GARY H. LYMAN, M.D., M.P.H., is Adjunct Professor in the School of Pharmacy and the School of Public Health at the University of Washington as well as Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine in the University of Washington School of Medicine. He also is Co-Director of the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research and Member of the Public Health Sciences and Clinical Research Divisions at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Lyman is a Medical Oncologist and Hematologist and a member of the Breast Cancer Program at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. His research interests include comparative effectiveness and outcomes research related to targeted therapies and biomarkers, efforts to integrate health economics into evidence-based medicine, health policies and real world research paradigms.