David Hamburg is president emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, after having been President from 1983-1997. He received his A.B. (1944) and his M.D. (1947) degrees from Indiana University. He was chief, Adult Psychiatry Branch, NIMH 1958-61; professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences from 1961-72, and Reed-Hodgson Professor of Human Biology at Stanford University 1972-76; president of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1975-80; director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education and John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University, 1980-83. He served as president, then chairman of the Board (1984-86) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was chairman of the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development (1986-1996). He is a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, and co-chair (with Cyrus Vance) of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. Dr. Hamburg received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Psychiatric Association in 1991, the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House in 1996, the Achievement in Children and Public Policy Award from the Society for Research in Child Development in 1997, and the National Academy of Sciences' Public Welfare Medal in 1998.