Paul C. Tang, M.D., M.S., is an Internist and Vice President, Chief Medical Information Officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), and is Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) at Stanford University. Dr. Tang received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Tang is the Immediate Past-Chair of the Board for the American Medical Informatics Association. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and serves on its Health Care Services Board. Dr. Tang chaired an IOM patient safety committee whose reports were published in 2003-4: Patient Safety: A New Standard for Care, and Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System. He is a member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), a federal advisory committee to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on health information policy, and co-chairs its Quality Subcommittee. Dr. Tang chairs the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Health Information Technology Expert Panel, is a member of the NQF Consensus Standards Approval Committee, and co-chairs the Quality Alliance Steering Committee’s Measurement Implementation Strategy subcommittee.

Dr. Tang is a board member of the newly formed National eHealth Collaborative, an independent, public-private organization formed to promote the creation and use of a secure interoperable nationwide health information system.  He chairs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s National Advisory Council for ProjectHealth Design (a program for innovative PHRs) and is also a member of Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health Steering Committee. 

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, the American College of Medical Informatics, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. Dr. Tang has published numerous papers in medical informatics, especially related to EHRs and PHRs, and has delivered over 240 invited presentations to national and international organizations and associations.

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