Richard Berman is the president of Berman and Company, a Washington, D.C.-based public affairs firm specializing in strategic research and communications. Mr. Berman is also the executive director of the Employment Policies Institute, general counsel to the American Beverage Institute, and founder of the Center for Consumer Freedom. Mr. Berman was previously employed as the executive vice president of public affairs for the Pillsbury Restaurant Group where he was responsible for the government relations programs of all restaurant operations. Mr. Berman also was employed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Dana Corporation, and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Mr. Berman has testified on numerous occasions before committees of the various state legislatures, the U.S. Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives and has been named a "Star Rainmaker" on Capitol Hill for the past two years by The Hill newspaper, a popular Washington, D.C. weekly. He has appeared on all the major television networks on behalf of client interests and has organized national business coalitions on a variety of issues. Mr. Berman has also served as chairman of the Committee for Continuing Education for the Labor Law Section of the Federal Bar Association and was the U.S. business representative for the Labor Ministers Conferences of the Organization of American States.

Kelly D. Brownell is an internationally known expert on eating disorders, obesity, and body weight regulation. He is a professor of psychology at Yale University, where he also serves as a professor of epidemiology and public health and as director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. He served from 1995 to 1999 as director of clinical training and is currently director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Psychology. In 1994 he became master of Silliman College at Yale where he served until 2000. He has served as president of several national organizations, including the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, and the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the James McKeen Cattell Award from the New York Academy of Sciences, the award for Outstanding Contribution to Health Psychology from the American Psychological Association, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Purdue University. He has published thirteen books and more than 200 scientific articles and chapters. One book received the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book from the American Library Association and his paper on "Understanding and Preventing Relapse," published in the American Psychologist, was listed as one of the most frequently cited papers in psychology.

John E. Calfee is a resident scholar at AEI. From 1980 to 1986, he served in the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Calfee taught marketing and consumer behavior in the business schools of the University of Maryland at College Park and Boston University, and he was a visiting senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Prices, Markets, and the Pharmaceutical Revolution (AEI Press, 2000) and Fear of Persuasion: A New Perspective on Advertising and Regulation (AEI Press, 1997).

Richard H. Carmona, M.D., was sworn in as the seventeenth surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service in August 2002 and assumed the role of acting assistant secretary for health in February 2003. Born and raised in New York City, Dr. Carmona dropped out of high school and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1967. While enlisted he received his Army General Equivalency Diploma, joined the Army’s Special Forces, ultimately becoming a combat-decorated Vietnam veteran, and began his career in medicine. Dr. Carmona has worked in various positions in the medical field, including as a paramedic, registered nurse, and physician. Dr. Carmona completed a surgical residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and a National Institutes of Health-sponsored fellowship in trauma, burns, and critical care. Dr. Carmona is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is also certified in correctional health care and in quality assurance. Before being named surgeon general, Dr. Carmona was the chairman of the State of Arizona Southern Regional Emergency Medical System, a professor of surgery, public health, and family and community medicine at the University of Arizona, and the Pima County Sheriff’s Department surgeon and deputy sheriff. Dr. Carmona has also held progressive positions of responsibility as chief medical officer, hospital chief executive officer, public health officer, and finally chief executive officer of the Pima county health care system. He has also served as a medical director of police and fire departments and is a fully-qualified peace officer with expertise in special operations and emergency preparedness, including weapons of mass destruction. Dr. Carmona has published extensively and received numerous awards, decorations, and local and national recognition for his achievements. A strong supporter of community service, he has served on community and national boards and provided leadership to many diverse organizations.

Greg Critser is a longtime chronicler of the modern pharmaceutical industry. His columns on the subject have appeared as cover stories in Harper’s, the Washington Monthly, and Worth. His newspaper columns on the politics of medicine appear in USA Today, where he is a member of the paper’s board of contributors, and in the Los Angeles Times Sunday "Opinion" section. His essay for Harper’s, "Let Them Eat Fat," was named one of the most important science articles of 2000 and was included in Best American Science Writing 2001 (HarperCollins). He is the author of the newly published Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World (Houghton-Mifflin), which the American Diabetes Association called "the definitive journalistic account of the modern obesity epidemic." His next book, One Nation, under Pills, will be published in 2005 by Houghton Mifflin.

Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1972. He has also been the Peter and Kirstin Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2000. Before joining the University of Chicago Law School faculty, he taught law at the University of Southern California from 1968 to 1972. He served as interim dean from February to June 2001. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985 and a senior fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Medical School, also since 1983. He served as editor of the Journal of Legal Studies from 1981 to 1991 and of the Journal of Law and Economics from 1991 to 2001. At present he is a director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics. His books include Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism (University of Chicago, 2003); Cases and Materials on Torts (Aspen Law & Business, 7th ed. 2000); Torts (Aspen Law & Business 1999); Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good (Perseus Books, 1998); Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Rights to Health Care? (Addison-Wesley, 1997); Simple Rules for a Complex World (Harvard, 1995); Bargaining With the State (Princeton, 1993); Forbidden Grounds: The Case against Employment Discrimination Laws (Harvard, 1992); Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (Harvard, 1985); and Modern Products Liability Law (Greenwood Press, 1980). He has written numerous articles on a wide range of legal and interdisciplinary subjects. He has taught courses in civil procedure, communications, constitutional law, contracts, corporations, criminal law, health law and policy, legal history, property, real estate development and finance, jurisprudence, labor law, land use planning, patents, individual, estate and corporate taxation, Roman Law, torts, and workers’ compensation.

Glenn Gaesser is a professor of exercise physiology and director of the kinesiology program at the University of Virginia. Mr. Gaesser is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and an editorial board member of Sports Medicine Digest. Mr. Gaesser has conducted research and published many articles on exercise, health, and fitness in scientific journals, trade publications, and newsletters. He was coauthor of the 1998 American College of Sports Medicine’s position stand on "The recommended quantity and quality of exercise for developing and maintaining cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness, and flexibility in healthy adults." He is also the author of three books: Big Fat Lies: The Truth about Your Weight and Your Health (Gurze, 2002); Eating Well, Living Well: When You Can’t Diet Anymore (with Karin Kratina, M.A., R.D., Wheat Foods Council, Parker, CO, 2000); and The Spark: The Revolutionary New Plan to Get Fit and Lose Weight 10 Minutes at a Time (with Karla Dougherty, Fireside, New York, 2002).

James K. Glassman is a resident fellow at AEI and the host of TechCentralStation.com. He also writes a syndicated financial column, which appears on the front page of the Washington Post business section every Sunday and is published in other newspapers, including the New York Daily News and the International Herald Tribune. Mr. Glassman is the author of The Secret Code of the Superior Investor (Crown), which Business Week called the best financial book of the 2002 season and Barron’s selected as one of the year’s ten best. His first book, Dow 36,000 (Times Books), a bestseller coauthored with the economist and AEI scholar Kevin A. Hassett, was praised by Newsweek ‘s Allan Sloan for its "wonderfully clear explanations of financial theory [and] excellent advice on general investing approaches." Mr. Glassman has given frequent congressional testimony, recently on subjects as varied as telecommunications policy, Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, Social Security reform, and personal investing. He is a popular speaker on economic, political, and investing topics.

Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI where he directs the AEI Federalism Project and the AEI Liability Project. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve cofounded and from 1989 to February 2000 directed the Center for Individual Rights (CIR), a public interest law firm. CIR served as counsel in many precedent-setting constitutional cases, including United States v. Morrison (2000) and Rosenberger v. University of Virginia (1995). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights. He is the editor, with Fred L. Smith, of Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (Praeger, 1992); the author of The Demise of Environmentalism in American Law (AEI, 1996); and most recently, of Real Federalism: Why it Matters, How Could it Happen (AEI, 1999).

Frank Hu, M.D., is an associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hu received the American Heart Association’s Established Investigator Award in 2002. Two of his papers were listed as the American Heart Association’s Top Ten Research Advances in 1997 and 2001. In 1999, he received a research award from the American Diabetes Association. His major research interests are nutritional and lifestyle determinants of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Hu has published more than 100 original research papers and reviews in peer-reviewed journals. He has served as a visiting scholar at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and as a research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Ruth Kava completed a dietetic internship at the New York Hospital and became a registered dietitian in 1995. Ms. Kava’s research interests focused on nutrition during pregnancy and on animal models of genetic obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus. She has authored and coauthored research papers in several scientific journals such as Diabetes, the Journal of Nutrition, and the American Journal of Physiology. Her professional memberships include the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, the American Dietetic Association, and the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. Since 1995, Ms. Kava has served as director of nutrition for the American Council on Science and Health. The ACSH’s goal is to provide consumers with up-to-date, scientifically sound information on the relationship between human health and environmental factors, food, nutrition, lifestyle, and chemicals. As nutrition director, Ms. Kava has authored or directed production of educational materials on a variety of nutrition-related topics, including vitamin and mineral supplementation, biotechnology and food, functional foods, vegetarianism, dietary supplements, food irradiation, and coverage of nutrition topics by popular media. She has participated in radio and television interviews exploring issues around nutrition and food safety.

Tomas J. Philipson is a professor in the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and a faculty member in the Department of Economics and the Law School at the University of Chicago. He joined the University in 1990. He was a visiting faculty member at Yale University during the 1994–1995 academic year. His research expertise and teaching is in health economics, and he is a member of the university-wide Council on Research. Mr. Philipson is affiliated with a number of professional organizations, including the National Bureau of Economic Research, the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, the Northwestern/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research, and the National Opinion Research Center. Mr. Philipson is the recipient of numerous international and national awards and fellowships, including those from the International Health Economics Association, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the John M. Olin Foundation. Mr. Philipson has been a consultant to numerous public and private organizations in the United States and abroad.

Sally Satel, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist, a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, and a resident scholar at AEI where she researches domestic drug policy, mental health policy, and political trends in medicine. Her articles have been published in The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and other publications. The author of PC, M.D., she currently works as a staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Drug Treatment Clinic.