Arthur Lambert, MSc, LHIMSS, has been involved in healthcare management systems development in the healthcare provider, consulting, vendor, and academic communities for over 40 years. He received his BSc in Industrial Engineering at Northeastern in 1972, and his MSc in Production Engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK in 1974. He is active in the Society for Health Systems and a Life Member of the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society. Along with his work at HSyE he is a founding member of the Center for Clinical Workforce Planning, a NH nonprofit corporation focused on educating frontline caregivers about workforce planning, and a founding member of Second Curve Systems, focused on innovation in healthcare management. Mr. Lambert has played a significant leadership role in several large initiatives focused on achieving significant impact to healthcare. He was a primary contributor to the workforce strategy integral to SSM Healthcare's Patient Focused Care / Functional Clinical Integration initiative leading to the first healthcare system to attain Baldrige recognition for quality. He was a core project leader/partner for Buckeye Corporation in the India Medical City project that brought Johns Hopkins, Duke, Stanford, UCSF, and Oxford into an alliance to build a 1000 bed post graduate university healthcare community in Bangalore, India.