Arlene Fink (Ph.D.) is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California , Los Angeles and President of the Langley Research Institute . Her main interests include evaluation and survey research and the conduct of research literature reviews as well as the evaluation of their quality. Dr. Fink has conducted many research studies in medicine, public health and education. She is on the faculty of UCLA's Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and its Health Services Research Center and is on the Advisory Board of the University of Southern California 's Minority Research Center . She is also a consultant to the American Society for Bioethics, the International… Society for Clinical Bioethics, and L'institut de Promotion del la Pr � vention Secondaire en Addictologie (IPPSA) Paris, France. Professor Fink has lectured extensively in the United States and internationally and is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles and 15 textbooks.