Larry Lewin founded The Lewin Group in 1970 and remained its President and CEO through three acquisitions until 1999. He has directed a wide range of projects in health policy and finance, academic medicine, public and private health insurance, technology and market assessment of medical devices and pharmaceutical products, strategic visioning and planning, and health systems management and governance. He has conducted nearly 100 workshops and strategic planning conferences for a wide variety of health care executives and organizations. He left The Lewin Group in December 1999 and currently, as an Executive Consultant, is assisting senior healthcare executives, foundations, and organizations in strategic decisionmaking, program improvement, and executive coaching. Recently, he has focused his attention on clinical and technology effectiveness, health promotion, and the challenge of managing collaborative organizations and programs in both the academic and clinical realms. Mr. Lewin serves on a number of corporate boards including: CardioNet, H&Q Healthcare and Life Sciences Funds, and Medco Health Solutions NYSE. He also serves on the Intermountain Healthcare Board of Trustees (since 1984) and has chaired its Information Systems Board Committee (since1993). He was elected to the Institute of Medicine/National Academies in 1984, served eight years as an elected member of the IOM Council and in 2004 was awarded the IOM’s Adam Yarmolinsky Medal for Distinguished Service. He was a founding member of the Association for Health Services Research (now Academy Health) and is currently a member of the National Commission on Prevention Priorities. Mr. Lewin holds an A.B. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. Mr. Lewin proudly served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps.