therapists and many other health care professionals in its Schools of Allied Health Sciences, Dentistry, Graduate Studies, Medicine and Nursing. MCG has a strong commitment to research, building on a proud tradition that boasts, among other achievements, a cure for pellagra and the groundwork for such breakthroughs as fertility pills, birth-control pills and beta-blocking drugs for cardiac arrhythmias. The university is building on that reputation as never before, focusing resources in the thematic areas of cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes/obesity, infection/inflammation and neurological disease. The university's mission to improve health and reduce the burden of illness in society is central to every aspect of MCG's educational, research and clinical initiatives.