Dr. Stephen Woods is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Obesity Research Center at the University of Cincinnati. He serves on the Obesity Advisory Committee of Children's Hospital Medical Center and is on the University of Cincinnati Long-Range Research Planning Committee. He is a frequent ad hoc reviewer for several study sections at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Woods received a B.S. in Zoology in 1965 and a B.S. in Psychology in 1966 from the University of Washington. He received a Ph.D. in Psychology Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Washington in 1970. He was a Fellow in Endocrinology at the Seattle Veterans Administration Hospital in 1970 and 1972.