MILAGROS BATISTA is a founder of Best Beginnings, an inter-agency collaboration between Alianza Dominica, the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Columbia Presbyterian Hospital where she has pioneered a new method for working with families in their homes. She has worked extensively on homeless issues through the Crisis Intervention Program that was responsible for shutting down New York City's infamous shelters. For the past ten years she has been working with Alianza Dominica, the largest Dominican community based organization in the United States.

JOHN BROOKS, MD, is a professor and Chairman of Pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School and Medical Director of the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth. Under his leadership the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth has incorporated special initiatives into its Pediatric Residency Program to prepare the pediatricians of tomorrow to incorporate family-centered approaches into their pediatric practices. He has also collaborated with parents, providers, planners, agencies and payers to develop improved delivery systems for family-centered, community based care for children with chronic illnesses in New York and Northern New England. His primary area of research is the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. He has also worked extensively with children with chronic illnesses such as cystic fibrosis and asthma. He was previously on the faculty of the University of Colorado and the University of Rochester.

JOAN CARLSON is Vice President and CEO of Baptist Memorial Hospital - Memphis DBA St. Joseph Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. In this position, she is leading the merger of two hospitals and planning a new facility. She was previously President and CEO of St. Joseph Hospital and Health Centers, a 440 bed acute care facility that has served the poor and underserved of Memphis for 109 years. The patients of St. Joseph Hospital are 94% Medicare and Medicaid recipients. She also served as the President of Alverno Memphis Corporation which includes Alverno Home Health Agency, five primary care physician practices and a durable medical equipment company. Prior to coming to Memphis, she was President and CEO of Villa Clement, Inc., a multi-facility, long-term care organization with a staff of 800 and an operating budget of $23 million.

BARBARA CLINTON, MSW, is Director of the Center for Health Services at Vanderbilt University. The Center links University resources to local health initiatives in Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta. The Center's award winning Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker Project has mobilized more than five hundred community residents in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia to initiative family health programs. Barbara is an advisor to the Tennessee Commission on Aging, the National Center for Children in Poverty and the Appalachian Rural Science Initiative of the National Science Foundation. She has been active in all the Family Re-Union conferences and she is a board member of Father to Father, which was inspired by Family Re-Union III.

LANNY COPELAND, MD, is the President-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). The AAFP is a 84,000 member organization of family physician, family practice resident and medical student members dedicated to ensuring the successful future of family practice. He is also Vice President of Primary Care Development at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia and a faculty member of the Southwest Georgia Family Practice Residency Program. He was previously in the private practice of rural Family Medicine in Moultrie, Georgia for eighteen years.

JANE DELGADO, PhD, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations (COSSMHO). She oversees a membership network of 1,500 health professionals delivering front-line services in Hispanic communities. Before joining COSSMHO, she worked at the United States Department of Health and Human Services where she helped produce the ³Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health.² Jane is a Trustee of the Kresge Foundation and the Foundation for Child Development and is a member of Rosalyn Carter's Task Force on Mental Health. She is also the author of Salud! A Latina's Guide to Total Health - Body, Mind and Spirit.

KARL DENNIS is the Executive Director of Kaleidoscope, Inc. in Chicago. He is considered one of the country's top experts on community based care and a pioneer of ³wrap-around services². He was one of the national pioneers of intensive in-home family services and therapeutic foster care. He implemented one of the first pediatric AIDS foster care programs in the nation, and has helped orchestrate state initiatives to return children from out-of-state placements. He has served as consultant and advisor to private foundations and to many national, state, and community social service and mental health agencies.

NANCY-ANN MIN DePARLE, JD, is Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In this position, she is a key health policy advisor to the HHS Secretary and other top Administration officials. She also directs the Medicare and Medicaid Programs. Before joining HHS, Nancy was Associate Director for Health and Personnel at the White House Office of Management and Budget. She also served as Commissioner of Human Services in Tennessee Governor Ned McWherter's Administration.

