Partner and Co-Chair, Health Law Group, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, and Instructor, Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley, Schools of Public Health in Seattle, Washington and San Francisco, California.

Peter Grant is President and CEO of Health Care Conference Administrators, L.L.C., a company which sponsors media and educational events, including national conferences, internet-based events, and publications on matters of health care practice and policy. He is an Instructor at both the Harvard and University of California at Berkeley Schools of Public Health. Mr. Grant is a partner and chair of the Health Law Section of Davis Wright Tremaine, L.L.P. (DWT). DWT has fourteen offices with 375 attorneys, including approximately 50 health care attorneys.

Mr. Grant is Listed in the 1996-97, 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 editions of The Best Lawyers in America. He is past president of both the California Society of Healthcare Attorneys and the Northern California Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Mr. Grant is general counsel to both the IPA Association of America and the California Integrated Healthcare Association.

Mr. Grant has a BA in Plan II, with special honors, from the University of Texas at Austin. He attended the Sorbonne and Free University of West Berlin. He received a JD from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA and PhD from Harvard University.

Steven S. Lazarus, PhD, FHIMSS, is president of MSA Corp and managing principal of The Boundary Information Group (BIG) in Denver, CO. Steve is one of the leading contributors to policy development and business solution implementation in healthcare utilizing electronic commerce. Since 1993, he has served on the board of advisors and in key leadership positions with the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI). He has been instrumental in building consensus among providers, payers, government, consumers, and vendors on the need to have standardized implementation guides for all electronic commerce transactions. He is actively engaged in developing business models for realizing the benefits of HIPAA regulations, as well as participating in an advisory capacity for the Interoperability Internet Security Pilot Project under co-sponsorship of WEDI and the Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions (AFEHCT).

As the former associate executive director of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), the Center for Research in Ambulatory Health Care Administration, and the American College of Medical Practice Executives, Steve has had extensive experience in productivity benchmarking for medical group practices. His current consulting activities focus on information systems strategic planning, systems selection, and implementation management for physician groups, integrated delivery systems, and hospitals with significant ambulatory care delivery capabilities.

Steve earned his BS degree in industrial engineering from Cornell University and MS degree in industrial engineering and operations research from Polytechnic University. The University of Rochester awarded him a PhD in business administration.

Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH has over 18 years experience in medical research, continuous quality improvement, risk management and health care consulting. As founder of his own company, he worked on quality improvement studies and clinical investigations for the National Institutes of Health, the Framingham Heart Study, and Boston University Medical School. Chaiken also assisted hospitals and technology firms in the creation of medical software products and authoring of marketing communication materials.

Over the past 14 years Chaiken provided expertise in quality and patient safety to provider organizations helping them utilize information technology to improve clinical and administrative activities. He has served as guest lecturer and consultant on topics including patient safety, clinician adoption of information technology, quality improvement and managed care.

Chaiken is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health as well as Health Care Quality Management. He is Chief Medical Officer and on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians (ABQAURP), and also serves as chairperson on its CME committee. Chaiken has delivered more than 50 CME lectures, and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Patient Safety, the Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management, and the journal of Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare. He currently writes a column on quality and technology for the journal of Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare.

Chaiken received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NYC, his masters in public health degree in health services administration from the Harvard School of Public Health and his bachelors of arts degree in psychology from the University at Albany. He acquired his specialty training from the Centers for Disease Control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and from the New Jersey State Department of Health as a preventive medicine resident. Chaiken has an academic appointment at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business as a Senior Scholar.

Dr. Coye has been called a visionary by the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT), a national organization that advocates for making consumers partners in their care.

