1. Allen Fremont is a natural scientist and sociologist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California.
2. Alice Y. Kim is a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation.
3. Katherine Bailey is CEO of the San Diego Healthcare Quality Collaborative, in Encinitas, California.
4. Hattie Rees Hanley is director of the Right Care Initiative, Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
5. Christine Thorne is medical director for family medicine and public health of Be There San Diego, in California.
6. R. James Dudl is clinical lead for diabetes at the Care Management Institute and Kaiser Permanente Community Health, in Oakland, California.
7. Robert M. Kaplan is director of research at the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC), Stanford University School of Medicine, in California.
8. Stephen M. Shortell is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, a professor of organization behavior at the School of Public Health and Professor of the Graduate School, codirector of the Center for Healthcare Organizational and Innovation Research, and dean emeritus at the School of Public Health, all at the University of California Berkeley.
9. Anthony N. DeMaria () is the Judy and Jack White Chair in Cardiology and a professor of internal medicine, University of California San Diego, in La Jolla.