David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health information technology, and John Glaser, adviser to the Office of the National Coordinator, have joined a new presidential advisory council on science and technology.
Blumenthal and Glaser joined other key health reform leaders at the White House last month for the first meetings of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. PCAST is an advisory group of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers, appointed by the president to augment the science and technology advice he receives from inside the White House and from cabinet departments and other federal agencies.
According to the White House, PCAST will offer insights and make policy recommendations on science, technology and innovation relevant to the policy choices facing the administration.
According to PCAST Co-Chairman John Holdren, assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the group has “a spectacular cast of leaders of the science and technology community.”
The panel includes Aneesh Chopra, assistant to the president, associate director for technology and chief technology officer of
the OSTP.
