He applies insights from complex adaptive systems science and innovation research to issues of organizational leadership. He is working with Dr. Heather Palmer at the Harvard School of Public Health on research methods built on complex system principles. He facilitates a collaborative improvement effort funded by the Packard Foundation, and led by the Vermont-Oxford Network, involving 34 neonatal intensive care units across the US. He is an advisor on complex systems design to the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Design of the 21st Century Healthcare System and is working extensively with the NHS Modernisation Agency in the UK.

ARY L. GOLDBERGER, M.D., is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Medical School. He is currently Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Margret and H.A. Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is also the Program Director of the NIH/NCRR Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals. Dr. Goldberger and his colleagues are internationally recognized as pioneers in the application of concepts from the branch of the basic sciences called nonlinear dynamics (“chaos theory”) to basic physiology and bedside medicine. His recent work has also focused on the dynamics of human creativity and on health and disease in complex organizations.

KEVIN J. DOOLEY, Ph.D., an internationally respected scholar and teacher in the areas of quality management, innovation, and complex systems, is professor of management and industrial engineering at Arizona State University and president of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences. He is author of the book "Organizational Change and Innovation Processes". He is also affiliated with the School of Health Administration and Public Policy, and the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University and the Plexus Institute. His interests focus on the links between people and technology, and between business and engineering. Dooley studies the modeling of complex systems, quality management, innovation & new product development, and organizational change. He is currently focusing on investigating the role of mergers and acquisitions in health care, developing a history of the discipline of "quality", modeling medical errors from a complex systems perspective, and studying the impact of catastrophes on supply networks.

YANEER BAR-YAM, Ph.D., is President of the New England Complex Systems Institute, Chairman of the International Conference on Complex Systems, Managing Editor of InterJournal, and author of Dynamics of Complex Systems (1997), the only textbook to address the entire field of complex systems. Bar-Yam uses complex systems concepts to understand how organizations and patterns of behavior arise, evolve, adapt, and how we can use multiscale representations to relate fine and large scale, short and long term perspectives. He has studied the role of complexity in health care and health care management, in the education system, in military conflict, and in third world development. Applications are to the relationship of structure and function and meeting complex challenges at all scales.