Until August 2006, he was also founding Director of the Emory Center for Injury Control, a World Health Organization collaborating center for injury and violence prevention. He practices and teaches in the Emergency Care Center of Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta's only public hospital and Level I trauma center.

Dr. Kellermann's research focuses on injury prevention, emergency cardiac care, and health services for the poor and uninsured. He holds career achievement awards from two disciplines: the Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Excellent in Science Award from the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section of the American Public Health Association. In 2001, he received Emory University's Scholar/Teacher Award, and in 2005, he received the University Charles Hatcher Award for Excellent in Public Health.

In October 2006, Dr. Kellermann will complete his second and final term as a member of the board of directors of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the leading organization for the specialty. In 1999, he was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies. Between 2001 and January 2004, he served as Co-Chair of the IOM Committee on the Consequence of Uninsurance. From 2004 to 2006, he was a member of the IOM Board of Health Care Services and the IOM Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System.

Dr. Michelle Lampl is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor and the Associate Director of the Predictive Health Institute at Emory University.

As a biological anthropologist, her research centers on human growth and development, with a focus on fetal and infant stages of life. Building on her landmark research documenting that children grow in discrete spurts, Dr. Lampl investigates the mechanisms of growth, which include genetic and environmental factors. Her current research work includes the nutritional, immunological and hormonal networks that interact with behavior to influence developmental processes.

As associate director of Emory’s Predictive Health Initiative, Dr. Lampl’s work includes helping to guide the implementation of the initiative’s main objective—to maintain health rather than treat disease and identify preemptive remedies.

She has served as a consultant to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Children’s Health Study, Gerber Research Foundation as well as a number of international growth studies. She has served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Human Biology since 1997.

Dr. Lampl is an award-winning teacher receiving the 2003 Emory Williams Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Social Sciences. She has been a contributing professor for live broadcast distance learning courses at the University of Pennsylvania, a resident researcher at the University of Bordeaux and lectured widely internationally.

Dr. Lampl has served as adjunct faculty, department of pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine. She received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

In 1999, Dr. Marla Salmon became dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing of Emory University where she is also professor in both nursing and public health. In addition to her work in academic and clinical nursing, Dr. Salmon has held senior leadership positions in professional and national government service. Her career focus has been on national and international health policy, administration, public health, and workforce development.

Dr. Salmon has been called upon to play significant advisory roles nationally and internationally, including membership on the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform, the American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Think Tank, and more recently, serving on several committees for the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, including the Committee on the Options for Overseas Placement of U.S. Health Professionals and the Nursing Panel Committee on Monitoring the Changing Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Personnel Study. She has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and has worked extensively with government and corporate partners in the Caribbean region and elsewhere.

Dr. Salmon serves on a number of professional boards, including membership on the Nursing Advisory Council of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization, the Board of Directors for the National Council on Healthcare Leadership (NCHL), and the Board of Trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, including former membership on their National Advisory Committee for the Executive Nurse Fellows Program. She has published extensively and is a member of several editorial boards, including Journal of Nursing Scholarship and Nursing and Health Policy Review.

Dr. Salmon has received prestigious awards and recognitions, including membership in the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Nursing. Her federal leadership led to her receipt of the President’s Meritorious Executive Award and both the U.S. Public Health Service’s Chief Nurse Award and Special Recognition awards. Dr. Salmon has received the American Nurses Association Community Health Nurse of the Year Award and was recognized by the National Black Nurses’ Foundation for her role in enhancing the ethnic and racial diversity of the nation’s nursing workforce.

Dr. Salmon received her doctor of science from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, holds degrees in nursing and political science from the University of Portland, is a Fulbright Scholar, and is the recipient of honorary degrees from the University of Portland and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Salmon is a Fellow with the W. K. Kellogg National Fellowship Program and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

Dr. Thorpe was the Vanselow Professor of Health Policy and Director, Institute for Health Services Research at Tulane University. He was previously Professor of Health Policy and Administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; an Associate Professor and Director of the Program on Health Care Financing and Insurance at the Harvard University School of Public Health and Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Health at Columbia University.

Dr. Thorpe has also held Visiting Faculty positions at Pepperdine University and Duke University. Professor Thorpe was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Policy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1993 to 1995. In this capacity, he coordinated all financial estimates and program impacts of President Clinton’s health care reform proposals for the White House. He also directed the administration’s estimation efforts in dealing with Congressional health care reform proposals during the 103rd and 104th sessions of Congress.

As an academic, he has testified before several committees in the U.S. Senate and House on health care reform and insurance issues. In 1991, Professor Thorpe was awarded the Young Investigator Award presented to the most promising health services researcher in the country under age 40 by the Association for Health Services Research. He also received the Hettleman Award for academic and scholarly research at the University of North Carolina and was provided an “Up and Comers” award by Modern Healthcare.

Dr. Thorpe has authored and co-authored over 85 articles, book chapters and books and is a frequent national presenter on issues of health care financing, insurance and health care reform at health care conferences, television and the media. He has worked with several groups (including the American College of Physicians, American Hospital Association, National Coalition on Health Care, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Service Employees International Union, and the United Hospital Fund) and policymakers (including Senators Wellstone, Corzine, Bingaman, Snowe, Clinton, Obama and Kennedy) to develop and evaluate alternative approaches for providing health insurance to the uninsured. He serves as a reviewer on several health care journals.

Dr. Thorpe is a frequent commenter on health care issues in the print media and television. He has appeared on Nightline with Ted Koppel, NBC News with Tom Brokow, ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, CNN, CNBC and Newshour with Jim Lehrer.

Dr. Thorpe received his Ph.D. from the Rand Graduate School, an M.A. from Duke University and his B.A. from the University of Michigan.