thought leader in the life sciences industry, Manhattan Research President Mark Bard has been changing how healthcare and pharmaceutical companies view marketing and technology. Global clients depend on his strategic guidance for developing their consumer and physician marketing plans. Mark is regularly quoted in major publications and media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, NY Times, and Future Healthcare. He is also is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on health administration, health technology, and the Internet's impact on health.

Lee joined Fidelity in 2006 and is the Vice President of Benefits Strategy. She is responsible for a strategy group that manages the overall benefits strategy and execution, including, program design and pricing, and employee engagement and education. She also leads benefits strategy on compensation and benefits total rewards analysis and redesign efforts. Previously, Lee worked for Towers Perrin in Boston as a senior consultant in their health and welfare practice and as a consultant and pension actuary in the retirement practice. She is a member of a leadership committee for the National Business Group on Health (NBGH), and is a member of a planning committee for the New England Employee Benefits Council (NEEBC). Lee also served on the Board of the Mass health Data Consortium from 2006-2009. Lee has an M.B.A. from Boston University and a B.S. in mathematics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She holds designations as a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) and a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP). She is also a graduate of the 2006 Class of Boston's Future Leaders, a program established by the Boston Chamber of Commerce to identify and develop top leaders in the community.

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is an internist and social scientist who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. He is a Professor of Medical Sociology in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School; Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and an Attending Physician in the Department of Medicine at the Harvard-affiliated Mt. Auburn Hospital. Dr. Christakis received his BS from Yale University in 1984, his MD from Harvard Medical School and his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1989, and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. His current research focuses on health and social networks, and specifically with how ill health, disability, health behavior, health care, and death in one person can influence the same phenomena in others in a person's social network. This work involves the application of network science and mathematical models to understand the dynamics of health in longitudinally evolving networks. To the extent that health behaviors such as smoking, drinking, or unhealthy eating spread within networks in intelligible ways, there are substantial implications for public health and health policy. This body of work has also engaged the spread of obesity and of emotional states such as happiness, depression, and loneliness within social networks. Dr. Christakis' past work was focused on topics related to end-of-life care, such as hospice care, widowhood and caregiver burden, ICU decision-making, and the role of prognostication in medicine (about which he has written two books).

John Glaser, PhD, is Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Previously, he was Vice President, Information Systems at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Prior to Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Glaser managed the Healthcare Information Systems consulting practice at Arthur D. Little. Dr. Glaser was the founding Chairman of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and is past President of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He is past-President of the eHealth Initiative and has been a member of the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association. Dr. Glaser is the Senior Advisor for National HIT Adoption for CHIME. He is a Senior Advisor to the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. He is a fellow of HIMSS, CHIME and the American College of Medical Informatics. He has been awarded the John Gall award for healthcare CIO of the year. CHIME has established a scholarship in Dr. Glaser's name. He was elected to CIO Magazine's CIO Hall of Fame. Partners HealthCare has received several industry awards for its effective and innovative use of information technology. Dr. Glaser has published over one hundred articles and four books on the strategic application of information technology in healthcare. He holds a Ph.D. in Healthcare Information Systems from the University of Minnesota.

John D. Halamka, MD, MS, is Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network (NEHEN), CEO of MA-SHARE (a Regional Health Information Organization), Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), and a practicing Emergency Physician. As Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he is responsible for all clinical, financial, administrative and academic information technology serving 3000 doctors, 14000 employees and two million patients. As Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School, he oversees all educational, research and administrative computing for 18000 faculty and 3000 students. As Chairman of NEHEN he oversees the administrative data exchange in Massachusetts. As CEO of MA-SHARE he oversees the clinical data exchange efforts in Massachusetts. As Chair of HITSP he coordinates the process of electronic standards harmonization among stakeholders nationwide.

Knowing that the frustrations she and her friends had finding good contractors were not unique, in 1995, Angie Hicks literally set out door-to-door in Columbus, OH, recruiting members and collecting reports from friends and neighbors. Taking the “ask-your-neighbor” approach to a higher level, Angie used the detailed feedback from members as the basis for providing up-to-date, reliable, unbiased ratings and reviews on local services. After the first year, with more than 1,000 members throughout Columbus, Angie had laid the foundation for what would become one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. Over these last 12 years, she has led the list’s expansion from a 100-square-foot-office to an operation that now covers more than 120 major cities across the U.S., serves more than 650,000 consumers and was placed for three years in a row — 2002, 2003 and 2004 — among the Inc. 500 by Inc. magazine, a list of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the nation. All the while, Angie’s keen sense of business and common sense have helped Angie’s List remain a locally-focused service that members say they wouldn’t live without. Over the years, consumers have come to trust Angie to help make the hiring process easier, as well as raise the level of service they can expect from local companies and contractors. In 2007, Angie’s List members directed more than $2.3 billion to contractors found (and/or reported on) through Angie’s List. Angie’s official title at Angie’s List is Founder and Chief Marketing Officer. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in economics from DePauw University, in Greencastle, IN, which named her a 2007 Distinguished Alumni for Management and Entrepreneurship.

