Andrew F. Coburn, Ph.D., is the Chair of Health Policy and Management Graduate Program, and Director of Population Health and Health Policy in the Cutler Institute of Health and Social Policy, Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine. He is a senior investigator in the Maine Rural Health Research Center.

Jennifer P. Lundblad, Ph.D., M.B.A.,  is president and CEO of Stratus Health, an independent non-profit quality improvement organization based in Bloomington, Minnesota, that leads collaboration and innovation in health care quality and patient safety.  Jennifer has an extensive background in leadership, organization development, and program management in both non-profit and education settings.

A. Clinton MacKinney, M.D., M.S., is a board-certified family physician delivering emergency medicine services in rural Minnesota; a senior consultant for Stroudwater Associates, a rural hospital consulting firm; and a contract researcher for the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Timothy D. McBride, Ph.D., is a professor and associate dean for Public Health in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis.

Keith J. Mueller, Ph.D., is the Rural Health Panel chair.  Dr. Mueller is the head of the Department of Health management and Policy in the University of Iowa College of Public Health, where he is also the Gerhard Hartman Professor and the director of the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis.