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Michael Glasser Michael Glasser, Ph.D., is Associate Dean for Rural Health Professions at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford, and Co-Director of the National Center for Rural Health Professions (NCRHP). Dr. Glasser is also Co-Director of the Masters of Public Health Program, on the Rockford campus, a division of the School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is Principle Investigator for an NIH-funded Project EXPORT Center, through the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. This is a four-year grant to establish a Center for Excellence in Rural Health to identify, reduce, and eliminate health disparities in rural and underserved populations. In addition to serving as Co-Editor of Education for Health, Dr. Glasser is on the editorial board of the Journal for Rural Health. Dr. Glasser has a masters degree from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, and a doctorate in Medical Sociology from the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Areas of research interest include rural health delivery and health professions education, patient-provider relationships, older adult health care, networks of support for older adults, and the study of mental health and chronic disease. For the MPH Program, Dr. Glasser teaches Health Education/Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health. He also teaches community-based health care delivery to students in the Rural Medical Education (RMED) Program.