Julie Bynum, MD, MPH is the Margaret Terpenning Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine, vice chair for faculty affairs, research professor in the Institute of Gerontology, Geriatric Center associate director for health policy and research, and a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. Dr. Bynum received her medical and public health degrees from Johns Hopkins, completed her residency and chief residency at Dartmouth, and completed specialty training in Geriatric Medicine back at Johns Hopkins. She leads interdisciplinary research teams to study questions about the complex drivers of quality and costs for older adults and how to improve health care policy and performance using national administrative data. Dr. Bynum has been an Atlantic Philanthropies Health & Aging Policy Fellow, was a member of the National Academy of Medicine Committee that published “Vital Signs: Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress”, and was recently a deputy editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. She is currently a member of the National Academy of Medicine Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence, and on a NAM workshop planning committee on adverse consequences of cancer treatment. She leads a robust portfolio of research largely focusing on health and health care for people living with dementia including a newly-funded NIA Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer’s.

David Dorr, MD, MS, earned his BA in economics (with minors in mathematics and psychology) and his MD from Washington University in St. Louis. He completed internal medicine residency at Oregon Health & Science University and earned a master’s in medical informatics and health services administration from the University of Utah. Dr. Dorr’s interests lie in complex care management, especially for older adults and other at-risk populations, coordination of care, collaborative care, chronic disease management, quality, and the requirements of clinical information systems to support these areas. From these interests, he has broadened into clinical information needs, Electronic Health Record (EHR) deployment and Health Information Exchange as a way to expand systems-based approaches to all of health care. Dr. Dorr performs evaluations of care management and informatics initiatives using a variety of methodologies.

Jason Mann, MS, is a project manager at Michigan Medicine working with Dr. Julie Bynum in the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine in supporting the Technical Data Core of the IMPACT Collaboratory. Jason’s professional experience and interests includes Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, hospital acquired infections, systematic review methodology, IRB management, DUA management, and working with CMS, HRS and RESDAC in acquiring data and coordinating IRB/DUA amendments.

Richard Platt, MD, MSc, is professor and chair of the Harvard Medical School Department of Population Medicine, and executive director of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. He has extensive experience in developing systems and capabilities for using routinely collected electronic health information to support public health surveillance, medical product safety assessments, comparative effectiveness and outcomes research, and quality improvement programs. He also has led health system-based intervention studies. Dr. Platt led the development of the FDA’s Sentinel program, which performs post-marketing safety surveillance using the electronic health data from over 125 million people. He leads the NIH Pragmatic Clinical Trials Collaboratory's Distributed Research Network, and he co-leads a CDC Prevention Epicenter. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine's Leadership Consortium: Collaboration for a Value and Science Driven Learning Health System.