Appendix C
Members of the Delegation
Following are brief biographical sketches of the members of the delegation to Guatemala.
CAROL CORILLON has been director of the Committee on Human Rights of the National Academy of Sciences for 11 years. During 1987–1989 she also served as director of the Committee on Health and Human Rights of the Institute of Medicine. Ms. Corillon formerly served as staff officer for the National Research Council's Advisory Committee on the Sahel. In the 1970s Ms. Corillon wrote on political, economic, and human rights issues in Kinshasa, Zaire, for various broadcast and news agencies including the BBC, the Economist, and Reuters. Ms. Corillon has written or edited several Academy publications. She is a member of the board of Africa Watch and was a delegate on committee missions to Chile in 1985 and to Somalia in 1987.
PATRICIA EVERS, a program officer with the Committee on Human Rights of the National Academy of Sciences, has been with the committee for 3 years and provided staff support for the mission. Previously, she researched and captioned photographs for international news stories at a French news agency, conducted research in Russian and French at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, and translated, organized, and catalogued rare Russian and East European manuscripts at the Bakhmeteff Russian and East European Archive at Columbia University.
ROBERT LAWRENCE, a primary care physician, is a member of the Institute of Medicine, chair of its Committee on Health and Human Rights,
and a member of the Committee on Human Rights. Dr. Lawrence is director of Health Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation. Formerly, he was director of the Division of Primary Care, Harvard Medical School, and chief of the Department of Medicine at Cambridge Hospital. He is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and other professional organizations. He has worked as a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development and the World Health Organization and has served as a delegate on human rights missions to South Africa, El Salvador, the Philippines, Czechoslovakia, Chile, and Egypt.
ELIOT STELLAR, a behavioral neuroscientist, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He has been chair of the Academy's Committee on Human Rights since 1983. Dr. Stellar is University Professor of Physiological Psychology in Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Department of Anatomy. He is president of the American Philosophical Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Psychological Association, the Society for Neuroscience, the International Brain Research Organization, and other professional organizations. He was a member of the NAS Scientific Advisory Committee on the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe.
MARY JANE WEST-EBERHARD, a biologist, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and its Committee on Human Rights. She is a senior researcher with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, resident in Costa Rica. During 1972–1978, Dr. West-Eberhard was staff member ad honorem, Departamento de Biología, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. She is president of the Society for the Study of Evolution and is a member of the American Society of Naturalists, the Cambridge Entomological Society, the Bombay Natural History Society, and the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, among others. Dr. West-Eberhard serves on a number of editorial advisory boards and is an adviser to the National Research Council's joint program on U.S. and Mexican academies of sciences.
