Rupa Patel has a broad, interdisciplinary background that includes product management at a health software startup, Java programming at a Silicon Valley startup and Pfizer, and public health application work at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is currently working on a thesis at the School of Information on the effectiveness in practice of a Joint Commission on Accredited Healthcare Organizations standard on handoffs, particularly on the design of tools and procedures. Rupa can utilize her skills to design and implement the demo prototype, in addition to supporting the needs assessment phase.

Dr. Kai Zheng is Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health and Assistant Professor of Information in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Zheng's research and teaching are in the area of information systems, particularly focusing on health informatics, which studies the use of information, communication, and decision technologies in healthcare delivery and management. Zheng received his Ph.D. in information systems and health informatics from Carnegie Mellon University, where his dissertation entitled "Design, Implementation, User Acceptance, and Evaluation of a Clinical Decision Support System for Evidence-Based Medicine Practice" received the William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Maureen Hanratty comes to the discipline of Human-Computer Interaction from a visual art background. As such she will be responsible for designing the interface for the prototype. Maureen will also be the project lead on conducting user interviews and usability testing. Maureen has programming experience specifically with Ruby on Rails. Before attending graduate school Maureen managed an image database at a large architecture firm. Issues regarding digital images or intellectual property related to images will fall within her domain.

Jennifer Johnson has experience with health program planning and evaluation, survey methodology, data collection, analysis, and interpretation. She has experience providing emergency medical care in rural Montana and has a strong interest in working to provide equitable support to medical providers in rural and underserved populations.

Paul Saxman is a biomedical software architect and informatician with over ten years of industry experience as a software engineer. He has worked for the University of Michigan for over five years and presently is employed at the UM Michigan Institute for Clinical Health Research (MICHR). In addition to his full-time position at MICHR as a software architect, he is presently pursuing a master's degree in bioinformatics. Paul will be contributing to the project by applying his expertise as a software engineer and architect as well as by making use of his knowledge of biomedical informatics.

Ashish Shah's background in both pre-medicine and public health has given him insights into both medicine and medical education. He will assist in developing a tool that is relevant as well as user-friendly for both physicians and medical students. His economics background will allow him to develop a business model that will create incentives for our targeted groups to join and continue using our software.