Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, is a practicing primary care physician, Founder and Director of the Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program, and Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems for the largest primary care group in Chicago. He has been the Chief Medical Officer for two publicly traded companies, has helped start up a variety of Healthcare ventures, and is CEO of Back 9 Healthcare Consulting. He serves on the Governance Board of the Innovation Learning Network, the Board of Directors for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Foundation, the Advisory Board of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) and the Editorial Board of Healthcare Informatics magazine. He wrote the chapter on “Physician Adoption Strategies” for the American College of Physicians' book "Electronic Medical Records", and he is currently writing a book about the intersection of innovation and healthcare information technology. In 2008, HealthLeaders magazine highlighted Dr. Berkowitz as part of their annual “Twenty People Who Make Healthcare Better”; In 2009, Healthspottr placed him in the “Future Health Top 100”, a list of top innovators in healthcare; and in 2010, he was a winner in the Mayo Clinic's Center for Innovation's iSpot Competition for "Ideas that Will Transform Healthcare". Dr. Berkowitz graduated with a Biomedical Engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.