Dr. Raymond Arons earned his BS degree (Mechanical Engineering) in 1962 from Fairleigh Dickinson University, his MPH (Health Administration) in 1976, and his DrPH (Health Administration) in 1983 from Columbia University. Dr. Arons is a national expert in the secondary health care data sets and their use in answering wide ranging public health questions. He taught, "The Use of Large Scale Health Data Sets" to students from all departments at the Columbia School of Public Health (CSPH) and a variety of schools within at Columbia University including the school of Nursing, Social Work, Teachers College, Physician and Surgeons, and Dentistry. He was the director of the CSPH National Large Scale… Health Data Center, a repository which contains over a billion patient records acquired from providers, governmental and academic surveys, making them available to both faculty and students for study. A large portion of the repository was provided from the National Center for Health Statistics (NHDS), The New York Statewide Research and Planning Cooperative (SPARCS), the California Office of Statewide Planning (OSPHD), The New Jersey Department of Health, and other federal state and non-governmental organization. He is one of the nation's few authors of health services research who spent half of his life in a medical center. His 36 year career of hospitals and academic medicine is unprecedented. Prior to employment at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Dr. Arons was a propulsion engineer with Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation and a member of the design and testing team of the Lunar Module rocket, descent and ascent, engines for the NASA Apollo Space Program. In 1969, Dr. Arons joined the staff at Presbyterian Hospital and was a member of its administrative staff for 26 years. He worked in a number of capacities including deputy to the chief medical officer, and director of the Office of Case Mix Studies. In 1997, Dr. Arons was appointed to the Faculty of the School of Public Health as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Arons is an Adjunct Full Professor in the Management Department of the Zicklin School of Business where he began in 1999. In 2011 he was appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver Medical School and Graduate School of Arts and Science, Aurora Colorado. He is also Director of the Melody Arons Center for Applied Preschool Research and Education.