Michael D. Anderson is senior minister at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and he is a member of the Commission on Public Representation for the National Institutes of Health, a board of advisors to the director. A visiting professor at the University of Oklahoma, he also serves as the chairman of the grants committee of the Presbyterian Health Foundation, which funds medical research. A prolific author, Reverend Anderson has written three books and more than one hundred essays and feature articles for church publications. He graduated from San Francisco Theological Seminary and received a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh.