1. David W. Bates ( ) is chief of the Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts.
2. Suchi Saria is an assistant professor of computer science and health policy management at the Center for Population Health and IT, Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland.
3. Lucila Ohno-Machado is associate dean for informatics and technology in the Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla.
4. Anand Shah is vice president of clinical services at PCCI, in Dallas, Texas.
5. Gabriel Escobar is regional director of hospital operations research and director of the Systems Research Initiative, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, in Oakland, California.