1. Peter I. Buerhaus ( ) is the Valere Potter Professor of Nursing and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies, Department of Health Policy, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee, and chair of the National Health Care Workforce Commission.
2. Sheldon M. Retchin is the senior vice president for health sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, and vice chair of the National Health Care Workforce Commission.