Editorial Advisory Board

Maureen H. Azarian, M.S., R.D./L.D. is a medical student at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and a registered dietician. She has conducted research on long-term weight loss.

Edward Bope, M.D., is a family physician and Director of the Family Practice Residency Program at Riverside Methodist Hospitals in Columbus, Ohio. He is former Chair of the Residency Review Committee for Family Practice of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Kathleen Rowland, M.D., is chief resident in the Advocate Illinois Masonic Family Medicine Residency Program. She is active in the Family Physicians Inquiries Network and is conducting research on soothing techniques and infant weight gain.

Carolyn Clancy, M.D., is Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in Rockville, Md. A general internist and health services researcher, her research interests include women's health, primary care, access to care and the impact of financial incentives on physicians' decisions.

Frank V. deGruy III, M.D., M.S.F.M., is a family physician and the Woodward-Chisholm Professor and Chair at the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine in Aurora, Colo. His research has addressed somatization, mental disorders in the primary care setting and family factors in health and illness.

Mark J. DeHaven, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine and Chief of the Division of Community Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. His work includes community-based participatory research with a focus on improving equity and access to care in the United States.

Ted Epperly, M.D., a family physician, is Chairman and Program Director of the Family Practice Residency of Idaho in Boise. Dr. Epperly chairs the American Academy of Family Physicians' Commission on Education.

Lillian Gelberg, M.D., M.S.P.H., is the George F. Kneller Professor of Family Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine. She is a health services researcher and family physician who conducts research on the health, access to care and quality of care of homeless and other vulnerable populations.

Jessie Gruman, Ph.D., is President and Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Health in Washington, D.C. She is the Founding Director of the center, which translates health research into effective policy and practice.

Kevin Grumbach, M.D., is Chief of Family and Community Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital/Community Health Network, and Vice-chair of the University of California-San Francisco Department of Family and Community Medicine. He is co-author of the widely used textbook, Understanding Health Policy - A Clinical Approach.

Carol P. Herbert, M.D., is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. She was Editor of the international journal, Patient Education and Counseling from 1994 to 1999.

Carlos Roberto Jaén, M.D., Ph.D., is the John M. Smith Jr. Professor and Chairman of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio. A family physician and epidemiologist, he has done extensive work in the field of counseling patients on stopping smoking.

Eva Kahana, Ph.D., is the Pierce T. and Elizabeth D. Robson Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Her research interests include medical sociology, sociology of aging and social factors in stress and coping.

Ann-Louise Kinmonth, M.D., M.Sc., is the Foundation Professor of General Practice in the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, England. Her work has focused on innovations in the design and evaluation of complex interventions to improve the quality of medical care in general practice.

Arch G. Mainous III, Ph.D., is Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. His research interests include continuity of care and treatment of respiratory infections.

Rita Mangione-Smith, M.D., M.P.H., is a pediatrician and health services researcher in the University of Washington Department of Pediatrics. Her recent research has addressed issues related to prescribing antibiotics.

Patrick J. O'Connor, M.D. M.P.H., is Senior Clinical Investigator for the HealthPartners Research Foundation in Minneapolis, Minn. A family physician and epidemiologist, he has conducted research in chronic disease outcomes, clinical guidelines and population health improvement.

Lewis G. Sandy, M.D., M.B.A., is the Executive Vice President for Clinical Strategies and Policy at United Healthcare and the former Executive Vice President of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is a general internist whose research interests include management of chronic illness and disease.

David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., a family physician, is Director of the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Satcher was the U.S. Surgeon General from 1998 to 2002.

Bruce L. Sparks, M.D., is President of Wonca, the World Organization of Family Doctors. He is a family physician in the Department of Family Medicine, Medical School in Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Barbara Starfield, M.D. M.P.H., is the University Distinguished Professor, School of Public Health, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. Her book, Primary Care: Concept, Evaluation, and Policy, published in 1992, is one of the authoritative works on primary care. It was revised and republished in 1998 as Primary Care: Balancing Health Needs, Services, and Technology.

Moira Stewart, Ph.D., is Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine, and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. She is an epidemiologist who has conducted research on communication between patients and doctors and the quality of primary care.

Roger Strasser, M.D., is the Founding Dean of the Northern Ontario Medical School at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He is the former Foundation Director of the Australian Rural Health Research Institute and a former Assistant Editor of Thematic Issues for the Australian Journal of Rural Health.

Gregory Strayhorn, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor and the Sarah and William Hambrecht Chair of Family Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga. His research includes studies of the effects of medical education processes on students.

Paul Thomas, M.B., Ch.B., D.C.H., M.R.C.G.P., is a general practitioner and researcher at the Applied Research Unit of the Brent Primary Care Trust in Wembley, Middlesex, England. He was the Founding Director of the West London Research Network, a multidisciplinary network of primary care individuals and practices interested in research.

Mary Wakefield, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., is Director of the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. She has served on the President's Commission on Health Quality and the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee.

Richard C. "Mort" Wasserman, M.D., M.P.H., a pediatrician in Burlington, Vt., is Director of the Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) network. PROS is a practice-based research network established by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1986.

Chris van Weel, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.G.P. is head of the Department of General Practice, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His research interests include common chronic diseases in general practice (asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, depression). As President-Elect of Wonca, the World Organization of Family Doctors, he hopes to foster that organization’s research mission.