David J. Brailer, M.D., Ph.D. has been Chairman of Health Evolution Partners since 2006. In 2004, prior to joining Health Evolution Partners, he was appointed by the Bush Administration as the first National Health Information Technology Coordinator. Before his presidential appointment, Brailer was a senior fellow at the Health Technology Center in San Francisco. In 1992, Brailer founded CareScience, Inc., a spin-off from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where he previously taught and was a physician. David founded the health information technology program at The Wharton School Health Management Program, taught health management and economics in the Wharton MBA program and lectured in The Wharton Executive Education program. David was an active patient-care physician in general medicine and in immune deficiency at the University of Pennsylvania. Brailer also serves on the Board of Directors for Optimal IMX, CenseoHealth and American Optical Services, and is a member of the Healthcare Policy Advisory Council at Harvard Medical School. Bachelor’s degree, science and political science, West Virginia University MD, West Virginia University School of Medicine Charles A. Dana Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Internal Medicine residency, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine General Medicine Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine PhD, health economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania