Principles and Guidelines for the Optimal Use of
e-Prescribing for Higher Quality, Safer, More Efficient Health Care

Scott Barclay is a senior portfolio manager of innovation and strategy at CVS Caremark. Along with other topics in innovation, Scott helps broadly oversee e-Health strategy and specifically leads CVS/pharmacy’s participation in and advocacy for electronic prescribing. Prior to joining CVS in 2005, Scott worked for the Boston Consulting Group in Washington DC and for Banc of America Securities in New York, San Francisco, and London. He received an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and a BA from the University of Virginia (UVA).

Linda Barrett, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Advisor in AARP’s Knowledge Management Group.  Her research focuses on issues of importance to AARP such as aging-in-place, caregiving, and long-term care.  She has led several large-scale studies including: “Healthy @ Home” funded by the Blue Shield of California Foundation, “Caregiving in the U.S.” conducted in collaboration with the National Alliance for Caregiving and funded by MetLife Foundation. 

She has experience developing, implementing and testing community based programs focused on helping family members make decisions at the end of life.  She also led the AARP Andrus Foundation’s research initiative on end of life decision-making among older adults and their families.

Paul Cotton is a Senior Legislative Representative at AARP, lobbying Congress and the Administration on Medicare, Medicaid, and health care quality issues.  He previously served as Director of Hearings and Policy Presentation at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Office of Legislation.  He also worked for several years as a reporter for publications including the Journal of the American Medical Association. 

Adrienne Cyrulik is a Program Manager in the eHealth Innovation department of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA). She has worked for BCBSMA for three years and manages eHealth projects that improve the quality, safety, and affordability of care, such as the eRx Collaborative, a joint ePrescribing program in Massachusetts with BCBSMA, Tufts Health Plan, and Neighborhood Health Plan. Adrienne completed her undergraduate degree at the College of the Holy Cross and has a Master's in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health.

Steven Stack, MD is Board Member and Emergency Physician for the American Medical Association. An emergency physician residing in Lexington, Ky., in June 2006, he was elected to the American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees (BOT). Dr. Stack, board-certified in emergency medicine, practices at St. Joseph Hospital East where he is also the department chair and medical director, overseeing a 30,000-annual-patient-visit community emergency department. Dr. Stack is the first emergency medicine board-certified physician to serve on the AMA-BOT.

For more than a decade, Dr. Stack has demonstrated his commitment to our profession through his leadership in organized medicine. Within the AMA, Dr. Stack has served as speaker of the Medical Student Section, vice chair of the Resident and Fellow Section, AMA House of Delegates (HOD) alternate delegate representing the Young Physician Section, and AMAHOD delegate representing emergency medicine. He has also served on the governing boards of the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association, National Emergency Medicine Political Action Committee, Tennessee College of Emergency Physicians and Ohio State Medical Association. He is currently chair of both the AMA Awards and Nominations Committee and the AMA Health Information Technology Advisory Group.