Gary Kaplan

Gary S. Kaplan, M.D., FACP, FACMPE, FACPE, has served as chairman and CEO of the Virginia Mason Health System since 2000. Under Dr. Kaplan's leadership, Virginia Mason has received significant national and international recognition, including the HealthGrades’ “Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence” for the past three years. 

Virginia Mason is a leader in deploying the Toyota Production system to healthcare management improving quality, safety and efficiency. In addition to his patient duties and position as CEO, Dr. Kaplan is a clinical professor at the University of Washington and has been recognized for his service and contribution to many regional and national boards.

Dr. Kaplan received his medical degree from the University of Michigan and is board-certified in internal medicine.

John Lumpkin

John Lumpkin, M.D., M.P.H., is the senior vice president and the director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Group. He is responsible for the overall planning, budgeting, staffing, management and evaluation of all program and administrative activities of the Health Care Group.

Before joining the Foundation in April 2003, Lumpkin served as director of the Illinois Department of Public Health for 12 years.

Lumpkin is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics. He has been chairman of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and as speaker and board of directors’ member of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

He has served on the faculty of the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago and currently teaches at Princeton University.

Farzad Mostashari

Dr. Farzad Mostashari is a lead practitioner and convener in the use of health information technology for public health. He is the assistant commissioner and chair of the Primary Care Information Project at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, with the goal of encouraging and facilitating the adoption of secure public health-oriented health information technology and health information exchange in New York City. 

Mostashari did his graduate training at the Harvard School of Public Health and Yale Medical School, internal medicine residency at Mass General Hospital, and completed the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service. He was one of the lead investigators in the outbreaks of West Nile Virus and anthrax in NYC. 

He is a member of the eHealth Initiative’s Leadership Council, and serves as chair of the International Society for Disease Surveillance.

Robert Pearl

Dr. Robert Pearl is the executive director and CEO of The Permanente Medical Group. As CEO of the largest medical group in the nation, Dr. Pearl is responsible for the health care of over 3 million Kaiser Permanente members. In addition, beginning January 1, 2009, he will be the president and CEO of the MidAtlantic Permanente Medical Group, which serves 500,000 members in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

As a frequent lecturer on health care, Dr. Pearl is an advocate for the power of physician-led, integrated medical delivery systems. Over the past decade, he has been a leader in implementing advanced information technology systems across Kaiser Permanente. 

Selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the most powerful physician-leaders in the nation, Dr. Pearl has published more than 100 articles in various medical journals and has been a contributor to many books. He was a featured speaker at the 2006 World Health Care Congress and addressed the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco in 2003.  

In the past several years, Dr. Pearl served as a visiting professor at Duke University School of Medicine, Haas School of Business and Harvard School of Public Health.