Alison Heru is Associate Professor (clin), Psychiatry & Human Behavior at Brown University Medical School. Gender Equity Consultant since 1998. Dr. Heru has been working closely with Brown University medical students and residents as one of two Gender Equity Consultants appointed through the Office of Woman in Medicine. As part of this job, she has presented Grand Rounds on Sexual Harassment and Gender Equity to the Departments in the Brown Medical School, produced a set of educational tapes on Professionalism in Medicine, presented nationally at the American Psychiatric Association on Teaching about Harassment and has two articles published (Medical Student Mistreatment and Using Role Playing to Increase Residents Awareness of Medical Student Mistreatment). Dr. Heru meets frequently with the medical students in an informal setting to discuss the pragmatics of managing situations of harassment and inequality. She has also brought nationally known experts in Sexual Harassment to the Brown campus to talk about their work. Dr. Heru has a longstanding interest in issues related to woman in medicine and conceived and ran a monthly "Feminist Lecture Series for Mental Health Professionals" at Butler Hospital from 1993 to 1998. This series was open to men and woman and provided a forum to discuss such issues as female sexuality, the construction of gender and the realities of woman's experience in the workplace. For the past eight years, Dr. Heru has held the position of Chair of the Committee on Woman for the Rhode Island Psychiatric Society and writes a regular column on woman's issues.