Dr. Hwang is an internal medicine physician and co-founded Innosight Institute, a non-profit social innovation think tank based in San Francisco, CA. Together with Professor Clayton M. Christensen of Harvard Business School and the late Jerome H. Grossman of Harvard Kennedy School of Government, he is co-author of The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care. Previously, Dr. Hwang taught as chief resident and clinical instructor at the University of California, Irvine, where he received multiple recognitions for his clinical work. He has also served as a clinician with the Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach, California. Dr. Hwang received his B.S. and M.D. from the University of Michigan and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Sarah Iselin is Commissioner, Health Care Finance and Policy, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is also a co -chair of the Special Commission on the Health Care Payment System, which is evaluating the health care payment system and recommending reforms that will provide incentives for cost -effective and patient -centered care. She previously served as Chief of Staff for the Health Care Services group at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, which is responsible for the company 's health care quality and cost, member health, provider contracting and provider services divisions. Prior to that, She was the Director of Policy, Research and Evaluation for the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation and was responsible for setting and directing the Foundation 's policy agenda including the Roadmap to Coverage initiative, which helped build and sustain momentum for the state 's landmark health reform law. Ms. Iselin has also served as the Director of Health Care Finance at the Massachusetts Hospital Association and has held policy positions at DHCFP and the Visiting Nurse Association of Boston. Ms. Iselin earned a Master 's degree in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health and her undergraduate degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Joseph C. Kvedar, M.D., is the Founder and Director of the Center for Connected Health, applying communications technology and online resources to increase access and improve the delivery of quality medical services and patient care outside of the traditional medical setting. The term connected health reflects the range of opportunities for technology-enabled care programs and the potential for new strategies in healthcare delivery. A division of Partners HealthCare, the Center for Connected Health works with Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospitals, including Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals. Dr. Kvedar is also a board-certified dermatologist and Associate Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School. In his role with the Center for Connected Health, Dr. Kvedar launched the first physician-to-physician online consultation service in an academic setting. He is also leading important research in the use of a combination of remote-monitoring technology, sensors, and online communications and intelligence to improve patient adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes. Dr. Kvedar is internationally recognized for his leadership and vision in the field of connected health and the application of communications technologies to improve healthcare to patients. Dr. Kvedar is co-editor of the book, Home Telehealth: Connecting Care within the Community, the first book to report on the applications of technology to deliver quality healthcare in the home, published by RSM Press, London. He is a frequent lecturer and has authored over 60 publications on connected health. In 2003, Dr. Kvedar was honored by the New England Business and Technology Association for his extraordinary leadership in the field. Dr. Kvedar is a past President and board member of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). Dr. Kvedar is also Immediate Past Chair of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) Task Force on Telemedicine.

Linda Magno directs the Medicare Demonstrations Program Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Her group is responsible for developing, implementing and managing Medicare demonstrations of new models of health care delivery for the nation's 40 million Medicare beneficiaries. Medicare demonstrations have historically tested the impacts, feasibility and desirability of new benefits, payment methodologies, and delivery system alternatives, before they were incorporated into the Medicare program on a permanent basis. Ms. Magno previously served as managing director for policy development and director of regulatory affairs at the American Hospital Association in Washington, DC. She started her career at CMS' predecessor agency, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). In her first tour at HCFA, she was responsible for implementing and refining the prospective payment system for hospitals. Ms. Magno has a Master's degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Edward Markey (born July 11, 1946 ) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1976, representing the 7th District of Massachusetts. Markey is the Dean of the Massachusetts House delegation and the New England House delegation as well. He is also the third longest serving member of Congress from New England, behind Ted Kennedy and Patrick Leahy. Markey was born in Malden, Massachusetts, and was educated at Malden Catholic High School, Boston College and Boston College Law School. He served in the United States Army Reserve, and was a lawyer and member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing Malden and Melrose before entering the House in 1976. He is well known for his advocacy for ending torture and the practice of extraordinary rendition, through the Torture Outsourcing Prevention Act. He is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.The National Journal generally gave him a 'Composite Liberal ' score in the mid -90s. Since May 2005, he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. In 2004, he announced that he would run for John Kerry 's seat in the United States Senate if Kerry were to be elected President of the United States. Although Kerry lost the election, Markey was easily reelected in 2004 over Republican Kenneth Chase and Independent Jim Hall. He was one of the 31 who voted in the House to not count the electoral votes from Ohio in the 2004 Presidential election. He is responsible for introducing legislation to change daylight saving time to begin on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November starting in 2007. In 2003, he began to call attention to the lack of security surrounding air cargo placed on commercial passenger planes, arguing that if all passenger baggage is screened for explosive devices, air cargo on the same plane should be as well. In 2007, he succeeded in getting a 100 percent air cargo screening requirement signed into law, which must be implemented within three years.

