Paul Tang, M.D., M.S., is an internist and vice president, chief medical information officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF). He is also consulting associate professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. At PAMF, Dr. Tang is responsible for clinical information systems, including an enterprise-wide electronic health record system and an integrated personal health record system.

Dr. Tang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and his M.D. degree from the UCSF School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Stanford University and is board certified in internal medicine.

Dr. Tang is immediate past chair of the board for the American Medical Informatics Association. He is a member of the National Committee on Vital Health Statistics, the federal advisory committee to Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt regarding health information policy, and the Consumer Empowerment Workgroup of the American Health Information Community, which Secretary Leavitt chairs. In addition, Dr. Tang chairs the Robert Wood Johnson National Advisory Committee on personal health records and the National Quality Forum's (NQF) Health Information Technology Expert Panel, and co-chairs the Quality Alliance Steering Committee Measurement Implementation Strategy committee .  He is a member of NQF's Consensus Standards Approval Committee.

Dr. Tang is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and serves on the Health Care Services Board. He chaired the IOM Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety whose reports, "Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care" and "Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System," were published in 2003. He is currently a member of the IOM Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans.

Dr. Tang has served on numerous committees of the National Institutes of Health, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, and Computer Science and Technology Board. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, American College of Medical Informatics, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

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