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Tom Daschle
Former Senate Majority Leader,
UNITED STATES SENATE
Author, “Getting it Done: How Obama and Congress Finally
Broke the Stalemate to Make Way for Health Care Reform”
Senator Daschle is one of the longest serving Senate Democratic Leaders in history and the only one to serve twice as both Majority and Minority Leader. During his tenure, Senator Daschle navigated the Senate through some of its most historic economic and national security challenges. Since leaving the Senate, he has distinguished his expertise in health care through the publication of “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health- Care Crisis’’ and has emerged as a leading thinker on climate change and renewable energy policy. In 2007, he joined with former Majority Leaders George Mitchell, Bob Dole, and Howard Baker to create the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization dedicated to finding common ground on some of the pressing public policy challenges of our time. He is also a member of the Health Policy and Management Executive Council at the Harvard School of Public Health, in addition to the Global Policy Advisory Council for the Health Worker
Migration Initiative.

Thomas Goetz
Author, “The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in
The New Era of Personalized Medicine” Executive Editor,
WIRED MAGAZINE
Thomas Goetz is author “The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine.” Former FDA commissioner Dr. David Kessler calls “The Decision Tree” a “game changer,” and Dr. Dean Ornish says that Goetz “writes more clearly and presciently about the future of health care than anyone on the planet.” The executive editor of WIRED Magazine, Goetz writes frequently on the confluence of medicine, health and technology. His cover stories at WIRED have covered the early detection of cancer, the advent of personal genomics, and the controversial diagnosis of metabolic syndrome. His work has been selected for both the Best American Science Writing and the Best Technology Writing anthologies. Since Goetz joined WIRED in 2001, the magazine has been nominated for 12 National Magazine Awards and has won six times, including the top award for general excellence three times, including in 2009.

Dean Kamen
Inventor, Entrepeneur, Advocate & Founder,
DEKA RESEARCH
As an inventor and physicist, Dean Kamen has dedicated his life to developing technologies that help people lead better lives. As an inventor, he holds more than 440 U.S. and foreign patents, many of them for innovative medical devices that have expanded the frontiers of health care worldwide. While still a college undergraduate, he invented the automatic, self-contained ambulatory pump designed to deliver precise doses of medication to patients with a variety of medical conditions. In 1976 he founded AutoSyringe, Inc., to manufacture and market the pumps. At age 30, he sold that company to Baxter International Corporation. DEKA Research is currently working on a DARPA-funded robotic arm project intended to restore functionality for individuals with upper extremity amputations. Dean is also widely recognized as the inventor of the Segway™ Human Transporter, which was designed to provide a clean alternative for short distance travel and enhance people’s productivity.