Mary E. Reed, DrPH, is a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. Her research interests include health information technology and health care delivery organization and their effects on clinical care, quality, and costs; and patient knowledge, attitudes, and decision making with respect to health insurance. She received her DrPH at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.