Patricia Keith-Spiegel, Ph.D., regularly taught child development and professional ethics and ethical leadership classes in her 35 years as a university professor. She was also the Director of the Center for the Teaching Integrity at Ball State University, where she is the Voran Honored Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Emerita). She also taught at California State University, Northridge, where she was awarded the California State Trustee's Award for Outstanding Professor across all state university campuses and disciplines. She is a recipient of the Distinguished Professor Award from the American Psychological Foundation and was a Visiting Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital, at Harvard Medical School.

She served as President of the Western Psychological Association and as President of the Division of Teaching Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

Keith-Spiegel’s work on social justice, dishonesty, moral hazards, and irresponsible behavior in organizations resulted in three federally-funded grant projects from the Office of Research Integrity, the National Institutes of Health, and the Fund for Improvement in Postsecondary Education. She served two terms as Chair of the Ethics Committee of the American Psychological Association.

A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gerald P. Koocher completed his B.A. degree in Psychology at Boston University (1968), and his MA (1970) and PhD (1972) in clinical psychology at the University of Missouri. From 1971 through 2001 he served successively as an intern, post-doctoral fellow, and ultimately as Chief of Psychology at Boston's Children's Hospital and Judge Baker Children's Center. During this period he also served as a full time faculty member (Associate Professor) at Harvard Medical School. In June, 2001 Dr. Koocher became Professor and Dean of the School for Health Studies at Simmons University (Boston). He later served as the first Dean of the DePaul University (Chicago) College of Science and Health and as Senior Vice President and Provost at Quincy College. He currently holds appointments as Lecturer in Psychology and faculty member at Harvard Medical School's Department of Psychiatry and Bioethics Center..

Dr. Koocher was elected a Fellow of twelve divisions of the American Psychological Association (APA) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has earned five specialty diplomas from the American Boards of Professional Psychology (Clinical, Clinical Child /Adolescent, Family, Forensic, and Health Psychology). He has been licensed as a psychologist in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and the District of Columbia.

Dr. Koocher founded the journal Ethics & Behavior and previously served as Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology and The Clinical Psychologist. He has published more than 300 articles and book chapters and authored or edited 17 books.

Areas of his expertise include:

-Adaptation to chronic and life-threatening illness in childhood (especially cancer, cystic fibrosis, and diabetes).

-Coping with bereavement and loss, psychological assessment.

-Professional and scientific ethics, and mental health malpractice.

Very active in professional affairs, Dr. Koocher served as President of the Massachusetts and New England Psychological Associations and of three APA divisions (Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Children, Youth, and Family Services). He served as President of the APA (2006).

Dr. Koocher lives in Brookline, Massachusetts where he has served more than two decades as an elected member of town government. His hobbies include photography and psittacine aviculture.

For more information see his web site: www.ethicsresearch.com.