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Scott Barbour is an experienced practitioner of orthopedic surgery with fellowship training in sports medicine. He has specialized expertise in arthroscopy of all joints including the hip. Special interests include cartilage-resurfacing procedures and meniscal transplants. He has significant experience with primary hip, knee, and shoulder reconstruction. He is currently one of the few US doctors performing biologic joint surgery for those who suffer from joint pain, as well as arthroscopic hip surgery. He received his medical degree from Saint Louis University School Of Medicine, St. Louis, MO., in 1996.

Stephen DeStefano's research interests are broadly defined by wildlife biology and terrestrial ecology, with the underlying focus and common themes of population ecology (demography, population dynamics, survival analysis), wildlife-habitat relationships (response to vegetation structure, use-availability analyses, correlation to population demography), the influence of anthropogenic factors (urban-suburban development, disturbance) on wildlife populations, and the science and management of game populations and "overabundant" wildlife. These topics have numerous implications for ecological research and wildlife management, especially as they relate to conservation biology, recovery of endangered species, human-wildlife interactions, and the impact of human activities on wildlife populations.

Behnaz Rouhani studied mathematics education at the University of Georgia. She is a professor of mathematics for the online service of Georgia Perimeter College.

Travis Hunter is an writer, songwriter, and father. Hunter is a native of Florence, S.C. He was also reared in Philadelphia, PA. A veteran of the US Army, he attended Clark Atlanta University, Georgia Perimeter College, and subsequently enrolled in Georgia State University where he majored in psychology.

Donald Friary is president of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Mr. Friary recently concluded a 40-year career at Historic Deerfield, 28 of them as the museum's executive director, and is now director emeritus. He serves as the principal of History for Hire, LLC a consulting firm for museums throughout the United States. Donald Friary has recently been appointed to the Massachusetts Historical Commission.

In addition to his work with Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Michael David Murphy is a writer and photographer in Atlanta, Georgia. His words and pictures have been published in *People*, *The Los Angeles Times*, *San Francisco * magazine, *USA Today*, and *Upstreet UK*.

From 1982 to 1996, Jim Clancy was a CNN International correspondent in the Beirut, Frankfurt, Rome and London bureaus. During this time, he won the George Polk Award for his reporting on the genocide in Rwanda, the Alfred I. duPont Award for coverage of the war in Bosnia, and an Emmy Award for reporting on the famine and international intervention in Somalia. He joined CNN in 1981 as a national correspondent, after an extensive, award-winning career in local radio and television in Denver and San Francisco.

Connie Schultz is a nationally syndicated columnist based at *The Plain Dealer* newspaper. She won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Schultz was also a 2003 Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing.

Richard Bausch was born in Ft. Benning, GA, in 1945. He was educated in the public schools in and around Washington, D.C., and after two failures to maintain a standing in college, served a stint in the US Air Force, after which he returned to university studies, first in Virginia and then at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. He is the author of 10 novels and seven collections of stories.

Harry Shearer is first and foremost an actor. He is also a writer, director, satirist, musician, radio host, playwright, multi-media artist, and record label owner. For 19 years, the Los Angeles native has enjoyed enormous success and planted the fruits of his talents in the heads of millions worldwide, thanks to his voice work for *The Simpsons * and *The Simpsons Movie*.

Amy O'Leary is a News Editor for NYTimes.com and a former public radio producer.

David received his B.S. in 1986 from MIT, Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University, and M.D. in 1994 from Harvard Medical School. He completed his internship, residency and clinical fellowship training at Endocrinologist and human geneticist David Altshuler is a founding member of the Broad Institute and serves as director of the Broad’s Program in Medical and Population Genetics, as well as the Institute’s first Deputy Director and Chief Academic Officer. David is one of the world’s leading scientists in the study of human genetic variation and its application to disease, using tools and information from the Human Genome Project. He has been a lead investigator in The SNP Consortium, the International HapMap Project, and the 1,000 Genomes Project - public-private partnerships that have created public maps of human genome sequence variation as a foundation for disease research. His work has contributed to the understanding of gene variants that influence the risk of common conditions, including type 2 diabetes, blood cholesterol, prostate cancer, systemic lupus erythematosis, and rheumatoid arthritis. These studies provide new clues about the mechanisms that cause these diseases, and more generally, provide a blueprint for analyzing the role of genetic variations in human health. David is also a professor of genetics and medicine at Harvard Medical School, and in the department of molecular biology at the Center for Human Genetic Research, as well as the Diabetes Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.