Roger W. Jelliffe, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Laboratory of Applied Pharmacokinetics
Dr. Roger W. Jelliffe, the founder of modern pharmacokinetics and dynamics, continues to increase the reputation of the Keck School and the Department by his myriad of research activities. He continues to lead major research and educational symposia and continued research projects in France, Norway, Austria, Spain and Russia and continues to attract visiting scholars to his laboratories. Sixteen investigators from the United States, India, Norway, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Russia have worked in Dr. Jelliffe’s laboratories this year. These programs have helped keep Dr. Jelliffe’s research at the cutting edge, both nationally and internationally. This year, Dr. Jelliffe again has been visiting professor in 12 foreign universities.

William B. Schwartz, M.D.
Professor of Research Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research
Dr. Schwartz’s research examines the impact of molecular medicine on health care and on society between 2000 and 2050. He is readying a new publication which will further comment on health care delivery in the 21st century which began with his book “Life Without Disease: The Pursuit of Medical Utopia” (University of California Press, 1998). In this discussion, he will relate his expertise in the broad field of health economics to the latest and anticipated advances in biotechnology. Dr. Schwartz continues to be well supported by the National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine.