Lorraine Greaves, PhD is the Executive Director of the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health at BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre in Vancouver She is a sociologist, researcher, writer, educator and speaker on women's health issues, particularly tobacco use, addictions, health effects of violence and the economic costing of women's health issues. She has also published on health research policy and integrated health research in Canada. Dr. Greaves facilitates multi-sectoral partnerships including consumers, care providers, policy makers and researchers across BC and Canada to conduct policy research on the social determinants of health for women, and participates in many national and international initiatives in health research.

Suzanne C. Ho, BA, MSc, MPH, PhD, is Professor of Community and Family Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also Director of Postgraduate Programmes in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Women's Health Studies. With background in physiology and trained in public health and epidemiology, Suzanne's research interests are in ageing, women's health, nutritional epidemiology and osteoporosis.

Susan Kirkland,BSc, MSc (Univ. Waterloo), PhD (Toronto). Dr. Kirkland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at Dalhousie University, Director of Graduate Programs, and Director of The Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study Halifax Centre. She is particularly interested in the epidemiology of cardiovascular health as well as women's hormones. She was part of the development of the Maritime Centre of Excellence for Women's Health, whose mandate is to support research, influence policy and promote action on the social factors that affect women's health and well being over the lifespan.

France Legare, M.D., M.Sc., C.C.F.P., F.C.F.P, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Laval University, Chairman of Computerization Committee, Evaluation Research Unit, CHUQ Research Center (Pavillon St-François d'Assise) Quebec City Public Health Center. Dr. Legare is a family physician with a Master of Science who is both a practicing physician and a PhD student in Health Care and Epidemiology at Laval University in Quebec City. She is interested in women's attitudes about hormones and menopausal ovarian hormone therapy. She is also a member of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research.

Susan M. Love, MD is an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at UCLA and the Medical Director of the Susan Love MD Breast Cancer Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the eradication of breast cancer. She is one of the founders and a director of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, and was appointed by President Clinton to the National Cancer Advisory Board. Her research on an intraductal approach to breast cancer led her to found ProDuct Health Inc, a medical device company which was recently acquired by Cytyc Health Corporation. She is the author of Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book and Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book. Although retired from the practice of surgery, she is still helping women through Luminarism, a multimedia women's health content company, and www.SusanLoveMD.com.

Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield, PhD, is Professor of Women's Studies and Health Education at Pennsylvania State University. She directs the Tremin Trust Research Program on Women's Health, a longitudinal study that has been collecting prospectively reported menstrual and health information from women since 1934. She is a board member and archivist of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research. She is co-investigator of a five-year NIH grant to link hormonal, menstrual, and prior-life events to the menopause experience. She is co-director of the Midlife Women's Health Survey, an ongoing longitudinal study to document the normal menopausal transition. She was awarded the Teacher of the Year Award by the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State, and the University-wide Alumni Teaching Award.

Moira A Petit, BA, MS, PhD, Dr. Petit, an Assistant Professor working in the Health Evaluation Sciences Faculty at Pennsylvania State is analyzing prospective data from preteen girls followed over many years for changes in exercise, weight, menstrual cycles and bone density. Her research interests include the relationship of lifestyle (physical activity and nutrition) and endocrine factors to skeletal health across the lifespan. Her PhD work at the University of British Columbia was on exercise and bone in Asian and Caucasian children.

Sheila M. Pride, MD, Dr. Pride is a reproductive endocrinologist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Gynecology at Vancouver Hospital and the University of British Columbia. She is particularly interested in the clinical care of and consequences for women with long-standing anovulatory androgen excess (also known as "polycystic ovarian disease"). She has collaborated with Dr. Prior on menstrual cycle research off and on since the early 1980s. She is co-investigator in a proposed randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study of cyclic progesterone, low dose birth control pills or placebo in symptomatic early perimenopausal women.

John D. Wark, MB, BS, PhD, Head, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Mineral Service (including Essendon Osteoporosis Centre and Broadmeadows Osteoporosis Centre). Dr. Wark is Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology at The University of Melbourne in Australia. He has an international reputation in the bone field. He is known for his work on vitamin D metabolism, for studying twins of different ages and genders over many years and for his work with the World Health Organization as a consultant on osteoporosis and menopause. He also works with Merino sheep as an animal model of osteoporosis. Sheep are more suitable than many non-primates because they ovulate year round, like women, rather than sporadically or once a year.

Community Advisory Council 2002 The Community Advisory Council has been established to provide a connection between the scientific and educational objectives of the Centre and the interests and needs of women in the community. The roles of the Community Advisory Council are:

• to facilitate collaboration and coordination between CeMCOR and the wider community of women;
• to identify needs and assist in setting of research priorities;
• to participate in the development of strategic directions;
• to highlight opportunities for community participation and involvement in research;
• to consult and co-operate with national community/research organizations.

Marilyn Borugian BA, MSc is a PhD candidate in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC. After 25 years as a computer programmer, systems analyst, project manager and teacher in the financial services area of information technology, Marilyn is turning her analytical skills to cancer research, with a special interest in modifiable lifestyle risk factors. She recently published her Master's thesis on gender differences in colorectal cancer risk factors. Her PhD dissertation will examine modifiable lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise, that have the potential to improve survival in women with breast cancer.