Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH
Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

Chief, Division of Family Medicine
Boston Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH, is professor of family medicine and the founding chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Culpepper also is chief of family practice at Boston Medical Center. He received his MD degree from Baylor College of Medicine and his MPH degree from Boston University.

An active researcher, Dr. Culpepper has conducted federally funded studies of depression and anxiety, otitis media, and school-based and community interventions to improve pregnancy outcomes and to prevent teen pregnancies. Recently, he served as the principal investigator of an AHRQ-funded developmental center for patient safety research devoted to the study of problems affecting low-income and minority vulnerable populations in ambulatory care settings, and is a co-investigator of the Primary Care Anxiety Project, a study of the course of anxiety disorders in primary care settings.

He has served as president of the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG), and chairman of the Research Committee of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM). Dr. Culpepper is a Primary Care Fellow of the federal Health Resources and Services Administration, and has chaired or served as a member of research grant review committees for 5 NIH and other federal agencies, and has served on 6 federal expert panels for consensus committees or evidence-based centers.

He is a member of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance and the Anxiety Disorders Association of America Scientific Advisory Boards. He is the editor of the Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. In 1997 he received the NAPCRG-STFM Career Research Award, and in 1998 was elected to the Institute of Medicine.

Thomas Roth, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit, Michigan

Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Division Head, Sleep Disorders and Research Center
Henry Ford Health System
Detroit, Michigan

Thomas Roth, PhD is one of the leading authorities on sleep and sleep medicine in the world. Dr. Roth is the Director of Research and Chief of Sleep Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. He is also a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan College of Medicine. Dr. Roth's research has examined sleep loss, sleep fragmentation, sleep pathologies, and the effects of pharmacologic agents on sleep-wake function. He is co-editor of Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, the basic educational text for sleep medicine.
 
Dr. Roth is past President of the National Sleep Foundation, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and the Sleep Research Society. He is the former Chair of the National Center of Sleep Disorders Research of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Roth is also former Chairman of the World Health Organization (WHO) worldwide project on sleep and health, and he has served on several WHO national and international committees. Dr. Roth serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sleep and on the editorial boards of Sleep Reviews, Stress Medicine, Advances in Therapy, and Human Psychopharmacology.