Tamara A. Baker, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Aging Studies at the University of South Florida. She is a Gerontological Society of America Fellow, the current Chair of the GSA Task Force on Minority Issues, and has been recognized by National Institutes of Health as a promising scholar in the area of pain research. She has been an invited speaker at several national scientific meetings to present her research on health disparities among diverse race populations. Her research has been published in several high impact scientific journals and has featured in a number of venues suc...