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David Gustafson, PhD,

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Jeffrey M. Johnston is President and CEO of Decisions Innovations, Inc., a division of Johnston, Zabor & Associates, Inc. (JZA) He has built Johnston, Zabor & Associates, Inc. (JZA) into a leading marketing and communications research company specializing in health care. JZA’s clients include many Fortune 500 health care companies. Decision Innovations, Inc. (DII) offers technology solutions in the areas of benefits. It has developed sophisticated Web-based employee preference and satisfaction research and employee decision support tools and self-service. PlanSmartChoice Decision Support Tools is used to help employees choose health plans, carve-outs, flex plans and retirement fund options. Mr. Johnston’s previous venture was the development of a no-fault medical malpractice insurance program.

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Shannah Koss is the Program Director for Government and Healthcare at IBM. She is the marketing manager for the government health care segment and responsible for positioning IBM’s health care information technology capabilities in response to changes in the legal requirements for the health care market. Ms. Koss is currently leading the establishment of IBM’s Healthcare Security Practice. Prior to joining IBM, Ms. Koss was a manager for the Federal Office of Management and Budget overseeing health care programs and Federal healthcare information requirements. She co-chaired the Information Systems Working Group in the Clinton Administration Health Care Task Force. She has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and a Master’s from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Doug Levy joined USA Today as a science and medical writer in February 1994 and became a technology reporter in the newspaper’s Silicon Valley bureau in January 1998. As a medical writer, he covered the Food and Drug Administration, emergency medical services, general health, medical ethics, scientific misconduct, and efforts to improve medical care and public health. Mr. Levy previously was science editor at United Press International, a producer at the Mutual Broadcasting System/NBC Radio Networks and a freelance reporter for National Public Radio. He also served as director of the Health NewsFeed radio service at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and produced Report on Medicine for WCBS radio in New York in that capacity.

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Sandra B. McCray is Executive Director of Colorado HealthNet, Reaching Youth and Teens with Online Prevention Education. In 1998, McCray retired from her position as Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado Graduate School of Business (where she taught telecommunications law in the graduate Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program), Boulder. Ms. McCray has served as First Assistant Attorney General in Colorado, Administrator of the Colorado Uniform Consumer Credit Code, legal counsel to the Multistate Tax Commission, and Director of the New York Tax Study Commission. She has also served as a consultant to the Advisory commission on Intergovernmental Relations in Washington DC, the Urban Institute, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors in Washington DC, and the states of Nevada, Massachusetts, and Indiana. Ms. McCray’s publications on regulatory systems in the banking, telecommunication, and insurance industries appear in various law reviews and other professional publications. Her publications have been cited by state supreme courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. McCray’s public service activities include serving as a board member for boulder County Hospice, member of the Colorado State Banking Board, and producer and director of two public interest videos on Parenting and Teen Violence in Boulder County. In January 1996, she was appointed to the medical review board of the federal ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease) Network #15. Ms. McCray received a kidney transplant in 1994 and two total hip replacements in 1995.

David A. Meyerson is Senior Clinical Cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland. He is a recipient of a Preventive Cardiology Academic Award from the National Institutes of Health, and has devoted substantial clinical and research efforts to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. He is past president and current national spokesperson for the American Heart Association and has recently testified before Congress on issues relating to tobacco legislation. It his belief that as a profession, those in medicine do not adequately communicate with the public, Dr. Meyerson hosts a weekly radio program called HealthTalk, sponsored by Johns Hopkins and heard in six states. Dr. Meyerson serves on a congressional health care advisory committee for Rep. Benjamin Cardin and also serves on managed care scientific oversight committees for Johns Hopkins Medicine. He is the first medical faculty member to be elected to Leadership Maryland.

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