Jules Berman holds two bachelor of science degrees from MIT (Mathematics, and Earth and Planetary Sciences), a PhD from Temple University, and an MD, from the University of Miami. His post-doctoral studies were completed at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and his medical residency was completed at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Berman served as Chief of Anatomic Pathology, Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, where he held joint appointments at the University of Maryland Medical Center and at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. In 1998, he became the Program Director for Pathology Informatics in the Cancer Diagnosis Program at the U.S. National Cancer Institute. In 2006, Dr. Berman was President of the Association for Pathology Informatics. In 2011 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Pathology Informatics. Dr. Berman has made many contributions to the field of data science, particularly in the areas of identification, deidentification, data exchange protocols, standards development, regulatory/legal issues, and metadata annotation. He is first author on over one hundred journal articles and a co-author on over two hundred scientific publications. Today Dr. Berman is a free-lance author, writing extensively in his three areas of expertise: informatics, computer programming, and medicine. A complete list of his publications is available at http: //www.julesberman.info/pubs.htm