DOROTHY P. RICE* Chair, Professor Emeritus,

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Institute for Health and Aging, University of California at San Francisco

MONROE BERKOWITZ, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and Director,

Disability and Health Economics Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

RONALD S. BROOKMEYER, Professor of Biostatistics,

The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

GERBEN DEJONG, Director,

National Rehabilitation Hospital Research Center, and

Professor of Family Medicine and Adjunct Professor,

Georgetown University Institute of Public Policy, Washington, D.C.

MARSHAL F. FOLSTEIN, Chairman and Professor of Psychiatry,

Tufts University School of Medicine; and

Psychiatrist-in-Chief,

New England Medical Center, Boston

DAVID B. GRAY,† Professor and Associate Director for Research,

Program in Occupational Therapy, Washington University School of Medicine

ROBERT M. GROVES, Director of the Joint Program on Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland at College Park; and Professor and Program Director,

Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

WILLIAM D. KALSBEEK, Professor of Biostatistics and Director,

Survey Research Unit, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

JERRY L. MASHAW, Sterling Professor of Law and Management and Professor,

Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University

CATHARINE C. MASLOW, Director,

Initiative on Alzheimer's and Managed Care, Alzheimer's Association, Washington, D.C.

DONALD L. PATRICK,* Professor of Health Services,

University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine

HAROLD ALAN PINCUS, Deputy Medical Director and Director,

Office of Research, American Psychiatric Association, Washington, D.C.

JOHN A. SWETS,‡ Chief Scientist,

Information Sciences, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts

EDWARD H. YELIN, Professor of Medicine and Health Policy,

Department of Medicine and Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California at San Francisco

GOOLOO S. WUNDERLICH, Study Director

KRISTEN N. ROBINSON, Program Officer

MARGO L. CULLEN, Administrative Assistant