Lewis R. Goldfrank, M.D. (Chair) has worked at Bellevue Hospital Center and New York University (NYU) Medical Center for the last quarter century. He is currently the first chairman and professor of the newly established academic Department of Emergency Medicine at NYU, where his efforts have led to the development of the university’s emergency medicine and medical toxicology residencies. Dr. Goldfrank is also the medical director of the New York City Health Department’s Poison Center. His career has been spent working in the public hospitals of New York City, emphasizing the role of emergency medicine in improving access to care, public health, public policy, and medical humanism. He has assisted in numerous projects in South America, Asia, and Europe in the advancement of emergency medicine and medical toxicology, emphasizing his interests in the improvement of global health. Dr. Goldfrank recently has served on three committees (as chair for two of them) dealing with issues of terrorism: civilian medical response to chemical and biological terrorism; metropolitan medical response teams and preparedness for terrorism; and the psychological consequences of terrorism. Educated at Clark University, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the University of Brussels, Belgium, he graduated from the University of Brussels Medical School in 1970. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in 1973. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine.