Diane Burnside Murdock is a writer, researcher, blogger, and mHealth app cocreator, aka
Murdock Without Borders. She has worked at the Congressional Budget Office and the
Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (ProPac) and established her own
consulting firm, Health Policy Research, offering services to organizations like the
Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Government
Accountability Office. She received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Tulane
University and a master’s degree in health services administration from the George
Washington University. She lives with her family in Virginia. She is 63 years old, old to
some and young to others.