Dr. Gelberg is George F. Kneller Professor of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is a health services researcher and family physician who conducts community-based research on the health, access to care, and quality of care of homeless and other vulnerable populations. She earned her M.D. from Harvard and her M.S.P.H. from the UCLA School of Public Health.

Dr. Gelberg has studied homeless adults living in shelters and outdoor areas, and the health and use of health services among homeless and low-income housed patients; change in health status, use of health services, and the antecedents and consequences of victimization among homeless adults; delays in onset of treatment for tuberculosis patients; health status, contraception use, access to care, and patient satisfaction among homeless women in shelters and food programs; and the epidemiology and use of health services for homeless persons with HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C.

Orrin Devinsky is Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. He directs the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Centers and the Saint Barnabas Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (INN). He received his B.S. and M.S. from Yale University, M.D. from Harvard Medical School and interned at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital. He completed neurology training at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and his epilepsy fellowship at the NIH

His epilepsy research interests include quality-of-life, cognitive and behavioral issues in epilepsy, surgical therapy, and new medications. He has published widely in epilepsy and behavioral neurology, with more than 250 articles and chapters and more than 20 books and monographs. He has chaired several committees of the American Epilepsy Society and has served as a Board member. He is currently on the board of the national Epilepsy Foundation. He is Co-Editor of epilepsy.com, Epilepsy and Behavior, and Reviews in Neurological Diseases.

Horacio Fábrega , J.R., M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. He is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania (BA, 1956), Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (MD, 1960). He completed his residency in psychiatry at Yale University in 1964 following an internship in internal medicine in New York City at St Lukes Hospital. Following residency in Psychiatry, he worked as post graduate fellow at the Walter Reed Institute of Research in Washington, D.C. He has been in full time academic psychiatry ever since.

His interests have involved cultural psychiatry, medical anthropology, history of psychiatry, and most recently Evolutionary Psychology and Psychiatry. He has written four books: Illness and Shamanistic Healing (Stanford University Press, 1973) co-authored with Daniel Silver; Disease and Social Behavior (MIT press), Evolution of Sickness and Healing (University of California Press, 1997), and Origins of Psychopathology: The Phylogenetic and Cultural Basis of Mental Illness (Rutgers University Press, 2002). He has recently completed a book entitled: History of Mental Illness in India: A Cultural Psychiatry Retrospective, to be published in India by Motilal Banarsidass (MLBD. He is completing a new book, Clinical Neuroscience Psychiatry: Modern Breakthrough or Breakdown.

He is author of more than 150 articles published in peer review journals in diverse fields.
He was Director of Medical Education in Department of Psychiatry for 15 years.