Barbara A. Eckman  IBM Software Group, 1475 Phoenixville Pike, West Chester, Pennsylvania 19380 (baeckmanus.ibm.com). Dr. Eckman is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Healthcare and Life Sciences Solution Development group, where she recently assumed the role of lead architect for Healthcare Interoperability. Her research interests in health care include the interface between clinical research and genomics and systems biology research, and the extension of federated database technology to become a secure, efficient, fault-tolerant foundation for Regional Health Information Organizations. Other ongoing research interests center on bioinformatics data integration, where she has been active since the start of Human Genome Project funding in 1991. She has published over 20 academic papers and technical reports, and she has served on numerous organizing and program committees for bioinformatics research conferences as well as grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Eckman received an M.S.E. degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania, an A.B. degree from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. degree in humanistic disciplines from the University of Pennsylvania.

Craig A. Bennett  IBM Application and Integration Middleware, 4111 Northside Parkway NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30327 (cbennettus.ibm.com). Mr. Bennett is a Senior Managing Architect with IBM Global Business Transformation Outsourcing. He has a B.S. degree in computer engineering and an M.S. degree in computer science. His current responsibilities include defining solution architectures and providing technical and business process reengineering activities and delivery excellence for IBM clients in multiyear outsourcing contracts. Mr. Bennett has authored and coauthored numerous technical articles and holds several patents.

James H. Kaufman  IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (kaufmanalmaden.ibm.com). Dr. Kaufman is manager of the Almaden Healthcare Research project. He received a B.A. degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, both in physics. His current research includes interoperability for health care and public health, epidemiological modeling, and mathematical models of viral evolution. Dr. Kaufman is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Jeffrey W. Tenner  IBM Systems and Technology Group, 3605 HWY 52 N, Rochester, MN 55901 (tennerus.ibm.com). Mr. Tenner is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Healthcare and Life Sciences Development organization. He is also Chief Architect for the IBM/Mayo Clinic collaboration. He led the architecture and development of the IBM Clinical Genomics Solution and Data Discovery and Query Builder products. Previously, Mr. Tenner held technical leadership roles in the development of DB2^® for iSeries™ and was lead architect for the Domino^® portfolio of products for iSeries. Mr. Tenner holds several patents in database technology and is a member of the editorial board of the IBM Systems Magazine.