Dr. Marshall is the Vice President of Product Strategy for WebMD Health. Dr. Marshall has focused his career in helping put consumers at the center of health care. At WebMD since 1998, he has innovated in the areas of Personal Health Records, personalization, and solutions that help consumers make better health care decisions. Dr. Marshall oversees WebMD Health's corporate and payer market product strategy, helping over 150 large employers and health plans deploy solutions that aid in their transition to consumer-centric health care. Dr. Marshall is currently also active in creating connectivity solutions that connect consumers to the different providers and systems that are part of their continuum of care. Dr. Marshall received his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine, and has residency training in general surgery and public health and preventive medicine. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is also the Executive Director of the Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps - a non-profit youth performing arts organization.

Dr. Mongan is president and chief executive officer of Partners HealthCare in Boston, an integrated health system founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, both of which are nationally ranked as among the best hospitals in the U.S. In addition to its two academic medical centers, the Partners system also includes community and specialty hospitals, a physician network, community health centers, home health and long-term care services, and other health-related entities. Partners is one of the nation's leading biomedical research organizations and a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization. A professor of health policy and a professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Mongan also serves on the board of the Commonwealth Fund and chairs its Commission on a High Performance Health System. Prior to being appointed president and CEO of Partners in 2003, Dr. Mongan was president for seven years of Massachusetts General Hospital, the largest and oldest teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. He also served for fifteen years as executive director of the Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, a large public hospital, and in seven of those years was also the dean of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. Beginning in 1970, Dr. Mongan spent 11 years in Washington, first as staff to the Senate Finance Committee working on Medicare and Medicaid legislation, and later in the Carter administration as deputy assistant secretary for health and associate director of the domestic policy staff in the Carter White House. Dr. Mongan is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has served on the boards of the American Hospital Association and the Kaiser Family Foundation, and was a member of both the Medicare Prospective Payment Assessment Commission established by Congress and the Institute of Medicine's Commission on the Consequences of Uninsurance. A native of San Francisco, Dr. Mongan received his undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, and his medical degree from Stanford University Medical School. He completed his internship at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco, and served for two years in the U.S. Public Health Service. Dr. Mongan has received numerous awards and was most recently recognized by Modern Healthcare as the Most Powerful Physician Executive in the U.S. in 2008.

As corporate vice president for the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft Corp., Peter Neupert is responsible for developing and driving the company's product and services strategy for health around the globe. Working with Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie, Neupert identifies market opportunities and investments where Microsoft can provide disruptive technology innovations that empower users and enable transformation. In his position leading the Health Solutions Group, Neupert uses software to address business and clinical productivity issues across enterprise and research organizations with the Microsoft Amalga family of products, as well as the personal health needs of the individual consumer through Microsoft HealthVault. Before rejoining Microsoft, Neupert served as president and chief executive officer of Drugstore.com Inc. from July 1998 to April 2001, and continued as chairman of the board of directors through September 2004. Neupert led Drugstore.com to become a top online retail store and information site for health, wellness, beauty and pharmacy products. In 2000, he received an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for his work at Drugstore.com. Neupert served in various capacities at Microsoft from 1987 to 1998. He started at Microsoft as the director of operating systems responsible for shipping OS/2, and later was responsible for MSNBC as vice president of News and Publishing for the interactive media group. Neupert served on President Bush's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 2003 to 2005. On that committee, he co-chaired the Health Information Technology subcommittee and helped drive the report "Revolutionizing Health Care Through Information Technology, " published in June 2004 by PITAC. He is an active member of the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine and sits on the Pacific Health Summit Advisory Board, as well as the board of GlobalScholar.com. Neupert holds a master's degree in business administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a bachelor's degree from Colorado College.

