EUGENE LIPITZ was an early leader in the development of nursing homes. At the time of his death in 1964, he owned four nursing homes in Maryland. He and his wife, MILDRED LIPITZ, are pictured with their children, Roger and Alison.   ROGER C. LIPITZ, after his father's death, took over the nursing homes. In 1969, he co-founded Meridian Healthcare, which became Maryland's largest provider of nursing-home and related services by the time of its sale to Genesis Eldercare in 1993. Mr. Lipitz is the former chairman of the board of directors of the University of Maryland Medical System and past chairman of the American Health Care Association, the largest long-term care association in the United States. Chairman of the Baltimore Development Corporation since 1995, Mr. Lipitz is a University trustee and serves on the School of Public Health Advisory Board. He has also established at Hopkins the Roger C. Lipitz Research and Policy Center for Integrated Health Care, which addresses ways to integrate and coordinate services ranging from acute hospital care to long-term care and self-care. He is the managing memeber of Ocean Assets, L.L.C.

CHARLES E. BOULT, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., Professor in the Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management, was recruited in 2001 to be the inaugural Eugene and Mildred Lipitz Professor and Director of the Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care. He also directs the Health Services Research program of the Division of Geriatric Medicine in the School of Medicine's Department of Medicine. A geriatrician by training, Dr. Blout has extensive experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of new systems of health care for older populations. His current research includes Guided Care, a new model of primary care for older people with multiple chronic conditions. He co-edited the book New Ways to Care for Older People: Building Systems Based on Evidence, and now edits the "Models and Systems of Geriatric Care" section of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. In 2000 he received the Excellence in Research Award from the American Geriatrics Society.