Dr. Advani has served in various leadership capacities in federal service, including as the Associate Director for Informatics/CMIO at the Indian Health Service, the Associate Director for Technology/CTO at the National Center for Public Health Informatics at the CDC, and in leadership roles on several federal-wide steering and advisory committees, including the senior steering group on Health IT R&D under the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Dr. Advani was for many years on the informatics faculty of Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical Institutions, and received his medical and specialty training Johns Hopkins, Yale, and Stanford.