1. Samuel Thier is president and chief executive officer of Partners HealthCare System in Boston, Massachusetts, and professor of medicine and of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. Previously he was president of Brandeis University and president of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine (IOM). Annetine Gelijns is associate professor of surgical sciences at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and School of Public Health. She is also director of Columbia's...