Dr. Puskin is the Director of the Federal Office for the Advancement of Telehealth. Prior to her current position, Dr. Puskin served as the Acting Director of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP). Dr. Puskin has assumed many leadership positions within and outside of government, including serving on the Board of the American Telemedicine Association. Prior to joining ORHP in 1988, Dr. Puskin was a senior analyst at Congress's Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (predecessor to MedPAC), where she developed the model for annual updates of Medicare payment rates to hospitals and worked on numerous economic issues related to rural hospitals and specialty hospitals in the U.S. (psychiatric, rehabilitation, and chronic disease hospitals). From 1982-1984, she was employed by the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association as a senior legislative analyst in Washington D.C. Dr. Puskin served as the Research Director at the Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency and as Assistant Professor of Community Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry from 1977-1981. Dr. Puskin currently chairs the Joint Working Group on Telemedicine, the Federal interagency committee coordinating the development of telemedicine initiatives across the Federal government. Dr. Puskin spends considerable time speaking at national forums and writing academic papers and reports on Telehealth and broader health care financing issues. Dr. Puskin received her Sc.D. degree in Health Policy and Research from Johns Hopkins University, a M.S. degree in Community Medicine from the University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, and B.A. and M.A. degrees in Biology from Boston University.

Joseph L. Ternullo, JD, MPH, Associate Director, Partners Center for Connected Health, focuses on policy, contracting, enterprise relationships and corporate -sponsored research. Founder and organizing chair of Partners ' annual Connected Health Symposium, Joe is a founder of Continua Health Alliance and previously served on its board of directors and as its initial vice president. Joe has served on the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women 's Hospital institutional review boards, the American Telemedicine Association 's policy committee, the Center for e -Health Law legal advisory board and the American Health Information Community Chronic Care Workgroup - the federal advisory body chartered to make recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on accelerating the development and adoption of health information technology. Currently, Mr. Ternullo serves as a member of the board of directors of Massachusetts Health Quality Partners. He has earned degrees from Boston College, Bentley College, Boston University and Harvard and is on the Northeastern University adjunct faculty where he teaches healthcare informatics law.

Peter Tippett is vice president research and intelligence - security solutions for Verizon Business and is the chief scientist of security testing specialist ICSA Labs. An information security pioneer, Tippett has led the computer security industry for more than 20 years, initially as a vendor of security products, and over the past 15 years, as a key strategist. He is widely credited with creating the first commercial anti -virus product that later became Norton Anti -Virus. Tippett is best known for his creation of enterprise risk metrics and large risk intelligence and compliance management programs for enterprises. President Bush appointed Tippett to serve on the President 's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC ) to guide US efforts in healthcare IT, information security and computational sciences research. InfoWorld recognized Tippett as one of the 25 Most Influential chief technology officers for 2002. He won the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. Tippett has written many articles and papers on IT and information security and was the founding executive publisher of Information Security Magazine. Prior to joining Verizon Business, Tippett was the CTO of Cybertrust and Chairman of MD -IT. He was instrumental in developing the Cybertrust Security Management Program, which has served over 1,000 organizations for 11 years. Before Cybertrust Tippett was the CEO of NCSA and ICSA and was chairman of TruSecure. In the early 90 's he directed the Enterprise and Security products group at Symantec. In addition to start -up and CEO positions, Tippett has led large software development, product management, production labs, technology research and intelligence teams in his business career. Early in his IT career, when working at Certus, Tippett pioneered and commercialized a string of nowcommon technologies, including what is now called the 'rescue disk, ' code signing (hashing for execution control ), trusted file execution, anomaly detection, and aspects of mail merge and the 'un -do ' command. He also created and sold the first cyber insurance to enterprises. Before the first PC was marketed, during the early 80 's, Tippett ran one of the largest open source (shareware ) bulletin boards. Tippett studied under two different Nobel Prize laureates at Rockefeller University and has both an MD and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He began his career as a commercial radio engineer and flight instructor.

Peter A. Ubel, M.D., is the George C. Dock Collegiate Professor of Medicine and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, Co-Director of the University of Michigan Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, and Director of the Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan. His research explores controversial issues about the role of values and preferences in health care decision making, from decisions at the bedside to policy decisions. He uses the tools of decision psychology and behavioral economics to explore topics like informed consent, shared decision making and health care policy. Dr. Ubel has won many research awards, including a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Clinton in 2000. He has published articles for lay audiences in places like The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Leader and The Huffington Post. He has significant experience communicating his research findings to broad audiences on radio and television, including guest appearances on Talk of the Nation, Fresh Air, and All Things Considered. He is author of Pricing Life: Why it is time for health care rationing (MIT Press, 2000), and You're stronger than you think: Tapping the secrets of emotionally resilient people (McGraw-Hill, 2006). His newest book is Free Market Madness: Why economics is at odds with human nature—and why it matters (Harvard Business School Press 2009).

Dr. Zeiger is a Product Manager at Google where he helps lead Google Health and also works on improving the quality of health-related search. He has worked as a primary care physician, in urgent care, and has served as a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Zeiger received his MD from Stanford and completed an internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco. He was a fellow in medical informatics at Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, California, and received a masters degree in biomedical informatics from Stanford University.