Scott Smith, MD, directs primary care operations and service strategies for the Colorado Permanente Medical Group, the state’s largest medical group practice within a health care organization. He is directly accountable for all primary care clinical services for 450,000 members in Denver/Boulder and manages more than 300 physicians. Dr. Smith joined the Colorado Permanente Medical Group as an Internal Medicine physician in 2000 and was named to his current executive role in 2005. Prior to becoming Associate Medical director, Dr. Smith was the physician director for Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect™, Kaiser Permanente’s electronic medical record system. Under Dr. Smith’s leadership, KP HealthConnect™ was fully implemented in only four weeks to more than 5,000 users. Based on the success of the Colorado region’s EMR adoption, Dr. Smith has been asked to speak nationally about leadership’s role in planning and launching an automated record system. Dr. Smith was awarded a Presidential scholarship to Dallas Baptist University and upon graduation he received a Health Professions Scholarship from the U. S. Air Force. He was commissioned into the USAF Reserve as a second lieutenant in 1989 and was promoted to major in 1999. During this time, Dr. Smith served as the director of cardiopulmonary services and then the chief of the Internal Medicine Clinic for the 377th Medical Group at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. Dr. Smith is a Diplomat to the National Board of Medical Examiners and a member of the American College of Physicians. He also still maintains a small primary care practice at the Westminster (Colo.) Medical Offices.