NANCY DICKEY, MD, is the President-elect of the American Medical Association (AMA). She previously served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the AMA and as its Vice Chair, Chair of the AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs and as a member of the AMA Ad Hoc Committee on Women in Organized Medicine. She is currently also the program director for the Brazos Valley Family Practice Program associated with the Texas A&M University.

PAULA DUNCAN, MD, is the Principal Assistant to the Secretary of the Agency in Human Services for the State of Vermont. Dr. Duncan was previously on the full-time faculty in Pediatrics at Stanford University and the University of Vermont School of Medicine. For the past ten years she has served as a consultant to the Vermont Department of Education on health education curricular activities. In 1995, Dr. Duncan was appointed Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) School Health Committee and she is currently on the Steering Committee for the National Coordinating Council for School Health. She has also been in two primary care pediatrics practices.

JOHN EISENBERG, MD, MBA, is the Administrator of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. He is a senior advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on issues involving health care quality improvement. On behalf of the Secretary, he coordinates HHS's work for the National Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry. He is the past Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. He also served as Chairman of the Congressional Physician Payment Review Commission. His recent publications have concerned the cost of medical care and physicians' practices.

MARTHA FARRELL ERICKSON, PhD, is the Director of the Youth and Family Consortium at the University of Minnesota. As Director, she builds university-community partnerships for the wellbeing of children and families. Her longitudinal research on parent-child attachment and strategies for breaking intergenerational cycles of abuse has informed the work of health care providers, family support professionals and policy makers in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Erickson has received numerous honors including the 1996 Commissioner's Award from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families and the 1998 Distinguished Service Award from the Minnesota Child Abuse Prevention Studies Program. She also appears weekly on the KARE-11 Today Show and the teen magazine show ³Whatever² and writes the weekly column ³Growing Concerns² which appears in family publications around the country.

LISA FARNIN is a Project Leader at Visteon Systems, where she leads the design, delivery, and implementation of information systems serving the automotive electronics industry. She has prior experience in logistics, marketing, sales and consulting with the IBM Corporation. She was selected as ³Working Mother of the Year² by Working Mother magazine, and was a panelist at Family Re-Union V: Families and Work. She serves on the Board of The Wellness Community-Philadelphia which provides free psycho-social support services for cancer patients. The mother of two toddlers, she was diagnosed with breast cancer while 34 weeks pregnant. She completed nine months of treatment including surgery, chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, and radiation. She is full of hope for a bright future.

CAROL FLINT has received an Emmy Award as writer and producer of the television show ³ER². The episodes she has written include ³Ambush² the live season premiere of ³ER². She began her television career as a writer for ³China Beach². She then became a writer and supervising producer for ³Crime and Punishment² at Universal and ³L.A. Law² at Fox. More recently, she created and produced an Amblin/Universal series called ³Earth 2.² Ms. Flint is also an accomplished playwright with numerous regional productions and national awards.

THOMAS FRAZIER is Police Commissioner of Baltimore City where he has developed police-community partnerships to meet broad-based community needs. He was previously a member of the San Jose Police Department for twenty-seven years where he was instrumental in establishing the Community Oriented Policing Program. Commissioner Frazier has written several articles on leadership for Police Chief Magazine. He served in U.S. Army Intelligence during the Vietnam War and was awarded the Bronze Star, Air Medal and the Combat Infantryman's Badge.

BARBARA FRIESEN, PhD, is the Director of the Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health and a Professor at the Graduate School of Social Work at Portland State University in Portland Oregon. She is currently conducting research related to family participation in mental health and other service settings, and an evaluation of an intensive case management system for children with serious emotional disorders. Her ³Families as Allies² program is designed to promote partnerships between family members and service providers. Dr. Friesen has published extensively in the children's mental health area on topics such as parent-professional relationships, family support, family centered services, family members in service providing roles, and system change strategies.

