Paul Tang, MD, MS, is Vice President and Chief Health Transformation Officer at IBM Watson Health, and is Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Tang’s professional career has been dedicated to leveraging health information technology (HIT) and public policy to improve the quality of health care and to enhance the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine) and chaired a NAM patient safety committee which published two reports: Patient Safety: A New Standard for Care
