Amnon Shabo (Shvo)  IBM Research, Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (shaboil.ibm.com). Dr. Shabo is a research staff member involved in various IBM health-care and life-sciences projects. He specializes in health-informatics, health-care, and life-sciences standards. He is a co-chair of the Clinical Genomics Special Interest Group in HL7, as well as its modeling facilitator and primary contributor. He is also a co-editor of the HL7 CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) Release 2 and of the CCD (Continuity of Care Document), a joint effort of HL7 and ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) in applying the ASTM CCR (Continuity of Care Record) to the CDA. Dr. Shabo specializes in longitudinal and cross-institutional electronic health records (EHRs) and was a coauthor of the mEHR (EHR for mobile citizens) proposal made by a consortium of 19 partners to the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme, based on his vision of independent health record banks for addressing the challenge of lifetime EHR sustainability.

Dolev Dotan  IBM Research, Haifa Research Laboratory, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (dotanil.ibm.com). Mr. Dotan has a B.Sc. degree in computer science and bioinformatics and an M.Sc. degree in computer science from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. His areas of interest include bioinformatics, information integration, service-oriented architecture, ontologies, the semantic Web, visual languages, and model-driven development.