Dr. Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist at New York University School of Medicine, is founder of the Forensic Panel, which is developing a standardized “depravity scale” to determine whether specific crimes reflect depraved intent, actions and/or attitudes.

University of Alabama psychology professor Martha Crowther researches the role of spirituality across the life cycle. She is particularly interested in spirituality and health in older African-Americans.

Alexander P. Auchus is a neurologist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center with research interests in Alzheimer’s in non-Caucasians.

Harold E. Burchett wrote Last Light: Staying True through the Darkness of Alzheimer’s, a memoir of his wife’s Alzheimer’s disease. He has been a pastor and seminary professor, and lives in Virginia Beach, Va.

Lisa Gwyther is author of You Are One of Us: Successful Clergy-Church Connections to Alzheimer’s Families (Duke University Medical Center, 1994) and director of the Alzheimer’s Family Support program at Duke University Medical Center.

The Rev. David Keck is a Presbyterian minister who teaches pastoral education at Duke University. He is the author of Forgetting Whose We Are: Alzheimer’s Disease and the Love of God. He is also pastor at Northgate Presbyterian Church in Durham, N.C.

Glen Milstein is an assistant professor of psychology at City College of New York. He studies collaboration between clergy and mental health professionals, with a focus on religion.

Ramonia Lee is minister for congregational life at Interfaith Chapel in the retirement community Leisure World in Silver Spring, Md., a member of the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging and a mentor in a national program to encourage the involvement of professionals of color with aging issues.

HealthCare Chaplaincy coordinates the work of chaplains of different faiths in New York health-care institutions and does research. One research project involves daughters caring for mothers with Alzheimer’s. Charysse Harper is the communications manager.