VAL HALAMANDARIS, is the President of the National Association for Home Care (NAHC) and is the Director General of the World Homecare and Hospice Organization. He previously served for five years as Counsel to Representative Claude Pepper's House Select Committee on Aging and for fifteen years as Counsel to Senator Frank E. Moss and the U.S. Senate Committee on Aging. Val also founded the Center for Health Care Law, a public interest law firm advocating the rights of the elderly, the disabled and chronically ill children. He is currently the editor and publisher of two national magazines, Caring and Caring People.

MAXINE HAYES, MD, MPH, is the Assistant Secretary of Community and Family Health and the Associate Health Officer for the Washington State Department of Health. The programs she oversees include WIC nutrition, Maternal and Child Health, Family Planning, Health Promotion, Heart Disease and Cancer Prevention, Immunization, TB Control, HIV/AIDS and STD, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention. She is also a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine and is on the Maternal and Child Health Faculty in its School of Public Health.

CHRIS JENNINGS is Deputy Assistant to the President for Health Policy Development. In this position, he is responsible for coordinating health care policy and administrative actions for all White House offices and Administration departments, including the Department of Health and Human Services, the Labor Department and the Treasury Department. He also assists the President in the development of policy positions on Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance reform, coverage expansions, quality assurance and numerous other health reform issues. Previous positions he has held within the Clinton Administration include Special Assistant to the President for Health Policy and Senior Legislative Health Reform Advisor to the Health Care Financing Administration. Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Mr. Jennings served on Committee staffs of three U.S. Senators (Glenn, Melcher and Pryor).

JUDITH KATZ-LEAVEY, M.Ed, is Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of Policy, Planning and Administration in the federal Center for Mental Health Services with responsibility for developing child mental health policy. Co-founder of the Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP), she has served as Co-Chair of the Child Mental Health Sub-Group of the Administration's National Health Care Task Force. She has assisted states and communities in health system reform and the preservation of integrated community based systems of care. She has also served as an advisor in the Family Re-Union conference development process.

DAVID KENDALL is Senior Analyst for Health Policy and Director of the Health Priorities Project at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI). Prior to joining PPI, David was Legislative Director and Senior Policy Director for Congressman Michael A. Andrews (D-TX). He also worked with the Jackson Hole Group and Congressmen Jim Cooper on the Managed Competition Act. In 1993, he served on the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform. He is the author of ³Modernizing Medicare and Medicaid: The First Step Toward Universal Health Care² a chapter in Building the Bridge: 10 Big Ideas to Transform America.

DARRELL KIRCH, MD, is Senior Vice President for Clinical Activities and the Dean of the Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies at the Medical College of Georgia. He is also Chair of the American Medical Association Section on Medical Schools. He was previously Medical Director of the Neuropsychiatric Research Hospital and Chief of the Schizophrenia Research Branch at the National Institutes of Health. He also served as Acting Scientific Director of the National Institute of Mental Health. His work at the Institute was recognized by the award of both the Commendation Medal and the Outstanding Service Medal of the United States Public Health Service.

GERRI LAMB, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a nurse and senior corporate director for the community programs at Carondelet Health Network in Tucson, Arizona. She directs a variety of programs that bring wellness, self-care and case management services to the neighborhoods of southern Arizona. She is responsible for one of four national community-based, nurse-managed Medicare demonstrations. She recently received the Case Management of the Year Award from the Case Management Society of America for her contributions to advancing the work of thousands of professionals who play major roles in orchestrating health care services for Americans.

DAVID LANSKY, PhD, is the President of the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT). FACCT is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating consumers so that they can shape the health care system and hold it accountable. FACCT supports efforts to gather and provide quality health care information and develops consumer-focused quality measures. David is a former Regional Director of Clinical Information for the Providence Health System in Oregon. He was also responsible for national accountability measures under the ³managed competition² model for the Jackson Hole Group.

