Jonathan D. Gold  P.O. Box 270249, Louisville, Colorado 80027 (drjgoldyahoo.com). Dr. Gold is a physician analyst for McKesson Provider Technologies. He recently completed a Master of Science degree as a National Library of Medicine post-doctoral fellow in health sciences informatics at Johns Hopkins University. He received an M.D. degree at Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel in 1990 and gained board certification in pediatrics in 1997. Subsequently, Dr. Gold served as a primary-care pediatrician and as the director of the medical quality-assurance unit for the Maccabi Health Service's Negev region. In 2001, he completed a Master of Health Administration degree at Ben-Gurion University. A pediatrician with close to a decade of primary-care practice and medical quality-assurance experience, Dr. Gold is focused on the development of the consumer-oriented, electronic Health Record Banking system, the practical needs of the health-care provider, and the considered goals of a comprehensive health-care strategy.

Marion J. Ball  IBM Research, 5706 Coley Court, Balitmore, Maryland 21210 (marionballus.ibm.com). Dr. Ball is a fellow of the IBM Global Leadership Initiative Center for Healthcare Management/Business Consulting Services, is a member of the Institute of Medicine, and serves on the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. She is also a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and serves on a variety of boards in the area of health information technology, including Health on the Net (HON) and the board of directors of the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS). She received the Morris F. Collen Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and is an honorary member of Sigma Theta Tau (the Honor Society of Nursing), the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), and the Medical Library Association (MLA). She is the author or editor of 17 books and over 250 articles in the field of health informatics. Her recent book, Consumer Informatics, received the HIMSS 2005 Book of the Year award.