Harold C. Sox, Jr., MD, graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. After serving as a medical intern and resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, he spent two years at the National Institutes of Health and three years at Dartmouth Medical School, where he served as chief medical resident and began his studies of medical decisionmaking. He then spent 15 years on the faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine, where he served as chief of the division of general internal medicine and director of ambulatory care at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center. In 1988 he returned to Dartmouth as Joseph M. Huber Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine.
Dr. Sox directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Initiative at Dartmouth. He is a Regent of the American College of Physicians and chairs its Educational Policy Committee. He chaired the Institute of Medicine Committee to Study HIV Transmission Through Blood Products. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.
His books include "Medical Decision Making" and "Common Diagnostic Tests: Selection and Interpretation." He is a member of the editorial board of the "New England Journal of Medicine" and is an Associate Editor of "Scientific American Medicine."
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, is President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping accelerate the pace of improvement of the health care systems in the United States and Canada. He is a practicing pediatrician at the Harvard Community Health Plan, an Associate in Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital in Boston, and a Consultant in Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.
From 1987-91, he served as principal investigator for the National Demonstration Project on Quality Improvement in Health Care, a pioneering effort to introduce the methods and tools of quality improvement to the health care industry. He has published widely on health care quality management, decision analysis, technology assessment, and health policy. He is co-author of the book "Curing Health Care."
Dr. Berwick is Chair of the Health Services Research Review Committee, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Juran Institute and GOAL/QPC, and beginning in 1996 he will serve on the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association.
He holds an BA degree summa cum laude from Harvard College, a Masters of Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and an MD degree from Harvard Medical School.
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