David G. Altman, Ph.D., is a professor of public health sciences at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He currently serves as national program director of the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program and is past president of Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco (STAT). Over the years, he has conducted a variety of studies in community health promotion. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Behavioral Medicine; in 1997 he was selected as a Fellow of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Program. Altman is also a member of the American Public Health Association, the Council on Epidemiology and Prevention of the American Heart Association, and the Society of Public Health Education. Before arriving at Wake Forest University in 1994, he spent ten years at the Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Terri Gibbs Appel, M.P.H., is a former program officer at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, she served as the director of the managed care program at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center, the director of corporate and regulatory affairs for the Metropolitan Health Plan/HMO, and as a senior management consultant in Ambulatory Care Services at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. She has provided volunteer services in a number of arenas, including religious education, teen health education, and AIDS service. Her volunteer activities have continued in Asia, where she is currently living, through a teen health counseling program. Appel received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.P.H. in health policy and management from Columbia University.

Theodore P. Cross, Ph.D., is a senior research associate at the Family and Children's Policy Center, Heller School, Brandeis University, and an adjunct professor in the department of psychology at Brandeis. He was the coprincipal investigator of the evaluation of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Mental Health Services Program for Youth. His research interests include the development of children's mental health services and the institutional response to child abuse. Trained as a clinical psychologist, Cross also consults on program evaluation and maintains a small private practice in child therapy.

Marjorie A. Gutman, Ph.D., is the director of prevention research at the Treatment Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, she is the codirector of the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program and, as a special consultant to The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, assists with the oversight of two other national programs on substance abuse prevention. Gutman's research and grant making has been devoted to health promotion and disease prevention, particularly with adolescents and high-risk behaviors. She was a senior program officer at the Foundation for nine years. Before coming to the Foundation in 1988, Gutman was a consultant on evaluation to the New Jersey Health Department and spent seven years conducting prevention research at the State University of New York Health Services Center in Brooklyn. She serves on the editorial advisory board for a newsletter on substance abuse produced by the Association for Health Services Research, and is a member of the United Way Task Force on Outcomes, the American Public Health Association, and the Association for Health Services Research.

Jonathan Howland, Ph.D., is a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. He is currently conducting clinical trials on an intervention to reduce fear of falling among the elderly; an interactive-video intervention to reduce new infections among patients in an inner-city clinic for sexually transmitted diseases; and a study on the effects of low-level alcohol exposure and hangovers on commercial ship handling. His research interests include injury epidemiology and the development and evaluation of behavioral interventions for public health problems. Howland is the director of the Health and Housing Fellows programs, a project that places returned Peace Corps volunteers at public housing developments where they live and work while they matriculate through the School of Public Health.

Robert G. Hughes, Ph.D., is a vice president of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. His interests are in the areas of health policy research, philanthropy and social change, and children's health insurance coverage. His responsibilities within the Foundation have included the Tobacco Policy Research and Evaluation Program, the Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research Program, the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program, and the Health Tracking Initiative. Between 1991 and 1994, he was the convener of the "substance abuse working group," the staff committee charged with developing and reviewing substance abuse programs. Hughes came to the Foundation from Arizona State University where he was an assistant professor in the School of Health Administration and Policy. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and was a Pew postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco.

Paul Jellinek, Ph.D., is a vice president at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Since joining the Foundation staff in 1983, he has been involved in developing and managing programs to improve access to health care, reduce the harm from substance abuse, and improve the organization and delivery of chronic care services. He has a particular interest in developing programs to strengthen community capacity and volunteerism, including the Faith in Action program. A former fellow at the Bush Institute for Child and Family Policy in North Carolina, his articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, and Issues in Science and Technology. Jellinek received a Ph.D. in health economics and a master's degree in health administration from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of South Florida.

Terrance Keenan is a senior program consultant at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where he joined the staff in 1972 as one of the founding Foundation vice presidents. He was a senior program associate at the Commonwealth Fund between 1965 and 1972. Before that, he was a writer for the Ford Foundation and head of its office of reports. Prior to his career in health philanthropy, he worked at Merrill Lynch in New York City writing the biography of its founder, the late Charles E. Merrill, and taught secondary school in St. Louis. He is a graduate of Yale University.

Leonard Koppett has been a sports journalist for fifty-five years, and has been named to the writers' wing of both the Baseball and Basketball Halls of Fame. He has worked for numerous newspapers, including the Herald Tribune, The New York Post, The New York Times, and The Sporting News as a contributing writer, columnist, and an editor. Koppett has taught journalism-related courses at Stanford University and San Jose State University. The author of twelve books, most of them about baseball, his most popular include A Thinking Man's Guide to Baseball, 24 Seconds to Shoot (An Informal History of the National Basketball Association), and Sports Illusion, Sports Reality; his most recent is Koppett's Concise History of Major League Baseball.

Marianne Lee, M.P.A., is a consultant with the JSI Research and Training Institute. She has been the project manager for a series of alcohol studies at the Harvard School of Public Health, including the worksite alcohol study and the college alcohol study, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Institute for Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. Previously she was the executive director for the Massachusetts Governor's Alliance Against Drugs, a statewide alcohol and drug prevention education program for school-aged children. Lee is a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Lisa Lopez is a health care writer and an editorial consultant. As a journalist for twelve years, she has covered a broad range of health care issues, including primary and preventive health care, the elderly and chronically ill, community health, and Latino health care issues. While an editor with Business & Health magazine in the 1980s, she expanded the publication's coverage to include emerging concerns such as health care access and maternal and child care. A former managing editor of HMO Magazine (now Healthplan), Lopez coauthored the book Managed Care Strategies 1997: An Annual Report on the Latest Practices and Policies in the New Managed Care Environment. She is a graduate of the Ohio University School of Journalism.

