Dr. Jerry Abraham is currently a Resident Physician at the University of Southern California (USC) Family Medicine Residency Program at California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC) in Downtown Los Angeles. Dr. Abraham has worked on Global Health projects around the world, collaborating with the World Bank, the World Health Organization and the United Nations in sub-Saharan Africa, throughout Latin America & the Caribbean, the Middle East and South Asia preventing injuries and promoting safety. Dr. Abraham currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the California Medical Association (CMA), the Board of Trustees of the American College of Medical Quality (ACMQ), and the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA). He is also a Delegate of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) to the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegate and also serves as a Delegate to the Committee on Interns and Residents (CIR). He is the Founder and Chair of the Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Housestaff Committee and currently serves as a member of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC). Dr. Abraham's clinical interests include: Medical Quality, Patient Safety & Quality Improvement, Patient-Centered Medical Home & Patient Advocacy, Health Policy & Healthcare Delivery Science, Integrative Medicine, Global Health & Health Metrics, Injury Prevention & Safety Promotion and full-spectrum Family & Community Medicine.

Charlene McFeeley is the Vice President of Healthcare Initiatives for ExamMed, the only universal healthcare technology platform that offers providers a patient-centered, complete model of care, both virtual and in-office. The platform works by bundling a video enabled provider-specific telehealth platform, centralized patient scheduling and messaging capabilities, interoperable EMR/EHR exchange, access to specialty care providers and referrals in one holistic solution. She is a masters prepared, nationally certified Family Nurse Practitioner as well as a Nurse Life Care Planner with over 26 years of combined nursing and nurse practitioner experience in many areas of healthcare. She is also the co-founder and managing partner of The River Practice, the first virtual Nurse Practitioner practice in the U.S. She has broad experience in virtual care and telemedicine dating back to 1996. The River Practice and ExamMed support the triple aim of healthcare by creating a virtual patient centered medical home model of care.

Barbara Pyle is a Certified Family Nurse Practitioner with over 30 years of experience in rural health care, primary care, student health, occupational/corporate health. Barbara serves on multiple patient care and hospital committees and is part of the steering committee for the patient centered medical home model of care at Western Maryland Health System. In addition, Barbara is a founding member of The River Practice, an NP led model of virtual care. She received her BSN and MSN from West Virginia University, and her MBA from Frostburg State University.

John Iglehart is the former editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, a bimonthly policy journal he founded in 1981, led until September 2007, and then resumed in 2013-2014 with the departure of Susan Dentzer. The journal is published by Project HOPE, a not-for-profit international health education organization. Iglehart is also a national correspondent for The New England Journal of Medicine. Before 1981, Iglehart served for two years as a vice president of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and director of its Washington, D.C. office. During the decade 1969 to 1979, Iglehart held a variety of editorial positions, including the editorship of National Journal, a privately published weekly on federal policymaking. He was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences in 1977 and served on its Governing Council for six years (1985-1991). He also is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and serves on the Advisory Board of the National Institute for Health Care Management. He holds a degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and has been a journalist-in-residence at Harvard University.

Christine Bechtel is the President and CEO of Bechtel Health Advisory Group, focused on accelerating innovation and implementation of patient and family engagement and patient-centered care. She currently serves on the federal Health IT Policy Committee as a consumer representative and also co-chairs the Center for Patients, Families and Consumers at the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative on behalf of the National Partnership for Women & Families, a non-profit consumer organization, where she serves as an advisor. Previously, she was vice president of the National Partnership for five years, and her previous work also included leadership and advisory roles at the eHealth Initiative (eHI), the American Health Quality Association, AARP, and Louisiana's Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, eQHealth Solutions. She began her career as a legislative associate for U.S. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD). She holds a BA degree in politics and public policy from Goucher College in Baltimore and a master's in political management from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Mrs. Brenda Kerl is a patient partner and member of the Community Council at Southeast Texas Medical Associates (SETMA). She was born in Beaumont, Texas where she attended South Park High School. During her senior year, her family moved to Wildwood, Texas and she graduated from Warren High School. Mrs. Kerl holds an Associate's Degree in Computer Networking and Trouble Shooting from Lamar Institute of Technology. She has been her husband's full time caregiver since his illness forced him to retire. Mrs. Kerl and her husband Bill have been married for 23 years.

Chantel Sheaks is General Counsel for the International Association of Machinists National IAM Benefits Trust Fund in Washington, DC. Previously she was a Principal at Buck Consultants, leading the firm's Government Affairs Division and managing the firm's publications and research teams. She was also Legislative Counsel for Tax and Benefits at Workplace Flexibility 2010 and a partner at McDermott, Will & Emery in the firm's Employee Benefits Department. She received her JD from Northeastern University School of Law and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Laurel Pickering is President & CEO of Northeast Business Group on Health (NEBGH), a 190 member business coalition representing over 1 million covered lives, committed to market-based health care reform, quality improvement and value-based purchasing. NEBGH also provides the employer's perspective on current health care issues to legislators and healthcare organizations. Ms. Pickering is Chair of the Board of Directors of the NEBGH subsidiary, HealthPass, a health insurance exchange for small businesses. NEBGH leads the Leapfrog Group regional rollout in the NY Metro area and Ms. Pickering is overseeing that initiative.

Ms. Pickering currently serves on NCQA's Standards Committee, the Board of Directors of The Leapfrog Group, National Business Coalition on Health, CDC's Business and Labor Responds to AIDS Board of Business and Labor Partners, the Commissioner of NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Advisory Council, and the Community Advisory Committee of the New York State Health Foundation. She was selected as one of New York's rising stars by Crain's and featured in the 2007 40 Under 40 issue. She received her BA in Anthropology from SUNY Albany and MPH from Emory University.

