Jeff Goldsmith, MD, PhD, is president of Health Futures, Inc, and associate professor of medical education in the College of Medicine at the University of Virginia. He has taught health policy and management at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and other leading universities. Mr. Goldsmith received his doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1973. He worked for the governor of Illinois as a policy analyst and the dean of the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago where he was responsible for planning and government affairs for the Medical Center. Mr. Goldsmith is a member of the board of directors of the Cerner Corporation, a healthcare informatics firm and Essent Healthcare, an investor-owned hospital management company, and he is a member of the board of advisors of the Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund, which invests in biotechnology innovation. He is also an advisor to Cain Brothers, an investment banking firm that works exclusively in healthcare. Mr. Goldsmith's principal activity is forecasting technological and economic trends in the health system. He has consulted widely for firms spanning the health systems spectrum, including hospital systems, health plans, medical device and product firms, pharmaceutical companies, and multispecialty physician groups. He lives at Ricochet Farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia.