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Professor and Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Co-Director, Anxiety Disorders Clinic, New York State Psychiatric Institute

Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

In memoriam
President & CEO, Anxiety Disorders Association of America
Director, The Ross Center for Anxiety & Related Disorders, Inc.

The anxiety and shame started when Diance was 25. She was sitting in a pew at her church, where she is active in the ministry. It seemed to come out of nowhere. She felt as if she were going to jump out of her skin.

Jerilyn Ross, a pioneer and visionary leader in the field of mental illness, died January 7, 2010 in Washington, D.C., of neuroendocrine cancer.