Dr. Fernando Sanchez Mendoza is a Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean of Minority Advising and Programs at Stanford University School of Medicine. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1981 and became a Dean for Minority Advising and Program in 1983.  From 1996 to 2014, he was the Division and Service Chief for General Pediatrics at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. Dr. Mendoza’s academic career has been focused on Latino child health and workforce diversity. He has published numerous articles and chapters on the health of Latino and immigrant children, addressing issues of health care access, obesity, chronic disease, and childhood development. In workforce diversity, he has been the principal investigator of the HRSA Center of Excellence grant at Stanford School of Medicine for twenty years, developing pipeline, leadership, and faculty development programs. He published the first national study of diversity in departments of pediatrics, which demonstrated the underrepresentation of Latinos in pediatrics, and the need for Latino pediatric faculty and leaders.

As a leader in health disparities, Dr. Mendoza helped establish two local FQHC community clinics, was President of the Hispanic Serving Health Professions School, served on NIH and Institute of Medicine committees, and was recently appointed to the National Advisory Council for the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities.  He has received regional and national recognition for his work from the California Latino Medical Association, National Hispanic Medical Association, Association of American Medical Colleges, Hispanic Business Magazine, the Centers for Disease Control, and the National Latino Medical Student Association. For his work in diversity, he has received the AAMC GSA-Minority Affairs Service Award, and Stanford’s JE Wallace Sterling “Muleshoe” Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award, the President’s Award for Excellence through Diversity, and the Dr. Augustus A. White Faculty Professionalism Award.

Halsted Holman is the Berthold and Belle N. Guggenhime Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, and a CHP/PCOR associate. He was Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Director of the Clinical Scholar Program (CSP) at Stanford. His major research interests include the design, organization, and evaluation of experimental health care systems, studies of the effects of patient education programs on health outcomes in chronic disease, and inquiry into the roles of patients in clinical trials and clinical practice. He is a former President of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Western Association of Physicians.

Professor Greely's work has focused on the legal aspects of the health care financing system. His interests include the incentives for employers and insurers to discriminate among possible insured consumers and the legality of such discrimination. He is also interested in broad issues of health reform, in quality assurance, in practice guidelines, and in bioethics. He has also been increasingly active in the intersection of law and the revolution in genetics, including notably through his role as a co-director of the Stanford Program in Genomics, Ethics, and Society, as co-director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology, as a member of the California State Commission on Human Cloning, and as a member of the Human Genome Diversity Project.

Mary K. Goldstein is a Professor of Health Policy and a core faculty member at the Department of Health Policy and the Center for Health Policy, and the Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. She directs the Primary Care Policy and Practice Advancement program at PCOR, the Stanford/VA Palo Alto Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program, and the Special Fellowship Program in Advanced Geriatrics at VA Palo Alto. She also serves as associate director for the Physician Post-Residency Fellowship Program in Health Services Research and Development, and for the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medical Informatics, both at VA Palo Alto Health Care System.

Goldstein studies innovative methods of implementing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for quality improvement. She leads the ATHENA Decision Support System project that has developed and implemented an automated clinical decision support system for primary care clinicians, using hypertension as a model, and now extended into several other clinical domains.  Goldstein's research also explores older adults' health preferences (health utility) for application to cost-effectiveness analysis.

Goldstein is a fellow of the American Geriatrics Society, and an emerita of the Society's board of directors. Goldstein has received a number of honors and awards including an Advanced Career Development award from the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) program.  She received a BA in philosophy and an MD, both from Columbia University, and completed her residency in family medicine at Duke University Medical Center. At the Stanford School of Medicine she completed an AHRQ-funded fellowship and an MS in health services research.

Professor Efron is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, president of the American Statistical Association, recipient of the MacArthur Prize, and winner of the Wilks Medal of the American Statistical Association. Professor Efron is renowned internationally for his pioneering work in computationally intensive statistical methods that substitute computer power for mathematical formulas, particularly the bootstrap method. The goal of this research is to extend statistical methodology in ways that make analysis more realistic and applicable for complicated problems. He consults actively in the application of statistical analyses to a wide array of health care evaluations.