ROBERT LEVINE, MD, is Chairman of the Advisory Group of the Progressive Policy Institute's ³Health Priorities Project.² The mission of the Health Priorities Project is to combine individual choice and access to health resources in an information age health care system. In 1990, Robert helped start TVN Entertainment Corp, a pay-per-view cable service. TVN recently created DCTV which allows some cable operators to provide the latest digital, video, audio, data and interactive services to subscribers without costly upgrades. He is also a founder of The Health Corporation, an information management service that focuses on health status and risk assessment, health enhancement and disease prevention.

JAN MALCOLM is System Vice President of Public Affairs for Alliana Health System. In her current position, she is responsible for development of public policy positions, government relations, corporate communications and public relations. Prior to joining Alliana, Ms. Malcolm was Senior Vice President for Government Relations and Public Programs at HealthPartners. She has served as an appointed member of the Governor's Commission on Health Care in Minnesota and as an alternate member of the Minnesota Health Care Commission. She is currently President-Elect of the Minnesota Council of Health Plans.

ANNE McGINTIS is currently the Coordinator of Parent, School and Community Involvement for the Hamilton County (Tennessee) Department of Education. She previously served as the parent, school and community coordinator for the Chattanooga Public School System for twenty-eight years. Organizations she is involved with include the Family Resource Coalition for the State of Tennessee and the Erianger Health Service Community Partnership.

MICHAEL MILLENSON is a member of the Health Care and Group Benefits practice of William M. Mercer, Incorporated. His recent work examines the issues affecting the cost and quality of medical care. His book, Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age was praised by The New York Times Book Review for telling ³an exciting and important story.² He also wrote Beyond the Managed Care Backlash, a paper issued by the Progressive Policy Institute. Previously he worked with the Jackson Hole Group during the creation of the Foundation for Accountability. He was also nominated three times for the Pulitzer prize for his work as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

JULIE MORETZ is Chairman of the Family Advisory Council for the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) Children's Medical Center. She recently was a parent consultant in the design of the $53 million, 220,000 square-foot new children's hospital in Augusta. Ms. Moretz founded and currently devotes a major portion of her time to the Children's Heart Program Volunteer Council at MCG which consists of parents and friends of children with heart disease. This group has raised more than $180,000 to fund projects for children with heart disease. Ms. Moretz's youngest son, Daniel, was born with complex heart disease and has undergone ten heart surgeries and neurosurgery.

ALVIN POUSSAINT, MD, is Director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Faculty Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School. He is the co-author of Raising Black Children and Black Child Care as well as dozens of articles. Last year he received an Emmy Award for the film Willoughby's Wonders. An expert on race relations, the dynamics of prejudice, and issues of diversity, he lectures widely and consults with both the public and private sectors. A proponent of non-violent parenting and parenting education, his has been a strong voice for responsible media content for children. A medical field director in the early civil rights movement, he is a former chair of PUSH. He has served as consultant to the ³Cosby Show² and ³A Different World². He is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

COL. VIRGINIA RANDALL, MD, MPH, is Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics for the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Her special interests are measuring outcomes of care for children with special health care needs and disabilities and their families and developing a four year longitudinal course of study to teach humanism to medical students. She was previously assigned to the Army Surgeon General's Office for Policy Development where she worked on Army and Department of Defense programs for children with disabilities.

IRWIN REDLENER, MD, FAAP, is the president and co-founder of the Children's Health Fund, a philanthropic organization that develops and supports health care programs for medically under served children. He is also Vice President of the Children's Medical Center at Montefiore Medical Center and Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Community Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The New York Children's Health Project, which he developed, has become a national model as the largest health care program for homeless children in the country. Currently he is co-chairman of the Healthy Start Advisory Group for America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth, Chaired by General Colin Powell. He is also the leader of Kids First, Kids Now!, a national initiative proposing comprehensive health reform for children. In 1993, Irwin was Vice Chairman of the Health Professional Review Group for the White House Task Force on National Health Care Reform.

