Dr. Ryon Cobb's education includes a PhD in sociology, with a focus on health and aging, from Florida State University. He recently completed postdoctoral training in biodemography and aging at the University of Southern California; and he is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). His ongoing and future productivity derives from being engaged in a highly active research program that uses the stress process model as an organizing framework to illuminate how and why perceived discrimination combines with one's racial/ethnic identification to shape health disparities across the lifespan. Over the past four years, he published manuscripts in high impact journals targeting: (1) the consequences self and observer assessed dimensions of Blacks? racial identification on biological and mortality risk, (2) how perceived discrimination relates to the biological profiles of older adults, and (3) the religious dimensions of adults' beliefs about social inequality.