Larry A. Nathanson received the Bachelor's degree in computer medical science from Boston University, Boston, MA, in 1991, and the medical degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate, Brooklyn, in 1996. He is trained in emergency medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He has been a National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored Medical Informatics Fellow at Harvard Medical School and also at the Center for Clinical Computing, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Boston, where he is currently a Board-Certified Emergency Physician and the Director of the Emergency Medical Informatic, Department of Emergency Medicine. Besides his clinical responsibilities of treating patients, he develops computer applications to support emergency care and has been programming for more than 20 years. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston. He is the architect and programmer of the “Emergency Department (ED) Dashboard,” the ED information system that is used at BIDMC.