David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., is president of The Commonwealth Fund, a national philanthropy engaged in independent research on health and social policy issues.

Dr. Blumenthal is formerly the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief Health Information and Innovation Officer at Partners Healthcare System in Boston. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, with the charge to build an interoperable, private, and secure nationwide health information system and to support the widespread, meaningful use of health IT. He succeeded in putting in place one of the largest publicly funded infrastructure investments the nation has ever made in such a short time period, in health care or any other field.

Previously, Dr. Blumenthal was a practicing primary care physician, director of the Institute for Health Policy, and professor of medicine and health policy at Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School. He is the author of more than 250 books and scholarly publications, including most recently, Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and serves on the editorial boards of the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation. He has also served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research; is the founding chairman of AcademyHealth, the national organization of health services researchers; and a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

Dr. Blumenthal received his undergraduate, medical, and public policy degrees from Harvard University and completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. With his colleagues from Harvard Medical School, he authored the seminal studies on the adoption and use of health information technology in the United States. He has held several leadership positions in medicine, government, and academia, including senior vice president at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and executive director of the Center for Health Policy and Management and lecturer on public policy at the Kennedy School of Government. He served previously on the board of the University of Chicago Health System and is recipient of the Distinguished Investigator Award from AcademyHealth, an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Rush University and an Honorary Doctor of Science from Claremont Graduate University and the State University of New York Downstate.

Eugene Heslin, MD is a board certified family practice physician in Kingston, NY, and Former President/Co-Owner of Bridge Street Medical Arts LLC. He is actively involved in several health care organizations in his community and throughout the Catskills and the Hudson Valley as a board member of the Health Alliance Planning Board, Kingston Hospital, and the THINC RHIO, and he has previously served on the boards of other local health care organizations. Gene is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Ulster County Medical Society. He is also an Eagle Scout and actively involved in Boy Scouts of America activities.

Paul F. Macielak is president and CEO of the New York Health Plan Association (HPA), an Albany-based organization that represents 29 health plans across New York State. Collectively, those plans provide comprehensive health care services to more than eight million New Yorkers.

As the chief executive of HPA, Mr. Macielak is responsible for development of policy positions for the organization, advocacy with the executive and legislative branches of government, and serves as lead spokesperson to the media and the public on issues relating to the managed care industry.

Prior to joining HPA, Mr. Macielak was Vice President and Vice Provost for Government, Community and Public Affairs for the New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Before that, he served as Counsel to the Majority Leader of the New York State Senate (1989-1992) and Chief Counsel to the Assembly Minority Leader (1983-1988).

Mr. Macielak is a gubernatorial appointment to the NYS Immunization Council, Governor’s Advisory Task Force on Federal Health Care Reform and is a former member of the New York State Hospital Review and Planning Council (SHRPC). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Island Peer Review Organization (IPRO) and is a founding member and chair of the Board of Directors of the Healthcare Information Xchange of New York (HIXNY).

A graduate of Albany Law School in 1975, Mr. Macielak received his undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester in 1972.

Patrick J. Roohan is the Former Director of the Office of Quality and Patient Safety (OQPS), New York State Department of Health (DOH). As director, he was responsible for monitoring quality of care and patient safety across the entire DOH, leading the quality and evaluation of the Medicaid program, and advancing the DOH’s Health Information Technology, including the Statewide Health Information for New York (SHIN-NY), the All Payer Database and OPEN.DATA.NY. Mr. Roohan is the former director of the Division of Quality and Evaluation, Office of Health Insurance Programs, DOH, where he was responsible for the evaluation of Medicaid and managed care program initiatives, the development of data systems for research and cost evaluation, development of risk adjustment premium models and evaluation of quality through performance measurement. He has published extensively in the areas of health services research, quality of care and evaluation. Mr. Roohan received his Masters of Science in Operations Research and Statistics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.