Harvey A. Bender is Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of the Human Genetics Program at the University of Notre Dame. He also serves as Adjunct Professor of Medical Genetics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Professor Bender received his undergraduate training at Case Western Reserve University majoring in chemistry and English. His graduate studies in Developmental Genetics were undertaken at Northwestern University where he received both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Bender served as a U.S. Public Health Fellow in Genetics at the University of California (Berkeley) and has held postdoctoral positions as a Gosney Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and as a Visiting Professor at the Yale University Schools of Medicine and Law. His active research activities involve the Epidemiology of Human Genetic Disease and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Dr Bender is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Founding Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics. He served as the founding Director of the Regional Genetics Center at the South Bend Memorial Hospital which is sponsored by the University of Notre Dame, Indiana State Department of Health, Indiana University School of Medicine and the Memorial Hospital of South Bend. Professor Bender was elected a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Foundation in 2001 and a Kaneb Teaching Fellow at the University of Notre Dame in 2003.