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Bill Braun is a Management Development Consultant at Cleveland Clinic and an adjunct instructor of management in the Master of Management Program at Ursuline College in Cleveland, Ohio. He has worked in healthcare for 35 years, ranging from operating room technician to management, including stints in managed care, hospital administration, and management consulting with physicians in private practice. On occasion he prepares and ships a nutritious breakfast to Jim Thompson.

Paul Holmström Sweden. Management consultant since 1988. Mainly within organizational development and change. Since 1995 mainly within healthcare. Mainly managerial positions within marketing, strategic planning and business development 1973-1987, with Volvo, Saab and BASF. Paul is also a Requisite Organization practitioner.

Geoff McDonnell is Simulation Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Informatics at the University of New South Wales and Director of Adaptive Care Systems. He trained as a specialist physician and engineer at Sydney Uni, UNSW, Harvard and MIT, and was President of the Health Policy SIG of the International System Dynamics Society for 2006

Jared M. Rhoads is a researcher at a healthcare consulting firm in Boston. He studied System Dynamics as an undergraduate at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and received a Master of Science degree from the McCallum Graduate School at Bentley College. His healthcare management interests include new technology diffusion, and his healthcare policy interests include market-based healthcare reforms.

Hardik Shah is a software professional working as a Senior Consultant in Kentucky. Having worked with wide range of system technologies, currently he is working on Content Management Systems. His interest in System Dynamics evolved while working on a time management system project, which he had taken up as a hobby past couple of years. Since then, he has been studying System Dynamics. Lately, he has been working on designing System Dynamics application for solving business problems.

Harsh Patel is a Information System Professional in London ,UK, capable of leading technology projects from concept to completion. He has been working as a Project Manager/Problem Solver in Pharmacology Clinical Research Organisation (CRO) company. He has done Engineering in Computer Science and MS in Distributed Information Systems and Computing at Brunel University, London. Working with Hardik on an interesting project "Time Management System", he developed a deep interest in System Dynamics and Systems Thinking, which inspired him to write a dissertation on proposing System dynamics solution architecture to real world problems. His passion includes working on System Dynamics & Strategic Management Tools and applying Information Systems Management Concepts for solving problems in various business domains.

Jim Thompson is a late-blooming doctoral candidate in management science at University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. His thesis research explores how and under what conditions clients learn in system dynamics consulting engagements. In parallel with his doctoral research, Jim directs economic and operations research at Cigna HealthCare, a commercial managed care organisation in Hartford, Connecticut USA. In that role, he frequently facilitates system dynamics-based problem solving sessions with colleagues in medical management, health care economics, and strategy formation. Before joining Cigna, he was a strategy consultant to organisations in pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, telecommunications and global development banking industries.

David Rees is a director of Synergia Ltd and an honorary lecturer at Auckland University’s School of Population Health. David is also trying to make progress – which is very slow – on his PhD which he is doing at Victoria University Wellington under the supervision of Bob Cavana. Most of David’s work is currently in the health sector with a particular focus on improving policies, programmes and practices of chronic condition management. David’s academic background is in Psychology and Education and he is interested in developing the power of System Dynamics to support approaches that balance the need for evidence with the need for broad engagement.