Dr. Keith C. Norris is a board-certified specialist in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. He is professor of medicine and Associate Dean for Research at Charles R. Drew University in Los Angeles, and associate professor of medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Norris received his M.D. from Howard University School of Medicine in Washington D.C, where he was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha. His postgraduate training included an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Howard University Hospital, where he also served as chief resident; and fellowships in Nephrology at UCLA School of Medicine and Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital, also in Los Angeles.

Dr. Norris is program director of the NHI-RCMI/NCRR Clinical Research Center and serves as principal investigator for several research protocols at Charles R. Drew University, including the NIH/NIDDK African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension. He is a member of the NKF-Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative National Advisory Board. Dr. Norris is editor-in-chief of the journal, Ethnicity and Disease, and serves as a reviewer for such journals as Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy, American Journal of Medical Diseases, Journal of the National Medical Association, and Journal of the American Geriatric Society. Dr. Norris is a certified specialist in Clinical Hypertension, and the immediate past president of the National Association of Minority Nephrologists. He is a member of the American College of Physicians, American Society of Nephrology, International Society of Hypertension in Blacks, and member of the board of directors for the American Association of Kidney Patients, as well as the Renal Physicians Association.

Dr. Martin F. Shapiro obtained his undergraduate and medical education at McGill University, where he received his M.D., CM degree in 1973. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, and at UCLA, and spent one year engaged in research in the Department of Epidemiology and Health at McGill. He also completed a fellowship at UCLA as a Robert Wood Johnson clinical scholar. Dr. Shapiro received a MPH degree in Health Services from UCLA, then a Ph.D in History, also from UCLA, writing a dissertation on health care services in Portuguese Africa. Dr. Shapiro joined the UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research faculty in 1980; he was promoted to associate professor in 1986. In 1988, he established the Primary Care Research Fellowship Program at UCLA, which he directs. In 1991, he became chief of the division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research in the Department of Medicine, and named associate director of the Clinical Scholars Program. In 1992, he was promoted to professor of medicine. During 2002-2003, he served as president of the Society of General Internal Medicine.

Dr. Shapiro's research has focused on the general theme of assuring that medical care is applied equitably and appropriately to the population. In recent years, he has conducted numerous studies in the area of HIV disease.