Dr. Bruce Sherman serves as the Medical Director for the RightOpt private exchange offering for Xerox. In this role, he provides strategic guidance for development, implementation and ongoing management of integrated, value-based health and performance management strategies for exchange employer clients. Additionally, he is the Medical Director for the Ohio-based Employers Health Coalition, Inc., where he provides health management strategies to the organization's members, and provides strategic guidance for the coalition's data warehouse program. Previously he was the consulting corporate medical director for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Whirlpool Corporation, and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. Dr. Sherman has particular interests in the areas of the business value of health and evaluation of quality and efficiency in health care delivery. Dr. Sherman received his MD from New York University School of Medicine, his MA from Harvard University and his bachelor's degree from Brown University. He is board-certified in internal medicine. Dr. Sherman continues as a member of the clinical faculty in the Department of Medicine at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Dr. David Nace serves as Vice President of Clinical Development for the McKesson Corporation. Prior to his current role, Nace served as Senior Vice President and Corporate Medical Director with United Health Group, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer with the Aetna Corporation , and founding principal of Health Strategy Solutions, LLC, a benefits consulting firm serving large employers. He has also held medical directorships in a variety of academic and community based health care organizations, as well as a privately owned EAP company. He currently serves as chairman of the board of directors for the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative, where he led the PCPCC Center for e-Health since the organizations founding. Nace also holds a position on the board of directors of the Integrated Healthcare Association, a statewide multi-stakeholder leadership group that promotes quality improvement, accountability and affordability of health care in California, as well as with the Care Continuum Alliance based in Washington D.C.

He has served as a consultant for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Wharton School of Business, and the United Nations Business Council. He has also served as an advisor to the American Medical Association, the National Business Group on Health, the World Health Organization, and the International Labor Organization on issues ranging from health promotion and wellness to employer policy and health care financing issues.

Dr. James L. (Larry) Holly is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Southeast Texas Medical Associates (SETMA, www.setma.com). He is a graduate of the University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio, where he is an Adjunct Professor of Family and Community Medicine. He is also an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Texas A&M College of Medicine.

In 1998, Dr. Holly led SETMA to adopt electronic medical records. SETMA has become a leader in healthcare informatics winning many awards including the HIMSS Davies award and Stories of Success, and the eHI Innovator of the Year in 2012. Dr Holly writes and lectures extensively on health policy, informatics and healthcare transformation. SETMA is an NCQA Tier III Patient-Centered Medical Home (2010-2016), is accredited by AAAHC as a medical home (2010-2017), URAC (2014-2017) and The Joint Commission (2014-2017). AHRQ published SETMA's LESS Initiative on their Innovation Exchange. SETMA also holds the NCQA Distinction for Patient Satisfaction, NCQA Diabetes Recognition and NCQA Heart and Stroke Recognition. For 2013, 2013 and 2014, The Texas Physician Practice Quality Improvement Award Committee recognized SETMA with The Texas Physician Practice Quality Improvement Award. HIMSS published SETMA's history on their Stories of Success website. Dr. Holly has been named the HIMSS' Physician IT Leadership Award recipient for 2012.

Starting in 2009, SETMA has publicly reported, by provider name performance on over 300 quality metrics at www.setma.com/public-reporting. For the past seventeen years, Dr. Holly has written a weekly healthcare column. All columns are posted on SETMA's website under Your Life Your Health. Dr. Holly is a frequent invited speak at national meetings on healthcare policy and quality, on healthcare informatics and on the place of data analytics in primary care.

Dr. Farzad Mostashari is the CEO of Aledade, a start-up he co-founded aimed at helping primary care doctors transform their practices and form accountable care organizations (ACOs). Prior to Aledade, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, where he focused on payment reform and delivery system transformation. He served from 2011-2013 as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology where he coordinated US efforts to build a health information technology infrastructure for healthcare reform and consumer empowerment. During his tenure at the Office of the National Coordinator, including his two years as Principal Deputy, he led the implementation of the Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. He also collaborated with CMS on the design and implementation of the "Meaningful Use" Incentive Program, in addition to programs for health information exchange, health IT workforce, research, and privacy and security. Previously, he served at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as Assistant Commissioner for the Primary Care Information Project, where he co-led agile development of population health management functionality within a commercial EHR. Dr. Mostashari also led the NYC Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics and an AHRQ-funded project focused on quality measurement at the point of care.

He conducted graduate training at the Harvard School of Public Health and Yale Medical School, served his internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and completed the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service program. He was a lead investigator in the outbreaks of West Nile Virus, and anthrax in New York City, and among the first developers of real-time nationwide electronic disease surveillance systems.

Dr. Marci Nielsen is Chief Executive Officer of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC). She previously served as Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs and Associate Professor within the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, where she was twice awarded Professor of the Year by her students. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, TransforMED, LLC (a wholly owned, non-profit subsidiary of the American Academy of Family Physicians), and the MidAmerica Coalition on Health Care. She also has been a committee member on the Institute of Medicine's Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2020 and Living Well with Chronic Illness: A Call for Public Health Action. She serves as the first public (non-physician) member on the American Board of Family Medicine. Prior to rejoining the KU faculty, she was appointed by then-Governor Kathleen Sebelius to oversee Kansas' health care agency, the Kansas Health Policy Authority (KHPA). At the national level, she has worked as a legislative assistant to U.S Senator Bob Kerrey (D-Nebraska) and as the health lobbyist and assistant director of legislation for the AFL-CIO. She earned her MPH degree from George Washington University and her PhD in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.