LT. GEN. CHARLES ROADMAN, II, MD, is the Surgeon General at Headquarters U.S. Air Force (USAF) at Bolling Air Force Base in the District of Columbia. He serves as the functional manager of the USAF medical service. He advises the Secretary of the Air Force and Air Force Chief of Staff, and the Assistant Secretary of Defense (health affairs), on matters pertaining to the health of Air Force personnel. He directs, guides and provides technical management to over 52,000 personnel assigned to eighty-seven medical facilities worldwide. Prior to his present assignment, he served as both commander, Air Force Medical Operations Agency and Deputy Surgeon General, Office of the Air Force Surgeon General.

RICKI ROBINSON, MD, MPH, is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California Medical School and is on the attending faculty at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. In 1990 her two year old son was diagnosed with autism. She has since organized a professional network, a parent's resource manual and a school program for young children with autistic spectrum disorder. She maintains an active pediatric practice and has spearheaded research and improved treatment of autism as a leader in the Cure Autism Now Foundation. Early in her career, as recipient of a fellowship from Wellesley College, she studied the public health needs of children worldwide.

ANN ROSEWATER is Counselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She serves as the Secretary's principal advisor on cross-cutting initiatives including domestic violence, follow-up to the White House Conference on Early Childhood Development and Learning, and strengthening the Department's capacity to address health, social and economic development at the local level. She serves as co-chair of the Department's Steering Committee on Violence against Women and coordinates the Department's National Strategy to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. Previously she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and External Affairs. Ms. Rosewater has been a senior associate at the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, a senior consultant to the Pew, Casey, Ford and Rockefeller foundations and staff director for the US House of Representatives Select Committee on Children & Youth which she helped to create.

ROBERT ROSS, MD, is the Director of the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency which serves children, families and the veteran community. Major current Agency initiatives include the planning and implementation of the County's Welfare Reform Strategic Plan, integration of health and human service delivery for children and families, the implementation of a managed care delivery model for Medi-Cal recipients, and child abuse prevention through home visiting. Dr. Ross previously served as Commissioner of the Philadelphia Department of Public health. As Commissioner, he created the Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, institutionalized the ³Philadelphia Injury Prevention Program² and co-founded Operation Peace, a violence prevention effort, in Philadelphia.

JOHN ROTHER is the Director of Legislation and Public Policy for the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). He is responsible for the federal and state legislative advocacy of the Association. He previously worked in the U.S. Senate as special Counsel for Labor and Health to former Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY), and as staff Director and Chief Counsel for the Special Committee on Aging under its Chairman, Senator John Heinz (R-PA). He recently completed a sabbatical assignment to study the consumer implications and the economic challenges of the managed care revolution.

KAREN SCHROCK is Executive Director of Adult Wellbeing Services. Previously Ms Schrock served as Chief of the Center for Substance Abuse Services for the Michigan Department of Community Health, Chief of the Division of Services to Crippled Children, Chief of Minority Health, and Chief of the Eastern Regional Division of the MDPH Bureau of Community Services. She serves on several national substance abuse related boards and the board of the Institute for Family Centered Care. She is active in state and local organizations including the PTA.

CHRISTINE HARPER SEITZ, MBA, MSN, is Vice President for Clinical Operations of the newly merged Children's Hospital's of St Paul and Minneapolis. She is a registered nurse and holds masters degrees in both nursing and business administration. Ms. Seitz is responsible for leadership, direction and strategic planning for the patient care departments and functions across the system. She is leading a systemwide re-engineering effort and co-leading the implementation of a clinical information system focusing on quality, service improvement and cost effectiveness. Family-centered care is a philosophy imbedded across the organization.

BETH STROUL is Vice President and Co-Founder of Management and Training Innovations, Inc., a consulting firm in McClean, Virginia, and has served for over fifteen years as a consultant to the federal government in mental health policy as well as to the National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health at Georgetown University. She is the author of a highly regarded monograph, ³A System of Care for Children and Adolescents with Severe Emotional Disturbances², and editor of a book entitled Children's Mental Health: Creating Systems of Care in a Changing Society. Her current work focuses on managed care and behavioral health.