Thomas W. Mangione, Ph.D., is a senior research scientist at JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc. He is currently directing a comparative study of behavioral and lifestyle risk factors of two areas within the city of Newton, Massachusetts, with dramatically different breast cancer rates. Mangione has previously directed studies relating to alcohol and drug treatment outcomes, AIDS risk behaviors, and domestic violence, and has provided technical assistance to studies focusing on managed care systems, community health needs assessments, alcohol use, and AIDS needs assessments. In addition to his research efforts, he currently teaches a course in survey research methodology at both the Boston University and Harvard University Schools of Public Health. He was a senior research fellow at the University of Massachusetts Center for Survey Research, and has authored several articles and two books on survey research methodology. Mangione obtained his Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan in 1973.

Barbara Norrish, M.S.N., is a student in the doctoral program in health services and policy analysis at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a part-time faculty member in the graduate nursing program at California State University, Dominguez Hills. She has a particular interest in the impact of hospital restructuring on the work of registered nurses, the subject of her dissertation. Norrish is a former assistant director of nursing in Michigan and California, with over ten years of experience in clinical practice, including five years as a specialist in cardiovascular nursing. She received a Master's of Science in Nursing from Wayne State University.

Robert L. Rabin, J.D., Ph.D., is the A. Calder Mackay Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He was program director of the Tobacco Policy Research and Evaluation Program, and is currently a senior program consultant to the Foundation's Substance Abuse Policy Research Program. Rabin served as reporter for the ABA Action Commission to Improve the Tort System and as associate reporter of the American Law Institute study, Enterprise Liability for Personal Injury. He has published many books and articles in the areas of tort law and regulatory policy, including the coauthored work Smoking Policy: Law, Politics and Culture.

Richard Reynolds, M.D., is Courtesy Professor of Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine. In his previous role as executive vice president at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, he participated in the development and oversight of several programs in medical education. He is a former dean of The Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Medicine and Dentistry at New Jersey. Previously, while a faculty member at the University of Florida, he helped to initiate a program in general internal medicine and became the founding Chairman of the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine. He has coedited two books, Health of a Rural County and On Doctoring. Trained as an internist, he first practiced in a small city in western Maryland.

Thomas G. Rundall, Ph.D., is professor of health policy and management in the School of Public Health, the director of the graduate program in health services management, and the founding director of the Center for Health Management Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1980, he taught for four years in the Sloan program in health services administration at Cornell University. Rundall is a nationally recognized scholar in health services research. An elected fellow of the Association for Health Services Research, he has been a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow. He served as editor of Medical Care Review, a leading journal in the field of health services research. Rundall received his Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University.

Lewis G. Sandy, M.D., is the executive vice president of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where he oversees the activities of program staff and is responsible for strategic planning and administrative operations. Between 1991 and 1996, Sandy was a vice president of the Foundation. Sandy has been active in the Foundation's workforce initiatives, its efforts to track the changing health care system, its programs to improve services for chronically ill people, and its programs to improve managed care. An internist and former health center medical director at the Harvard Community Health Plan in Boston, Massachusetts, Sandy received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University. A former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and Clinical Fellow in Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, Sandy served his internship and residency at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He continues to practice and teach at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School where he is an associate clinical professor of medicine.

Leonard Saxe, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York and an adjunct professor of social welfare at the Heller School of Brandeis University. A social psychologist whose work focuses on human behavior and social policy, Saxe's research has included studies of drug, alcohol, and mental health treatment for adults and children, as well as the evaluation of community prevention programs. He served as a Congressional Science Fellow at the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) and has authored several OTA studies, including The Effectiveness and Costs of Alcoholism Treatment and Children's Mental Health. He has written or edited more than one hundred publications. Saxe is a recipient of the American Psychological Association's prize for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, Early Career.

Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., is president of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. A graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School, Schroeder trained in internal medicine at the Harvard Medical Service of the Boston City Hospital, in epidemiology as a member of the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Communicable Diseases Center, and in public health at the Harvard Center for Community Health and Medical Care. He served as an instructor in medicine at Harvard, assistant and associate professor of medicine and health care sciences at George Washington University, and associate professor and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). At both George Washington and UCSF he was founding medical director of a university-sponsored health maintenance organization, and at UCSF he founded its Division of General Internal Medicine. Schroeder continues to practice general internal medicine on a part-time basis at The Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He has more than two hundred publications to his credit and has served on a number of editorial boards, including--at present--the New England Journal of Medicine. He received honorary doctorates from Rush University, Boston University, and the University of Massachusetts.

David B. Starkweather, Dr.P.H., is professor emeritus of health services management at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1995, he received the Berkeley Citation, the highest award granted a university professor for teaching, research, and professional contributions. Starkweather has had a long-standing interest in patient-centered hospital reorganization. For eight years, he was in the administration of the Stanford University Hospital, eventually serving as the hospital's director. He joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1968 and, subsequently, founded the graduate program in health services management, the first joint M.B.A./M.P.H. curriculum in the country. Starkweather served as chairman of the Accrediting Commission for Education in Health Services Administration, and for twelve years was a hospital trustee and director of a multihospital system in northern California.

Victoria D. Weisfeld, B.A., M.P.H., is a senior communications officer at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Weisfeld is responsible for a wide range of communications activities, including dissemination of the findings of SUPPORT (the Study to Understand Prognosis and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment) and development of the Foundation's gopher and World Wide Web site. She served three terms on the Communications Committee of the Council on Foundations and is past president of the Communications Network in Philanthropy. Before coming to the Foundation, Weisfeld was a senior associate with the Institute of Medicine, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. She has written numerous articles on health care and edited a quarterly health services research newsletter for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts degree and from the University of Pittsburgh with a Master's degree in Public Health.