Molly Coye, MD, MPH is the founder and CEO of the Health Technology Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the use of beneficial technologies for healthier people and communities. Until 2000, Dr. Coye was the director of the west coast office for The Lewin Group, a leader in health care policy, strategic planning and management consulting. Dr. Coye previously directed product development for HealthDesk Corporation, a developer of consumer software for interactive health communication and disease management, and was EVP for Managed Care in the Good Samaritan Health System, a non-profit integrated health care system and the largest provider system in the Santa Clara Valley. From 1991 to 1993 Dr. Coye was the Director of the California Department of Health Services, managing a budget of more than $16 billion, 5,000 employees and 160 branch and field offices throughout the State. Dr. Coye also directed the Division of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New Jersey from 1986 to 1990. Dr. Coye is a member of the Institute of Medicine, was a member of the IOM Committee on the Quality of Healthcare in America, and chaired the IOM Committee on Access to Insurance for Children. A former trustee of The California Endowment and the China Medical Board, Dr. Coye is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH).

Dr. Coye has been called a visionary by the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT), a national organization that advocates for making consumers partners in their care.

Founding Editor, Health Affairs, Project Hope, and National Correspondent, New England Journal of Medicine, Washington, D.C.

Since 1981, John Iglehart has been Editor of Health Affairs, a bimonthly policy journal that he founded under the aegis of Project HOPE. During this same period, Mr. Iglehart also served as national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine, for which he wrote more than 100 essays called Health Policy Report.

Janet Marchibroda is the Chief Executive Officer of the eHealth Initiative and Executive Director Foundation for eHealth Initiative and Connecting for Health. She was the COO of the National Committee for Quality Assurance.

Dr. Morrison is an internationally known author, consultant and speaker specializing in long-term forecasting and planning with particular emphasis on health care and the changing business environment. Dr. Morrison is a frequent commentator on the future for television, radio and the print media. He is the author of Healthcare in the New Millenium: Vision, Values and Leadership (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999). His previous book, The Second Curve - Managing the Velocity of Change (Ballantine Books, 1996) was a New York Times Bestseller and Business Week Bestseller. Dr. Morrison has co-authored several books and chapters, including Future Tense: The Business Realities of the Next Ten Years (Morrow, 1994) and Looking Ahead at American Health Care (Mc Graw-Hill, Healthcare Information Center, 1988). Dr. Morrison has also co-authored numerous journal articles for publications such as Chief Executive, Encyclopedia Britannica, Across the Board, The British Medical Journal, New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs. Dr. Morrison holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in urban studies from the University of British Columbia, Canada, an MA in geography from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a graduate degree in urban planning from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

Claredi's founder, Kepa Zubeldia, is a highly respected leader in the healthcare EDI industry. He has been intimately involved with healthcare EDI for the last 20 years, and has participated in a number of industry bodies. Until October, 2000, Dr. Zubeldia was vice president of Technology for ENVOY Corporation, the largest healthcare EDI clearinghouse, now a part of WebMD.

In October of 1999, Dr. Zubeldia was appointed to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), the advisory committee to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on HIPAA issues. In addition, he serves as president of the Association For Electronic Health Care Transactions (AFEHCT), and co-chair of the Security Policy Advisory Group of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI).

A leader in establishing healthcare EDI standards, Dr. Zubeldia led the effort within ASC X12 to create standards for both batch and interactive claims. He is a US healthcare designated expert with UN/EDIFACT, and he led the Healthcare Internet Security Interoperability Pilot, sponsored by WEDI and AFEHCT.

In November, 2001, Dr. Zubeldia was presented the prestigious Leadership in Technology Award by WEDI. This may be the highest recognition available within the industry. The award was given during the WEDI SNIP HIPAA Implementation Summit in Orlando, to honor Dr. Zubeldia's contributions to the advancement of EDI and eCommerce technology in healthcare.

Dr. Zubeldia also has an impressive history with enterprises that provide EDI services to healthcare organizations.

In 1982, he founded Micro Consulting, later renamed Claimnet, the first provider-based clearinghouse. In 1988, he founded Medical Electronic Data Exchange, later known as Synaptek, which became a leading national all-payer health care transaction processing clearinghouse. In 1996 the company was merged with NEIC, which was later bought by ENVOY Corporation, the largest healthcare clearinghouse.