DAVID SATCHER, MD, PhD, is the United States Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for Health for the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). He is the Secretary's senior advisor on public health issues and Director of the Office of Public Health and Science. Before his appointment, Dr. Satcher was the Director of HHS's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Under his leadership, the CDC increased childhood immunization rates and breast and cervical cancer screening. He was also responsible for upgrading the nation's ability to respond to emerging infectious diseases. Prior to joining the Administration, Dr. Satcher was President of Maharry Medical College and a faculty member of the UCLA School of Medicine and the King-Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles.

SHEILA SAVANNAH is the Executive Director of People in Partnership which grew out of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Mental Health Initiative for Urban Children. People in Partnership seeks to give parents and other recipients of mental health services a voice in the design, implementation, evaluation and reform of the services they receive. The organization has contracts with three behavioral health managed care organizations. Within its provider network, parents work with traditional clinicians to provide a family based array of services including prevention, intervention, wrap-around support and treatment. The organization has also pioneered a sixty hour training program that prepares and certifies parents to be providers in a neighborhood-based system of care. Ms. Savannah has also written a cultural diversity training program and is a traditional African-American storyteller.

WILLIAM SCHWAB, MD, is a professor at the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and is the Director of the Northeast Family Medical Center. He is a nationally recognized leader in medical education in the field of care for children with special health care needs. Dr. Schwab serves on the national advisory board to the Institute for Family-Centered Care. He is also the father of a child with complex medical needs.

HERBERT SMITHERMAN, JR., MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University School of Medicine. His research focuses on health issues related to under-represented people of color, specifically people of African decent. He recently traveled to Zimbabwe and South Africa, as a health delegate at the 4th African, African-American Summit where he worked with national and international leaders strategizing to formulate solutions to address specific needs of people of African descent. He has also worked with diverse communities in Detroit and Michigan to develop urban-based ambulatory primary care delivery systems that link the health mission of the Health Delivery Organization to the social goals and concerns of the community.

PATRICIA SODOMKA is Executive Director of the Medical College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics. Under her leadership the new fifty-three million dollar Medical College of Georgia Children's Medical Center was built with the active participation of parents and families in the design development process. This project received the top design award by Modern Healthcare in the Fall of 1997. Patricia is also a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. She serves on the Executive Committee of the University Health System Consortium and the Board of the Council of Teaching Hospitals of the American Association of Medical Colleges.

NAOMI TANNEN, MS, is a highly regarded human services consultant who designed and directed an intensive therapeutic home-based program in Vermont which has received national acclaim. Her program was used as the basis for the expansion of the family preservation program in the state of Vermont. The recipient of numerous awards, she has offered training and technical assistance in the United States and Canada in developing systems of care for families and children.

CHERYL TAYLOR, PhD, RN, is interim Director of Nursing at Charter Behavioral Health Services of Greensboro and a tenured Associate Professor and Upper Division Coordinator at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University School of Nursing in North Carolina. She is a health issues expert to the White House Conference on Aging, the National Panel on Managed Mental Health Services and the National Institutes of Mental Health Scientific Panel on Prevention Science. Dr. Taylor has participated in many international projects including a faculty development workshop for Baragwanath Hospital School of Nursing in Soweto, South Africa. She was also an American Observer at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Human Rights Violations Hearing in Johannesburg, South Africa. She currently leads a state-wide research initiative to develop strategies for long term research and outreach to improve health care access for African-American families. Her major area of research is homelessness.

THOMAS TONNIGES, MD, FAAP, is Director of the Department of Community Pediatrics of the American Academy of Pediatrics. As Director he oversees many community-based health care initiatives including: The Community Access To Child Health Program, Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program, Healthy Child Care America Campaign and The Medical Home Program for Children with Special Needs. During his eighteen years of practice in Hastings, Nebraska, Dr. Tonniges also served as president of the Nebraska Child Abuse Trust Fund Board and as a member of the Nebraska Child Death Review Committee.