Joan D. Koss-Chioino, Ph.D. is professor of anthropology and affiliate of the Women's Studies Department at Arizona State University. She is also visiting professor of psychiatry and neurology at Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans. In 2001 she was appointed research professor at George Washington University, Washington Program for Ethnographic Research Training in HIV/AIDS, substance abuse and violence, a NIDA-funded, postdoctoral training grant. Dr. Koss developed a program in medical anthropology at A.S.U. and continues to work at the interface between anthropology, psychiatry, and psychology. Her primary research interests are the healing processes for emotional and behavioral disorders, and the promotion of wellbeing, both of which include spirituality and spiritual transformation. Her studies include traditional, alternative, and psychotherapeutic treatments in Latino cultures in the U.S., Latin America, Spain and Thailand. Currently she is completing analyses of a family and group treatment outcome study with Mexican American youths and families in Arizona, and has recently begun a study of emotion regulation among women in Andalusia, Spain. Among her publications are: Women as Healers, Women as Patients: Mental health Care and Traditional healing in Puerto Rico (Westview Press, 1992); Working With Culture: Psychotherapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Minority Children and Adolescents, editor, with Luis A. Vargas (Jossey Bass, 1992); Working With Latino Youth: Culture, Development and Context (1999), with Luis A. Vargas as coauthor; and Spiritual Transformation and Healing: Anthropological, Theological, Neuroscientific, and Clinical Perspectives (2006) with Philip Hefner as coauthor.