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BIOGRAPHY   David V. Espino, MD Professor and Vice Chair for Geriatric Services Department of Family & Community Medicine University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, Texas David V. Espino, MD, is Professor of Family Medicine and Geriatrics, Vice Chair for Community Geriatrics, and Chief of the Division of Community Geriatrics in the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He also serves as the Director of the John A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Excellence, one of 23 such centers nationally. Dr Espino earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He completed his family medicine residency at Spohn Memorial Medical Center in Corpus Christi and a geriatrics fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He holds a certificate of added qualifications in geriatric medicine and is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Geriatrics Society. Dr Espino has served on numerous national panels, including the Mental Disorders of Aging Review Panel of the National Institute of Mental Health, and as an advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services Consensus Panel on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders. He currently serves on the National Advisory Council of the National Institute on Aging and on the National Research Council’s Committee on Population – Special Committee on Health Disparities. Dr Espino has authored many books, book chapters, abstracts, and articles. Much of his published work has focused on the mental status evaluation of Hispanic elders, and has appeared in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Annals of Pharmacotherapy, and the Journal of Gerontology, among others. Additionally, Dr Espino serves as a reviewer for Neuroepidemiology, the Gerontologist, the Journal of Ethnicity and Disease, the Journal of Aging and Health, and the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Dr Espino has been an investigator on two major grants looking at the effectiveness of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in mixed Alzheimer’s Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease.