Stephen J. Ferrando, MD is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Public Health and Vice Chair for Psychosomatic Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He attended Northwestern University Medical School, did his psychiatry residency training at the University of California, San Francisco and subsequently did an NIMH-funded HIV/AIDS research training fellowship at Weill Cornell. He has focused his clinical research on the neuropsychiatric and quality of life aspects of chronic illnesses such as HIV/AIDS and neurological diseases. He has authored over 70 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and is a peer-reviewer for journals that span medical specialties. He is senior editor of "Psychiatry-in-Review," a yearly-updated multi-media psychiatry board review guide. Dr. Ferrando is currently serving as president of the New York Area Society for Liaison Psychiatry; is a Fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and is a 10-year member of the American Psychiatric Association Committee on AIDS, currently a part of the HIV/AIDS treatment guidelines workgroup.