cian, Chief of the Endocrine Unit, and Associate Chief of Medical Services at the Massachusetts General Hospital and was later Arthur F. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School. Since 1977 Dr. Federman has served as Dean for Students and Alumni and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is currently Dean for Medical Education and the Carl W. Walter Professor of Medicine and Medical Education. Dr. Federman has served as Chairman of the Board of Internal Medicine and President of the American College of Physicians. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine.

Anita Allen, J.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1984 and her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1979. She has also served as Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Distinguished Visiting Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Allen is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Association of Law School Teachers, the American Association of University Professors, the American Bar Association, and the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. She has published several book chapters and articles and has spoken at numerous conferences and seminars. Professor Allen is admitted to the bar in New York and Pennsylvania.

Hortensia Amaro, Ph.D., is Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Public Health at Boston University. She received her doctorate in developmental and social psychology in 1982 from the University of California at Los Angeles. She has served as a consultant and in various advisory roles to the Surgeon General's Agenda on Hispanic Health, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, as well as to foundations and community-based organizations. She is founder and past president of the Latino Health Institute of Massachusetts and founder of the Multicultural AIDS Coalition and the National Hispanic Psychological Association. She has received numerous awards including the Alfred Frechette Award from the Massachusetts Public Health Association, and the American Psychological Association's Early Career Award for Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. She serves as associate editor for the Psychology of Women Quarterly and on the editorial board of the American Journal of Public Health. Dr. Amaro's research has focused on epidemiological studies and community-based interventions for substance abuse and HIV among women, and on Hispanic health issues.