Amnon Shabo (Shvo)  IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (shaboil.ibm.com). Dr. Shabo is a research staff member and is currently involved in various IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences projects. He is the facilitator of the HL7 Clinical Genomics SIG and its main contributor. In addition, he is a coeditor of CDA Release 2 and a primary editor of its Implementation Guide. He specializes in longitudinal and cross-institutional electronic health records. Dr. Shabo was the visionary and a coauthor of the mEHR (Electronic Health Records for Mobile Citizens) proposal made by a consortium of 19 partners to the European Commission's Sixth Framework Program, based on his vision of independent health record banks.

Simona Rabinovici-Cohen  IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (simonail.ibm.com). Mrs. Cohen is a research staff member. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Her areas of interest include information integration and knowledge management systems, especially in the biomedical domain. Mrs. Rabinovici-Cohen is the Haifa project leader of the IBM Clinical Genomics solution.

Pnina Vortman  IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (vortmanil.ibm.com). Mrs. Vortman holds an M.S. degree in mathematics and physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She has been involved in many research projects in a variety of areas and was active in initiating research areas in information-based medicine and integrated health records. She is a main contributor to more than 24 patents and has published over 10 papers. Mrs. Vortman has been a member of the IBM Academy since 1997.