Team

Our team combines a broad range of experience and expertise and we come from many different walks of life. We are engineers, doctors, scientists, ethnographers, strategists, writers, chefs, photographers, physical fitness buffs, travelers, sailors and more.

What brings and keeps us together is our passion and shared commitment to thinking out of the box, doing good and adding value to our work and our world.

Paul Tang, MD, MS

Paul Tang, MD, MS
Vice President, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer

Paul has directed innovative health information technology programs in healthcare organizations, industry, and national policy-making committees for over 30 years. He directed a research group at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in the 1980s that used knowledge-based technology to create intelligent electronic health record (EHR) systems for physicians. In 1994, he led the implementation of the EHR at Northwestern, which was awarded the Nicholas E. Davies Award for Excellence in Computer-based Patient Records Implementation. Joining PAMF in 1998, he directed the implementation of the EHR at PAMF, the first large medical group practice in California to use an EHR. And in 2001, PAMF collaborated with Epic to create the MyChart patient portal and was the first in the country to implement it.

Over the past 15 years, Paul has been working to accelerate the nation’s adoption and effective use of health information technology. Paul is vice chair of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Information Technology Policy Committee, and chair of its Meaningful Use workgroup. He is a member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) and co-chairs its Quality subcommittee. He chairs the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Health Information Technology Advisory Committee, and chairs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s National Advisory Council for ProjectHealth Design.

Paul is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, and has served on numerous boards related to healthcare and health informatics. He is a recipient of the AMIA Don E. Detmer Award for Health Policy Contributions in Informatics; was named an Innovator and Influencer by Information Week, a Healthcare Innovator by Healthcare Informatics, a Health Care Heroes Awardee by San Francisco Business Times, and a HIT Men and Women of the Year by Healthcare IT News. Modern Healthcare named him one of the 100 Most Powerful People in 2009 and 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives in 2011.

Paul received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering at Stanford University, and his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco. He is a board-certified practicing internist, and consulting associate professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Martin Entwistle, MBA, MB ChB, FRCSEd

Martin Entwistle, MBA, MB ChB, FRCSEd
Executive Director

From 1996-2008, Martin was founder and CEO of Enigma CKM Inc., a vendor that created a patented clinical decision support system, which was acquired by PAMF in 2008. Since joining PAMF, he has served as senior director of Personalized Healthcare Programs, developing programs that help to improve patients’ health by creating personalized health plans based on the patient’s individual situation and health. Martin qualified as a physician (MB ChB) from Birmingham University, UK and earned specialization in orthopedic surgery (FRCSEd), and MBA from Cranfield University, UK.

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