Melinda J.B. Buntin, Ph.D., is a health economist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. She directs the Center for Health Systems and Policy Modeling, based in Washington DC. Previously, she was founding Chair of the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University, Director of the Office of Economic Analysis, Evaluation, and Modeling at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the US Department of Health and Human Services, and Director in the Health, Retirement and Long-Term Analysis group at the Congressional Budget Office. Dr. Buntin is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Senior Associate Editor at JAMA Health Forum, and serves on the boards of the Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, the National Institute for Health Care Management (NICHM) Foundation, the Phillips Collection, and the Peterson Health Technology Institute.